(Video Link) During the Cold War, the Swedish Air Force wanted to be able to land its fighter jets on roads and short airstrips throughout the country. The Saab Viggen fighter was therefore designed to land and tak...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/fighter-lands-turns-around-and-takes-off-in-under-a-minute/(video link) A 275-foot smokestack was demolished and fell the wrong wrong way today in Springfield, Ohio. The tower brought down power lines and crushed equipment. There were no injuries, but 8,000 people were left...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/blasted-tower-falls-the-wrong-way/Her name is Sparkles, and she (he?) will bring hearts and other metal objects together at 370°F. This My Little Pony mod was created by Matt Pinner. Link via Make | Photo: Crash SpaceMy Little Ponies, soldering,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/my-little-pony-soldering-unicorn/The Apollo 11 astronauts left a variety of items on the moon. In addition to the flag, the plaque, and the silicon disk with goodwill statements, they left the item shown above. It is a small replica of an olive...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/gold-olive-branch-left-on-the-moon/Prisons make the perfect hotels? One wouldn't think so but here are some examples of hellish old prisons from around the world that have been converted into hotels. Ranging from your basic hostels to ultr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/11-prisons-turned-into-hotels/SUCK UK & CO of London England has designed the perfect re-purposing of the classic tape measure into a sticky tape dispenser. Just in time for the Holidays this clever idea allows you easy access, dispensin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/tape-measure-tape-dispenser/In his manic studio, 43-year-old Ptolemy Elrington works full-time creating glorious animal sculptures from hubcaps of all kinds, though he especially likes those from BMW and Mercedes vehicles. These are all put tog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/when-hubcaps-transform-into-giant-creatures/Think a minute -when did the first remote-control robot hit the market? It was way back in 1957 in Japan. This is a Radicon Robot, still in good shape 53 years later. It sold for almost $9,000 on eBay! But it is far...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/vintage-toys-at-auction/Luxury home furnishings designer Windisch Nameek made a toilet brush and holder that's plated with 24-carat gold. The vendor suggests that the advantage to gold is that it won't pit, tarnish, or corrode. So it's a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/24-carat-gold-toilet-brush/(Video Link) Filmmaker François Vautier put an ant colony inside a scanner and took a picture once a week every week for five years. This time-lapse video shows the colony gradually filling and eroding the machine...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/ants-in-a-scanner/Harvard University's Putnam Gallery has a collection of historical scientific instruments. Pictured above is Benjamin Martin's cometarium, which dates back to about 1766. Here's what it did: This apparatus was d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/a-cometarium/deviantART user wolkentanzer split two apples and stapled sections together. Presumably this was part of some junior mad scientist research. Link via Geekosystemapples, deviantART...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/hybrid-apple/If you've ever received a disappointing, odd, or incomprehensible gift, you can make yourself feel better about it by checking out the blog Why Did You Buy Me That? (subtitled "a collection of the worst gifts ever re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/why-did-you-buy-me-that/Holy Juan spotted this sign in a public restroom. There's always a downside to doing the green thing, but if you're good at sound effects, you can get away with it! LinkFunny, energy, sign, hand dryer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/the-downside-of-saving-energy/GoPet, a company that manufactures dog exercise equipment, makes a dog-sized hamster wheel. The company stresses that this design is both healthy for the dog and environmentally-friendly. There's a video at the lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/exercise-wheel-for-dogs/(YouTube link) It's a river of people! Over 40,000 runners participated in the New York City Marathon last weekend. Thanks to time-lapse videography, you can watch most of them get started. -via Buzzfeedmarathon, ne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/new-york-city-marathon/On September 4th, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand. Pictured above is a railroad track that crossed the fault line near Rolleston. Geographer Dave Petley of the American Geophysical Union writes: Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/earthquake-twists-railroad-tracks/It's possible to make real money in virtual worlds, as one user of the MMOG Entropia Universe recently experienced. He sold a set of virtual real estate properties for $335,000: Jacobs, who goes by the in-ga...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/virtual-real-estate-sale-record-broken-with-335000-purchase/Kansas State University professor Mark Haub ate a Twinkies every three hours for ten weeks and lost 27 pounds! His cholesterol numbers improved as well. Haub put himself through this horrible regimen to prove a point: we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/why-a-diet-of-twinkies-makes-sense/Animals communicate with each other in ways we can't imagine, but there are a few we've figured out. Oh, we can't translate everything yet, but we know how some do it. Environmental Graffiti looks at five animal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/5-animals-that-use-their-own-language/Relative to bodyweight, the male tuberous bushcricket has the largest testicles of any animal on Earth: The sperm-producing organs account for 14 percent of the body mass of males of this bushcricket species. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/cricket-has-the-worlds-biggest-testicles/The show must go on, even though the actors don't get paid, and even though the audience is there for only a few seconds each week. A group of performers in Chicago stage a skit on a rooftop for the commuters on the the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/commuter-theater/Perry Watkins makes custom cars, such as one that looks like a dining room set. His latest project was to build the world's smallest street legal car, and the result has been certified as such by Guinness World Records....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/the-smallest-car-in-the-world/I don’t know about you guys, but I am super excited to catch the new Harry Potter movie! While critics of the series often complain that Rowling didn’t come up with most of the magical aspects of the story he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/the-mythologies-behind-harry-potter/If you were to be buried in one of the unusual cemeteries in this list, people would visit your grave whether they cared about you or not! Some are beautiful, some scary, and some are just plain weird. One that I would r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/top-10-unusual-cemeteries/Darth Vader Cookie Jar - $99.95Om nom nom nom ... who knew that joining the Dark Side would be this yummy? Here's what the Sith Lord uses to keep all those cookies: the Darth Vader Cookie Jar from the NeatoShop. Each lim...
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