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Diva Models Calendar 2011

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Diva Models Calendar 2011

Diva Models Calendar 2011

ARTS | 14. FEB, 2011 BY CAFETERRA

Diva Models Calendar 2011 photographed by Tina Petni. Models are Dima, Yana, Arleta, Julie, Jana, Viara, Olga, Petra, and Louis, make up stylist Stuart Robertson.

World's Biggest Machines

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World's Biggest Machines

World's Biggest Machines

Published on 10/1/2010 under Fun Tech - by Gracie Murano

Strata 950 – The drilling machine being used to save the 33 Chilean miners

Chile is using a 40-ton drilling machine called Strata 950 to bore through 700 meters (2,300 feet) of rock and free the 33 trapped miners workers trapped in a collapsed copper mine.

Rescuers are using the Strata 950 to drill a 25-inch- diameter hole to the 33 trapped miners from the surface. The machine had to be disassembled into 42 trucks, which were posted out parts in shifts, since they couldn't fit them all together in the drilling area. (Link)

Antonov An-225 – World's largest and heaviest aircraft

The Antonov An-225 Mriya is a strategic airlift cargo aircraft, designed by the Soviet Antonov Design Bureau. It is the world's heaviest fixed-wing aircraft. The design, built to transport the Buran orbiter, was an enlargement of the successful An-124 Ruslan. The An-225's name, Mriya (Мрiя) means "Dream" (Inspiration) in Ukrainian. The An-225 is commercially available for flying over-sized payloads due to the unique size of its cargo deck. Currently there is only one aircraft in operation. (Link)

D575A-3SD - World's Biggest (production) Bulldozer

When it comes to bulldozing, bigger really is better. The bigger the dozer the more efficiently they work and the more aggregate they can shove. The World's biggest and most powerful (production) Bulldozer is the D575A-3SD built by Komatsu in Ishikawa, Japan. Standing 16 feet tall, 41 feet long and 24 feet wide the D575A-3SD is the king of power when it comes to shifting aggregate. When the need arises to clear away large amounts of rubble, rock or earth then the D575A-3SD is the machine of choice. (Link)

Liebherr T 282B - World's Biggest Truck

This monster machine Liebherr T 282B is a large earth-hauling dump truckdesigned in 2004 by a German manufacturer and became the largest earth-hauling truck in the world. It can carry about 360 tonnes (400 tons) at 64 km/h. Designer Francis Bartley says that such a truck costs US$3 million and that the worldwide market for these trucks doesn't exceed 75 units per year. He adds that this is an unconventional truck. It has a 2723-kilowattdiesel engine which powers two electric motors, making the T 282 B the biggest AC drive truck. If you like big toys, you'll certainly enjoy this. (Link)

World's Biggest Motorcycle

People who see Greg Dunham's motorcycle sometimes think they've suddenly shrunk. What they're actually looking at, however, is the world's biggest motorcycle, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Dunham built the 15-foot high, 25-foot-long monster bike in over three years. It weighs about 6,500 pounds and cost $300,000. Dunham steers it from a cage below the handlebars.

The beauty shop owner said he created the monster bike because his friends said it couldn't be done and he wanted to prove it could. The reaction he gets from people who see it is icing on the cake. The Guinness Book of World Records describes the bike as the world's tallest rideable motorcycle. (Link)

Large Hadron Collider - World's Largest and Highest-energy Particle Accelerator

This is the largest machine in the world with a length of 27 km, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is the largest and highest-energy particle accelerator in the world intended to collide opposing particle beams. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) for testingvarious predictions of high-energy physics. It lies beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. It is funded by and built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientist and engineers from over 100 countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories. (Link)

Giant Mechanical Spider

Giant mechanical spider, part of a piece of free theater by French company La Machine entitled “Les Mecaniques Servants,” walks along the waterfront in Liverpool, England, on September 5, 2008. The 37-ton spider which stands at 50 feet (15 meters) tall was in Liverpool as part of the city's European capital of culture celebrations.

Queen of the Netherlands –World's Largest Vacuum Cleaner

The Queen of the Netherlands is a trailing suction hopper dredging ship built in 1998. Because of its huge size – the drag head is 6 m or 20 ft wide and can dredge up to 115 m or 377 ft deep- this Dutch ship has been called "the world's largest floating vacuum cleaner." The ship's hopper is among the largest in the world. (Link)

Krupp Digging Machine - World's Largest Digging Machine

This is the largest digging machine (or trencher or rotating shovel) in the world. It was built by Krupp and is shown here crossing a road in Germany on the way to its destination, an open air coal mine. Although at the mine the treads are unnecessary, it was cheaper to make the machine self-propelled than to try and move it with conventional hauling equipment. The machine is 95 meters high and 215 meters long (almost 2.5 football fields in length). Weight is 45,500 tons (that's equivalent to a bumper to bumper line of jeeps 80 miles long). It took 5 years to design and manufacture at a cost of $100 million. (Link)

Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60 – World's Biggest Movable Machine

