The Evolution of the Atmospheric Diving Suit

The Evolution of the Atmospheric Diving Suit

Last week we introduced to you the totally awesome Exosuit , a $600,000 atmospheric diving suit, capable of taking a human 1,000 feet underwater at surface pressure. This means that the diver doesn’t have to decompress and there is no need for special breathing gas mixtures, so there is no danger of decompression sickness or nitrogen narcosis.

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13 Gorgeous Travel Posters From 1930s Japan

13 Gorgeous Travel Posters From 1930s Japan

These extremely rare, previously unseen travel posters make me want to travel back in time and visit a Japan of another era. These beautiful graphics were recently rediscovered, and they’ll auctioned off at the Vintage Movie Posters Signature Auction this month.

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Can You Name the Famous Artists Who Inspired These Buildings?

Can You Name the Famous Artists Who Inspired These Buildings?

Art and architecture collide in this playful new series of paintings by Federico Babina. What if Andy Warhol designed a mod apartment complex? Or Joan Miró a museum? Babina has taken 27 artists and reimagined their work as places where people can live and work.

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38 Architectural Renderings You Won't Believe Are Fake

38 Architectural Renderings You Won't Believe Are Fake

Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings—solid, tangible structures. These images, however, depict views of spaces that have only ever existed in silico—and they’re breathtaking.

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The World's Most Amazing Structures Not Built by Humans

The World's Most Amazing Structures Not Built by Humans

Humans are far from the only creatures with the ability to shape the environment in their favor. From insects and arachnids to marine invertebrates and mammals, the animal kingdom is rife with members who all construct their own habitats. Here are the most prolific builders in Animalia.

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Animals in Unbelievable Detail Drawn Entirely in Pancake Batter

Animals in Unbelievable Detail Drawn Entirely in Pancake Batter

We’ve probably all made a few pancakes in amusingly shaped blobs, but Nathan Shields takes pancake to a whole new level of art. The illustrator, former math teacher, and stay-at-home dad makes pancakes with his kids that range from Star Wars tributes to portraits of Isaac Newton to animals painted in stunning species-level detail.

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Pure space porn: these are the naughtiest rocket parts

Pure space porn: these are the naughtiest rocket parts

Rocket hardware is always awesome eye candy, no matter what country is sending stuff into space. Awesome, and, well, sexy. You know what I mean. I like the rockets with the boom. Just look at all these pretty space-bound asses.

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22 Amazing Observatories Where Our Radio Eyes Watch the Universe

22 Amazing Observatories Where Our Radio Eyes Watch the Universe

Humans can only see visible light—the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye. That’s why so hard to study celestial objects hidden behind cosmic dust. But radio astronomy reveals those parts of the Universe that can’t be seen in visible light—and the secrets of dust-shrouded galaxies like our lovely Milky Way.

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Get lost in these fascinating spacecraft cutaway illustrations

Get lost in these fascinating spacecraft cutaway illustrations

Cross section, cutaway, or x-ray illustrations, call it whatever you want, but they’re the best way to understand how things work. They are fascinating. In this new Sploid series we will present some of the best cutaway drawings from around the world. The first collection includes 32 awesome spacecrafts.

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Inside the Ghostly Remains of Budapest's Condemned Amusement Park

Inside the Ghostly Remains of Budapest's Condemned Amusement Park

After several years of financial difficulties, the Amusement Park of Budapest, the largest amusement park in Hungary was closed on 30 September, 2013. Today I had a chance to take a walk among its remains.

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