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Romance... starts like this


but may end sooner than you think


Try to keep your thoughts off lingerie for a minute...







There is always a choice:

(images credit: Exler)

Girls! Remember, guys need space. ...you can join them there:


Guys can do some extreme ironing, too:
(more images at this site)

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1. KM - Russian "Caspian Sea Monster" Ekranoplan

Contrail, or "Vapor Trail", forming at high altitudes. Contrails generated by engine exhaust are, of course, linked with pollution, but the visible white streams in the sky made from plane's "wing-tip vortices" are essentially ice crystals and pure condensation trails. "Being composed of water, the are not, in and of themselves, air pollution."(wiki)








(images credit: Laurent Malbecq)


USAF F-15 Eagle Fighters Intercept Two Soviet MiG-29 Fighters:


(image credit: Staff Sgt. Kevin L. Bishop, USAF)



(image credit: Strange Vehicles)


"Fly me to the Moon"

(image credit: Barry McGrath)

...or out of the Sun

(original unknown)


Some shooting (or launching decoys) also produces interesting trails:










The amazing cloud "downwash effect" from a passing jet plane:



(image credit: Strange Vehicles.com)



(image credit: Daniel Koury)






(images credit: Checksix-forums)


Breaking the Sound Barrier: Transonic Cloud Effects

Going over the sound barrier produces one of the most amazing condensation effects - so called "Prandtl-Glauert Condensation Clouds", formed by the rapid cooling of the air. You have to be really quick with your camera "trigger" to capture it, as it only occurs at the sonic barrier. This page has many photographs and videos of this phenomena.

F/A-18F Super Hornet streaks past the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk in the Philippine Sea:

(U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Chandler)


Skilled pilots can actually control where this cloud appears:
"It is possible to work the plane's throttle to move the shock wave forward or aft." (source)

(U.S. Navy photo by Ensign John Gay)





F-14 completes a super-sonic flyby:

(U.S. Navy photo by Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jarod Hodge)














Rainbow on the Clouds

Perhaps the most sublime is the rainbow/shadow combination, forming on the vapor and clouds around a passing jet.


(original unknown)


image credit: Jeff Well, Airliners.net

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Contrail, or "Vapor Trail", forming at high altitudes. Contrails generated by engine exhaust are, of course, linked with pollution, but the visible white streams in the sky made from plane's "wing-tip vortices" are essentially ice crystals and pure condensation trails. "Being composed of water, the are not, in and of themselves, air pollution."(wiki)








(images credit: Laurent Malbecq)


USAF F-15 Eagle Fighters Intercept Two Soviet MiG-29 Fighters:


(image credit: Staff Sgt. Kevin L. Bishop, USAF)



(image credit: Strange Vehicles)


"Fly me to the Moon"

(image credit: Barry McGrath)

...or out of the Sun

(original unknown)


Some shooting (or launching decoys) also produces interesting trails:










The amazing cloud "downwash effect" from a passing jet plane:



(image credit: Strange Vehicles.com)



(image credit: Daniel Koury)






(images credit: Checksix-forums)


Breaking the Sound Barrier: Transonic Cloud Effects

Going over the sound barrier produces one of the most amazing condensation effects - so called "Prandtl-Glauert Condensation Clouds", formed by the rapid cooling of the air. You have to be really quick with your camera "trigger" to capture it, as it only occurs at the sonic barrier. This page has many photographs and videos of this phenomena.

F/A-18F Super Hornet streaks past the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk in the Philippine Sea:

(U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Chandler)


Skilled pilots can actually control where this cloud appears:
"It is possible to work the plane's throttle to move the shock wave forward or aft." (source)

(U.S. Navy photo by Ensign John Gay)





F-14 completes a super-sonic flyby:

(U.S. Navy photo by Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jarod Hodge)














Rainbow on the Clouds

Perhaps the most sublime is the rainbow/shadow combination, forming on the vapor and clouds around a passing jet.


(original unknown)


image credit: Jeff Well, Airliners.net

출처 Jets&Clouds Effects

"Age Reincarnation", by Alexander Kolesnikov


'Mirtus Communicus" by Artem Novikov


"R2D14m" by Pavel Rafalovich


"Recycle Your Computer" by Alexey Chistov


"Me Lady" by Artem Zheleznyak


"Wheel Case" by Alexander Kolesnikov


mod by Alexander Brikov


"Charged!" by Alexey Chistov


mod by Vogdan Suk
(images credit: dpk.com.ua)

On the other side of the ocean, American case-modders are going nuts, too:

WMD
Weapons of Mass Destruction can now be a feature of any office, if you so desire.
The whole project is documented here





WMD II:



via Gadgets Fosfor. They have another interesting weird mod list.

Probably the best case modding company

Best Case Scenario certainly rocks.
Here is the "Matrix Regenerator"
(there is something living inside of it...possibly)





They also have very cool Alien case mod

Fusion Mods has a nice thread devoted to this art:



More after the jump...