The name of that epic structure is Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60 in Lichterfeld. This technological steel giant is 502 metres long, 202 metres wide, 80 metres high and 11,000 ton heavy. It was build in East Germany in 1991 by VEB TAKRAF Lauchhammer (although the GDR was manufacturing slightly lesser types since 1958). After only 13 months of operation the F60 bridge was taken out of operation for energy-political reasons. The opencast mine Klettwitz-Nord where the conveyor bridge was operating is closed. The bridge is owned now by the community and presented as the "Lying Eiffel Tower." (Link)

30 Greatest Albert Einstein Quotes

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30 Greatest Albert Einstein Quotes

30 Greatest Albert Einstein Quotes
Published on 1/16/2008

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
"I, at any rate, am convinced that He (God) does not throw dice."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
"Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it."
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value"
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
"Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it even though he cannot at once reveal himself because of his enormous size."
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are all greater"
"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"Truth is what stands the test of experience."
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving"
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
"Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth."
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."
"Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen."

14 of the Worlds Most Bizarre Unsolved Mysteries

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14 of the Worlds Most Bizarre Unsolved Mysteries

14 JULY 2010

A selection of some of the more bizarre unsolved mysteries

Even with modern advancement of scientific techniques for solving crimes and the professional nouse of detectives and investigators, there are still a multitude of high profile cases where crimes have gone unsolved to this very day. From man made to natural phenomenon, we have trawled through hundreds of bizarre unsolved mysteries to cherry pick the best examples!

1. The Voynich Manuscript

A hand written book dated to back the early 15th century is made up of around 240 mammal skin pages containing images and coded text. The author, script and language of the Voynich Manuscript remain completely unknown with no one presently able to decipher the bizarre language. The book is named after Wilfrid M. Voynich who as a book dealer acquired the manuscript in 1912. It is thought the purpose of the book is to illustrate early modern medicine with illustrations of biology, astronomy and alchemy creating all sorts of the possible theories of what it’s true use is.


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	Abacus Series 2 Men’s Watch What other watch indicates the time by the position of a small ball? This ball moves to and fro across the face of the watch with the flow of the wearer’s arm movements; but as soon as the ABACUS reaches a horizontal position; the ball moves as if by magic – or at least by magnetism – to the right”point in time”. $225 @ Kenmar Watches
	Buffalo Rage Men’s Watch A casual analog men’s watch. Features a black genuine leather band , black stainless steel case with a black dial. This watch is nickel allergy free, scratch resistant mineral crystal. Water resistant to 30 meters. $98 @ Amazon
	Storm Circuit Watch The Circuit Watch uses a pair of tall stacked LED segments to illustrate the current time. The bars on the left show the current hour, while the bars on the right display appear to be split into two sections, one which displays tens of minutes and the other which shows individual minutes. Found @ Technabob $225 @ Storm
	Dakota “The Matrix LI” Men’s Watch “Atop the face sits the hours, while minutes (in increments of five and a single 1-4 slot) are listed beneath; put simply, bars on the LCD are lit above the corresponding number(s) as the day whisks away” Discovered @ Engadget $70 @ Kenmar Watches
	Fossil Starck Watch This digital style watch displays the time in a unique fashion. In a ring shaped display, the hours are displayed as numbers while the minutes are displayed in segments. As time goes by, the segments build making a complete ring every hour. The center is completely see through and the pusher is located on the case back to create this sleek styling. $125 @ Amazon
	Horological Machine No. 2 This cool watch features an “instantaneous jump hour, concentric retrograde minutes, retrograde date and bi-hemisphere moon phase.” Uhhh ok Only $59,000 Found @ Boing Boing
	Jean d’eve Sectora Automatic Watch The hour and minute hands move vertically in a fascinating ballet on this watch. As soon as hand completes its cycle it springs back to starting point. From SwissTime
	Laurinda Spear Free Time Watch “The cycle of life, with a beginning, middle & end is synchronized by the 3 rings and guide us along our path to openings where time limits are set free. Our journey through time, passes the story of our past & present, to a hopeful future” $90 @ Unica Home
	LIP Mythic Jump Hour Watch This men’s watch features three separate discs for hours, minutes, and seconds spin exposed on the dial lining up in the viewing window located on the left side. $395 @ Watchismo
	Nooka ZOT V Watch The Nooka Zot-V watch also has some nifty features: a chronograph for timing your poker games, and an alarm to get you up in the morning. The 12 dots represent hours (months in date mode) and the row below counts minutes. $265 @ Nooka
	Ora Unica watch “The hour and minute hands are represented by a single line drawn on two circular faces, which turn one inside the other. Both faces together resemble a graphical gesture, a doodle that changes as time passes.” Found @ Yanko Design
	OTIUM [du:z] Watch Look – clockwise – for the last slit in which the ball is in the extreme outside position: You have got the hour. As usual you can read the minute by the little sweeping hand. Check it out @ the Otium website
	RAZOR BLOCK – 01 THE ONE / Binary LED Watch This watch features 10 white LEDs on a round dial…enclosed in a square, frosted black polycarbonate block. The top row of LEDs apparently represent the hours and the bottom the minutes. You got me!? $169 @ LED Watch Superstore
	Watch This – Reveal Watch This mystifying watch reveals the current hour and minute through a looking glass while the past and the future fade to gray. It’s an analog watch that reads in digital format. $110 @ Uncommon Goods
	Tokyo Flash Barcode IP LED Watch The 1st two columns show the hour. In column 1 each light equals 5 hours, in column 2 each light equals 1 hour. The 2nd 2 columns show the minutes. In column 3 each light equals 10 mins, in column 4 each light equals 1 minute. $209 @ Tokyo Flash
	Alessi “Look No Hands” Watch The rotating disks are the basis for telling time. In the unique design, the current hour and minute appear in two distinct openings that rotate around the face of the watch, revealing only a small part of the art work at a time. $85 @ Buy.com
	Tokyo Flash Twelve 5-9 Q Watch “Moving clockwise from the top of the display, the first two lines of LEDs indicate the hours 1-12, each lit LED indicating one hour. The third line of LEDs indicates minutes up to 50, each lit LED indicating 10 minutes. The final two lines indicate single minutes 1-9, one LED representing each single minute.” $152 @ Tokyo Flash
	URWERK UR-202 AlTiN “Revolving Satellite Complication The UR-202 features URWERK’s patented Revolving Satellite Complication with telescopic minutes hands. The Revolving SatelliteComplication displays time using telescopic minutes hands operating through the middle of three orbiting and revolving hours satellites. The telescopic minutes hands precisely adjust their length to follow the three sectors marking the minutes: 0-14, 15-44, 45-60. Extended, they enable the UR-202 to display the time across a large, easy-to-read dial. Retracted, they allow for a very wearable and comfortably sized case.” Can’t find a price…guessing it’s a shit-load. Check it out at the URWERK website

