Mind-Boggling Scale of ATLAS Detector

Link Scroll down for today's pictures & links. Mind-boggling Scale of ATLAS Detector This simply mesmerizing video shows in detail the inner structure and construction of CERN Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS Detector. (See images here) - via url Today's pictures & links: Click to enlarge images. Contemporary Curvy Villas We already highlighted one exciting "Elegant Skyscraper" project by A-Cero (Joaquin Torres Architects) firm in Madrid, Spain. Today, feast your eyes on the new project for the Dominican Republic - a luxury residential estate on the Cumayasa river mouth. Check out the beautiful, enticing shapes: "The main idea is to create a settlement of high environmental quality and low density, which incorporates native vegetation. The landscape design follows a contemporary style that embraces the houses, scattered on a stair pattern, softening the impact of their presence and creating a dynamic appearance to the whole." ------------ E.T. is Found! Together with a fire-breathing cloud rabbit: ------------ Brrr! The road is cold and narrow: ------------ Cool Shot of the Day (in cooperation with National Geographic magazine) Photo by Bustamante Rosas - The colonial city of Guanajuato, Mexico. Photo by Richard Weiss - sun illuminates the ice that accumulated on everything hit by the sprinkler's stream. Also check out very addictive jigsaw puzzles! ------------ Mixed fresh links for today: Did Earth once had multiple Moons?, more news - [space] Hi-def Panoramas of San Francisco 1 - [beautiful] Why Japan did not create the iPod? - [interesting] Abandoned Tunnels on Pennsylvania Turnpike - [abandoned] Newly Established: the Shirley Jackson Award - [dark fantasy] Photos from Communist North Korea - [travel] Probability: 0.0000000001% - [wow video ads] Bears Destroy Car - [wow video] Another Borat-like hilarity - [video episodes, could be nsfw] ------------ Skies torn asunder (original unknown) ------------ What do you think it says? No, it's not some Slavic language; look closer - ------------ Vibrant Photography By Sloan Timson: ------------ Yet another strange picture of Pope Benedict XVI: ------------ Doomed This fly is going to be digested by the Venus Flytrap: ------------ Up there This is Johan Lorbeers's urban art. His site. ------------ Somewhat startling: Oops! - Permanent Link......+StumbleUpon ...+Facebook Dark Roasted Blend's Photography Gear Picks: