Cool things from last week...

First off...I feel like I need to be friends with these people. I don't even need a back story.

via Texts From Last Night

This is how NASA transports the space shuttle. It's also the last flight of the Discovery space shuttle.

The Titanic has been all over the news because of the anniversary of the sinking of the ship. This was probably the coolest thing I've seen. The iceberg and the Titanic is huge!

Created by Gerry Hofstetter

An $87 million (yes MILLION) dollar house is going on the auction block...and I think that I could totally buy it if I lock everyone else out of the auction room and cut the phone lines so no one can phone in a bid. Totally realistic. I've got about...ummmm 25....dollars.

front doors

model of the house

It has 17 bathrooms, a vineyard, horse stables, and a lake. It's in California...and it's really beige. Seriously, it's empty and every room is beige.

But I suppose I could like beige...87 million dollars of beige.


Of course, my (haha) future beige palace pales in comparison to the most expensive house in the world. Which is about 1 billion or 2 billion. I'm not really sure. Of course, no one's living in that house according to the Daily Mail (which tends to give me a Daily Chuckle...)



Related Links:

• Texts from Last Night
• Last Flight of Discovery space shuttle over Washington D.C. from MSNBC's PhotoBlog
• Gerry Hofstetter, a swiss artist, projected an image of the Titanic on an iceberg, from MSNBC's PhotoBlog
• $87 Million California Mansion heads to the auction block via MSNBC's photoblog
• Inside the World's First Billion Dollar House via Forbes
• World's Most expensive house lies abandoned...because billionaire owners believe it would be bad luck to move in via Daily Mail. 

Did you ever wonder what the Titanic looks like...now?

The Magazine Cover of April's issue of National Geographic, which  features the Titanic

I'll confess...I saw the James Cameron movie three times while it was in the theaters. I was in middle school and my girlfriends and I loved it. 


This doesn't have anything to do with the movie per se, but the actual shipwreck. Although the movie is being re-released in 3-D to celebrate (? do you celebrate that? Maybe it's more to mark the occasion) of the centenary (like that word? thanks Wikipedia!) of the sinking of the Titanic, which happened in 1912. 


National Geographic (which I'm addicted to btw...) decided to join a scientific group and they went back to the crash site and took pictures of the entire ship. There's been a television special and a really wonderful article on National Geographic's website about the ship, why it went down and the controversy that surrounded RMS Titanic, Inc. which is the legal guardian of the wreck. They're the ones putting on the Titanic artifact exhibit that is touring the country. 


Anyway, I'll keep this short (short for me at least). What's new on this exploration of the Titanic is that the group took numerous sonar images of the three by five mile shipwreck area. The images were pieced together and to create high-def pictures of the ship as a whole. 

Titanic's stern from overhead

James Cameron explains in the article why these pictures are so interesting (because they're so clarifying): 

"For more than two miles, the stern made its tortured descent—rupturing, buckling, warping, compressing, and gradually disintegrating. By the time it hit the ocean floor, it was unrecognizable... “We didn’t want the Titanic to have broken up like this,” he [Cameron] said. “We wanted her to have gone down in some kind of ghostly perfection.” -From the National Geographic Article

Titanic profile

Titanic's bow

All photos are from MSNBC's photoblog. From the article called National Geographic features new images from the unseen Titanic (3/30/2012)

Related articles

• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Releases Stunning 3D Images of the Titanic [Photos] (bostinno.com)
• The National Geographic Article, called Unseen Titanic is written by Hampton Sides, and it's really good. You should check it out...plus it has tons of pictures!
• MSNBC Photoblog article with large pictures of the Titanic
• If you want more information about how the Titanic sank then MSNBC's Science section sums it up fairly well
• Old Pictures of the Titanic before it sank and the survivors from LiveScience
• The RMS Titanic, Inc. website, which has ridiculous amounts of interesting facts and pictures, as well as the tour dates for the exhibition
• Here's the Wikipedia article on the Titanic (the movie)