<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : largest : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[Largest ever survey of very distant galaxy clusters completed]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/126427/1/" /><id>126427</id><summary><![CDATA[Largest ever survey of very distant galaxy clusters completed]]></summary><issued>2009-07-02T02:18:50+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-02T02:18:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An international team of researchers led by a UC Riverside astronomer has completed the largest ever survey designed to find very distant clusters of galaxies. Named the Spitzer Adaptation of the Red-sequence Cluster Survey, &quot;SpARCS&quot; detects galaxy clusters using deep ground-based optical observations from the CTIO 4m and CFHT 3.6m telescopes, combined with Spitzer Space Telescope infrared observations.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Iran weaves world's largest carpet]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29334/1/" /><id>29334</id><summary><![CDATA[Iran weaves world's largest carpet]]></summary><issued>2007-07-28T12:02:04+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-28T12:02:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Iranian artist Ali Khaliqi has designed the world's largest, hand-woven carpet.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA['Dinosaur City': World's largest fossil site unearthed in China]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/87298/1/" /><id>87298</id><summary><![CDATA['Dinosaur City': World's largest fossil site unearthed in China]]></summary><issued>2009-01-01T12:19:31+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-01T12:19:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists claim to have uncovered the world's largest haul of dinosaur fossils in China.<br/><br/>They recovered some 7,600 fossils from a 980ft-long pit near Zhucheng city in the eastern province of Shandong in a dig lasting seven months.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Beyond Bird Watching: World&#8217;s 5 Largest Telescopes]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/127379/1/" /><id>127379</id><summary><![CDATA[Beyond Bird Watching: World&#8217;s 5 Largest Telescopes]]></summary><issued>2009-07-11T11:13:24+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-11T11:13:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Perhaps you own a pair of bird watching binoculars to study all types of winged friends and get a better understanding of how they function everyday. Or maybe you have a telescope set up in your bedroom or on your back porch to get up close and personal with stars in galaxies far away. While these tools provide amazing views to what&#8217;s happening around us, imagine having the power of some of the world&#8217;s largest telescopes to probe even deeper.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[World's Largest Fish Tank Holds Four Whale Sharks]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/65883/1/" /><id>65883</id><summary><![CDATA[World's Largest Fish Tank Holds Four Whale Sharks]]></summary><issued>2008-06-19T02:05:27+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-19T02:05:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[If you wanted to visit the world's largest fish tank, you'd have to go to Okinawa, Japan, home of the &quot;Kuroshio Sea,&quot; otherwise known as the Churaumi Aquarium.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Largest Baseball Bat In The World]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/81507/1/" /><id>81507</id><summary><![CDATA[Largest Baseball Bat In The World]]></summary><issued>2008-11-10T18:55:25+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-10T18:55:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Without a doubt, this is the world's largest baseball bat, which can be found at the Louisville Slugger Museum, 800 West Main Street, Louisville, KY. It's 120 feet tall and said to be modeled after Babe Ruth's bat.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Mountains Discovered On Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44976/1/" /><id>44976</id><summary><![CDATA[Mountains Discovered On Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon]]></summary><issued>2007-12-21T11:06:28+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-21T11:06:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[By analyzing images from NASA's Cassini Radar instrument, a Brigham Young University professor helped discover and analyze mountains on Saturn's largest moon, additional evidence that it has some of the most earthlike processes of any celestial body in the solar system.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[World&#8217;s Largest Cave Found in Vietnam]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/129157/1/" /><id>129157</id><summary><![CDATA[World&#8217;s Largest Cave Found in Vietnam]]></summary><issued>2009-07-27T13:52:11+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-27T13:52:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Researchers have found in Vietnam what they believe to be the world&#8217;s largest cave.<br/>At 262-by-262 feet (80-by-80 meters) in most places, the Son Doong cave beats out the previous world-record holder, Deer Cave in the Malaysian section of the island of Borneo.<br/><i>(disappointed there are so few pictures - but click on link on the right to see them)</i>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Construction starts on world's largest solar array]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18276/1/" /><id>18276</id><summary><![CDATA[Construction starts on world's largest solar array]]></summary><issued>2007-04-28T05:32:20+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-28T05:32:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A groundbreaking took place Monday at Nellis Air Force Base, just north of Las Vegas, Nevada, in the desolate, arid, windswept Mojave Desert. The ceremony will initiate construction on what will be the largest solar photovoltaic (PV) array in the United States, capable of producing 15-18 megawatts of power.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[World largest plane]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/14749/1/" /><id>14749</id><summary><![CDATA[World largest plane]]></summary><issued>2007-03-31T08:29:32+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-31T08:29:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Currently the world&#8217;s largest airplane, the An-225 Mriya (Dream) is an enlarged version of the An-124. The original purpose of the An-225 was to ferry large components used in the Soviet space program. These duties were formerly performed by a modified M-4 Molot bomber, but this aircraft did not have the payload capabilities required by the rocketry developments of the 1980s.