Watch Iran's $40m oil rig disappear into the deep

WHAT weighs 1850000kg, costs $40m, took 30 months to build and disappeared in just 10 seconds?

An Iranian engineering structure.

And this isn't a bad joke. It actually happened.

A structure in Iran's South Pars gas field sank into the Persian Gulf in mere seconds, while workers were still on it.

The accident happened on Wednesday but the footage has only just made its way online.

Thankfully none of the workers seen trying to swim to safety were injured, according to local media.

The structure belonged to Iran's Revolutionary Guard and the country is now calling for foreign aid to help recover the gas platform which sank 80m to the seabed, according to Mehr news.

How's that for irony?

With tattoo cover 98 percent of his body

Matt Gone

Matt Gone is the main star of the meeting tattoo artist in Expotattoo - Venezuela. Tattooing and piercing artists from around the world will gather in Caracas and show some of their best works.

More than 98 percent of his body is covered with tattoos, and his"decorated" even tongue and genitals. Not only tattooed hands and feet, although he tried four times, but the skin on these parts of the body could not absorb the ink.

Gone is her body showing like a work of art 80 tattoo masters. He admitted that he began to tattoo to cover up some of the inherent disadvantages of the body. Because it is a rare syndrome don't develop the muscles on one side of the body.

First tattoo he was done with 14 years ago, on his face painting chessboard, he continued painting Canterbury Cathedral etc.

Today, his body exhibited as an artwork.

No pain, no gain: 77-Year-Old, Gao Yinyu, Stays Fit By Exercising In The Cold In His Underwear

77-Year-Old, Gao Yinyu work  out (photo by: Getty images)

You will discover more of 50s post available, who put younger bodies to shame with their chiseled physiques and youthful features. Guinness World Record holder Ernestine Shepherd lifted her way to fitness, as did bodybuilder Jim Morris. And former marathoner Mark Sisson credited exercise and a gluten-free diet for his rippling abs.

But we haven't met anyone who goes to quite the same lengths as Gao Yinyu does to stay fit. The 77-year-old retired teacher from chilly northeastern China has maintained an exercise routine that isn't for snowbirds or other warm-weather lovers: He jogs and does a series of gymnastic feats on parallel bars before taking a dip in a lake -- all in -25˚Celsius weather (we'll save you the Google search -- that's -13˚ Fahrenheit). Did we mention most of his work out is done in his underwear?

He's been doing this routine for 10 years, and, according to reports, has never caught a cold.

Our hats (and gloves, and scarves) are off to you, sir! Feel inspired by Gao's workout commitment? It's good to know a few things about exercising in the cold before you begin your own workout.
 

When you exercise, your body works to keep your temperature at an even 98.6˚ F, wrote Laura Schwecherl of the healthy living website Greatist. But help your body out by dressing in layers. The Mayo Clinic suggests a three-layer solution: a light base that can wick away moisture from your body, then a layer of fleece or wool for insulation, followed by "a waterproof, breathable outer layer."

Protecting your feet, hands and ears is important as well, as blood flows to your core and away from your extremities when you work out. This helps with that warm feeling exercising in the cold can inspire, but also leaves you at risk for frostbite, wrote Schwecherl of Greatist.

Avoid exercising in the snow, rain or in high winds, Schwecherl advised. "The body has a hard time managing its temperature when wet; water draws heat away from the body 25 times faster than air because of its higher density and heat capacity," she wrote. "Strong winds can also be dangerous, pushing air and moisture through our clothes and removing the layer of warm air that surrounds the body."
 

Staying hydrated is just as important in cold weather as it is in the heat. "Drink water or sports drinks before, during and after your workout, even if you're not really thirsty," the Mayo Clinic advised. "You can become just as dehydrated in the cold as in the heat from sweating, breathing and increased urine production, but it may be harder to notice during cold weather."

