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ufos
The language of UFOs is universal. That's why, when you travel across countries and continents, you'll always find structures that look like UFOs. More importantly, you'll find spaceship-esque buildings that somebody out there has called a UFO on Flickr. In other words: The only thing more universal than the UFO is the compulsion to call any freaky round building a UFO. Above, you can see a UFO that landed in the middle of a city in Nanning, China — captured on film by Peigianlong. Want to see more UFOs from around the world? Check out our collection.
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A UFO Lands in Downtown Nanning
The language of UFOs is universal. That's why, when you travel across countries and continents, you'll always find structures that look like UFOs. More importantly, you'll find spaceship-esque buildings that somebody out there has called a UFO on Flickr. In other words: The only thing more universal than the UFO is the compulsion to call any freaky round building a UFO. Above, you can see a UFO that landed in the middle of a city in Nanning, China — captured on film by Peigianlong. Want to see more UFOs from around the world? Check out our collection.
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cool and crap awards
Cool and Crap Awards of the Week
At least two things happened last week in the worlds of science fiction and science. One was cool and the other was crap.Coolest way to generate new technologies for colonizing the solar system while also demonstrating once again that China and India represent the future of the world: Last week, India's Chief of Army Staff, General Deepak Kapoor, announced that his country would be entering into a kind of space race with China. Though Indian officials had already talked about sending a crewed mission to the moon by 2020, the nation has deployed very few satellites and has never sent a person into orbit. Increasing tensions with China, plus the show of force represented by China shooting down one of its own satellites last year (see picture), has apparently kicked the Indian space program into high gear. Though it's hard to be thrilled about the idea that India and China might be ramping up to a cold war situation, there's no denying that there's nothing like a good defense budget to make gains in space. If we're lucky, the space race between the two great emerging techno-powers of the twenty-first century will have the unintended side-effect of helping ordinary people of the future gain access to planet-colonizing technologies and space-going vehicles. Click through for the crap. More »
mad science
It's the future of nanotech pseudo-science and rehab all rolled into one strange package. Fritz Hoffmann took this picture for National Geographic in Guangdong province capital city Guangzhou. Apparently these strange masks, which remind me of something out of a cyberpunk anime, are "nanometer wave machines" used to cure addiction. The person second from right is being cured of "internet addiction." Other treatments include isolation and electro-shock.
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A Chinese Cure for Internet Addiction
It's the future of nanotech pseudo-science and rehab all rolled into one strange package. Fritz Hoffmann took this picture for National Geographic in Guangdong province capital city Guangzhou. Apparently these strange masks, which remind me of something out of a cyberpunk anime, are "nanometer wave machines" used to cure addiction. The person second from right is being cured of "internet addiction." Other treatments include isolation and electro-shock.
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photography
Maleonn Ma is a Chinese photographer/creative director from Shanghai. In addition to working on some major films in China, he also creates these artsy images of naked Chinese men in alternate realities. Continue reading for some more beautiful/eerie images of men with elaborate flowerbeds and gardens of balloons.
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Chinese Photographer's Strange Alternate Reality
Maleonn Ma is a Chinese photographer/creative director from Shanghai. In addition to working on some major films in China, he also creates these artsy images of naked Chinese men in alternate realities. Continue reading for some more beautiful/eerie images of men with elaborate flowerbeds and gardens of balloons.
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architecture
There's a moebius strip look to the roof of this soccer stadium being built for the Olympics in Shenyang. Built in a series of interlocking curves, the Olympic Sports Center Stadium is one of four soccer arenas for the Olympics outside Beijing. It just gets stranger when you see it up close, and from inside. We've got more eye-boggling pictures below.
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Moebius Strip Soccer Stadium Takes Shape in Shenyang
There's a moebius strip look to the roof of this soccer stadium being built for the Olympics in Shenyang. Built in a series of interlocking curves, the Olympic Sports Center Stadium is one of four soccer arenas for the Olympics outside Beijing. It just gets stranger when you see it up close, and from inside. We've got more eye-boggling pictures below.
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architecture
By the end of 2010, this 105,000 square foot city-within-a-city will be a major landmark in Chengdu, China. Since this particular part of Chengdu doesn't get that much sunlight, the buildings use sliced geometry that makes it porous to daylight exposure—hence the name of the project, Sliced Porosity Block. The ponds, which recycle rainwater cooled by lilypads, double as skylights to the shopping center, and diagonal escalators placed in seemingly random locales create the impression of a building within a building. The temperature in the complex is regulated geo-thermally. You can see a closeup of one of the eco-tubes feeding the city below.
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Chengdu's Sliced-Geometry Mega Complex Opens in 2010
By the end of 2010, this 105,000 square foot city-within-a-city will be a major landmark in Chengdu, China. Since this particular part of Chengdu doesn't get that much sunlight, the buildings use sliced geometry that makes it porous to daylight exposure—hence the name of the project, Sliced Porosity Block. The ponds, which recycle rainwater cooled by lilypads, double as skylights to the shopping center, and diagonal escalators placed in seemingly random locales create the impression of a building within a building. The temperature in the complex is regulated geo-thermally. You can see a closeup of one of the eco-tubes feeding the city below.
