April 6, 2021

The Curious Corner of the Internet #73

The Curious Corners #73

Hi there curious person! 🕵️‍♂️ This month agglomeration of links contains things about boats & cars, a website run by the sun and other types of chess! As always accompanied with a wonderful image! Enjoy

• A music piece that’s 639 years long! (Thanks Arnold!)
• A floating ship in Cornwall.
• What did 1921 sound like? (Thanks Ivana!)
• A car made for fishing poles & hunting rifles.
• Pillars for measuring Britain.
• Make your own encoded parachute like the JPL!
• A website from the sunniest place!
• Smuggling luxury cars by armoured boat.
• Mounting 8 antennas on a submarines that’s on a bridge.
• A slug with photosynthesis.

• An autoresponder to traditional mail by Robert A Heinlein.
• The smallest skyscraper.
• An antivanity mirror.
• 100.000 salt petals in memory of a family.
• A report on an Unidentified Space Station.
• Chess on a really big board.
• A robot hand solving a Rubik’s cube.
• A beautiful underwater observation tower.
• Overnight pizza and the trouble with expert guidelines.
• Remember, humans once were the assemblers for computer code.

That’s it, thanks for reading! Let us know by email if you have any suggestions for the Curious Corner!

Joost & Kees