FYEAH, STRANGE FINDS!

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This is the Nautilus Undersea Suite at The Poseidon Resort, Fiji. It’s located 40 ft under the water. (Link)

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Climate-Friendly Sunken Pool Converts into Radiant Floor

Here’s a truly glamorous idea for a pool. A sinking pool! The apparently permanent stone floor in this room literally slowly drops to reveal the pool underneath.

In the raised position, you can walk on the same surface radiantly warmed from beneath. And of course, having the swimming pool convert itself  into a floor makes it child-friendly too: this is not a pool that a child can fall into.

Once it is sunken it looks like any other indoor pool – as permanent as you could possibly want.

You could design this so that it remains as just a shallow decorative pool when not in use, one that is only an inch or two deep.

But the best thing about this idea is that it would also make keeping the pool warm a cinch. The exposed surface of pools give off heat at a great rate and take a lot of energy to reheat. But this one is only exposed to heat evaporation when you swim in it. This could make this extremely glamorous design also a very climate-friendly one as well. That’s because the energy expended to keep pools toasty make your swimming pool the worst carbon hog: worse even than you driving that SUV.

Radiant floors or the use of thermal mass is climate-friendly design because of the  slow release of warmth – reducing energy needs for heating.

The super-rich with luxury housing do the most harm to the planet with their luxury high energy use architecture. So, encouraging their architects to incorporate eco design ideas like thermal mass/radiant floors into luxury architecture is a way to reduce their normally VERY heavy carbon footprint.

But of course the energy consumption would depend on how much  energy is expended to raise and lower the floor. Perhaps that can be engineered to be a clever energy efficient design… or perhaps not. It is designed in Belgium – if you want to ask and see, or make a suggestion on how that could be achieved.

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In 2007, a zebra/horse hybrid made its way to the Stukenbrock safari park from Italy. The Zorse’s mother is a zebra and her father is a horse. She probably won’t be able to reproduce herself since equine hybrids are infertile.People have been cross-breeding zebras and horses since colonial times, but Eclyse’s coloring is unusual for such hybrids. With her über distinct makings, it’s really hard not think she’s a Photoshop mock-up. (Source)

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Facebook… literally!

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THE WORLD’S LARGEST GUMMY BEAR

ZOMG!  We now have the World’s Largest Gummy Bear!  This is the Godzilla, the next world wonder, the champion of all candies!

Topping the scales at 5 pounds, this mammoth mass of sugar comes in a variety of flavors and is the equivalent of 1,400 regular sized gummy bears!  It’s BIGGER than a FOOTBALL!

With its monstrous size and at a mere 12,600 calories per gummy bear, it’s definitely not a bite-sized snack.  Don’t fret- it comes in a plastic storage bag so you can take a bite or two and cover it back up for future snacking. (Source)

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Don’t smoke your cigarettes … drink ‘em! Here’s an idea so crazy it’s brilliant: Cigarettea by Schnaider. Cigarettea are tea bags that look like cigarettes. All you have to do is dip one in a cup of hot water and let it steep (the “filter” will act as a fluotation device). Instead of tobacco, the cigarettes have tea leaves! (Source; Submitted by stopsinging)

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Feeling lonely and in need of company this Valentine’s Day? Grow a Boyfriend could be just what you need, as Mr. Right grows 600% his size in water. ;) (Source)