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reimagining
From now through late May, San Francisco's Asian Art Museum is featuring the work of Zhan Wang, a contemporary sculptor/artist who uses shiny metals to reinvent traditional Chinese art. He's also the master of using kitchen utensils, pots, pans, and other mirrored silverware to create giant cityscapes. So far, he's done everywhere from London to Beijing to Buffalo in stainless steel. Pictured here is a metallified San Francisco that he made just for the current exhibit. Asian Art Museum main page
SF Skyline of Tomorrow Will Be a Massive Chinese Kitchen
From now through late May, San Francisco's Asian Art Museum is featuring the work of Zhan Wang, a contemporary sculptor/artist who uses shiny metals to reinvent traditional Chinese art. He's also the master of using kitchen utensils, pots, pans, and other mirrored silverware to create giant cityscapes. So far, he's done everywhere from London to Beijing to Buffalo in stainless steel. Pictured here is a metallified San Francisco that he made just for the current exhibit. Asian Art Museum main page
architecture
The Chinese city of Chengdu was building a new museum, so it opened up the design to an international competition. British architecture firm Sutherland Hussey won with this building. The exterior may look ultra-modern, but this City Museum will feature traditional Chinese art like the shadow play and some natural history and folk history. When completed, the museum will form the fourth side to the famous Tian Fu Square.
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Chengdu Museum is Starfleet Academy Outside, Folk Tale Inside
The Chinese city of Chengdu was building a new museum, so it opened up the design to an international competition. British architecture firm Sutherland Hussey won with this building. The exterior may look ultra-modern, but this City Museum will feature traditional Chinese art like the shadow play and some natural history and folk history. When completed, the museum will form the fourth side to the famous Tian Fu Square.
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architecture
A Danish architecture firm is creating an entire district in China from scratch as a series of three connected islands. The district will be located in a low-level wetland between canals and rice paddies. Because it doesn't get a lot of natural sunlight, the design relies on reflections from water brought in to run in between the buildings for brightness. You can see the layout of the islands below.
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New Chinese Islands Made From Scratch
A Danish architecture firm is creating an entire district in China from scratch as a series of three connected islands. The district will be located in a low-level wetland between canals and rice paddies. Because it doesn't get a lot of natural sunlight, the design relies on reflections from water brought in to run in between the buildings for brightness. You can see the layout of the islands below.
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space race
The U.S. Needs A Space Race With China
China plans to launch 15 rockets, 17 satellites and a crewed spaceship during 2008. But that's not going to be enough to scare the United States into launching a new space race. And the U.S. really, really needs a new space race to get us to take space exploration seriously again. More »
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rant
Is the U.S. the Least Futuristic Country?
Is the United States the least futuristic post-industrial country? Every week we hear about cool robots playing soccer and musical instruments in Japan, or the Tron-looking Pad building in Dubai (see photo.) Meanwhile, the U.S. is retiring its space shuttles and has the slowest broadband in the universe. What's going on? Five futuristic inventions from a world that has left the U.S. behind, after the jump. More »
cj7
First Look At Stephen Chow's Alien Creature
The new science fiction movie from Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer, Kung-Fu Hustle) features this insanely cute alien dog. It turns out the toy that Chow's character finds in a dumpster for his son isn't just alien tech, but an alien creature. It also confirms our original suspicion about Chow's CJ7. (More cute doggy pics after the jump.) More »
art
The largest piece of gunpowder art in history detonated last year in Fujian province, China. Cai Guoqiang, a New York-based artist, designed the "controlled explosion" to leave burn marks in the shape of a 59-foot-by-30-foot banyan tree. Check out the results.
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Massive Detonation Leaves A Permanent Scar
The largest piece of gunpowder art in history detonated last year in Fujian province, China. Cai Guoqiang, a New York-based artist, designed the "controlled explosion" to leave burn marks in the shape of a 59-foot-by-30-foot banyan tree. Check out the results.
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architecture
China is rushing to finish the 7,000 square foot "Water Cube" in time to host swimming events in the 2008 Olympics. This giant building's outer cladding, which will keep the pool warm, is based on research by physicists into "how soap bubbles might be arranged in infinite array," says architecture firm Arup. The bubbles themselves are made of a lightweight, transparent Teflon skin called ETFE, which will also make the building a super-efficient greenhouse, says Inhabitat. Images by EyePress/AP.
High-Tech Bubbles Trap Heat In Olympic Swimming Pool
China is rushing to finish the 7,000 square foot "Water Cube" in time to host swimming events in the 2008 Olympics. This giant building's outer cladding, which will keep the pool warm, is based on research by physicists into "how soap bubbles might be arranged in infinite array," says architecture firm Arup. The bubbles themselves are made of a lightweight, transparent Teflon skin called ETFE, which will also make the building a super-efficient greenhouse, says Inhabitat. Images by EyePress/AP.
Second Life in China
Linden Labs chief Philip Rosedale, creator of Second Life, says he's in talks with an Asian company to bring Second Life to China. No word on how that nation's notorious online censorship will fit into the virtual world. [New World Notes]
Linden Labs chief Philip Rosedale, creator of Second Life, says he's in talks with an Asian company to bring Second Life to China. No word on how that nation's notorious online censorship will fit into the virtual world. [New World Notes]
space age
China Will Win The Next Space Race
What will it take to launch another space age to replace the one that ended with the Cold War? Maybe another space race. China is ramping up its efforts to put people back on the Moon, launch more lunar orbiters, and build its own space station. Already, China is challenging the U.S.' domination of space launches. More »
sci fashion
Gallery: Lesbian Cylons Gather At Beijing Fashion Show
You have the green tentacle legs, the cylon lesbians and best of all, the head-eating parasol monster. It all happened at the Ordifen Cup 2007 Lingerie Innovative Design Contest at China Fashion Week in Beijing. Warning: skimpy costumes and not-quite-orthohuman shapes ahead.Gallery: China Fashion 2007