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[World&#8217;s Largest Penis... (monument)]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/23442/1/" /><id>23442</id><summary><![CDATA[World&#8217;s Largest Penis... (monument)]]></summary><issued>2007-06-11T14:28:09+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-11T14:28:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The 30ft erection, named Sky Pillar, has been built at Longwan Shaman Amusement Park in Changchun city. *NSFW?*<br/><br/>Dupe: <div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/entertainment/humor/l/22874/1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.plime.com/entertainment/humor/l/22874/1/</a></div>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Largest transiting extrasolar planet found around a distant star]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30491/1/" /><id>30491</id><summary><![CDATA[Largest transiting extrasolar planet found around a distant star]]></summary><issued>2007-08-07T00:33:45+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-07T00:33:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An international team of astronomers with the Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey announce today the discovery of TrES-4, a new extrasolar planet in the constellation of Hercules. The new planet was identified by astronomers looking for transiting planets &#8211; that is, planets that pass in front of their home star &#8211; using a network of small automated telescopes.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[World's Largest HDTV Debuts At CES 2008]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/46329/1/" /><id>46329</id><summary><![CDATA[World's Largest HDTV Debuts At CES 2008]]></summary><issued>2008-01-08T00:26:09+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-08T00:26:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[With a viewing area that measures 11 feet by 6 1/4 feet and 8.84 million pixels of resolution, the TV (which has no model number and no date for being commercialized) is regularly thronged by crowds of slack-jawed onlookers, unable to comprehend the thing.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Largest seamless display in the world uses 20 PC's and 80 projectors.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/4877/1/" /><id>4877</id><summary><![CDATA[Largest seamless display in the world uses 20 PC's and 80 projectors.]]></summary><issued>2006-10-31T22:03:21+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-31T22:03:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A $100,000 price tag will get you 27 x 15ft (60 million pixels) of displaying power.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Meet Amy: 'the UK's largest rabbit']]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/55686/1/" /><id>55686</id><summary><![CDATA[Meet Amy: 'the UK's largest rabbit']]></summary><issued>2008-03-25T18:20:07+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-25T18:20:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[She's a bit big!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Great Sardine Run and the Largest Gathering of Predators on Earth]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/127183/1/" /><id>127183</id><summary><![CDATA[The Great Sardine Run and the Largest Gathering of Predators on Earth]]></summary><issued>2009-07-09T16:40:55+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-09T16:40:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Some animal events are so epic that they jolt us from our fallacious seat at the centre of the universe. When shoals of sardines materialise containing billions of individual fish, we&#8217;re in the realm of an ocean megalopolis &#8211; except one that travels as a single biomass fifteen miles long and visible from space.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The World's Largest Private Residence]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/122989/1/" /><id>122989</id><summary><![CDATA[The World's Largest Private Residence]]></summary><issued>2009-06-15T14:03:18+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-15T14:03:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It contains 1,788 rooms, 257 bathrooms, and a floor area of 2,152,782 square feet (200,000 m&#178;). Amenities include 5 swimming pools, and an air conditioned stable for the Sultan's 200 polo ponies, a 110-car garage, a banquet hall that can be expanded to accommodate up to 4,000 guests, and a mosque accommodating 1,500 people.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[World's Largest Telescope to be placed on Moon]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/79176/1/" /><id>79176</id><summary><![CDATA[World's Largest Telescope to be placed on Moon]]></summary><issued>2008-10-10T10:36:00+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-10T10:36:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA['Isaac Newton knew that any liquid, if put into a shallow container and set spinning, naturally assumes a parabolic shape, the same shape needed by a telescope mirror to bring starlight to a focus. This could be the key to making a giant lunar observatory.'&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The world's largest operating musical instrument]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25973/1/" /><id>25973</id><summary><![CDATA[The world's largest operating musical instrument]]></summary><issued>2007-07-02T21:56:23+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-02T21:56:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Wanna hear what it sounds like?<br/><div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://podcasts.nytimes.com/audiosrc/arts/09organ.mp3" rel="nofollow">http://podcasts.nytimes.com/audiosrc/arts/09organ.mp3</a></div>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Minn. cupcake weighs in at a hefty 150 pounds, setting Guiness record for world's largest]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/128324/1/" /><id>128324</id><summary><![CDATA[Minn. cupcake weighs in at a hefty 150 pounds, setting Guiness record for world's largest]]></summary><issued>2009-07-18T23:26:44+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-18T23:26:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A 151-pound cupcake in Minneapolis has been certified as the world's largest.]]></content></entry></items></xml>