The El Camino del Rey (The King’s Pathway) trail in Spain was originally built in 1901, and has gone many years without any maintenance or repair.
The trail is incredibly dangerous (as you can see in the video) and would scare the hell out of me.
I couldn’t find any accurate death tolls but wikipedia mentions that the trail was closed in 2000 after 2 accidents in 1999 and 2000 led to 4 deaths. But I’m guessing the death toll is higher than 2 a year.
The local Spanish government has plans to restore the trail. I think if it was restored and moderately safe it would be an amazing hike, because while it is dangerous, the views look amazing in the video.
Mounting mirrors on the Moon and using them to signal across space could let ET know we Earthlings are here.
Ever since radio broadcasts began we’ve been trumpeting our presence to nearby parts of the galaxy, so far without reply. To improve the chances of being found, Shawn Domagal-Goldman and Jacob Haqq-Misra of Pennsylvania State University in State College reckon we should cover half of the Moon with mirrors.
When angled to catch the Sun’s rays, the mirrors would increase the amount of light the Earth-moon system reflects by 20%, they say, more than enough to catch the eye of a vigilant alien astronomer. Domagal-Goldman proposes using a code of prime number flashes - just as aliens used to get in touch in Carl Sagan’s book Contact. This will ensure the flashes aren’t mistaken for natural variations in brightness.
Lets just hope the aliens like us. We’re likable right?
It was let loose as part of David Roger Waters’ set at coachella and was last seen soaring majestically away, out of the stage grounds.
Nobody knows what happened to it after that I guess (no one bothered to follow it?), but theres a $10,000 reward and 4 lifetime passes to coachella on the line for its safe return, so it probably wont stay lost for long.
But anyway heres to giant flying pigs, and all the magic they bring to our lives.
“If you mashed up Survivor, Second Life, and a Florida timeshare, you’d have Tribewanted.com, the latest experiment in Internet-enabled democracy.”
Tribe Wanted breaks down like this: the whole thing is located on a beautiful Fijian island called Vorovoro. The project started in 2006 and to date about 1400 people have signed up from 35 different countries. Included in your stay is transportation to and from the island along with all your food. You live alongside the permanent residents and get to experience Fijian island culture in a gorgeous, environmentally sustainable setting. That really is the crux of Tribe Wanted, it’s a vacation but it’s also a way to go and really experience a beautiful island culture the way that it was meant to be experienced. You can stay anywhere from a week to 8 weeks, depending on how adventurous you are.
This really is the kind of vacation everyone dreams of taking. No tourists, no cheap trinkets being shoved in your face, and no massive hotels. Instead you get a real adventure with (hopefully) some other really cool adventure seekers. What could be better?
This is such a cool music video, and the music is great too. I just discovered Santogold and the one album I grabbed is fantastic all the way through. They have a similar sound to M.I.A. but a little more mellowed out. Anyway this is Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes.
Remember when you finally upgraded from dial-up internet and you ripped that infernal modem out of your computer, took it out back and went to work with a golf club? Alright, maybe that was just me, but you remember that day don’t you? It was great wasn’t it?
Well get ready to break out the golf clubs again, because the next major leap in bandwidth technology is right around the corner. In fact, 50 Mbps speeds might already be available in your area. And thats nothing, Comcast plans to get over the 100 Mbps within two years.
Cable and DSL changed everything about the internet, and this next leap to internet 2.0 is going to do the same. Think everything in HD, EVERYTHING! Can you imagine how amazing Youtube is going to look when everything is streaming to you in HD?
Imagine streaming sports events in HD, with multiple angles! And with so much HD just kicking around, screen sizes are going skyrocket. But really, I think the best things about internet 2.0 will be the things we don’t even realize are coming yet. When you give creative people new toys like this, innovation is inevitable.
Meet CV08, the suburb eating robot by architect Andrew Maynard. In the future, when we run out of oil for those ridiculously long commutes in to the city and we have to relocate closer, we’re going to need to do something with all that crap just sitting around out there. This is where CV08 comes in.
With the two front legs it destroys everything, compacts it and fires off compacted missiles of recycling to the nearest processing plant, which is pretty damn cool. With the back legs it terraforms the exposed earth, turning it back in to a natural environment.
A giant robot that eats suburbs might be a little far-fetched, but it’s also very cool. Heres hoping that when we get tired of suburbs giant robots are in vogue.
The Mongol Rally has got to be the coolest car rally ever. It doesn’t have checkpoints, it doesn’t have much oversight or rules of any kind really, and it’s certainly not safe. And the best part? It’s about 10,000 miles long and only costs £456 to enter!
Mongol Rally contestants start out in Hyde Park, London and make their way by whichever roads they see fit to Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia. The rally usually takes about 3-4 weeks but with no checkpoints or guidelines the whole thing is one big chance for adventure. Sure there’s a quickest way, but half the fun with an adventure like this is taking the road less traveled. True to this spirit, one team even made it to the arctic circle!
A few facts and figures from the 2005 race:
1 person spent 24 hours in a Kazakh jail charged with 5 crimes against the state.
3 teams were chased by armed bandits.
1 team found a 25 tonne crane rolled by a pot hole.
2 teams were robbed at knife point.
1 team was rammed off the road after an argument over water melons.
As a result of an incident with a cow 1 person was detained by police in Azerbaijan and threatened with a beating from a dwarf.
I think just about everyone would learn their lesson after their first dwarf beating.
Tribe Wanted breaks down like this: the whole thing is located on a beautiful Fijian island called Vorovoro. The project started in 2006 and to date about 1400 people have signed up from 35 different countries. Included in your stay is transportation to and from the island along with all your food. You live alongside the permanent residents and get to experience Fijian island culture in a gorgeous, environmentally sustainable setting. That really is the crux of Tribe Wanted, it’s a vacation but it’s also a way to go and really experience a beautiful island culture the way that it was meant to be experienced. You can stay anywhere from a week to 8 weeks, depending on how adventurous you are.
Meet CV08, the suburb eating robot by architect Andrew Maynard. In the future, when we run out of oil for those ridiculously long commutes in to the city and we have to relocate closer, we’re going to need to do something with all that crap just sitting around out there. This is where CV08 comes in.
Mongol Rally contestants start out in Hyde Park, London and make their way by whichever roads they see fit to Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia. The rally usually takes about 3-4 weeks but with no checkpoints or guidelines the whole thing is one big chance for adventure. Sure there’s a quickest way, but half the fun with an adventure like this is taking the road less traveled. True to this spirit, one team even made it to the arctic circle!
