Unless you’re committing life insurance fraud, you’ll never get to experience what it’s like to be inside an explosion. And maybe that’s what inspired sculptor Zhan Wang’s My Personal Universe which lets gallery patrons wander through a paused blast.
I don’t know about you, but my high school science class was filled with equations and titrations and the occasional back-row nap. The gentlemen at the Periodic Table of Videos, however, have spent the last year making elements go boom. And here’s every last fiery feat of 2011, for your last-day-before-New-Year’s pleasure.
Using special microchip-controlled explosives, Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang created a daytime fireworks show using timed detonations on the ground and clusters of coloured smoke clouds exploding in the air — with results that easily rival nighttime fireworks displays. Video!
I’ve always found wind turbines to be hilarious, I mean, it just stands in the middle of nowhere, minding its own business, spinning peacefully. Not this exploded turbine though. This 100m tall, $US3 million(!) turbine spun itself so fast it EXPLODED IN FLAMES.
Like a spring snake being released from its canned prison, the White Salmon River in Washington State was freed after the 98 year old Condit Dam was dramatically breached with explosives last week.
As part of the recent Engineering Frosh 2011 event, student engineers at the University of British Columbia answered an age-old question that every aspiring scientist must ask himself, “What happens when I mix these two things and throw it?”
Everyone loves FPSRussia. The accent; the acquired-out-of-nowhere high ordnance; the shooting and exploding. What’s not to like? Here he is shooting a Dragon M-50 heavy machine gun from the back of a dune buggy and using it to chop/explode a tree in half and turn a pile of Kool-Aid into a pilar of flame and ash and artificial flavouring.
Human ingenuity just built this crazy combat bot. A semi-autonomous robot that can run for 18 hours and survive deadly explosions? Totally cool, but after the machines take over… how are we going to stop it?
Foxconn is burning yet again. Deep black smoke was seen coming out of a Foxconn factory in Yantai, a city in the northeastern Shandong Province of China, as a result from a serious fire. Luckily, the fire was put out before the plant suffered any casualties.
