Watching Mushrooms Grow

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Watching Mushrooms Grow

Time lapse video of mushroom invasion... er, unrelenting growth.

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If you liked this trippy video, take an eyeful of this and this.

Today's pictures & links:
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Heavy Weather

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Mystery Photo

Try to guess, what these guys are doing inside the "boxes"?
Answer at the bottom of this post.

(image credit: National Photo Company Collection)

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Ballistic Landing

No, this is not a picnic from Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles" - this is a bunch of pictures from Soyuz TMA-11 extreme landing: very steep descent and ballistic re-entry... Read more about this mission here.

(image credit: Novosti Kosmonavtiki)

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Cool Shot of the Day
(in cooperation with National Geographic magazine)

Surreal elephant with big round holes?

(image credit: National Geographic)

Photo by Bhaskar Dutta -
A miniature wooden elephant, sitting on the shelf... Nice lighting effect.

Inside a massive iceberg

(image credit: National Geographic)

Photo by Matthew Schoenfelder.
These majestic columns and arches grace the insides of an iceberg in the Straits of Denmark, just off the east coast of Greenland.

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Mixed fresh links for today:

Grandiose "Valley of Peace" project for the Middle East - [wow idea]
Many Years Later - [cool photo gallery] - via
The other Egyptian pyramids - [travel]
Please specify your reason for absence! - [hilarious]
Table Design Gone Nuts - [design]
Moose Family Playing with the Sprinkler - [fun video]
Eric the Eel Owns the Competition - [fun video]
Buns & Guns: Only in Beirut - [fun video]
Peace Is All You Need - [awesome animation]

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Big Catch

This is the Ocean Sun Fish! Read more about them here - good addition to our Sea Creatures article.

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New image of "Dora" super rail gun surfaced

We dug up a fresh pic to add to our "Biggest Guns" article - in color!

Send us more photos, of course, if you see any (though these must be rare...)

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This is how lions in Kenya can have an SUV with tourists, and eat it too.

We're not saying anything, go ahead, book your safari adventure.... just be a tiny bit more careful.

(original unknown)

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"Death-Machine of the Month"

Something that this site has unearthed from the December 1930 issue of "Modern Mechanics" magazine:

(image credit: modernmechanix)

The Outboard Ski-Plane, designed by C. T. Elle, of Chicago. "The idea is that when the boat gets up speed the front of the skis will be raised, causing the boat to come to the surface. When wind gets under the wing it is supposed to furnish enough lift to permit the boat to skip over the waves."

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Stunt Pilots