Crystal River - The most beautiful river on earth [Pics] Cano Cristales - Crystal River. River of five colors, as the locals call it, originates in the south of the mountain chain Macarena, Colombia, and flows eastward to its confluence with the Guayabero river. In the Cano Cristales found five colors: yellow, blue, green, black and red. All of them are waste product of many algae and, depending on time of year, color saturation, or weakened or strengthened. Share on Tumblr
Amazing Macro Shots of Animal Eyes by Suren Manvelyan You may recall Your Beautiful Eyes, a series by Armenian photographer Suren Manvelyan that took a closer look at the human eye. He carries on with this theme in his latest set of photos, this time his subject range includes fish cats, horses, and crocodiles. Have a look at this amazing macro shots of animal eyes after the jump. Horse Husky Nylus Crocodile Siam Cat Tiger Python Fish See a few more close-up images of animal eyes on Manvelyan’s gallery. [via +Jim Sher] Share this post: Huge Model of Isengard From Over 22000 LEGOs Master LEGO building team OneLUG have completed their incredible model of the Battle of Isengard, a key battle in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. The model includes a whopping seven-foot tall Orthanc tower, dozens of ents, over a hundred orcs, and two small hobbits. Built to minifig scale, the entire tableau weighs 145 pounds, and uses 22,000 LEGO bricks across its eight-foot diameter. We’ve seen some pretty incredible LEGO creations inspired by J.R.R. Tolkein, but this one takes the cake. Incredibly, key scenes from the Lord of the Rings film are depicted in exacting detail across the diorama. (OneLUG via io9, The Brothers Brick)
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Battery Showdown — The Best AA Battery You Can Buy? Incredible Video Of Giant Sea Icicle Freezing Everything In Its Path Frozen sea brine is freezing everything in its path. The BBC filmed brinicles, solidified salt water, as they descended into Antarctic water and iced over everything sitting at the ocean bottom. Brinicles are underwater icicles that form around salt water sinking from sea ice. The film crew found a brinicle beneath the ice off the foothills of the volcano Mount Erebus. Once the phenomenon was spotted, the news organization set up time lapse cameras to capture the freezing salt overtaking starfish and sea urchins as it coated the sea floor in ice. The video is the first-ever footage of a brinicle forming, according to the BBC.
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Langton's Ant A 4-state two-dimensional Turing machine invented in the 1980s. The ant starts out on a grid containing black and white cells, and then follows the following set of rules. 1. If the ant is on a black square, it turns right and moves forward one unit. 2. 3. When the ant is started on an empty grid, it eventually builds a "highway" that is a series of 104 steps that repeat indefinitely, each time displacing the ant two pixels vertically and horizontally. (right figure) steps. 20 Beautiful Waterfall Around the World Bash Travel News, Places and more 20 Beautiful Waterfall Around the World November 21, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment Everyone know waterfalls are funny, awesome and interesting and this is reason why we love them. Castle Waterfall, France Rainbow Springs, Florida South Africa Goðafoss, Iceland Chirapunchi Waterfalls, India Off the Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand Hamilton Pool, Texas Cataratas del Iguazu, Argentina Yellowstone Falls, Wyoming Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut, Canada Boulder River Trail, Washington Kauai, Hawaii The Catskills, New York Tiu Kelep Waterfalls, Indonesia Hawes, North Yorkshire, England Katarraktis, Greece Matthiessen Waterfall, Illinois Badger Dingle, Shropshire, England Haifoss Waterfall, Iceland Krupajsko Vrelo, Serbia You may also like - 15 Places You Should Travel To While You Are Young Alleghe from Rifugio Tissi Travel with Travelocity! Beautiful Little Uruguay Sleepy Hollow Farm, Woodstock Vermont Amazing Google Street View Photographs The Beauty of Montepulciano Italy Extreme Kayaking
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