Behold: the Nikola Badger (you’ll recall the Nikola NZT) – a four-door, 960bhp hydrogen fuel cell/electric truck designed by the Arizona-based electric heavy vehicle maker as a clean competitor for the monstrous F150 and Silverado.
With an impressive 970km range, the Badger packs enough torque to tow four tonnes or accelerate to 100km/h in 2.9 seconds.
Currently taking advance orders (price tba)
Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ updated version of his prescient 1970 lament to environmental destruction, set to an animated video by Chris Hopewell filmed on sets made with recycled materials, including trash from the ocean.
The Hood Internet reaches 1989 in their ongoing year-by-year mashup of the biggest pop tunes.
Listen to 1979-1988 here.
Previously: 1984
Behold: the Ducatti Superleggera, or rather, a custom ‘naked’ upgrade of same by builder and former 250cc GP champ Roland Sands, who took a 2014 Ducati 1199 Superleggera and turned it into the world’s highest performance custom bike.
By replacing the already lightweight Ducatti bodywork with even lighter carbon fibre panels, adding a modified titanium exhaust, oversized race radiator, oil cooler, carbon handlebars, tank and GP-grade running gear, Sands increased the bike’s power to 207bhp, upping the revs by a further 1000rpm.
Easy now. It’s only for looking at.
A unique view of the normally familiar Orion constellation captured early last year from mountains in San Juan, Argentina where a zoomed long exposure has been used to enhance distant nebulae normally invisible to the unaided human eye. To wit:
…once you become oriented, you can see Orion’s three belt stars lined up vertically near the image center, and even locate the familiar Orion Nebula on the upper left. Famous faint features that are also visible include the dark Horsehead Nebula indentation near the image center, and the dusty Flame Nebula just to its right. Part of the Orion-encircling Barnard’s Loop can also be found on the far right. The image combines multiple sky-tracking shots of the background in different colours with a single static foreground exposure taken at twilight — all captured with the same camera and from the same location.
(Image: Nicolas Tabbush)
A recent ‘makeover’ of the controversial statue of Robert E. Lee at Monument Boulevard in Richmond, VA.
Yesterday: Christopher Cross
Behold: the 1958 Mercedes Benz 300SL – simpler and arguably classier than the legendary Gullwing, this long, low convertible roadster complete with its original 3.0l inline six engine, black leather interior and highly sought-after, date-stamped Rudge wheels has been in ‘static storage’ for 44 years.
Bidding (the auction is in progress right now and ends at 5.30) currently stands at €680,000.
Seriously, you’d want to get in there.
A lip-smacking sci-fi short by Steamroller Studios. To wit:
Centuries after the destruction of Earth, Kentucky Williams and his cyborg companion, C-LA, lead the crew of the Serrano on an intergalactic, flavour-driven adventure to hunt down the last remaining earth spices.
