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On Monday, students and staff of Dickinson High School in Milltown, Delaware broke the world record for the tallest LEGO tower with a 112ft 11.75in (34.4m) skyscraper made from half a million bricks.
The previous record, set last year by a school in Prague, was 106ft (32.3m).
National Geographic Photographer Joe McNally got permission (after three years of patient negotiation with the skyscraper’s administrator) to climb to the top of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and take this shot of the city beneath his shoes during Gulf Photo Plus 2013. Sez he:
My old battered shoes climbed the worlds tallest building today. What an amazing structure! Tweeting from 820 meters straight up!
(Pix: Joe McNally, Nicolas Lannuzel [Burj profile] and Wikimedia Commons [graph])
Back in 2007, this image was voted Optical Illusion of The Year by the Neural Corelate Society:
These images of the Leaning Tower are actually identical, but the tower on the right looks more lopsided because the human visual system treats the two images as one scene. Our brains have learned that two tall objects in our view will usually rise at the same angle but converge toward the top—think of standing at the base of neighboring skyscrapers. Because these towers are parallel, they do not converge, so the visual system thinks they must be rising at different angles.
Good, innit?
Taken last month.
But where?
Lines close at noon.
UPDATE: It’s Oldcourt Castle by the Swan river in Bray, county Wicklow (well spotted Don Bosco).
No safety goggles. Bloody typical.