These tips are just the beginning. Make sure you also check in with your doctor for advice on how to exercise in cold weather -- especially if you have asthma or heart problems.

article source: Hufnington post

Father Took Seven Years to Draw This Maze

When not racking up scores on Konami music game Jubeat, Kya7y is on Twitter. And something she recently shared there, for lack of a better word, is amazing.

Thirty years ago, she tweeted, her dad spent seven years and several months drawing this maze on a sheet of A1 paper that measures approximately 35 by 23.3 inches. "Won't somebody make it to the goal?" she tweeted.

Kya7y added that she had fifty copies of the maze, but wasn't sure how they were printed, but thought they were done using printing tech that isn't really used today. The maze was created 30 years ago, mind you. And there is apparently another maze, too.

"Oh, right!" she tweeted, "I forgot something very important: it's not possible possible to reach the goal."

"I'm not really sure," she added, "but for the time being, my dad, who created this, hasn't even reached the goal."

This looks (and sounds) like a challenge. I'm keen. You?

Click on each image to expand to full size.

Kya7y on twitter

article source: kotaku.com

Australian amateur prospector finds massive gold nugget

An amateur prospector in the Australian state of Victoria has astonished experts by unearthing a gold nugget weighing 5.5kg (177 ounces).

The unidentified man, using a handheld metal detector, found the nugget on Wednesday, lying 60cm underground near the town of Ballarat.

Its value has been estimated at more than A$300,000 ($315,000: £197,000).

Local gold experts say gold has been prospected in the area for decades, but no such discovery had been made before.

"I have been a prospector and dealer for two decades, and cannot remember the last time a nugget over 100 ounces (2.8kg) has been found locally," said Cordell Kent, owner of the Ballarat Mining Exchange Gold Shop.

"It's extremely significant as a mineral specimen. We are 162 years into a gold rush and Ballarat is still producing nuggets - it's unheard of."

A video of the Y-shaped nugget was posted on YouTube on Wednesday by user TroyAurum.

He wrote that the man who found it had said it "sounded like the bonnet of a car through the headphones.

"It was lying flat (broad side up) and he carefully dug it up."

Gold currently trades in Australia at about A$1,600 per ounce, meaning the discovery would be worth about A$283,200, but its rarity and the fact it weighs more than a kilogram would add a premium, said Mr Kent.

He told Australian media the prospector had been using a state-of-the-art metal detector, which meant he was able to find the gold relatively deep underground in an area which had been searched many times in the past.

The man had only made small finds before, he said, but was a "person that really deserved it".

"A finding like this gives people hope. It's my dream to find something like that, and I've been prospecting for more than two decades," the Ballarat Courier quoted him as saying.

"I've got no doubt there will be a lot of people who will be very enthusiastic about the goldfields again, it gives people hope," said Mr Kent.

"There's nothing like digging up money, it's good fun."

Incredible sculptures on graphic pencils

Toshiyuki Yamazaki

 Toshiyuki Yamazaki, 42-year old Japanese artist, in the world is known for making miniature sculptures on graphite pencils.

These days, Yamazaki was again impressed the world with his work.  In his studio in Kofu, 100 kilometers from Tokyo, Yamazaki every day make great artwork. He is known in the world with make the longest chain made of graphite pencils, which had 23 rings.

5 Americans beers no logner drink

beers

 After three years of declining sales, shipments of domestically brewed beers are up more than 1% this year. Driving this uptick are sales of light beers and specialty beers -- such as Budweiser Light Platinum, Shock Top and Blue Moon.

While sales of specialty, craft and small-market beers have improved dramatically, traditional, full-calorie beers that were once the staples of most breweries have fallen behind. In the five years through 2011, sales of Budweiser -- for years the top-selling beer in the country -- have fallen by 7 million barrels.

Nine domestic beer brands saw their sales decline by at least 30% over the past five years, according to data examined by 24/7 Wall St. For some, the decline reflects consumers' changing habits; light beers increasingly have become the beverage of choice for many beer drinkers.

