Monday, November 15, 2010

Ship Graveyard in Russia


Old Soviet inland water crafts have found their resting place. The former might gets covered with rust in a special cemetery.

WW2 Bunkers In The Present-Day Russian Forests

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Fascinating pictures of the WW2 bunkers, which still stand doomed in the Russian forests and fields.

Pretty Girls at Beer Festival

Badeschiff, the Floating Swimming Pool in Berlin

The Badeschiff is one of Berlin’s most unusual attraction - a floating public swimming pool in the East Harbour section of the River Spree. The Badeschiff allows citizens to swim in a safe and sanitary environment in their river, at least in a figurative sense. The Spree itself is far too polluted to permit safe bathing.
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The Secret of the Blood Falls of Antarctica

From a crack in the Taylor Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica flows a curious blood-red colored water. When it was first discovered by geologist Griffith Taylor in 1911, the color was thought to have come from an algae. The source of the red color was later discovered to be an iron-rich underground saltwater lake that was trapped by the encroaching glacier at least 1.5 million years ago. The temperature of the water is -5 Celsius, but it's so salty that it doesn't freeze.
But the Blood Falls houses another secret, which scientists from Harvard University have started to uncover - it's home to an entire ecosystem of bacteria, trapped for millennia in conditions that are extremely inhospitable to life.
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Miracles You’ll See In The Next Fifty Years: An Article from 1950

Like most predictions about the future, this article from Popular Mechanics dated Feb, 1950, does a pretty mediocre job. Some predictions are accurate, some are wrong, and many of them are plain weird or impractical. It’s a long article, but it sure makes an entertaining read.
A text version of the entire article can be found after these images.
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