Coming Soon Paradise Island Yacht

 

The super yacht that comes with its own VOLCANO: Multi-million pound boat which is a paradise island By Daily Mail Reporter This is the next super-yacht set to hit the world's oceans - which comes complete with its own functioning volcano and floating tropical islands. The vessel - dubbed the 'Tropical island Paradise' - has been designed by British boat builders Yacht Island Design, from Derby, Derbys - some 90 miles from the sea. The extravagant 295ft ship boasts a towering volcano with a cascading waterfall which feeds the swimming pool. Luxury: This yacht will soon be cruising the oceans with its very own floating tropical islands

Wedding Photographs

Adam Alex Adams' reputation for taking intimate, passionate, and signature images is what he is highly recommended for. With the use of great lighting techniques and imaginative angles, Adam creates magnificent images that reflect beauty and fun. Visit Adam's website.

Rakhi Sawant desires to marry Yoga guru Baba Ramdev

Controversial Bollywood actress and TV personality Rakhi Sawant expressed her willingness to marry Yoga guru Baba Ramdev. While addressing mediapersons on the sidelines of a promotional event in New Delhi, Sawant spoke of how she also admired Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi. The Drama queen admitted that Ramdev's yoga sessions have made an impact on her life.

Cake Sculptures

Now THAT is the icing on the cake! The stunning sponges that look too good to eat
With their elaborate sugar-spun details, these sweet treats are certainly not a piece of cake to make.
And clay-sculptor Karen Portaleo's stunning cakes are guaranteed to satisfy any sweet tooth.
Despite Karen having no formal culinary training, the lead decorator and her team from the Highland Bakery in Atlanta, Georgia, always rise to the occasion.

The New Alphabet

New Alphabet:A is for apple, and B is for boat, that used to be right, but now it won't float! Age before beauty is what we once said, but let's be a bit more realistic instead.

Now The Alphabet:

Flying Cars Coming Soon

A drive in the clouds: Flying cars could be in UK skies in five years
It's a concept that's been around for decades but never really seems to get off the ground.

But aviation experts are now saying a flying car could be in regular use in the UK within five years after a model was formally approved by U.S. authorities.

The $250,000 (£155,000) Terrafugia Transition is a two-seater aircraft which has a top speed of 115mph, a range of 500 miles on a tank of fuel and requires just 20 hours training to fly.
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Nice wheels: The Terrafugia Transition sits in the driveway of a house... but it will still need to be washed every Sunday

Use of Google affecting our memory

New York, July 15 (ANI): Researchers have found that the widespread use of search engines and online databases is affecting the way people remember information.

To know whether people were more likely to remember information that could be easily retrieved from a computer, Betsy Sparrow, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia and her collaborators, Daniel M. Wegner of Harvard and Jenny Liu of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, staged different memory experiments, reports the New York Times.

In one experiment where participants typed 40 bits of trivia, the team found that the subjects were significantly more likely to remember information if they thought they would not be able to find it later.

"Participants did not make the effort to remember when they thought they could later look up the trivia statement they had read," wrote the authors.

A second experiment was aimed at determining whether computer accessibility affects precisely what we remember.

"If asked the question whether there are any countries with only one colour in their flag, for example," the researchers wrote, "do we think about flags - or immediately think to go online to find out?"

In this case, participants were asked to remember both the trivia statement itself and which of five computer folders it was saved in. The researchers were surprised to find that people seemed better able to recall the folder.

"That kind of blew my mind," Dr. Sparrow said.

The experiment explores an aspect of what is known as transactive memory - the notion that we rely on our family, friends and co-workers as well as reference material to store information for us.

The Internet's effects on memory are still largely unexplored, Dr. Sparrow said, adding that her experiments had led her to conclude that the Internet has become our primary external storage system.

"Human memory," she said, "is adapting to new communications technology." (ANI)

 

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World's Biggest Airplanes {Huge Aviation}...