Despite eclipsing sales of full-calorie beers, sales of most leading light brands have been flat in recent years. The segment's growth has come mostly from specialty and craft beers.

The big brewers have fought back with their own versions of craft beers. Anheuser-Busch Inbev (BUD) introduced Bud Light Platinum with a splashy ad that debuted during the 2012 Super Bowl broadcast. Shock Top, a Belgian-style wheat ale  produced by Anheuser-Busch, has been another success.

Dolphins do not whistle, they speak just like humans

According to a new analysis of data collected during the 1970-ies, dolphins are talking to each other by using the same process for the formation of the voice and words used by people.

The results reveal that dolphins do not actually whistle, they use vibration nasal cavities which are something similar  to our vocal cords. Whistleblowing  is the term coined 1949th in an article published in the journal Science, and kept up to date, but thanks to the experts now know that dolphins talk just like us.

Australian tycon plans to create real Jurassic Park

Clive Palmer, a tycoon from Australia, wants to make Jurassic Park on his property in southern Queensland. He plans to clone dinosaurs, and make a real Jurassic Park, just like in a movie "Jurassic Park".

Clive Palmer has already been in contact with the man who cloned the sheep Dolly, and talked with him about this idea.

In the past, Clive had a few interesting ideas, like the idea of building a replica of the Titanic that if all goes to plan should 2016th sail from London to New York.

These cows love jazz music

These cows seem to be love jazz music, and .American jazz band "New Hot Five". They performed a mini concert in Autrans, France, with an unusual audience that listened with great interest, the tunes "When the Saints Go Marching In." Watch the video below:

The World's Shortest Escalator

Is this the world's shortest escalator?! You can see in the video, the escalator and description. This escalator is located in Japan.

Luxor - The largest outdoor museum in the world

Luxor

It is a town in upper Egypt and the capital district of Luxor with 487,896 inhabitants. As a place of the former city of Thebes. Luxor has been characterized as the "world's largest outdoor museum", which of course includes the ruins of the temple complex of Karnak. You can see more photos below:

Video: Magical Dance thousands of birds

How it looks when of birds flying synchronously? Perhaps such a complicated celestial choreography of Mother Nature.

Amateur footage shows the numbers of birds that from a distance closer to the cinematographer, the first recording moments, the movement of birds resembles more the kind of film special effects, but the huge flock of birds. But, you see their magnificent celestial dance.

Video: World Record Fireworks Rockets Launch!

The “Roar on the Shore” World record breaking rocket launch at Bournemouth. More rockets than you can shake a stick at!
The world record for the most firework rockets set off at once will be broken this August 20th at the Bournemouth Air Festival.

110,000 rockets, thats one hundred and ten thousand rockets! Will be loosed in under 60 seconds!

The “Roar on the Shore” event will see almost double the amount of rockets set off in 2006. When Fantastic Fireworks set the world record in Plymouth, England. The red white and blue rockets will get to a height of about 40 feet before erupting above the anticipated crowd of 50,000 spectators. Spectators are being asked to sponsor a rocket to help raise money for the charity for injured service men and women, Help for Heroes.

This should be a fantastic and patriotic, if very short, fireworks display. The rockets will be launched from a a 100ft long barge moored half a mile out to sea between Bournemouth and Boscombe piers. The noise level out at sea will be about 100 decibels.

“The Roar on the Shore will be a total conflagration. It’s pushing the limits of what we can do.
We couldn’t do it on dry land easily because of health and safety.” – John Culverhouse, MD of Fantastic Fireworks

The council has already underwritten the expected £15,000 price tag on the rocket display but is confident donations will easily exceed that sum.

This will be one of the biggest and certainly the most impressive events in this years Help for Heroes calendar. Mark Elliott, The charity’s head of operations, said they were delighted to be involved and he will be inviting injured servicemen to watch the event. He added: “It really is about every small donation. Every penny goes to help some remarkable individuals.” If you sponsor a rocket your name will appear on the event website, roar-on-the-shore.co.uk.

