Google has sent Street View to some pretty strange places. It went indoors, it went to Stonehenge, to Antarctica, to the Amazon and, well, to plenty of streets around the world.What's more, Google has built several contraptions to capture imagery, the Street View cars, of course, but also the trike, a snowmobile... |
20 October 2011
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This amazing image, snapped on July 25, 2011, shows the top of the Alps mountain range covered in a massive blanket of stratocumulus clouds, which appear puffy from a distance. The amazing vista evokes the greatness of nature and man's desire to conquer it.
The peak in the distance is the Jungfrau (German fo... |
28 September 2011
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This stage and the next dispute the title of Queen Stage of the 2011 edition of the Tour and frankly I believe that this eighteenth one, from Pinerolo to Galibier Serre-Chevalier is the one that should get the title.
The end of the stage takes place at 2,645 meters, the highest in the history of Le Tour de France ... |
21 July 2011
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The second rest day comes after a few pretty hard stages in the mountains and I am happy to report that I like Pro Cycling Manager 2011 more and more after experiencing some high altitude finishes and seeing how the game handles the slopes.
In PCM 2010, which I played with various mods for more than 9 months prett... |
18 July 2011
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It seems to be that, even while making PCs, tablets and all other sorts of electronics, Acer still had more than enough time and resources to invest in the making of what is no the fastest supercomputer in Taiwan.Acer has been busy in Taiwan over the past year, and while this didn't stop it from setting up the ... |
23 June 2011
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Scientists at the Ohio State University (OSU) say that preliminary results of an investigation they conducted atop the eastern European Alps hint at the fact that some of the glaciers in the area hold back climate data spanning more than a thousand years.The research was conducted on the highest mountain in the easte... |
10 December 2010
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Researches believe they may have stumbled upon some of the oldest signs of burying rituals ever discovered, which appear to have been left behind some 5,000 years ago.The artifact the experts studied was the Otzi skeleton, which was discovered in the Alps some 19 years ago. The Iceman was until now thought to have be... |
27 August 2010
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In a new set of scientific investigations, it was revealed that some of the most prominent glaciers in the Alps were not melting and waning due to global warming alone. Scientists determined that naturally-occurring climate swings also contributed to the decline in ice masses, and this is very evident in the case of ... |
5 June 2010
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New scientific surveys have discovered that underneath Antarctica's massive ice sheet there is also a mountain chain comparable in size to the Alps. This new information could easily help scientists develop new maps for the region's floor configuration, and could lead in the future to a better understanding... |
25 February 2009
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Well, we've heard about solar-powered cars, and airplanes, and even trains, but a submarine running on solar energy? Why not, ask the scientists who started Project Goldfish, a German initiative that aims at bringing the pleasure of an underwater ride to the top of the Alps. Lake Thun will host the new project, ... |
24 November 2008
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