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Posted by admin in Featured Articles on 01 22nd, 2010 | 1 Comment
Timelapse movie: The Alps
Here are the night timelapse shots I took mostly from cottages of the Swiss Alpine Club. Locations are: Diavolezza, Glecksteinhütte (Grindelwald), Carschina, Arosa, Glärnisch, Vrenelis Gärtli
Beethoven, Klaviersonate 14 “Mondschein” — piano sonata No. 14 “moonlight”
Posted by admin in Featured Articles on 01 18th, 2010 | 7 Comments
Life in Las Vegas Underground tunels
I remember watching a documentary movie called Dark Days about homeless people living underground. That was many years ago, but it looks like these hidden communities are starting to form everywhere in the United States. One place that surprised me is Las Vegas.
It is a sad reality. Check out...
Creative Oasis Isolated under a roof
Biosphere 2 is a 3.15-acre (12,700 m2) structure originally built to be a man-made, materially-closed ecological system in Oracle, Arizona by Space Biosphere Ventures, a joint venture whose principal officers were John P. Allen, inventor and Executive Director, and Margret Augustine, CEO. Constructed...
Posted by admin in Featured Articles on 01 14th, 2010 | 2 Comments
Amazing Time Lapse Video Of The Northern Lights
The Northern Lights are one of nature’s most spectacular visual phenomena, and in this National Geographic time lapse video they provide a breathtaking display of light, shape, and colour over the course of a single night in Norway.
Posted by admin in Featured Articles on 01 2nd, 2010 | 2 Comments
The World’s Lowest Points by Continets
The following list represent the seven continents with their lowest points on land, sorted in decreasing points.
7. Australia – Lake Eyre -15 m (-49 ft)
Lake Eyre is the lowest point in Australia, at approximately 15 m (49 ft) below sea level, and, on the rare occasions that it fills,...
Largest Man Made Crater
In the picture you see a sedan crater than can be visited in Nevada Test site. You can see how enormous it is when you compare it with the space a platform takes in the picture. This crater is a result of an underground test of storax sedan and remains the largest man made crater. The nuclear testing...
The Tallest Skyscraper In The World – Burj Dubai
Towering high above the Dubai skyline, Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest man-made construction, edges closer to completion
Burj Dubai is a supertall skyscraper under construction in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 818 m (2,684 ft). Construction...
The helicopter trip over Dubai
In Dubai, I rented a helicopter, said Sergei share, flying over the complex World, being built with palm hotel Atlantis headed, urban skyscrapers, stables, Sheikh, the hotel-sail, the Burj Al Arab, the largest shopping mall and the Mall of Dubai, of course, next to the tallest building in the world –...
Yas Marina Hotel Abu Dhabi
The Yas Marina Hotel is located within the Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi. It is the first new hotel in the world to be built over an F1 race circuit. The hotel’s exterior surface is designed as an environmentally responsive skin that by day reflects the sky and surroundings and by night is lit...
Posted by admin in Featured Articles on 12 10th, 2009 | No Comments
Under The Antarticas Ice
These stunning images show one man’s incredible 400 hour journey of endurance swimming in the coldest waters in the world.In a breathtaking feat of dedication to his profession, extreme diver Norbert Wu captured the visual feast swimming under Antarctica’s captivating sea ice.Over the past...