To sponsor a rocket, visit roar-on-the-shore.co.uk, text ‘firework’ followed by a space then your name to 82010 at a cost of £1.50.

Video: Five UFO over Britain???

LONDON - A stargazer has filmed and posted on YouTube the video of what he claims to be a cluster of “UFOs” flying in formation “higher than a plane”.

Jason Goldthorpe, 37, of St Helens, Lancs, says that he could not believe his eyes when he saw the cluster.

The delivery driver said that he caught the phenomenon on camera above his house.

“The objects were shining gold in the sky, too high to be balloons, and looking just like I would imagine UFOs to look,” the Sun quoted him as saying.

“It was around teatime, the sky was clear, and they lingered in the sky for an hour or so, like they were watching us,” he added.

Jason further said that though he had spotted the strange objects many times before, it was only when he saw them lately that he decided to film them.

“I’ve seen these objects in the sky for the past four years,” said the father-of-two.

“They always appear at teatime and just on one day, either at the beginning or end of the month.

“Friends have also seen them and I thought it was time the world knew that something is out there.

“It’s as though these objects are watching and studying us. It’s all quite eerie really,” he added. (ANI)

Video Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, also known as Ice Age 3 , is a 2009 3-D computer animated film. It is the third installment of the Ice Age series. It was announced and approved by Fox president Hutch Parker on January 30, 2007. It was initially slated for a December 12, 2008 release, but the scheduled release date was moved to July 1, 2009. sneak preview was shown in selected theaters on Father's Day in the United States. The film was produced by Blue Sky Studios and features the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Simon Pegg, and Chris Wedge, and the film is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The film was released in RealD where available. The release gained some controversy when Fox announced that it would no longer pay to supply 3D glasses to theaters, which led a threat from a number of exhibitors to only show the film in standard 2D projection. The film's original trailer debuted with the film Horton Hears a Who! on March 14, 2008. There are three others that have been released, with the third and fourth (which shows Buck) being the most closely resembling each other. Queen Latifah recorded a cover of the song "Walk the Dinosaur".

Video: American keeps hot dog-eating crown in overtime

NEW YORK (CNN) -- World-record holder and defending champion Joey "Jaws" Chestnut held on to his hot dog-eating title Friday in an unprecedented tie-breaker at Nathan's Famous Fourth of July contest.

Chestnut, of San Jose, California, beat rival Takeru "The Tsunami" Kobayashi, of Japan, in a "dog off" in Coney Island where the two contestants battled to see who could finish five hot dogs first.

Chestnut and Kobayashi tied in the regulation competition, both eating 59 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes, a record for a 10-minute competition.

"It was a little messier than I wanted it to be, but I got them in me and I got them down," Chestnut said after the competition.

Organizers decided this year to change the contest from 12 minutes to 10 minutes after "a piece of old Brooklyn historical ephemera was found that stated that the first contest, held on July 4th, 1916, was a 10-minute contest," Major League Eating spokesman Ryan Nerz said.

The previous record for a 10-minute contest was 42 hot dogs, held by Tim "Eater X" Janus, Nerz said.

Neither Chestnut nor Kobayashi had previously competed in a 10-minute format.

In last year's competition, Chestnut set a record by eating 66 franks in 12 minutes, ending Kobayshi's six-year reign as winner of the competition. iReport.com: Ever eaten a hot dog at Nathan's?

Chestnut retains the "Coveted Mustard Yellow International Belt" and wins a one-year supply of hot dogs from Nathan's, the sponsor of the annual event, which is held corner of Surf and Stillwell avenues in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn.

Video: British man Ben Southall starts work on best job in the world

British man Ben Southall has started work on "the best job in the world" – a six-month contract as caretaker of the islands on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

The former charity fund-raiser beat more than 35,000 applicants from around the world to the post, which involves exploring hundreds of tropical islands off the coast of Queensland while writing a blog with photos and video updates to attract visitors to the area.

