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Telectroscope by Paul St George
New York and London’s newest hot attraction: A “tunnel” under the Atlantic that connects the two cities. It’s called the Telectroscope ( created by Paul St George), and links up the Big Apple with London in real-time in what is basically a giant outdoor videoconference. The Telectroscope (pictured above) is actually an art project, and the notion of a secret trans-Atlantic tunnel is part of its conceit. The setup looks like a steampunk version of a giant webcam, a combination practically guaranteed to attract attention among the Web demographic. And so it has: Bloggers are quickly picking up on the Telectroscope, which was unveiled yesterday. Here’s the Telectroscope’s official site.
The BBC’s New York correspondent, Matthew Price, took a look.
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The Malaysia Sky Bridge
It’s not a bridge to the sky, but it’s not far from the idea! The Langkawi sky-bridge in Malaysia is suspended at 700 metres above sea level and spans 125 across the mountains, offering magnificent views of the Andaman Sea and Thailand’s Tarutao Island. It’s set apart from other bridges by its curves that provide different perspectives of the landscapes. Here’s one of the most spectacular bridges in the world that delivers quite a pump of adrenaline.
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7 Most Amazing Caves of our World
1. Cave of Crystals (Mexico): world’s largest known natural crystals
Known as “the Sistine Chapel of crystals,” Mexico’s Cueva de los Cristales (Cave of Crystals) contains some of the world’s largest known natural crystals—translucent beams of gypsum as long as 36 feet (11 meters). The cave is 950 feet (290 meters) underground. The Naica mining complex, which yields lead, zinc, copper, silver, and gold, zigzags nearly half a mile underground (760 meters). Deep inside Naica mountain, the Cave of Crystals is a horseshoe-shaped cavity in limestone rock about 30 feet (10 meters) wide and 90 feet (30 meters) long.
Volcanic activity that began about 26 million years ago created Naica mountain and filled it with high-temperature anhydrite gypsum. When magma underneath the mountain cooled and the temperature dropped, the anhydrite began to dissolve. The anhydrite slowly enriched the waters with sulfate and calcium molecules, which for millions of years have been deposited in the caves in the form of huge selenite gypsum crystals.
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