The Best Laptops For Work and Play. Download Your Favorite Music onto These MP3 Players!

Tumbler Batmobile PC:



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Everybody has seen "The Microwave PC":


(image credit: Engadget)

Neatorama has compiled the ultimate case mod catalog, featuring plenty of "household appliances" PC mods, for example. Some of my favorites:

"The Skeleton Case Mod":


(image credit: http://www.extremetech.com)

best case is no case:


(image credit: bit-tech.net)

and Stained Glass computer case:




(image credit: BoredStop)

Pick up a pre-modded computer case.

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Check out some photos from the recent Computer Case Mod Show:
(images courtesy Shutki-mozga.ru)












(images credit: Shutki mozga)

Send us tips on other computer mods you like.

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STS-117 Atlantis mission's rendezvous with Expedition 15 of the International Space Station. Read more info here. Click any image to enlarge. Astronaut Steven Swanson during the mission's second spacewalk. Inspection of the thermal shield. Shuttle's payload bay is clearly visible, with a valuable cargo inside. Shuttle approaching the International Space Station "The Backflip" - flipping Atlantis on her "belly" to allow for closer examination of the heat shield. Giving out packages from Earth... Astronaut Jim Reilly during spacewalk. STS-117 noticed a gap in the thermal blanket, which would be repaired during a spacewalk. Mission's first spacewalk (connecting station's newly installed truss) Construction of the International Space Station continues - activating new truss segments. Folding the older solar arrays... Astronaut Patrick Forrester during the mission's fourth spacewalk. New solar array configuration. Future missions will add more arrays to each side and several science modules. Aurora Borealis as seen from space: (Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA) Sunset over the Pacific: (Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA) NASA Associate Administrator Rex Geveden at the Launch Control Center. (Images source: NASA, Russian Space Center)

출처http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/06/one-day-in-space-photos.html

(images credit: Stefan - Fotofrog)

Crayons from Spyzter:


(image credit: Khuong)

Shattered glass lamp:


("Shattered Glass" by Raniel)

Peeled banana (and more from Jasper Nance)


(image credit: Jasper Nance)

Antibacterial soap bar:


(image credit: Jasper Nance)

Unfortunate? doll:


(image credit: Jasper Nance)

Hot tomato:


(image credit: Jasper Nance)

Bullet through a bottle:


(image credit: Johnny Lee)

"Pulsetronics" is UK company specializing in high-speed photography, mostly for science research. They also have a few artistic gems there:











Full Magnum Force:


(image credit: Arya Abidi)

Two spherical shock waves are visible on this "schlieren image" (an interferometric technique used to study the distribution of density gradients within a transparent medium). A serious weapon with considerable force, but nothing a good solid bottle of beer couldn't do:


(image credit: Laughlin Barker)

출처http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/06/aimfire.html

Notice the similarity of the above concept with the 1928 model of an airport on top of a giant building! Los Angeles architects expected private planes to replace automobiles in a near future; hence this 300m-long roof-top airstrip:


(image via)

Or check out these futuristic "Airport Docks for New York" dreamed up by architect Harry B. Brainerd:


(image credit: Modern Mechanix)

Misperception: "Freedom Ship" aircraft flight deck can accept 747 aircraft.
Facts: The largest aircraft this flight deck can accept are turboprop aircraft in the 38 to 40-passenger range. (Oh well, here goes the "wow" factor...)
More on this titanic undertaking here and
here, where you can also trace the evolution of its design.


2. More Cruise Ship Concepts:
some of them will dwarf any other ship in existence

- Kvaerner Masa-Yards' Super-Large Cruise Ship (on the left) and The Nova, a Panamax-Max ship displacing more than 100,000 GT (on the right):



Read more about the trend of increasing cruise ship sizes here

- This article speaks about "Project Genesis" - Royal Caribbean's largest-ever cruise ship with capacity of 5,400 passengers:



To give you an idea of modern cruise ships' scale, here's comparison with the Statue of Liberty:



The new liner (due sometime in 2009), code-named "Project Genesis", will dwarf the "Freedom of the Seas", measuring 220,000 tons (about 100,000 tons based on displacement — a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier comes in at about 97,000 tons)


3. The Biggest Ships Ever Constructed - Supertankers Extraordinaire!

The biggest ships ever constructed were four supertankers built in France at the end of the seventies, having a 555.000 DWT and a 414 meters length. They launched from the shipyard Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint Nazaire. The only larger ship was the jumboized "Knock Nevis"; ex "Jahre Viking", ex "Seawise Giant", ex "Porthos", in 1981 (see entry in Part 2). However, the Batillus class had the greater gross tonnage per ship, and it could be argued that they were, in fact, larger than the Knock Nevis.

