Here is a mate of mine, Jimmy the Log, at work...................

Not easy doing this all day

This is a link to an incredible piece of work undertaken by Harvards biology faculty and a 3D film animation crew.

Click on the link and scroll down to the 'Watch the video' prompt.

Try it in low resolution. If you haven't got Flash 8 player you can download it from the same place.

http://www.studiodaily.com/main/technique/tprojects/6850.html

So if you scan a cell through an electron microscope and render the 3D data and then you look at the Hubble site showing images of immense galaxies (see link below) there's a spooky similarity between the images.

http://www.space.com/bestimg/result.php?back=4271374eebfd4&cat=galactic

Buzz Lightyear sums it up well with "to infinity.............and beyond" I think

Here's a bit of fun.........

click on the link...........use the hand symbol cursor and slide it as far as possible to minus on the slide.

You should have a map of the planet.

Put the hand over your area and then move the slide up towards positive.

You can switch from map to satellite image. Wherever you click you will get your coordinates expressed as latitude and longitude. Imagine what the world would be like today if say Christopher Columbus had one of these in his Captains locker! Those guys couldn't even tell the time in those days but still managed to get about the planet...........and get home.

here's the link......... 

http://www.naffis.com/maphacks/latandlon.html

Have fun

Here is a picture of the Millennium Bridge

And here is a picture of a bridge thats been going for a Millennium

Here's a link to a report that shows just how complex the Millenium Bridge problems became

http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~den/ICSV9_06.htm

There is no complex maths for nearly bridge!!!

Its bit Indiana Jones

Click on this link to reveal a name..........good Google trick!

http://www.geogreeting.com/view.html?zh1PVAg.+eQ99

How large is Brazil?

I spotted this unusual map the other day and couldn't quite get over the sheer size of Brazil.

On this map the whole of Europe is superimposed at the same scale + room round the periphery..............

There are about 6.45 billion people on our planet

And I'm one of 'em at the mo......luckily

Welcome to my Blog.

We all live on this...........

We can't get off and even if we could there is nowhere else to go.

The reason for starting this blog is because I marvel at the content of the internet and have this urge to share the information that is of interest to me. It's a bit of an indulgence really.

Your comments, criticism and conversation through these pages is extremely welcome.

I hope I don't waste anyones time.