Showing posts with label Discovery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Discovery. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Mysterious Finding In the Steppe of Volgograd


You might hear this spring that in Mokraya Olkhovka village of the Volgograd region there were found strange spherical objects and the first version sounded that they found petrified eggs of a dinosaur!
We got a chance to look closer at the interesting finding…

They are approximately of the same size – about one meter in the diameter and in the height as well. They consist of silicon, sand and metal so there’s no any connection to dinosaurs … Besides, we may see corrosion on some of them.



Another version: hundreds of millions years ago here was a sea and an active underwater volcano that could produce not only steam but water-insoluble minerals as well. They melted in the volcanic orifice, agglomerated, cooled and sank out.

It’s not a bad idea but it doesn’t explain why these objects have the same spherical shape and are located so close to each other.
It turned out that similar objects have already been found in other areas of the Earth, particularly in Kazakhstan and New Zealand. There is a scientific term to such phenomenon – “Concretion”, according to their discription these objects do look like silicon concretion.
Concretion found in New Zeland.

Concretion found in the steppe of Kazakhstan.

These findings are not protected and anyone may ruin them or take with him … Such indifference is still shocking even for this country.
via magov.net

Sunday, October 24, 2010

The Amazing Human Printer

The Human Printer, founded by Louise Naunton Morgan, is a group of artists who uses markers to emulate the printing process. The group reproduces photos by painstakingly ‘printing’ images by hand - dot by dot –  in CMYK or B&W to recreate the halftone printing effect of conventional printers.
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As explained on the site, The Human Printer assumes the role of the machine and is therefore controlled and restricted by the process of using CMYK halftone created on the computer. The site even goes as far as to list other Human Printer "models," providing a short description of each one's particular printing style and character traits.

You have to give credit to these guys for their huge patience.
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[via PSFK]