Animated Knots – for all your cliff-dangling, boat-fastening, main-staying needs.
A step by step, rabbit-goes-in-the-hole guide to every knot you’ll ever need – broken down by category (fishing, surgical, climbing, decorative, kinabaku, etc.)
Explore here.
Sly Stallone’s face deftly mapped onto Arnold Schwarzenegger’s body in the famous biker bar scene from Terminator 2 by deepfake expert Ctrl Shift Face.
Behold: the G43 Toyota Land Cruiser – a fully upgraded version of the 1971 FJ43 by specialist US Land Cruiser re-engineers, The FJ Company.
Starting with an original FJ43 chassis stripped down to bare metal, G43s are fitted with a robust new leather interior (including bench seats), modern electronics, lifted suspension, heavy duty tyres, front winch, upgraded grille and a 4.0 litre Toyota V8 engine.
Price and specs on application.
Nobody do creepy playgrounds like Russia do creepy playgrounds.
You play now. Mama return soon.
Behold: a long exposure (taken over several nights earlier this year) of the constellation of Orion – not just three stars in a row, rather, a direction in space rich with impressive nebulae. To wit:
Of the many interesting details that have become visible, one that particularly draws the eye is Barnard’s Loop, the bright red orange arc just to the right of the image center. The Rosette Nebula is not the giant orange nebula just to the left of the image center — that is larger but lesser known nebula known as the Meissa Ring. The Rosette Nebula is visible, though: it is the bright orange, blue and white nebula near the image bottom. The bright orange star just left of the frame center is Betelgeuse, while the bright blue star on the upper right is Rigel. About those famous three stars that cross the belt of Orion the Hunter — in this busy frame they can be hard to locate, but a discerning eye will find them just to the right of the image center.
(Image: Andrew Klinger)
A very satisfying 13 minutes (if you have them to spare) wherein a rusty and wrecked old toy piano found in a barn by YouTube fixer-uppers Rescue&Restore is sandblasted, powder-coated and restored to its former glory.
Irish Plogging Divas tweets:
D-Day for decommissioning (just me?) bike stands in @ucddublin. I presume new ones will stand (groan) the test of time #cycling #Dublin #studentlife #bikes #DDay75 #OperationOverlord
An image taken by the Hubble telescope showing four of the five adjacent galaxies of Stephan’s Quintet in the Pegasus constellation – the first compact galaxy group ever invited to compete on Strictly discovered. To wit:
Really only four of the five of Stephan’s Quintet are locked in a cosmic tango of repeated close encounters taking place some 300 million light-years away. The odd galaxy out is easy to spot in this recently reprocessed image by the Hubble Space Telescope — the interacting galaxies, NGC 7319, 7318B, 7318A, and 7317 (left to right), have a more dominant yellowish cast. They also tend to have distorted loops and tails, grown under the influence of disruptive gravitational tides. The mostly bluish galaxy, large NGC 7320 on the lower left, is in the foreground at about 40 million light-years distant, and so is not part of the interacting group. Data and modeling indicate that NGC 7318B is a relatively new intruder. A recently-discovered halo of old red stars surrounding Stephan’s Quintet indicate that at least some of these galaxies started tangling over a billion years. Stephan’s Quintet is visible with a moderate sized-telescope toward the constellation of Winged Horse (Pegasus).
(Image: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing: Daniel Nobre)
