Archive for February 18th, 2006

Saturn Storm Larger than Continental US.

The largest lightning storm ever detected is currently raging in Saturn. The storm is larger than the continental United States, with electrical activity 1,000 times stronger than the ligh...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/saturn-storm-larger-than-continental-us/

Night Lights, via Google Maps.

Take a look at earth lights at night, powered by Google Maps. Link...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/night-lights-via-google-maps/

Turin Athletes Banned from Blogging?

From the news article: The Japanese Olympic Committee is telling athletes competing at the Turin Winter Olympic Games not to open web logs because the Olympic Charter bans ath...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/turin-athletes-banned-from-blogging/

Pillow Fight Club.

The first rule of pillow fight club is, you do talk about pillow fight club.... On Valentine's Day, a thousand people showed up to pummel each other with pillows. Link (via Met...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/pillow-fight-club-2/

Stupidco's AOL CD Throne.

From the website: The AOL Throne was built in the summer of 2003. It contains 4000 CDs, weighs at least 150 pounds, barely fits through doors, and plugs into an electical outl...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/stupidcos-aol-cd-throne-2/

Space Elevator.

LiftPort Group successfully built a mile-long tether into the sky, stretched taut by large balloons. A robot then climbed up the tether kind of like a space elevator.The company's lofty obj...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/space-elevator/

Experiments in the Revival of Organisms.

This video clip purportedly show the resuscitation of a dead dog, as conducted in the 1940 by Dr. S.S. Bryukhonenko at the Institute of Experimental Physiology and Therapy in the...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/experiments-in-the-revival-of-organisms/

Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition.

Donald Pottle took this amazing picture of an arteriole (blood vessel that connect the artery to the capillaries) in the eye. This photo is the winner of the 2004 Olympus BioSc...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/olympus-bioscapes-digital-imaging-competition/

Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel in Cross-Stitch.

Joanna Lopianowski-Roberts spent 10 years to create this 40" x 80" masterpiece of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling entirely in cross-stitch (including 628, 296 stitches in 1,802...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/michelangelos-sistine-chapel-in-cross-stitch/

The Ultimate Insomniac.

This Vietnamese man has gone 33 years without sleep: Sixty-four-year-old Thai Ngoc, known as Hai Ngoc, said he could not sleep at night after getting a fever in 1973, and has counted infini...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/the-ultimate-insomniac/




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