Cool Stuff

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https://hub.jhu.edu/2022/04/07/trayanova-artificial-intelligence-cardiac-arrhythmia/

"The team used contrast-enhanced cardiac images ..."

The article is lacking.
What it needs is:
Get X type scan, send it to our computer. Pray.

 

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Interesting cereal bowl design.

 

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Interesting cereal bowl design.

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Now, why didn't I think of that...?

All through my childhood, my brother and sisters complained about our brekkie cereal going "flash" (what most others would call "soggy").
Now, decades out of that phase of life, someone comes along with the perfect antidote to prevent cereal from going flash. Wunnerful...

 

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Portable, inflatable concert hall. Seats 500.

The world’s first inflatable concert hall will begin touring ravaged areas of Japan

all photos courtesy Lucerne Art Festival Arc Nova 2013 About 1 year ago we reported that renowned Japanese architect Arata Isozaki will team up with British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor to create an inflatable concert hall. Dubbed Arc Nova, the mobile venue will tour the earthquake and tsunami-ra

www.spoon-tamago.com

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[RicInOR]

Someone Turned an NSX Into a Lamborghini Diablo Replica. "Baseball great and former Bash Brother Jose Canseco had a 1999 NSX, but wanted a Diablo. He found the strangest solution possible." eBay Motors ...

.... and a buy-it-now price of $175,000.

 

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Someone Turned an NSX Into a Lamborghini Diablo Replica. "Baseball great and former Bash Brother Jose Canseco had a 1999 NSX, but wanted a Diablo. He found the strangest solution possible." eBay Motors ...

.... and a buy-it-now price of $175,000.

Reminds me of these:

This "Ferrari" is a Miata.




Homemade Lamborghini

The Man Who Spent 17 Years Building The Ultimate Lamborghini Replica In His Basement Wants To Sell It

Twenty-two years ago, Ken Imhoff started building a Lamborghini Countach, by hand, in his basement. Seventeen years later he was done, and the world watched as he smashed a hole in his house to get it out.

jalopnik.com

 

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Homemade Lamborghini

The Man Who Spent 17 Years Building The Ultimate Lamborghini Replica In His Basement Wants To Sell It

Twenty-two years ago, Ken Imhoff started building a Lamborghini Countach, by hand, in his basement. Seventeen years later he was done, and the world watched as he smashed a hole in his house to get it out.

jalopnik.com

I remember this guy. I, too, wanted a 1982 Lambo Countach LP400. I still do...

 

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Cool watch.

 

[RicInOR]

Photographer builds world's first 4x5 film camera with AF, hybrid finder and universal lens mount

Aleksi Koski's new AF-equipped Conflict AF45 4x5 large format camera, which is currently in the functional prototype stage, hopes to bring back the days of handheld large format photography.

www.dpreview.com

 

[CountryGent]

From MIT News: From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button

 

[RicInOR]

Israeli and US Navy lasers successfully shoot down drones, rockets, artillery

Laser air defense systems are starting to move from concept to action, as demonstrated by recent tests from the U.S. and Israel.

bigthink.com

 

[RicInOR]

Ansel Adams.

Recognizable name. Many of his photos are iconic.


But he also had to pay the bills.

I didn't know it - but he was published in Fortune Magazine 1941
for an assignment piece.

Ansel Adams' Lost Los Angeles

Ansel Adams’ Lost Los Angeles

Unknown photographs from when Adams was, if only for a few days, an urban photographer. I don’t recall what I was searching for when I came across the Ansel Adams photographs of Los Angeles at the beginning of World War II, but I don’t think it was a handsome rendering of Half Dome or a

americandigest.org

He also donated 'outtakes' to the Los Angeles Public Library
TESSA

Tessa: Photos and Digital Collections

tessa.lapl.org

 

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[RicInOR]

The Easter Egg
To get secret messages past the Spanish Inquisition

The Figuratively-Easter, Literally-Egg Easter Egg – Now I Know

nowiknow.com

 

[arakboss]

Fusion has always been the "next" tech - 15yrs out stuff. Could be next year, based upon patents filed!


Compact Fusion

Lockheed Martin Now Has a Patent For Its Potentially World Changing Fusion Reactor

This will be awesome if it ever becomes a working reality.

 

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That's his ring finger, ya ninny!

 

[RicInOR]

w/ video
https://www.iflscience.com/space/wa...into-space-by-a-giant-centrifuge-at-1000-mph/


"The projectile hurtled upwards at over 1,600 kilometers per hour (1,000 miles per hour), reaching a height of 7,620 meters (25,000 feet), with the flight lasting around 82 seconds. "

"The acceleration experienced by the payload is about 10,000 g"

 

[RicInOR]

https://www.bookofjoe.com/2022/05/8-am-may-10.html

 

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w/ video
https://www.iflscience.com/space/wa...into-space-by-a-giant-centrifuge-at-1000-mph/


"The projectile hurtled upwards at over 1,600 kilometers per hour (1,000 miles per hour), reaching a height of 7,620 meters (25,000 feet), with the flight lasting around 82 seconds. "

"The acceleration experienced by the payload is about 10,000 g"

What it looks like to be launched at 10,000 G's?