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kevinnuut: Underwater Skyscraper. Water-Scraper is an...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:20:37 +0100

Underwater Skyscraper.

Water-Scraper is an interesting approach to population growth, given that our seas are slowly rising. It is a futuristic idea from eVolo’s 2010 skyscraper competition. Being a nerd and having seen every episode of SeaQuest and SeaLab 2021, I fully support this architecture design. It looks like a giant jelly fish and each scraper is self sustaining. Thanks Inhabitat!

I like the idea!! let’s start building them.. wait I don’t have money.

earth-mars both-ways

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:14:26 +0100

I did some math this evening.
with a constant acceleration/deceleration of 1G you can be on mars in 42-43 hours (if we want to go to mars when it is at its closest from earth (55 Million Km) if you want to go to mars when it is at 400 Million Km from earth it will take almost 5 days.
just have to found a way to get such an acceleration. maybe VASIMR could do it.
here are the maths: (maybe I am wrong)
4.5(square(t)) + v0 = earth_mars_distance/2 you find the (t) and then the result is t by two. where t is in second.

atestu: The Sandpit The music and sped-up movement make this...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:25:42 +0100

atestu:

The Sandpit

The music and sped-up movement make this tilt-shift video different from the other ones you may have seen. It’s not about the “technology”. I felt like a kid watching this video. You live one day in what looks like a pleasant artificial city – that’s actually New York City…

Thanks for the video!! :) I want to do the same for paris now. :/

"When most of us think about oil, we tend to think about heating oil for the furnace and about the..."

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:30:53 +0100

“When most of us think about oil, we tend to think about heating oil for the furnace and about the gasoline and diesel fuel that keeps our cars and trucks on the road. What most of us don’t realize, however, is that oil does more than just fuel our vehicles and keep us warm in winter. It has become the foundation upon which our entire modern civilization has been built. Recently, that foundation has begun to develop some cracks and has become a little shakier than it used to be, as cheap oil and natural gas become harder to find and acquire. Even if we were to develop a new source of energy and a more fuel-efficient car today, without oil, modern civilization as we have come to know it is still in deep trouble.”

- World Without Oil That’s right ! time to get rid of oil!

LOL OVERHEARD @ SCHOOL

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:17:09 +0100

caraobrien:

thisisafricablog:

oyemiamor:

Guy1: Oh shit, we have to do a paper on a leader. Who was the guy that ran South Africa?

Guy2: You mean Martin Luther King?

geez

Oh, good lord. That’s really depressing.

Genius!

What do you think? M. Minsky The Emotion Machine.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:55:40 +0100

What do you think?

M. Minsky The Emotion Machine.

(via guilbep) Today I shot...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:29:00 +0100

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Today I shot my first “pin hole pictures”

(via guilbep) I think I have to improve the system.

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:27:00 +0100

(via guilbep)

I think I have to improve the system.

Good morning you all :)

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:47:04 +0100

Good morning you all :)

Boba!!

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:40:03 +0100

Boba!!

Geo.

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:38:00 +0100

Geo.

(via Sister Ray) Me in the...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:20:08 +0100

(via Sister Ray)
Me in the old tallinn.

thanks to @lauraaaaaa sister_ray :)

The making of Old Spice’s commercial: The Man Your Man...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:21:00 +0100

The making of Old Spice’s commercial: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like (via twit)

the truth, that’s why it’s the best ad ever.

thanks to lickystickypickyme

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:29:30 +0100

thanks to lickystickypickyme

(via guilbep) eight days...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:04:52 +0100

(via guilbep)
eight days ago.

(via guilbep) last week-end,...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:08:00 +0100

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last week-end, I missed this moment.

(via guilbep) I like it,...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0100

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I like it, because it looks like a painting. and because I took it :D, and also because it is in the forest near my grandparent’s house.

Amnesty International defends Guinea research against French Government criticism

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:54:23 +0100

Amnesty International defends Guinea research against French Government criticism:

caraobrien:

From Amnesty International, excerpt:

One of our most disturbing findings was that the supplies of ammunition, tear gas, military vehicles and other equipment used on ‘Bloody Monday’ had been authorised in recent years by governments around the world – including from France – despite the Guinean security forces’ decade-long record of violent repression using these kinds of weapons.

Yesterday, the French government issued a bald rejection of Amnesty International’s report, claiming that we misrepresented some of the facts regarding France’s provision of equipment and training. In doing so, however, the French government has unfortunately misrepresented Amnesty International’s own report, and ignored a number of our substantive concerns to help protect human rights in Guinea. We have rebutted each of France’s accusations in a detailed public statement.

But beyond this debate lies a larger point, which we regret France’s statement fails to address. The events of 28th September 2009 were made partly possible by states’ persistent failure to adequately assess the risk that the weapons they were exporting to Guinea would be used in repression and killings – despite the clear evidence of these forces’ human rights records, repeatedly and publicly documented by Amnesty International and others for a decade or more.

In some cases, exports were made without public or parliamentary oversight. We learned from the French government themselves, for example, that they had authorised the supply of tear gas grenades to Guinea’s gendarmerie and police 13 times between 2004 and 2008 – but under a licensing regime that did not have to be reported to France’s parliament and public, unlike most other French exports of arms and security equipment. In 2007, Guinea’s security forces killed over 130 people in a month of violence which included firing tear gas grenades inside Conakry’s main hospital. French exports continued to be authorised. On 28th September 2009, using French-made tear gas launchers, the gendarmerie fired volleys of tear gas against the trapped crowd, causing a stampede that was followed by live fire.

I posted about Bloody Monday a few days ago, so check out those posts for more information.

atestu: Photo by guilbep

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:45:15 +0100

atestu:

Photo by guilbep

(via guilbep) Benoit 19 is...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:45:00 +0100

(via guilbep) Benoit 19 is in da place.

yesterday morning