Tom Bob refuses to simply live in the world.
He’s reshaping it. Creating clever street art on common objects in the urban landscape, he’s perfectly personalizing his boring surroundings.
Whether it’s turning a pipe into an anteater or transforming a fire hydrant into Princess Leia, there’s nothing he can’t do.
Usually, Tom Bob operates in NYC, but sometimes he unleashes his creativity elsewhere as well.
A giant container ship the length of four football pitches has become wedged across Egypt’s Suez Canal, blocking one of the world’s busiest trade routes.
Dozens of vessels are stuck, waiting for rescue boats to free the 400m-long (1,312ft) ship, which was knocked off course by strong winds.
Egypt has reopened the canal’s older channel to divert some traffic until the grounded ship can move again.
The blockage sent oil prices climbing on international markets.
About 12% of global trade passes through the Suez Canal, which connects the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and provides the shortest sea link between Asia and Europe.
The Ever Given, registered in Panama and operated by the shipping company Evergreen, was bound for the port city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands from China and was passing northwards through the canal on its way to the Mediterranean.
The 200,000 tonne ship, built in 2018 and operated by Taiwanese transport company Evergreen Marine, ran aground and became lodged sideways across the waterway at about 07:40 local time (05:40 GMT) on Tuesday.
At 400m long and 59m wide, the ship has blocked the path of other vessels which are now trapped in lines in both directions.
The company that manages the container ship, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), has denied earlier reports that the ship had already been partially refloated.
A daring drone photographer in Iceland captured breathtaking footage of an unfolding volcanic eruption by flying his UAV over the top of the active crater as lava burst forth high into the air. The amazing footage was reportedly filmed by Bjorn Steinbekk last Friday as the Fagradalsfjall volcano sprung to life following a series of small earthquakes in the country. Sensing the opportunity to document the event from a truly unique perspective, the visual artist fired up his drone and did just that, capturing several stunning overhead scenes of the eruption.
In one of Steinbekk’s videos, seen above, the drone cruises along a long river of lava flowing from the volcano and, amazingly, when it reaches the active crater, the UAV continues onward over the top of the eruption as it is happening. Either by way of sheer luck or skillful maneuvering, the vehicle manages to deftly avoid the molten rock as it spews forth from the site. “I really thought I would never see my drone again,” Steinbekk marveled, “but man, this was so thrilling to capture!”
Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR; formerly known as Triana, unofficially known as GoreSat is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) space weather, space climate, and Earth observation satellite. It was launched by SpaceX on a Falcon 9 v1.1 launch vehicle on 11 February 2015, from Cape Canaveral. This is NOAA’s first operational deep space satellite and became its primary system of warning Earth in the event of solar magnetic storms.
On 6 July 2015, DSCOVR returned its first publicly released view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from 1,475,207 km (916,651 mi) away, taken by the EPIC instrument. The moon is roughly 250,000 miles from earth. EPIC provides a daily series of Earth images, enabling the first-time study of daily variations over the entire globe. The images, available 12 to 36 hours after they are made, have been posted to a dedicated web page since September 2015.
The Moon transiting Earth, 16 July 2015. The far side of the Moon faces the camera.
The core stage of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket fired all four of its RS-25 engines for a little more than eight minutes—about the same duration needed to launch the Artemis I mission to the Moon. The successful hot fire tested the engines’ ability to direct thrust as well as handle throttling up to 109% power. Two massive propellant tanks that hold more than 733,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen fed the burning engines at the bottom of the stage. According to Stennis Center Director Richard Gilbrech, “This final test in the Green Run series represents a major milestone for this nation’s return to the Moon and eventual mission to Mars.”
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