Rabu, 07 Mei 2008

Mind-Boggling Scale of ATLAS Detector


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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



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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."

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E.T. is Found!



Together with a fire-breathing cloud rabbit:



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Brrr!

The road is cold and narrow:



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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!

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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]

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Skies torn asunder


(original unknown)

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What do you think it says?



No, it's not some Slavic language; look closer -



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Vibrant Photography

By Sloan Timson:





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Yet another strange picture of Pope Benedict XVI:



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Doomed

This fly is going to be digested by the Venus Flytrap:



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Up there

This is Johan Lorbeers's urban art. His site.



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Somewhat startling:







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