Photo 14 Jun 23 notes ufansius: Sydney, Australia

ufansius:

Sydney, Australia

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Video 14 Jun 25 notes
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Photo 14 Jun 7 notes Wiki: Acoustic Kitty was a CIA project launched by the Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1960s attempting to use cats in spy missions. A battery and a microphone were implanted into a cat and an antenna into its tail. Due to problems with distraction, the cat’s sense of hunger had to be removed in another operation. Surgical and training expenses are thought to have amounted to over $20 million. The first cat mission was eavesdropping on two men in a park outside the Soviet compound on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington, D.C.. The cat was released nearby, but was hit and killed by a taxi almost immediately. Shortly thereafter the project was considered a failure and declared to be a total loss.

Wiki:

Acoustic Kitty was a CIA project launched by the Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1960s attempting to use cats in spy missions. A battery and a microphone were implanted into a cat and an antenna into its tail. Due to problems with distraction, the cat’s sense of hunger had to be removed in another operation. Surgical and training expenses are thought to have amounted to over $20 million.

The first cat mission was eavesdropping on two men in a park outside the Soviet compound on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington, D.C.. The cat was released nearby, but was hit and killed by a taxi almost immediately. Shortly thereafter the project was considered a failure and declared to be a total loss.

(Source: meinekleinefabrik.blogspot.com)

Photo 12 Jun 164 notes theairtightgarage: Major Grubert by alt_ligury

theairtightgarage:

Major Grubert by alt_ligury

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Photo 12 Jun 111 notes archiemcphee: Artist Remo Lienhard (aka Wes21) created this awesome mixed media snail bus sculpture. We think it might be friends with the Catbus from My Neighbor Totoro. That is, provided that either the Catbus has the patience the slow down to hang out with the snail bus or the snail bus is actually super speedy. [via Neatorama]

archiemcphee:

Artist Remo Lienhard (aka Wes21) created this awesome mixed media snail bus sculpture. We think it might be friends with the Catbus from My Neighbor Totoro. That is, provided that either the Catbus has the patience the slow down to hang out with the snail bus or the snail bus is actually super speedy.

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Video 12 Jun 38 notes

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fortunecookied:

Max Fleischer’s Superman
Episode 2: The Mechanical Monsters (1941)

A band of giant flying robots has been robbing buildings in Metropolis. 

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Second episode of a  series of seventeen cartoons made in the 40’s. This series was the first adaptation of Superman for the big screen. 
The Fleischer cartoons were responsible for Superman being able to fly. When they started work on the series, Superman could only leap from place to place (hence “Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound” in the opening). But they deemed it as “silly looking” after seeing it animated and decided with Detective Comics Inc.’s permission, to have him fly instead.
The series strongly influenced the creation of Batman: The Animated Series (92-95).  Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) pays homage to The Mechanical Monsters. (wikipedia). 
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Video 12 Jun 217 notes

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theoddmentemporium:

The Frog Museum

The Frog Museum in Switzerland originated in the 1850s when an eccentric Napoleonic guard began collecting dead frogs on his walks in the countryside. When he returned home he would gut them, fill the skins with sand, and arrange them into satirical tableaux depicting domestic life in the 19th century. 

[Sources: Image 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Wikipedia | Atlas Obscura | Official Website]


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Photo 12 Jun 87 notes comicbookcovers: Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination, 1992, cover by Howard Chaykin “Gully Foyle is my name And Terra is my nation Deep space is my dwelling place The stars my destination”

comicbookcovers:

Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination, 1992, cover by Howard Chaykin

“Gully Foyle is my name

And Terra is my nation

Deep space is my dwelling place

The stars my destination”

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Photo 12 Jun 67 notes sagansense: Movie poster for Man Conquers Space, a privately-produced film that, unfortunately, never got off the ground. I talked a little about it yesterday in this post, and here’s the high-rez poster. Things like this make me nostalgic for a world that never was. via for-all-mankind “Never got off the ground”….literally.

sagansense:

Movie poster for Man Conquers Space, a privately-produced film that, unfortunately, never got off the ground. I talked a little about it yesterday in this post, and here’s the high-rez poster. 

Things like this make me nostalgic for a world that never was.

via for-all-mankind

“Never got off the ground”….literally.

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