Seven-and-a-half-month-old Moses walks through his new home in Lilongwe, Malawi. Moses was found alone and close to death in the Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve.
Denis Farrell / AP
(via Washington Post)
BABY ELEPHANT!!!!
“Euthanasia Coaster” by Julijonas Urbonas.
“Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetic euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness, and, eventually, death. Thanks to the marriage of the advanced cross-disciplinary research in space medicine, mechanical engineering, material technologies and, of course, gravity, the fatal journey is made pleasing, elegant and meaningful. Celebrating the limits of the human body but also the liberation from the horizontal life, this ‘kinetic sculpture’ is in fact the ultimate roller coaster: John Allen, former president of the famed Philadelphia Toboggan Company, once sad that “the ultimate roller coaster is built when you send out twenty-four people and they all come back dead. This could be done, you know.”
Only mildly creepy
I wrote a haiku a little over a year ago about how much I hated my matlab teacher. Well I just used what I learned in that class to solve a force transfer around openings shear wall design problem in my timber design class. All I can say is my bad. You’re the shit Elghandor.