Posts Tagged ‘city’
400,000 Black Balls Dropped In Los Angeles Reservoirs To Stop Carcinogens
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 22:00 No CommentsThis is certainly a very strange picture to look at until we take a closer look on why all these balls were dropped there. The city of Los Angeles decided to drop 400,000 plastic black balls in the main reservoirs in order to block the sun rays forming a chemical reaction with the chlorine [...]
Alienation From Society: Growing With Animals
Thursday, February 28, 2008 22:55 No Comments[photo iessi]
This must be one of the most terrifying experiences known to man. As I was browsing for interesting stories I had a look at an article from Pravda which tells the story of a kid that was found a few days ago in Russia and its nicknamed (Bird Boy)The 7 year old was living [...]
Kerkira, Greece, Is Shaken By Earthquake (24/02/2008)
Saturday, February 23, 2008 23:44 No CommentsOn the 24th of February, at 01:07 Local time, a new earthquake, 5km South of the City of Kerkira (at Kerkira island, Greece). The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre gave an earthquake reading of 3.5 in the Richter scale. No casualties were reported only minor damages inside houses from items falling. Normally such a low magnitude [...]
Artificial islands now in Russia?
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 13:10 2 CommentsI think this thing with luxury resorts in artificial islands has started to look a bit ridiculous. A lot of countries have started to imitate Dubai, such as Holland with their tulip island, and now Russia enters the game.
For the sake of the 2014 winter Olympics, Russian decided to build in the Black sea a [...]
Westport - A 3D city in Google Earth
Tuesday, January 8, 2008 17:29 4 Comments
On the 16th of January, Westport in Ireland will be one of the first complete 3D towns that will enter Google Earth’s database.
AMT3D created this 3D model of Westport after the town council hired them to do so in order to increase the tourist traffic.
On the 16th Google’s director, for Europe, Middle East and [...]