Worlds biggest cruise ship

Worlds biggest cruise ship: "This is the latest ship in the fleet of Royal Caribbean cruise lines. The Oasis of the seas. this ship is more that twice the size of the Queen Mary 2, and more than 5 times the size of the Titanic. The ship was designed and ordered long before the economy took the current downturn, back when it was booming."

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Things about Earth what are the fastest

Things about Earth what are the fastest: "There is something that is part of human nature that makes us want to go fast. Something that even small children feel that makes them want to go faster. It brings to mind something that happened this summer. We were tubing behind the boat and my 3 year old grand daughter wanted to try"

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Wind Creek State Park

Wind Creek State Park: "Located in central Alabama, on beautiful lake Martin, Wind Creek State Park offers everything you need for a great vacation. This is a great place to take your family or just go with friends for a great fishing or golfing weekend."

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NASA's GROVER roves over snow for over a month

NASA's GROVER roves over snow for over a month: "NASA's autonomous, solar-powered explorer GROVER has been kitted out with ground-penetrating radar to take to Greenland's ice sheet on Friday. There the robot will spend a month analyzing the accumulation of snow and how this contributes to the ice sheet over time. The scientists involved hope to identify a new layer of ice that has formed since summer 2012, an unusually warm summer which saw melting across 97 percent of the area of the ice sheet. During that time, an iceberg twice the size of Manhattan calved from the Petermann Glacier, part of the ice sheet."

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Space zombies beware – hobbyist builds a real-life Plasma Cutter

Space zombies beware – hobbyist builds a real-life Plasma Cutter: "Well, our cyberpunk-weapons-making friend Patrick Priebe has been at it again. Having previously built things like a gauss rifle, a rotary-blade-shooting crossbow and an Iron Man laser gauntlet, he recently let us know about his latest creation – the video game-based Plasma Cutter."

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Old world craftsmanship meets mobile living in the Tonke Camper

Old world craftsmanship meets mobile living in the Tonke Camper: "The Dutch-built Tonke Camper is a more stylish version of mobile home than those found in the average trailer park. It features a wooden home set atop a Mercedes Sprinter platform and can be used like an RV or removed off its vehicular underpinnings and planted on firm ground."

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Compact laser system scans road surfaces at 100 km/h

Compact laser system scans road surfaces at 100 km/h: "Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques have come up with a car-mounted laser scanner the size of a shoe box, that can survey the contours of road surfaces at speeds of up to 100 km/h (62 mph)."

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Online webcams to visit places you want to see

Online webcams to visit places you want to see: "One of the really amazing things about the internet, you can travel by webcam to places that you want to see, anytime you want. There are millions of webcams out there, hooked up to the internet."

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Tattoo's and piercings

Tattoo's and piercings: "There are basically 3 types of body art.  Tattoo's, Piercings, and painting.  Of the 3 the painting is the newest and safest.  Piercings leave marks that can be permanent.  Tattoos are basically permanent."

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Top 5 Funniest Movies

Top 5 Funniest Movies: "Everyone has a different opinion of what they think is funny. Some things are funny at some times, and not funny at others. Of all the movies I have seen, these are my top 5 of all time. If you have not seen all of these movies,"

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Captain Lou Albano wrestler and manager

Captain Lou Albano wrestler and manager: "There are probably a lot of people like me that got a flashback of old memories from the news of Captain Lou passing. When I heard he died, it brought back memories of growing up. From the time I first heard of Professional wrestling,"

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The science of the Bible

The science of the Bible: "One of the ways to prove that the Bible is true and is the word of God, is to look at all the science that was written about in the Bible thousands of years before man discovered or could even imagine that many of these scientific things were real. "

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Build model Rockets you can fly

Build model Rockets you can fly: "When I was a kid, building and flying model rockets was one of my favorite things to do. My friends and I spent many hours building the model rockets, then taking them to the park and flying them. The best thing about model rockets then and now, the cost"

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Sixteen-second engine burn pushes Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo past the sound barrier and into history

Sixteen-second engine burn pushes Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo past the sound barrier and into history: "At 7:55 AM PDT this Monday, the Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo (SST) attained a peak velocity of Mach 1.2 at an altitude of 55,000 feet (nearly 17 km) above the Mohave Desert with a 16-second burn of its 30-ton (27-tonne) thrust rocket engine. Piloted by Mark Stucky and Mike Alsbury with an assist from Dave Mackay in the mother bird White Knight Two, this flight marks a stepping-off point for commercial manned spaceflight."

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Suunto's second generation of Ambit GPS watches hit the training track

Suunto's second generation of Ambit GPS watches hit the training track: "Launched last year, the Suunto Ambit brought a new level of functionality to the GPS watch market. Not only could its GPS keep tabs on your speed, distance and vertical, but it allowed for full navigation functions, routing you in and out of the great outdoors. Suunto has now revealed the second generation of Ambit watches with something for both explorers and athletes."

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SSC completes engine testing on Tuatara supercar, teases 1,700 hp

SSC completes engine testing on Tuatara supercar, teases 1,700 hp: "Speak of the devil ... With a lot of world record talk going on lately, SSC managed to slip its way back into the headlines, making us wonder where the finely sculptured road-bullet known as the Tuatara is"

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NASA squeezes three years of solar activity into a three minute time-lapse video

NASA squeezes three years of solar activity into a three minute time-lapse video: "Three years ago the very first images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) were beamed back to earth. Since then, NASA’s SDO has effectively had continuous coverage of the Sun’s rise towards solar maximum, the period of the most intense solar activity in the 11 year solar cycle. NASA has now provided a fascinating snapshot of this ongoing research in the form of a time-lapse video that squeezes three years of solar activity into three minutes of footage."

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LG first to market with Curved OLED TV

LG first to market with Curved OLED TV: "Samsung and LG were duking it out at CES this year with dueling curved OLED TVs that each claimed was a world first. But LG is getting a definitive one up on its rival by announcing it will become the first company in the world to commercialize the technology with deliveries of its Curved OLED TV set to begin in South Korea from next month."

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AK-47 Bacon Sundae - YouTube

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What are Earthquakes

What are Earthquakes: "An earthquake is the sudden and sometimes very violent release of energy from the movement of the earth surface. The surface is comprised of plates called tectonic plates. these plates are constantly moving into each other. As the pressure from them pushing on each other builds up, one of the plates has to give into the pressure."

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