Sí has leído bien, una isla increíble construida en un hermoso yate. Creado en el Reino Unido por la empresa de diseño Island Yacht.

El diseño como puedes ver se inspira en las islas tropicales, con cabañas, una piscina y un volcán que seguro no entrará en erupción. Se trata de un yate, con salas especiales para VIP, salones, gimnasio, spas y hasta un helipuerto. El volcán añade belleza al conjunto de la embarcación, ademas el agua que sale de él va a la piscina completando el aspecto tropical.

La parte posterior de la embarcación tiene una cubierta retráctil de playa donde las estructuras flotan en el mar haciendo que el mar sea accesible para nadar y, por supuesto, acceder a varias actividades acuáticas como el wake board y motos acuáticas. Todo el conjunto es genial y su uso es aún mejor.

Que tengas un buen día y no permitas que nada, ni nadie te lo estropee.

C’est une découverte sensationnelle : le seul et unique enregistrement de la voix de Otto von Bismarck, chancelier allemand à la fin du XIXème siècle. Avec une surprise de taille pour l’auditeur, quand le vainqueur de Sedan se met à réciter l’hymne français …

Who’dathunkit?

1 This was the first American car to employ what technology in its design?
2 Make and model?
3 Year of production?

Answers later as usual.

And who can forget the delightful banter between G “underarm” Chappell and T “players’ comfort zone” Greig?

Question 1: What was Basilica di San Marco originally [it wasn't always a cathedral]?
Question 2: What did it become in 1807?
Question 3: How did the Venetians supposedly get the relics out past the Muslims?

[H/T Jailhouse Lawyer.  Difficult to access the blog now - it redirects to a webring.]

Question: What else did Mike Costin work on that had a significant input into this car? What material was used?

Answers later as usual.

Source

One more question – why?  H/T Chuckles

These are just two of the foods you can cook without the use of pots and pans:

1. Oatmeal

Put two packets of instant oatmeal into the carafe. Add an individual packet of honey, an individual packet of fruit jam, and a pinch of salt. Put an herbal tea bag (e.g. orange flavored) into the filter basket. Pour 8-10 ounces of water into the coffee maker, turn on the machine, and the oatmeal will be ready in about 5 minutes.

2. Broccoli

Fill a coffee filter with six broccoli florets. Load into the coffee maker. Run six cups of water through for tender but still crisp veggies.

See more here.

[Source, H/T Chuckles]

[Source, H/T Chuckles]

1.  If we tell you it’s Lake Bosumtwi, can you tell us what’s unusual about it?

2.  We’ve all heard of landlocked countries.  How about sealocked seas?  Can you name one?

3.  Without peeking, what’s the story behind this:

4.  Where’s the largest Chinatown in the world?

5.  What’s unusual about these penguins [no peeking now ]:

Now here’s an interesting one from Rowan:

Stradivarius or modern?

It involves you listening to two different instruments playing the same piece so for fidelity, you might have to go to the site.

Tell you – I couldn’t decide though I did think one of them had a slightly more mellow tone on some notes but that might have been imagination.

Answer will be posted later

1.  Name a major river other than that running through the capital, in France and Germany.

2.  Where would you find the Cassini Division, followed by the C ring?

3.  Difference between fiscal and monetary policy?

4.  In medicine, what is the difference between a sign and a symptom?

5.  Who’s the prettiest national leader?

A long time ago at a Human Factors lab on an Air Force base in Texas, a group of human factors space scientists and Air Force pilots were sitting in the O Club and got to talking about cats and zero gravity. How would a cat orient in micro gravity? Visually? They always land on their feet. But what if they couldn’t feel which way was down?

A few drinks later we realized that one of the pilots wasn’t having a drink because he had to do a proficiency flight later that afternoon. And we already had a camera rigged in the cockpit of a T Bird, and if a couple of us certified this as a human factors experiment it wouldn’t cost the government anything it wasn’t going to spend on the proficiency flight, and it would be an interesting experiment, and – Well, it seemed like a great idea at the time, and the captain who’d be flying thought it would be a good idea.

We rigged up the body sensors – he did have to insert the rectal thermometer thermistor, and we put on the face and hand temperature sensors and the other polygraph stuff and turned on the recorders. Then we captured the O Club cat, a calico, and he carried her along to the T Bird, and with the cat
sitting comfortably in his lap he took off with a flight plan that included a long parabolic arc that would produce more than 15 seconds of essentially zero gravity.

All was well until he got into the parabolic flight, at which point he took the cat off his lap and released her in zero gravity. The camera recorded it all. The cat looked about wildly, realized it wasn’t moving, rotated itself
so that its feet were straight out toward the pilot’s chest, and teleported – that’s the best description I could make from seeing that film run several times – toward the pilot. Claws extended. It anchored itself, finding the opening in the flight suit from which the physiological sensor wires protruded. Claws out. Firmly anchored.

The rest of the film shows the pilot frantically trying to fly while trying to peel the cat off his chest. It held fast until after landing. Then the cat allowed the pilot to carry it off the airplane and back to the club, whereupon it vanished and wouldn’t speak to any of us for a week.

But we did learn that in zero gravity a cat will orient toward the nearest human, latch on, and never let go. I suppose that film is still making the rounds of USAF, but maybe not. It was film long before digitizing film was easy or even possible, and eventually that wears out. I haven’t seen it for years.

Yes, there is a hint.

Questions:

1 what is it and what was its nickname
2 who built it
3 what was it made of

Answers later.

[From Picdump from time to time, other than those embedded]

[Probably Picdump, probably H/T Chuckles]

On your right side is a sharp drop off, and on your left side is an Elephant traveling at the same speed as you.

Directly in front of you is a galloping Kangaroo and your horse is unable to overtake it.

Behind you is a Lion running at the same speed as you and the Kangaroo.

What must you do to safely get out of this dangerous situation?

One answer here.

[With JH]