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Behold: the Volcon Grunt – a beefy, utilitarian, all-electric first offering from Texas-based off-road vehicle startup Volcon – a hog for all weather and almost any terrain.

An impact-shielded tubular aluminium frame, fat knobbly tyres and a 60V 50bhp powertrain make for decent torque, 160km of range on a two hour full charge and a modest top speed of 100km/h. An IP-67 rating means the whole bike can operate entirely submerged in water.

Yous to pre-order (for 2021 delivery) for €5,200 (+shipping).

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Behold: Sh2-136, otherwise known as the Ghost nebula, for obvious reasons. To wit:

The jewelled expanse, filled with faint, starlight-reflecting clouds, drifts through the night in the royal constellation of Cepheus. Far from your own neighborhood on planet Earth, these ghostly apparitions lurk along the plane of the Milky Way at the edge of the Cepheus Flare molecular cloud complex some 1,200 light-years away. Over two light-years across and brighter than the other spooky chimeras, VdB 141 or Sh2-136 is also known as the Ghost Nebula, seen at toward the bottom of the featured image. Within the reflection nebula are the telltale signs of dense cores collapsing in the early stages of star formation.

(Image: Bogdan Jarzyna)

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Behold: the full 24 light year wide expanse of the Orion nebula.

And yet, as spectacular as this image appears, it’s a mere thumbnail of the real thing – a giant 2.5 gigapixel photomosaic composed of 12,816 individual photos created over the past five years by amateur astronomer Matt Harbison.

Explore the mahoossive full sized zoomable mosaic here.

MORE: This Insane 2.5 Gigapixel Image of the Orion Constellation Took Five Years To Complete (Petapixel)

Con Kennedy tweetz:

This photo is from the collection of the Irish Society of Antiquarians and was used to document tenement life in Dublin a century ago. This particular photo taken in 1911 is often used in books and documentaries on Dublin life of the time. The photo is of a Tenement in Chancery Lane, AKA Little Italy.

My Great-Great-Grandfather is in the centre by the door. He was a German immigrant, a Jew who married an Italian Roman Catholic in Cork and settled in Dublin. He was a barrel organ grinder who befriended the Ganter Brothers – I have a clock they made for him. I suspect the woman beside him is my Great-Great-Grandmother with my infant Great grandmother in her arms who died when I was 7. The photo depicts all the families who lived in the one tenement. I thought I’d add false colour to the photo.

Behold: the SSC Tuatara.

They said it would do it, and it did it.

Driven by British racing driver Oliver Webb over a two-way run along the straight section of Route 160 between Las Vegas and Pahrump, the 1,750bhp hypercar recently averaged 508.7km/h, clocking the Bugatti Chiron as the world’s fastest production car.

Go on. Tuat yourself. For €1.61 million.

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