ErdStyle's Blog

Diva Models Calendar 2011

Diva Models Calendar 2011

World's Biggest Machines

World's Biggest Machines

Strata 950 – The drilling machine being used to save the 33 Chilean miners

Antonov An-225 – World's largest and heaviest aircraft

D575A-3SD - World's Biggest (production) Bulldozer

Liebherr T 282B - World's Biggest Truck

World's Biggest Motorcycle

Large Hadron Collider - World's Largest and Highest-energy Particle Accelerator

Giant Mechanical Spider

Queen of the Netherlands –World's Largest Vacuum Cleaner

Krupp Digging Machine - World's Largest Digging Machine

Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60 – World's Biggest Movable Machine

30 Greatest Albert Einstein Quotes

14 of the Worlds Most Bizarre Unsolved Mysteries

14 of the Worlds Most Bizarre Unsolved Mysteries

1. The Voynich Manuscript

2. The Marree Man

3. The Curious Case of D.B. Cooper

4. Mary Celeste, The Original Ghost Ship

5. The Black Dahlia Murder

6. Jack The Ripper

7. The Cliff Dwelling of Anasazi

8. The Oak Island Money Pit

9. The Sphinx of Giza

10. The Stone Spheres of Costa Rica

11. The Mystery of Easter Island

12. The Mothman of Virginia

13. The Taos Hum

14. The Disappearance of Fredrick Valentich

10 Amazing James Bond Gadgets that are REAL!

10 Amazing James Bond Gadgets that are REAL!

1. Jetpack

2. “Blaster”

3. Fake Fingerprints

4. Re-breather

5. Shark Gun

6. X-Ray Glasses

7. Q’s Pet

8 Homing Device

9. Skyhook

10. Laser

10 World Changing Drugs Discovered by Accident

10 World Changing Drugs Discovered by Accident

1. Penicillin

2. Smallpox Vaccine

3. Viagra

4. Coumadin/Warfarin

5. LSD

6. Minoxidil

7. Nitrous Oxide

8. Mustine

9. Botox

10. Insulin

THE STREAMLINED CAR OF 1960 (1948)

THE STREAMLINED CAR OF 1960 (1948)

Chinese Ghost Town

Chernobyl by Paul Fusco

Chernobyl by Paul Fusco

12 Pieces of Geek Jewelry Perfect for Your Nerdalicious Guy Or Gal

Published on 1/18/2011 under Fun Tech - by Jill Harness

For The Geeky Engaged Couple: Ethernet Plug Wedding Rings

For The Music Geek: Vinyl Record Jewelry

For The Mathematically Inclined: The Pi Necklace

For The Computer Lover: Computer Parts Jewelry

For The Shark Week Geek: The Jaws Ring

For The TwiTard: Crochet Vampire Bite Necklace

For The Multitasking CEO: Jewel Encrusted Bluetooth

For The Gardening Geek: The Greenhouse Ring

For The Classy Star Wars Fan: Storm Trooper Helmet Cufflinks

For The Apple Fanatic: Macintosh Power Button Jewelry

For The Pretentious iPod Lover: Diamond Encrusted Earbuds

For The Fallout Series Fan: Radiation Measurement Dosimeter Necklace

10 Watches More Expensive Than A Ferrari

10 Watches More Expensive Than A Ferrari

The Patek Caliber 89 - $5,120,000

Split Seconds Patek Philippe Reference 1436 By Tiffany & Co. – $214,000

Patek Philippe Ref 5016P – $762,000