World's Biggest Airplanes Sputtering, Creaking, Terrifying Monsters The Wright Brothers are often given most of the recognition for the first powered flight but Gustave Whitehead, Alexander Feodorovich Mozhaiski, Clement Ader, and many others should get a share of the fame, too. Whoever is responsible, it wasn™t long before the skies were full of sputtering, creaking, and " for the most part " very unreliable aeronautical devices. (futuristic art by Harry Grant Dart) It took the first world war to change aircraft from a killing and maiming hobby for the rich to a killing and maiming war machine. War helped advance the science of flight and necessitated bigger planes. One monster plane of that time was Igor Sikorsky's Ilya Murometz, a huge improvement over his legendary Russky Vitaz, the first four engine aircraft. But the Ilya Murometz didn't begin as a beast of the skies. Originally designed as a luxurious passenger liner featuring electric lighting, heat, a bathroom, and even a glass floor, the bomber must have been amusing as well as terrifying to its wealthy passengers. (images credit: histarmar.com.ar) Another iteration of such approach was Tupolev ANT-20 "Maxim Gorky": And a really huge Russian monster plane from the early 1930s: Ka-7 (more info), named after engineer Kalinin, not the famous political figure. (images via Modelist-Konstruktor, 1989) Art and Elegance Between Wars In the years between wars, airplanes kept getting bigger. Outrageous concepts like Norman Bel Geddes Airliner Number 4 appeared, featuring 9 decks of luxury hotel accommodation, bars and engine rooms: It would sleep 606 passenger in comfort, easily bringing them across Atlantic. More images and info about Bel Geddes fantastic dream planes are here. It seems to be a logical development of 1910s British Airliner of the Future: (image via) Don't miss also this "Freak of the Month" concept from Modern Mechanics, 1931: (image credit: modernmechanix) But let us get back from aviation dreams to reality. Take the elegant Handley Page HP42, for instance: a four-engined beauty with an impressive track record of no crashes while being used as an airliner -- which gives you an idea of how safe it was to fly back then. (images via) One of the larger and more beautiful aircraft in the next few decades was the awesome 1936 Boeing Stratoliner. Unfairly called a 'whalebecause of its chubbiness, the plane was not only huge but also state of the art; today we enjoy flying in pressurized comfort because of technology premiered in the silver flying fish of the Stratoliner. Another aircraft both immense and legendary - The H-4 Hercules. Arguably the standard by which œhuge aircraft are measured "- as well as how "completely screwed up" is defined. Its one and only flight was in 1947, where it flew for around a mile, reaching altitude of 70 feet. Originally planned as the ultimate military transport, it is more commonly known as its hated -- at least by its creator Howard Hughes -- moniker, the Spruce Goose. (image credit: Bettman/CORBIS) The aircraft had originally been ordered by the US government during World War II as a giant cargo plane for the armed troops and tanks. Howard Hughes's creation was the world's largest plane at the time and is still the largest flying boat ever built. It also holds records for the largest wingspan at 97.5 meters, tallest airplane at 24.2 meters, and the largest aircraft ever made from wood. Nazi's Ugly Brute Art and elegance may have been one of the early fatalities in the second world war, but striving to have the biggest (anything) certainly wasn™t. To call the Messerschmitt Me 321 big is like calling 1939 to 1945 unpleasant. Created originally as a glider, the Gigant could haul an insanely large amount of cargo. And an insane bunch of soldiers: 130 plus hardware ... 