Abraham Lincoln's Body Exhumed. Japan plans snail-paced space elevator for 2050. Japanese construction company Obayashi wants to build an elevator to space and transport passengers to a station about a tenth the distance to the moon.
The elevator would use super-strong carbon nanotubes in its cables and could be ready as early as 2050, according to Tokyo-based Obayashi. The cables would stretch some 60,000 miles, about a quarter the distance to the moon, and would be attached to Earth at a spaceport anchored to the ocean floor. The other end would dangle a counterweight in space.
The elevator would zip along at 125 mph, possibly powered by magnetic linear motors, but would take about a week to get to the station. It would carry up to 30 people. Up above, the space station would have living quarters and lab facilities. NASA has also investigated space elevators, awarding $900,000 in 2009 to LaserMotive for developing a laser-powered robotic climber. "However, we'll try to make steady progress so that it won't end just up as simply a dream. " NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein. Papua New Guinea's Cave People. She is lying in a cave, dying.
Legs and arms but knobby sticks, Lidia Maiyu is curled up close to the campfire. Her eyes are wide in apprehension of death. She coughs, her body convulses, and she cries out in pain. Lidia is perhaps 15 years old, she isn't sure. Three months ago she gave birth, and the baby died; the group left the body in a cave and moved on. But for the glow from the campfire, it is impenetrably dark. Pasu shoos away Biyi, their hunting dog, and sits down by the fire. We—a team from National Geographic—have unwittingly walked into a crisis. One man from our team, Sebastian Haraha, is an ethnographer who has come on this journey to pinpoint the exact locations of the Meakambut's caves with a global positioning system. At dawn Lidia is gasping for air. The vast geographic variation of Papua New Guinea created tremendous biological diversity, which in turn was accompanied by enormous cultural diversity: more than 800 languages in a country about the size of California.
589217_scale_of_universe_enhanced.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) Amazing Cliffs of Norway: Adrenaline Junkies' Paradise [33 PICS] - StumbleUpon. Preikestolen cliff goes by many names.
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The massive cliff is 604 meters (1982 feet) above Lysefjorden, Norway. Photo #1 by Arjan Veen Another name for Preikestolen is Pulpit Rock. The natural rock formation is a huge Norwegian tourist attraction. The almost flat cliff is 25 by 25 meters (82 by 82 feet) with a sheer drop of over 600 meters (1982 feet) into the fjord (Lysefjord) below.
Rare sight to behold, an almost deserted Lysefjord – Preikestolen. Yet another name for Preikestolen cliff is “The Preacher’s Pulpit.” This spectacular scene is like a view from the top of the world. Cairn near The Preacher’s Pulpit aka Preikestolen. Here’s a little Preikestolen trivia. The Easter Island “Heads” Have Bodies. aWH7u.jpg (JPEG Image, 1600 × 1200 pixels) - Scaled (49.