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The Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) specializes in tracking particles produced by each ion collision at RHIC. It is used to search for signatures of the quark-gluon plasma. It is also used to investigate the behavior of matter at high energy densities. And it is a beast.
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Chrissy Does it get HBO?
Iron Mic Science. The innovation and irrefutable new age discovery, practice, and defining universal principles of man. #itsiron#
Kim Newman amazing to see how this works in real life beyond the movie version :)
Robin Edman It's ironic that something so large is needed to detect something so small
Carlos Armas Creative!!!
Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60, located in Lichterfeld This technological steel giant is 502 metres long, 202 metres wide, 80 metres high and 11,000 ton heavy. It was build in East Germany in 1991 by the VEB TAKRAF Lauchhammer After only 13 months in operation, the F60 bridge was suspended - for various energy and political reasons.
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photography by Christian Stoll
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David Webber EXACTLY what i thought. hope so.
Krewshal Klothing Total Pod Racer
Kimberly Broadbridge duh :-p
Kimberly Broadbridge That's way cool.
Asim Pandey its a turbo fan jet engine widely used for 777 series. podracer would be cooler though!
Werner von Braun standing in front of the Saturn V rocket in Rocket Park, U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL
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Francis LaLonde Those have GOT to be the F-1's...used on Saturn V???
chrisjgis Werner von Braun standing in front of the Saturn V rocket in Rocket Park, U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL
Francis LaLonde COOL...thanks...
Tamara P. Thought so!
Ben Golder @chrisjgis: thanks! I'm updating the caption.
Planta Solar 10, Seville, Spain. "The 11 megawatt (MW) solar power tower produces electricity with 624 large movable mirrors called heliostats. [...] Each of the mirrors has a surface measuring 120 m² (1,292 square feet) that concentrates the sun's rays to the top of a 115 metre (377 ft) high, 40-storey tower where a solar receiver and a steam turbine are located. The turbine drives a generator, producing electricity."
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Naomi U. Totally looks like Helios One solar plant in Fallout New Vegas :) http://fwd4.me/0xxv
Jane Mulvihill that is fantastic !
Vintage Exercise Machine
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binx from retronaut.co
Laramy-K Optical where are the togas hanging?
Jael Orea It seems like if that were an instrument of torture!!! :O
Jason PorrasValencia @That's the worst sled I've ever seen
Frank Velardo And a 1, and a 2, and a 3 ... can someone help me here?!
Marc Concepcion Wait.....is his neck strapped to the device???
the Great Elephant is 12 meters high, weighs 45 tons, can carry 49 people on its back for a 45-minute promenade along the Loire River, and is powered by the motor from a city bus. But the not-in-Kansas-anymore part is that it trumpets, wags its tail, blinks its eyes, sprays people with water from its trunk, and has been known to pee on the sidewalk. The beast is but one of the Machines of the Isle of Nantes, a sculptural and mechanical oasis of whimsical creatures inspired by Nantes native Ju...
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SafeCycle Enterprise I want one
V Vincent Live there !!
Andrew Prescott That is incredible, even ore amazing in motion http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Christine Joy Hordley So very French, I think.
Jael Orea I love it!!!!:)
The dazzle camouflage pattern was the work of the artist Norman Wilkinson. It was not to make tanks or jets invisible, instead it served to obscure their size, shape, speed, and other such aspects from the enemy.
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binx from joannemcneil.com
Chris Gray The next big thing in fashion, no doubt.
Space Shuttle Breaching the Clouds.
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Robert Barber REALESTATE Not real
Diane Hofer-Montano Even if it is edited...it's still a very cool photo.
John Cook Actually, its sat on a Crawler on the way to the pad, they aren't clouds, Its SNOW!!!!! lol
Trish Trimble If or when it "snows" in Florida there is no way that is snow! CLOUDS!!! cool pic even if it isnt acurate.
John Cook Joke Trish !! but yeah cool pic !!!!