23 tons of hardware. (images via) Because the Gigant was so huge, getting the damned thing into the air was, at best, problematic. First it was towed up with a pair of Heinkel 111 bombers, which was alternatively unsuccessful or disastrous. Then they tried fusing two 111s together to make a Frankenstein's monster of a machine "- almost as bestial as the Gigant itself. Finally the Luftwaffe stuck engines on the Me321, which made an ugly brute even uglier but at least it got off the ground. Heavy Bombers of the (Potential) Doomsday On the other side of the war was an eagle, a silvery steel bird of prey: the huge and beautiful B-29 Superfortress. Although getting the immense B-29 up to its ceiling of 40,000 feet was a struggle, once it got up there nothing could reach it or, at 350 mph, catch it. Even if something managed to come close to it, its formidable defenses could cut any threat to shreds. Featuring many impressive advancements, and some frustrating problems, the plane was kept on active duty long into the Korean war. (image via) With the advent of jet power, aircraft designers began to think really big. Think of your average doomsday film and you immediately picture the roaring ascent of smoke-blasting, eight-engined, B-52 bombers. But before B-52 there was another huge American bomber: Convair B-36 "Peacemaker": (images via) Like the B-29, the B-52 "Stratofortress" was an aeronautical powerhouse, a heavy-lifting behemoth. And like the B-52, it was kept in service until ¦ well, they are still being used today. (image source: US Air Force) Heavy bombers transforming into LEGO pieces in the minds of dazed Cold War engineers: Arthur Kimes writes to us: "Soviets also proposed to stick together a bunch of big airplanes to make a REALLY huge one. Kind of like a Lego dream come true: In the early-mid 1950s the USAF had a plan to link 3 B-36s (wingtip to wingtip) to have a extended range delivery system. When this behemoth got close enough to the Soviet Union each would drop off a parasite fighter-bomber (probably the F-92 - which also was never built) and the released FBs would make a high-speed dash and drop a bomb on their targets. The B-36s would split up and return, the F-92s would have to try and find a friendly airfield in Turkey or something like that." (image source: TM, 1975) "When you consider the B-36 is still the largest bomber ever built, the idea of 3 of them flying joined at the wingtips is astounding." The Ugliest Airplane Ever Built? The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy looks more like a prop from a Japanese monster movie than a real airplane. The Guppy is also high on the irony meter as it was mostly used to haul nearly-completed components -- of other airplanes. (images credit: Mischa Oordjik, Alastair T. Garoiner) The Airbus A300-600ST (Super Transporter) or Beluga: (images via) Here is a Russian carrier VM-T "Atlant" used in a Buran and Energia space programs, which is perhaps the only airplane capable of carrying on its "shoulders" a load larger and heavier than itself: (images via) Transporting a fuel tank for the second stage of Energia rocket: (image source: "Cosmonautics - A Colorful History" ed. by Dr. Wayne R. Matson) Nuclear-Powered Lockheed Mothership Nothing comes close in size to this unbelievable concept developed by Lockheed in the 1970s: Note small "children" airplanes, attached to its wings... Its hard to imagine anything bigger flying in the skies, still retaining the shape of a common airliner. An aircraft of this size would have to land on water as a titanic "flying boat". The Biggest Planes Flying Today Unlike the B-29 and the B-52, which don™t show their size easily, the C-5 Galaxy would look insanely monstrous even on a postage stamp. To give you an idea of the Galaxy's size, its wingspan is not just longer than the Wright Brothersfirst flight but the beast can also haul 180,000 pounds (which is about 90 tons). The C-5 was the world's largest plane when it was introduced in the late 1960s. (image credit: Pervez Iqbal) Arguably the biggest plane flying today, or ever, is Antonov An-225, a 6-engine beast that's not only longer than the first flight in history but could probably carry one, two, or three whole aircraft museums. Numbers don™t mean much but here is an impressive one: the 225 can carry 550,000 pounds, which is 275 tons. Yes, you can say WOW. (image credit: Dmitry Pichugin) (image credit: Radek Oneksiak) (image credit: airliners.net) (images via) This is a good dimension-comparison chart: (image via) When it comes to passenger aviation, Airbus A-380 is the current leader in size: this image shows its comparative size among other planes in the airport - We used to have the Roc, the Garuda bird, the Thunderbird, Blue Crow, and other soaring myths. Now we have machines; airplanes so big they™re even greater than those ancient, and magnificent, dreams. Of course, there is another advantage to premium size - you can always claim your piece of the sky, and outright own the airstrip:

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