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Atomic Cannon

Atomic Cannon detonated at the Nevada Test Site in 1953. Exploded with a force of 15 kilotons. Sequence from "Trinity and Beyond - The Atomic Bomb Movie".


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Here is an unexpected mix of another Atomic Cannon footage with Johnny Cash song:


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Here is a picture of it on display at US Army Ordnance Museum in Aberdeen, Maryland:


(photo by Allan Janus)


Today's pictures & links:
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"Akira" bike is a reality

If you've seen "Akira" you probably remember cool bikes featured there. Well, Japanese manufacturers finaly came up with production model:
"SUMO" electric bike. - via




(image credit: qingy)

See it in action here.

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Ideas that live in your head


(image credit: adme.ru)

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Man as the Industrial Machine

From "Dream Anatomy" by Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) - via


(original: Stuttgart, 1926. Chromolithograph. National Library of Medicine.)

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Mixed fresh links for today:

Band name origins (an extensive list) - [interesting]
"I dreamt I had lots of toes..." - [weird]
Surfer guy creates a Theory of Everything, his paper - [science] - via
The Biggest Observation Wheel - [architecture]
Nazis in Antarctica - [history]
This comet is bigger than the Sun in our system - [space]
The Turk: The Man inside the Machine - [weird]
One Expensive Truffle - [food]
Stay Smart - [funny video ad]

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Epic Sand Art

These giant sand drawings are by Jim Denevan






(image credit: Jim Denevan)

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F-35 Fighter Helmet from a bad dream
(read more about it here)







"The fashion" probably started with this fighter helmet from WWII:


(image credit: kazetan)

an obvious modification:


(original unknown)

Soup


(image credit: okuno)

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