Designed by Jean Pierre Ponthieu. in the 1970s. The Pussycar Automodule was created as a promotional vehicle. Described as ‘The Car of the Year 2000′, its rear wheel was powered by a 250cc single cylinder engine.
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Ben Golder from retronaut.co
Sherry Peters Thinkin' it would make texting kinda hard - lol
Mhicheil Daily The prequel to the Smart car?
Fabio Wertheimer Mooncar
Sharon SAlazar very cool...must try it...
Brian Fritts It became a Prius lol
Diavik diamond mine
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Shawn McCann This is very close to where I live... And there are good things and bad things about it...
Erika Danielson ICE ROAD TRUCKERS! what a cool ass pic!
John Sakolosky @Erika Danielson, that is exactly what I was thinking! Weird to see it from above and the water not frozen over.
Wild Fox Feel Like WOW....................
Glenn Marvin Looks like a gigantic plug hole....
Diavik diamond mine
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Mahmoud El Chami This is actually pretty awesome.
F. Dopico Belly button of the World
Chris Gray This is incredible
Michael Krasow Diamonds are girls best friend
Raquel Marie koolies! =D
Before airplanes were perfected for reconnaissance, WWI-era armies used man-carrying kites as their eyes in the sky.
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binx from theatlantic.com
Mining loader; it costs over 60,000 dollars to replace a flat tire.
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Alan Berman I was thinking something more along the lines of this -- http://www.gizmag.com/bridg...
Alan Berman but much larger, of course.
Zoe FraBla I honestly thought someone had crocheted the wheel
Colin Daly For the about of cash they make, the frickin mining companies can afford it. Go boo-hoo.
Bruce Maki Impressive tire chains. I'm guessing this tightly-woven "chain mail" covering isn't for traction on snow & ice, but for protecting the tires from sharp jagged rocks that would puncture those expensive tires.
The tidy Swiss want to clean up space. - Swiss scientists said Wednesday they plan to launch a “janitor satellite” specially designed to get rid of orbiting debris known as space junk.
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binx from nydailynews.com
Dakota Dawson Is that the TARDIS up there?
Ofer Davidi Go go Swiss... now I am waiting to the user of our space to join the action
hectorIN® wow
Ames Aeronautical Laboratory wind tunnel (Moffett Field, California).
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Mark Tarleton Used to work right next door but this is little before my time. They hangers where the MythBusters flew their lead ballon and did a few other projects is just off camera on the right.
Treadmill for a racecar
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Michael Hayes Woah!
Colleen Janner don't turn it off too fast!! *zoom-crash*
Jane Mallory I want to get this for Steve-for keeping racing fever under contôl in the winter
Andy Watson I would not want to have my desk right next to that thing.
synth
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binx from ffffound.com
Maria Beatrice Micarelli That's paradise!
Paul Emory The real Microsoft headquarters..
Dirk Aßmann-Staudt Darth Vaders kidsroom?
Anders Visby Klaus Schulze anno 1980
ALCOA’s 50,000-ton forging press just came back online. It will make pieces of the Joint Strike Fighter.
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Christian Hunter So sweet! So you know if they'll be VTOL?
The "stratolaunch", funded by Paul Allen and designed by Burt Rutan/Scaled Composites.
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Chicago Car Elevator c. 1936
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Ben Golder from chicagoist.com
JK Neilson Cool, they exist! Alan Tracy should worry...
Ben Golder it appears to be a real photo, and things like this existed, but the exact location is not yet confirmed.
Brian Crum Oh yeah. They definitely still exist; got some pics around somewhere from a couple in New York from a couple years ago. Chicago still has 'em too, I believe.
Hugo Sebastien Deslippe They are all over the place in Japan but usually in a building.
Alicia Lullo Actually, this is south loop area, on Wabash. (I only know because I have class next door. Sadly, this isn't there anymore.)
:: Max Factor’s beauty callibrator, 1934 ::
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binx from leblogdesovena.com
Jenna Maloney ditto on the hell raiser comment
Agnes Berthelot Super creepy to me
Bridgette H Latest Jigsaw torture device?
