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Most Expensive Home in the World

Most Expensive Home in the World

Categorized under Architecture, You Paid What?
Posted by Marcie

The richest man in India now owns the world’s most expensive single family home.  Indian billionaire  Mukesh Ambani will soon move his family of four into his new 2 Billion dollar home, called Antilla, in downtown Mumbai.

Here are the specs:

• 37,000 Square Meters (more than the Palace of Versailles)
• 550 High
• 27 Storeys
• 3 helicopter landing pads on the roof
• 160 Car Garage
• 9 Elevators
• Staff of 600
• Panoramic view of the Arabian Sea from the top floor
• No 2 floors are alike
• Cost is $2Billion

Via: Geekosystem

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Amazing Kinetic Walking Sculptures

Amazing Kinetic Walking Sculptures

Categorized under Amazing Technology, Odd & Bizarre Ripley Videos, Seeing is Believing, Technology, Unusual Art, Unusual Inventions, Videos
Posted by Big O

Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move — and even survive — on their own.

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Head bursters

Categorized under Animal Oddities, That's Jacked Up
Posted by Luke

For those of you who have seen any of the Alien movies, you’re familiar with the alien’s chest bursting form.

That cute little guy is an endoparasite, at least for this part of his life cycle.  Endoparasites live within their hosts, feeding off of them from within.  Parasitic relationships, even with endoparasites, usually aren’t this traumatic.  Think of tapeworms.  Those guys are endoparasites, too.
There are, of course, a number of very traumatic endoparasites.  One of them is a tiny little fly.

Unlike the aliens mentioned above which can use just about anything of sufficient size as a host, the Pseudacteon phorid flies have a special relationship with ants and only ants.
Female flies hover over ants and lay eggs in them.  When that egg hatches, the tiny fly larva crawls through the body of the ant up into its head.  Over time it grows and develops, feeding on the ant’s body.  It begins to change the ant’s behaviors, causing the ant to walk away from the nest and any hive mates that might potentially kill it.  As the ant has its brain slowly devoured, it begins to wander aimlessly.  After a while, possibly weeks, the ant dies and its head come clean off.

Inside the head, the fly finishes its development.  Once it’s fully grown, the young phorid fly makes its escape, bursting forth from the head and flying off.

This fly is in the middle of crawling out from a disembodied ant head.  The circle of life continues.

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Head Drill

Categorized under Extreme People
Posted by Otelo

Kung Fu Master Hu Qiong

Kung Fu Master Hu Qiong can insert a fast spinning electric drill into his temple and belly for a full minute and walk away unharmed.
Known as the “The Unbreakable Body,” Master Hu can also catch a running electric saw with his bare hands. Believe It or Not!

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Giant Sinkhole in Guatemala

Categorized under Accidents & Survival Stories, Natural Occurences, OMG!
Posted by Marcie

This image is pretty unbelievable.  After rainstorms and a broken sewer main in a small town in Guatemala, a massive sinkhole, 330 feet deep has fallen into the earth.  You can see the height of the sink hole in comparison to the Statue of Liberty in the graphic below.

Almost a thousand people have been evacuated over a 500 yard zone around the sink hole and it is reported that two people were killed when the earth fell.
Source: National Geographic
Thumbnail Source: Flickr

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