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Cambodia,Vietnam to build cross-border golf course Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Cambodia and Vietnam are going to build a $100 million golf course straddling their border in a region heavily bombed by U.S. forces in their anti-communist war in the 1960s and 70s.
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How To Build an Animatronic Tail Posted: 2 years ago by MissWinkle
As I explained to AutumnLotus in this post, I have always wanted a tail. And I thought I was all alone until I found out these instructions on how to build an animatronic tail that wags. Also check out video and Tiger Tail How-To. Awesome.
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I'm trying to build a toaster, from scratch Posted: 5 months ago by Bornbad
I'm Thomas Thwaites and I'm trying to build a toaster, from scratch - beginning by mining the raw materials and ending with a product that Argos sells for only £3.99. A toaster.
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Indonesia to build suspension bridge in earthquake hot spot Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Indonesia plans to build the world's longest suspension bridge across the earthquake-prone Sunda Strait, passing within 50 kilometres of the active Krakatoa volcano. The bridge, traversing 30 kilometres, will link Indonesia's main islands of Java and Sumatra at an estimated cost of $12 billion.
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English village to build 'phone throne' Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
The Chivelstone Parish is shelling out about $200 to build a throne for visitors to stand on to get a cell phone signal in England's East Prawle Village.
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Students build 'supermileage' cars Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Engineering students at Ohio's Cedarville University have built a car that gets 2,000 mpg, but you wouldn't want to drive it.
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Spore is More: Build Your Own Alien at Home Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
"It's just a video game!" I hear you say. Well, sure, it is. And "Star Trek" was just a television show, too.
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How to Build Your Own Log Chalet Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Nothing beats getting out of the glass and brick and metal of the city for a weekend away at a friend’s wooden cottage in the woods. You always leave refreshed with a feeling of “I’d love to own a chalet of my own someday.” Well building your own log cabin has never been easier. With the help of this guide, all you’ll need is the land, $50,000 bucks, and of course, wood.
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Build Your Own Woolly Tiny (Mammoth) Posted: 12 months ago by Bornbad
Following in the footsteps of the Tinysaur, the Woolly Tiny is a miniature woolly mammoth skeleton. Completed, he stands about 3/4 an inch tall and an inch long. He's seen here storming my laptop, trying to get to the freezer.
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Isometric Constructor by Adrian Lafond Posted: 2 years ago by ogri2003
Build small 3D scenes and buildings using this isometric constructor.
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How to Build a Bamboo Bicycle Posted: 2 years ago by wildminou
you need : bamboo, epoxy and hemp fibers on all the joints, some bicycle parts, and to be smart
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Rockets Help Build ... Bridge?! Posted: 9 months ago by allsux
last year whilst reading a forum i came across a comment about a suspension bridge under construction in china. the comment, made by someone living in china, mentioned that this bridge, when completed, would be the tallest in the world by some way and smash the record for highest deck-to-ground distance held by the royal gorge bridge in colorado (1'053ft).
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Umbilical cord blood may help build new heart valves Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
In the future, babies with heart defects may receive new heart valves created from cells in the blood from their umbilical cords, saved at birth. These valves could grow and change shape as a child develops, avoiding the need for repeat surgeries to replace outgrown valves from animal or human donor tissue or artificial valves.
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Robot can build itself to suit variety of tasks Posted: 3 years ago by Browntrout
The so called "Swarm-bot" can assemble itself out of many smaller modules to suit a variety of tasks. The more modules it uses, the more versatile (and smarter?) it gets.
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Man builds his own pickup truck from scrap Posted: 3 months ago by proverb
It took him eight months to build the truck in his one-car garage. He used Ford axles, a Chevrolet bed, an Oldsmobile engine and the frame from a 1949 International.
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Did asteroids flock together to build planets? Posted: 4 months ago by kakana
Perhaps we should thank rapid-assembly asteroids for spawning the planets. New simulations suggest that dense swarms of boulders collapsed under their own gravity to make the building blocks of our solar system.
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Want to build your own Batmobile? Posted: 2 years ago by beckinacea
Info and specs on all Batmobile versions (and the Tumbler). Includes extensive pictures of members who are already building full 1989 batmobile replicas. 1966 version specs here.
Inspired to post by suebe's Batmobile auction post.
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Rockets help build bridge higher than Empire State Building Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
So you’ve erected the enormous towers on each side of the deep valley, deeper than any valley previously bridged. How do you get a pilot cable from one tower to the next? The brains behind the Siduhe bridge attached the 3200ft cables to rockets and accurately fired them over the valley, becoming the first people to do so.
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OSU students build and launch a radiation sensor into space Posted: 1 year ago by Dork
Students from OSU's Radiation Physics Laboratory built and successfully launched a cosmic radiation detector this summer that, carried by a helium-filled balloon, reached 104,000 feet in altitude. The detector recorded radiation levels at the varying altitudes -- information that will be used by NASA to develop instrumentation for space flight.
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Scientists in race to build superchook Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
CSIRO scientists in Victoria are aiming to be the first in the world to develop a genetically modified chicken immune to the killer bird flu.
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