The 34-year-old, from Petersfield in Hampshire, fought off competition from 15 other finalists to win the 150,000 Australian dollar (£70,000) role.

He was chosen by officials from Tourism Queensland on May 6 after a four-day selection process on Hamilton, Daydream and Hayman Islands.

Mr Southall, whose new home is a rent-free three-bedroom ocean-front villa on Hamilton Island, said "excited" could not begin to describe how he felt about starting his new job.

"It seems a lifetime ago when I sat down in January to plan and film my 60 second video application for the 'best job in the world'," he said.

"At times I still can't believe I was successful in being offered what has to be the most sought-after job in the world – the chance to spend six months exploring the islands of the Great Barrier Reef – one of the world's most amazing destinations.

"During the selection process in May I was lucky enough to visit a small part of the destination so I can't wait to get out there, start exploring as many of the islands that I can, and start telling the world about my experiences."

The job is part of a campaign to attract visitors to the Great Barrier Reef, and tourism chiefs claim it already has generated 200 million Australian dollars (£98 million) in publicity.

It became an internet hit, spreading across the world via YouTube and social networking sites such as Facebook.

Below the water, the Great Barrier Reef stretches for 1,600 miles across 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands and is the world's largest coral reef system with "an abundance of wildlife", according to Tourism Queensland.

Hamilton Island, where the temperature is warm all year round, is the largest inhabited island in the region and is located just off the coast of Queensland with blue skies, crystal water and pure sands forming "the backdrop to an ideal island life".

About two million tourists visit the islands each year, but most stay on the mainland and visit only on day trips.

Video: Sears Tower unveils 103rd floor glass balconies

CHICAGO – Visitors to the Sears Tower's new glass balconies all seem to agree: The first step is the hardest.

The balconies are suspended 1,353 feet in the air and jut out four feet from the building's 103rd floor Skydeck. Their transparent walls, floor and ceiling leave visitors with the impression they're floating over the city.

"It's like walking on ice," said Margaret Kemp, of Bishop, Calif., who said her heart was still pounding even after stepping away from the balcony. "That first step you take — 'am I going down?'"

Kemp was among the visitors who got a sneak preview of the balconies Wednesday. "The Ledge," as the balconies have been nicknamed, open to the public Thursday. Visitors are treated to unobstructed views of Chicago from the building's west side and a heart-stopping vista of the street and Chicago River below — for those brave enough to look straight down.

John Huston, one of the property owners of the Sears Tower, even admitted to getting "a little queasy" the first time he ventured out. But 30 or 40 trips later, he's got the hang of it.

"The Sears Tower has always been about superlatives — tallest, largest, most iconic," he said. "Today is also about superlatives. Today, we present you with 'the Ledge,' the world's most awesome view, the world's most precipitous view, the view with the most wow in the world."

The balconies can hold five tons, and the glass is an inch-and-a-half thick, officials said. Sears Tower officials have said the inspiration for the balconies came from the hundreds of forehead prints visitors left behind on Skydeck windows every week. Now, staff will have a new glass surface to clean: floors.

"It's very scary, but at the same time it's very cool," said Chanti Lawrence of Atlanta, adding that she's made her first step toward overcoming her fear of heights.

Adam Kane, 10, of Alton, Ill., rushed to the ledge with his friends and siblings, and they each eagerly pressed their faces to the glass bottom.

"Look at all those tiny things that are usually huge," Adam said.

The balconies are just one of the big changes coming to the Sears Tower. The building's name will change to Willis Tower later this summer. Last week, officials announced a 5-year, $350 million green renovation complete with wind turbines, roof gardens and solar panels.

With the ledge, visitors like Kemp said the nation's tallest building has succeeded in creating something they've never seen before.

"I had to live 70 years for a thrill like this," she said.

Video: UFO sighting in the sky over a Virginia theme park ???

Denna Smith and her family video taped what they believe was a UFO, ‘unexplained moving object’ in the sky over at Virginia theme park.