While the LEGO-ised Shaun of the Dead never got approved, Kyle Ransom has provided another zombie apocalypse build to feast our eyes upon. Plenty more pictures over on MOCpages.
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The Gravity Balans chair (a mere €2,255) from Variér what sez:
The power nap is an invaluable instrument in your quest for productivity, boosting energy levels and recharging your brain. Float free of gravity and experience the ultimate power nap with the Gravity balans®. Fully reclined, the Gravity balans® elevates your legs above your heart, and rocks gently to the rhythm of your breathing, so you experience a liberating sense of weightlessness.
Until you’re inevitably tipped by a passing troll.
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LEGO builder Thorsten Bonsch is planing a series of 11 LEGO dioramas celebrating Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary this year, starting with this scene from The Snowmen Christmas special (click for a larger version).
[via The Brother Brick]
Reminiscent of the sculptures left in Scottish libraries earlier this year, artist Jodi Harvey-Brown creates these pop up books using the stories contained within as inspiration.
If you like them, she has a shop on Etsy and even takes requests.
Despite its 10 year run, it’s a rarity for one of the original Calvin and Hobbes strips to change hands and one has never before come up for auction.
This Sunday strip from 1986 is being put up for sale at the Vintage Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction in Dallas next November. Lend us a few quid for it, will you? It’ll look perfect hanging in my bedroom the office bathroom.
Yet another addition to the growing set of LEGO diorams based on Lord of the Rings (we’ve previously had the Battle of Isengard and Barad Dûr) comes from Blake Baer and Jack Bittner who built this stunning version of Rivendell. They even made a video showcasing it for your viewing pleasure.
[via The Brother Brick]
With the Curiosity Rover making its first trip today, we bring you this wonderful powered LEGO model of the rover created by Will Gorman and Doug Moran.
With the successful landing of the Curiosity Rover on Mars, the inevitable comparison between its cost and what has been poured into the banking system was made in the letters page of the Irish Times:
As a final aside, we could have had an Irish space programme and a viable base on the moon with all the associated financial, technological and investment spin-offs for the money that, with a stroke of a minister’s pen, we “invested” in bailing out our failed banks.
For a change though, someone has crunched the numbers. WorldbyStorm from The Cedar Lounge Revolution did some quick calculations:
The EU bailout saw €17.5 bn from the NPRF. Then there’s the ‘loans’ from the EU, IMF and UK/Denmark and Sweden which would account for €67.5 bn. Sundry other costs can be thrown in. So let’s say we had €100bn.
That’s a lot of cash, but Apple currently has approximately that in cash reserves right now so it’s not an impossible number to reach especially over a number of years. So what would that get you?
There’s a web page here which suggests that it cost $100bn at 1994 rates to land on the Moon. But even accounting for inflation we wouldn’t necessarily have to follow all the steps. For a start we could double up some of the missions and vehicles, perhaps by moving straight to a three or more person capsule and eschewing either the Mercury or Gemini elements of the program.
Now here’s the thing – Space X has developed, built and launched a reusable spacecraft that docked with the ISS for the paltry sum of $800 million. There’s already plans to build a version that could make it to Mars. So a chunk of the R&D has already been done. Their model of providing resupply services to the ISS would also be a source of income to plough back into the program.
But what about some of the other practicalities of skilled people to actually run such a program or even build anything. As it happens, Ireland is already involved with the ESA since 1975 and has an active (if small) space industry. It’d need to scale up, but that would provide jobs and direct investment that paying off bondholders doesn’t.
Just think. For less than the bailout, we could gather up all the architects of our current situation and bundle them into a capsule bound for Mars and still come out ahead. We could even televise their one way trip for even more money. All in the name of science.
LEGO builder Peer Kreuger created these wonderful remote controlled vehicles from The Dark Knight Rises.
You can vote for both The Bat and Tumbler to be made into official sets.