South Korean animator Seoro Oh’s cleverly titled, sneezy, snorky, snotty ode to the vicissitudes of rhinitis.
Author Archives: Chompsky
Hot Wheels
at
Behold: the Lotus Evija Electric Coupe. Capable of 0-100km/h in under 3 seconds, a top speed of 320km/h, a 400km range on a full charge and a frankly alarming 1,973 bhp, it will be the most powerful production car ever built.
Each individual wheel can transfer more power than any car Lotus has produced to date.
Built around a one-piece carbon fibre monocoque chassis with laser headlights and a racetrack inspired interior, only 130 will be made, each of which – including yours – will cost €1.87 million.
Aggh! It’s a TIE fighter. No wait, it’s a sunspot. No wait, it’s the International Space Station. But what’s it doing on the Sun? To wit:
Transiting the Sun is not very unusual for the ISS, which orbits the Earth about every 90 minutes, but getting one’s timing and equipment just right for a great image is rare. Strangely, besides that fake spot, in this recent two-image composite, the Sun lacked any real sunspots. The featured picture combines two images — one capturing the space station transiting the Sun — and another taken consecutively capturing details of the Sun’s surface. Sunspots have been rare on the Sun since the dawn of the current Solar Minimum, a period of low solar activity. For reasons not yet fully understood, the number of sunspots occurring during both the previous and current solar minima have been unusually low.
(Image: Rainee Colacurcio)
Vanity Fair puts voice actor Tom Kenny on the spot – presenting him with five previously unseen animated characters, inviting him to improvise their likely voices.
Being the voice of Spongebob, Gary the snail, Adventure Time’s Ice King, the Mayor on Powerpuff Girls and many others – Kenny does not disappoint.
Choice cuts from the “ТЭЦ-5” location tag on instagram wherein ‘influencers’ pose and preen against the backdrop of what would appear to be the pristine turquoise waters of the Indian ocean but is – in fact – the ash dump pond of Heating And Electrical Station Number 5 in Siberia.
Last month, the company warned visitors not to enter the calcium salt and metal oxide contaminated waters, to little effect.
Related: Нравится и подписаться
Today
at
Paiste Gong master Sven Meier coaxes out the doomy timbre of a 2 meter wide nickel/silver gong.
Headphones recommended.
Eagle Aurora
at
Five days before this image was captured over Norway in 2012, a large coronal mass ejection occurred on the sun, throwing a cloud of fast moving electrons, protons, and ions toward the Earth. To wit:
Although most of this cloud passed above the Earth, some of it impacted our Earth’s magnetosphere and resulted in spectacular auroras being seen at high northern latitudes. Featured here is a particularly photogenic auroral corona captured above Grotfjord, Norway. To some, this shimmering green glow of recombining atmospheric oxygen might appear as a large eagle, but feel free to share what it looks like to you. Although the Sun is near Solar Minimum, streams of the solar wind continue to impact the Earth and create impressive auroras visible even last week.
(Image: Bjørn Jørgensen)
Architecture/construction channel OUROBOROS ARQ applies the full scale construction methods of housebuilding – foundations, bricklaying, beams and rebar – to a miniature dwelling.