Extreme Russian Army Offroad

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Extreme Russian Army Offroad

These are fascinating machines and they go through the worst road conditions possible. Quite a treat to watch.

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Here is another one, with Tatra trucks testing in Siberia:

Today's pictures & links:
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Coffee Cups, designed to literally "kill time" in the office
(complete with a trigger and a trigger safety)

(original unknown)

Very Cool Shower Curtain
- good to scare off your mother-in-law:

(original unknown)

Strange Food Art Updates
Additions to our recent article, by permission of the artist, Shannon Calvert:

Food Coloring:

Biotechnology:

Eggregation:

(art by Shannon Calvert)

Cool Road-Rail Vehicles Updates
Additions to our recent article:

This railroad marvel has DM62 locomotive engine set on top of ballistic rocket mobile wheeled base "Hurricane". It was built not too long ago, in 2002 by the students of VNIKTI institute in Bronnitsy, Russia.

Black Chevy:

Black Volga Gaz-24:

(image credit: Damir Z.)

Yellow Volga Gaz-24:

(image credit: zeljeznice.net)

We also have to mention "Back to the Future" car, which did very well on rails:

Very "light rail" transportation:

photos by Vladimir Markovicz

Mixed fresh links for today:

Picture of atoms - [science photo]
Anatomy of an accident - [video ad]
Radical "Urban Lobby" - [architecture] - via
Cute/Gothic/Bittersweet Art - [cool art]
Steampunk treehouse - [weird] - via
Most Expensive Liquor and Food - [interesting]
The first utterly crazy theater - [weird arts]
Leaping Lemurs! - [nature video] - via
Extremely low pass of a jet - [wow video]

Sea Wonders
You might have seen this wondrous picture already: the sea urchin "crown".

(image credit: Steve Jurvetson)

In the same set you can find "The Blue Room":

(image credit: Steve Jurvetson)

and weirdly similar pictures of an inside of a flower and a starfish, enveloping the mussel. The whole "Macro" set is more than fascinating...

New Breakthroughs in Mathematics Update
New pictures of student's creative problem-solving for our article: