When Mount Etna erupted on April 11,2013, it created amazing smoke rings. Toroidal Vortices or Volcanic smoke rings are rare, but well-documented.
Tuesday 28 May 2013
Trans-Tokyo Bay Highway
The Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line also known as the Trans-Tokyo Bay Highway, is a bridge–tunnel combination across Tokyo Bay in Japan. It connects the city of Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture with the city of Kisarazu in Chiba Prefecture, and forms part of National Route 409. With an overall length of 14 km, it includes a 4.4 km bridge and 9.6 km tunnel underneath the bay—the fourth-longest underwater tunnel in the world.
Driving Underwater - What intelligent engineering Aquaduct Veluwemeer Netherlands
Driving Underwater - What intelligent engineering! Aquaduct Veluwemeer, Netherlands
Indian-American teen invents 20-second charger
Indian-American teen invents 20-second charger an 18-year-old Indian-American girl has invented a super-capacitor device that could potentially charge your cellphone in less than 20 seconds.
The Great Artificial Elephant, Nantes, France,
This is a robotic miracle!Made from 45 tons of recycled materials,measuring 12 meters high and 8 meters wide. It can carry up to 49 passengers!
The Mind-Blowing Mt. Roraima
The Mind-Blowing Mt. Roraima, the triple border point of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana and one of the oldest geological formations on Earth. There is a species of Frog Philautus (Anura Ranidae) which has lived on the top of Mt Roraima, which is more closely related to frogs in Africa than any other south American Amphibian, which just shows you, these Tepui's are relics of the time when Africa and South America were conjoined. AMAZING!
The winners of the 2013 "Earth and Sky" photo contest
This picture is called Stars over Salzburg and shows the glow of the Austrian city's lights from a high Alpine vantage point. The picture helps reflect concerns with light pollution photographer:Andreas Max Baeckle
The Spinning Vortex of Saturn's Polar Storm Resembles a Rose.
The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm resembles a rose surrounded by green foliage in this false-color handout image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken November 27, 2012. Measurements have sized the eye at 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) across with cloud speeds as fast as 330 miles per hour (150 meters per second)
The World's First Computer Mouse held by Inventor.
The World's First Computer Mouse held by inventor Douglas Engelbart, showing the wheels that make contact with the working surface.
Saturday 18 May 2013
Crazy Lace Agate!
Is a variety of banded Chalcedony, a mineral of the Quartz family. It is predominantly white, with layers of creamy browns, blacks and grays. Some may include layers of yellow ochre, gold, scarlet and red. Agate is sometimes called the earth rainbow because, in its various forms, the concentric bands in nature form nearly every color the earth can produce, including a colorless form.
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