* Batillus, built in 1976, scrapped in 1985.
* Bellamya, built in 1976, scrapped in 1986.
* Pierre Guillaumat, built in 1977, scrapped in 1983.
* Prairial, built in 1979,
(also as "Hellas Fos" and "Sea Giant") scrapped in 2003

So here is "Pierre Guillaumat" - Biggest Ship Ever Constructed:

출처 http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2006/12/biggest-ships-in-world-part-1.html

(images credit: Mischa Oordjik, Alastair T. Garoiner)

The Airbus A300-600ST (Super Transporter) or Beluga:


(images via)

Here is a Russian carrier VM-T "Atlant" used in a Buran and Energia space programs, which is perhaps the only airplane capable of carrying on its "shoulders" a load larger and heavier than itself:

출처 :http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/monstrous-aviation-worlds-biggest.html

(image credit: Sue Hickton)



Such images lend themselves very well to Photoshop:



These sharks have reputation as vicious predators, yet they are not unsystematic "eating machines". They attack from below in order to investigate what is floating on the surface.


(image via)


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(image credit: David Doubilet, National Geographic)

Great white sharks not only swim, they FLY!




See more pictures of the amazing hunt of great white sharks for seals in False Bay here.


(image credit: Eric Cheng)

This is definitely going to increase your confidence at sea: the enormous monster breaching the waves and flying at you with bloody dripping jaws. OK, it may not happen with such vivid color, but still....


(image credit: Lars-Gunnar Svard)

The Tiger shark is the fourth largest predatory shark. This shark is a solitary hunter, usually hunting at night. Its name is derivative from the dark stripes down its body, which grow fainter as the shark matures. It is infamous for attacks on swimmers, divers and surfers in Hawaii and is often referred to as "the wastebasket of the sea".


(image credit: Lars Kirchhoff)

Make way! The Boss is coming -


(image credit: Christie Fisher)

The tiger shark with a little "afternoon snack" -


(image credit: Christie Fisher)

Bull sharks often cruise through shallow waters and can suddenly burst into speed and can be highly aggressive. They are extremely territorial and will attack other animals and humans that enter their territory. Bull sharks are among the four species considered to be most dangerous to humans.


(images by wiki and Joe)

Here is a bit more aggressive photography:


(images via)

The first image shows the Shortfin Mako shark, one of the species that's officially responsible for eight unprovoked attacks on humans with two ending in fatality and twenty boat attacks.

In terms of size though, even the largest shark found on Earth today looks simply microscopic, compared to the size of prehistoric monsters, such as this Liopleurodon:


(image credit: Mark Witton)

Note that close to Liopleurodon's mouth is not a shark, but a huge plesiosaur, in itself the size of medium boat.

A few amazing facts about sharks: - via

- A shark does not have one bone in its body. Its skeleton is made up of cartilage. Cartilage is a tough material, like the material that shapes your ear.
- The Swell Shark, found in New Zealand, barks like a dog.
- Weird things have been found inside a shark, such as a bottle of wine, a treasure chest, a suit of armor, a drum and a torpedo.
- A shark’s skin is covered with denticles, which are small, razor-sharp teeth.

Not all huge sharks live in the warm or tropical waters. There is a shark species (still in many ways a mystery to biologists) that lives deep in the Artic water - sometimes as deep as 600 meters:

Greenland Sharks Lurk Beneath the Arctic Ice

The sleeper shark.... the "gurry" shark: the largest of Greenland sharks are comparable in size with the great white shark, although there is no record of them ever attacking humans. Check out these teeth though: small but razor-sharp -


(images by Nick Caloyianis National Geographic, and Canadian Shark Research Lab)

"Forget the cold. I kicked my fins and swam toward the shadowy figure. It turned and began moving toward me. I was face-to-face with a Greenland shark. I’d seen drawings and paintings of the fish, but this was utterly different. It was ghoulish. Its nostrils were the largest I had ever seen on a shark. They reminded me of a giant double-barreled shotgun. Its mouth was slightly open, revealing rows of small sharp teeth. Its eyes looked fogged over, like those of a dead fish, and from each one dangled a tasseled parasite." (Nick Caloyianis)

These guys are nearly blind, but they have a mouth big enough to eat a full-grown seal as some kind of muffin. There are also stories of these sharks attacking caribou as they drink from the mouths of rivers... and eating polar bears. So here you go.

OK, I am sure you are wondering by now, which shark has the biggest mouth and what exactly size of prey it can swallow. Check this out -

A Megamouth Shark!

This extremely rare (only a few have been seen so far) deep water shark has an enormous mouth with big flabby lips... Not just enormous, but freaking ILLUMINATED mouth (to attract some plankton to the light). Read more info here, it seems it's more of a relative to the ancient Coelacanth than normal sharks.


(image via US National Archives)


(images by Tom Haight, B. Hutchins, Marylin Baldo)

This is a species we did not know existed until 1976: only 41 such sharks have been found so far.


(image credit: Steve, Bruce Rasner)

출처 http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/sharks-cruise-missles-of-deep.html