Lauren Shaw Is this a saw trap?
Pixle <3 ow
Proteus Catamaran by Ugo Conti is 50' tall and 100' wide and can cover 5,000miles without refueling. tinyurl.com/... #Proteus #Catamaran #Green #Ugo_Conti
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Ben Golder from google.com
Thomas Lauer Wow! Fascinating!
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binx from reddit.com
Sarah Chicken wow awesome hot, hot
Nathan Briggs This picture is turning me on
tree remover #reddit
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Sha Hwang from i.imgur.com
Katie Johnston It actually digs out the rootball of the tree, so the tree can be replanted somewhere else and have a high percentage of survival. Not something I would consider overkill.
Megan RSB @Katie - Spot on. I've used one before for work and we were able to successfully save several trees.
Michael Bain These are very efficant in preserving the life of the tree. Plus if don't want to wait for a planted tree to get big you can buy em like this and they will bring em to you and plant them in your ground! Good times.
Ben Golder Awesome.
Mads Ny Larsen ahhhh now that is cool, if it could dig up bamboo's as well i would buy one :)
NASA, GRID SPHERE SATELLITE ECHO 1 1958: the inflated balloon satellite prototype. not used, but would've been a passive reflector of microwave signals for communication.
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binx from edwards.af.mil
one of Theo Jansen's Strandbeest. powered by the wind.
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Ben Golder from inhabitat.com
Giant Elephant: Weighing 40 tons and measuring 12 m high, this mechanical elephant, designed by François Delarozière, with hundreds of moving parts and pistons was largely made of reclaimed poplar together with steel and flapping leather ears, was operated by 22 manipulators and could carry 30 people. It was the star of the live theatre show, The Sultan's Elephant. photo by Stox-Ideas Playground #Elephant #The _Sultans_Elephant #Francois_Delaroziere #Stox_Ideas_Playground
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Ben Golder from flickr.com
Sha Hwang jesus
V Vincent Live there !!
randy everett I'm glad that someone's finally making bigger elephants.
"The Walking Beast is a mechanical creature that walks on 8 legs."
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Ben Golder I'll go ahead and fillet the polylines for you first.
Sha Hwang how did i miss all these pins! [also i wish this was at burning man this year]
Hughes XH-17 Sky Crane
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one of two crawler transporters (nicknamed "Hans" and "Frans") at the Kennedy Space Center, used to carry rockets and shuttles to their launch pads.
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the Marion 6360 power shovel. In 1965, it was the heaviest land vehicle ever built.
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It is a gargantuan drill that has been hollowing out tunnels for a train station under Grand Central Terminal. As tall as four men and with the weight of two whales, the so-called cutter head — the spinning, sharp-edged business end of a tunnel boring machine — is usually extracted, dismantled and sold for scrap when the work is done. But the Spanish contractor overseeing the project is taking a different approach. It believes it can save time and money by simply leaving it behind, dormant and decayed, within the rocky depths of Midtown Manhattan. The drill’s final resting place: 14 stories beneath the well-tended sidewalks of Park Avenue. / via @binx
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Sha Hwang from nytimes.com
The James Webb Space Telescope! With a 6.5-meter-wide set of mirrors for gathering light, this new telescope will leave Hubble in the dust. With a huge range of wavelengths it can cover, from a green color far into the infrared, it will be more sensitive, by a factor of about 100, than all the other telescopes that have come before it.
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thai sculptor who builds autobots out of scrap metal
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Sha Hwang from reddit.com
Drake Nailon Kick ass...I wonder how much for a bumblebee?
large helical device, gifu, japan
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Sha Hwang from deputy-dog.com
Ben Golder !!!!!
I don't know what this is, but it has something to with the Apollo program.
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Shay Loftin looks like one of the centrifuge's for G-Force training
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Michael Meyer OMG Daleks exist! #DrWho