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Iran weaves world's largest carpet Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Iranian artist Ali Khaliqi has designed the world's largest, hand-woven carpet.
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'Dinosaur City': World's largest fossil site unearthed in China Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists claim to have uncovered the world's largest haul of dinosaur fossils in China.
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.
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Beyond Bird Watching: World’s 5 Largest Telescopes Posted: 5 months ago by kakana
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’s happening around us, imagine having the power of some of the world’s largest telescopes to probe even deeper.
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World's Largest Fish Tank Holds Four Whale Sharks Posted: 1 year ago by punthe
If you wanted to visit the world's largest fish tank, you'd have to go to Okinawa, Japan, home of the "Kuroshio Sea," otherwise known as the Churaumi Aquarium.
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Largest Baseball Bat In The World Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Mountains Discovered On Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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World’s Largest Cave Found in Vietnam Posted: 4 months ago by Bingo
Researchers have found in Vietnam what they believe to be the world’s largest cave.
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.
(disappointed there are so few pictures - but click on link on the right to see them)
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Largest ever survey of very distant galaxy clusters completed Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
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, "SpARCS" 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.
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Construction starts on world's largest solar array Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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World largest plane Posted: 3 years ago by Betmenko
Currently the world’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.
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Largest seamless display in the world uses 20 PC's and 80 projectors. Posted: 3 years ago by groggie
A $100,000 price tag will get you 27 x 15ft (60 million pixels) of displaying power.
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Meet Amy: 'the UK's largest rabbit' Posted: 2 years ago by topofall
She's a bit big!
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The Great Sardine Run and the Largest Gathering of Predators on Earth Posted: 5 months ago by bornbad
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’re in the realm of an ocean megalopolis – except one that travels as a single biomass fifteen miles long and visible from space.
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World's Largest Telescope to be placed on Moon Posted: 1 year ago by bernardblack
'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.'"
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The World's Largest Private Residence Posted: 6 months ago by bingo
It contains 1,788 rooms, 257 bathrooms, and a floor area of 2,152,782 square feet (200,000 m²). 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.
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The world's largest operating musical instrument Posted: 2 years ago by glik
Wanna hear what it sounds like?
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Minn. cupcake weighs in at a hefty 150 pounds, setting Guiness record for world's largest Posted: 4 months ago by nateebiinature
A 151-pound cupcake in Minneapolis has been certified as the world's largest.
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Two of the largest UFOs ever seen have been observed Posted: 2 years ago by Bornbad
'I've Never Seen Anything Like It'
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The world's largest egg has gone on sale for £500 Posted: 8 months ago by iamamaniac
The 13in tall specimen was laid by a Great Elephant Bird in Madagascar almost 400 years ago and is now a rare antique.
It is bigger than a rugby ball and measures more than 3ft round its circumference.
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The Beast from the East Posted: 1 year ago by TheShizknitt725
A Rhode Island grower hopes unusual diet will produce worlds largest pumpkin.
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