Friday Ephemera

Something big hit Jupiter. // The data sent out with Voyager. Earthlings in sound and pictures. // Total solar eclipse, Japan. // Radio telescopes of note. // Faces made with clothing. // Invading vintage postcards. // Measuring snails. // Antelope Canyon. // Taung Kalat. Buddhist elevation. // Matchstick oil rig. // Electric mountains. // Lyrebird mimicry. // Pandaphants. // BMW concept car. // Bellies. // 10 ancient cities. // Little clay worlds. // Star Wars uncut. // Cinema Museum. (h/t, Coudal) // And, via The Thin Man, it’s the proto-rap stylings of Mr Gilbert Bécaud. 

Comments

[SG]

What the Voyager disc should have said: "We're armed and inedible".

[John D]

So if ET's out there he's listening to our "whale greetings"? I'm so fucking embarrassed.

[David]

In fairness, we did send some Bach too. And Chuck Berry.

[JuliaM]

The lyrebird imitating the camera shutter (and motordrive too!) was fantastic. Apparently, starlings are quite good as this too, but I don't suppose enough people have photographed them yet for them to become proficient at this...

[James S]

The Buddhist temple is amazing. Guild of Evil HQ?

[David]

“Guild of Evil HQ?”

It does have that Guild of Evil™ charm.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gusjer/2410670597/sizes/l/

And it’s built on a volcanic plug, so there wouldn’t be much trouble with the neighbours. What could possibly go wrong?

[apotheosis]

I'd like to see a lyrebird so frequently exposed to Sir David Attenborough that it can convincingly narrate its own documentary.

[Rob]

"Guild of Evil HQ".

I bet they have a very cheerful postman.

Regarding the "Electric Mountains", I flew out of Vancouver in the evening and saw this, a remarkable sight. There are three night skiing resorts in the mountains to the north of the city. What a place to live - work during the day, and go skiing at night! Plus, it must really, really piss off the bearded fruit-loop collectivists.