Sunday Things - post-apocalyptic, pre-Newtonmas edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday December 23 2012
So, the Mayan apocalypse turned out to be deeply disappointing - and the anniversary of the birth of Sir Isaac Newton isn't quite upon us. Ignoring calendrical differences for the latter, obviously. So what else do we have?
The Sunday Things.
Mayfield, the ghost station of Manchester - I used to regularly catch trains from Manchester Oxford Road and Manchester Piccadilly, but never knew there was an abandoned third station just nearby. I wish I'd gone exploring that city with a pre-digital camera... via Jason M.
Inside NASA's Mysterious Rubber Room - deep underneath the launch pads at Kennedy Space Centre lie some strange, disused remnants of the Apollo programme. Rubber-lined corridors and shock-proof blast-rooms, ready to withstand an exploding Saturn V rocket. See also: Mr. Scriptunas' Best Spaceflight Photos of 2012. via Gryn
Multi-gigapixel panorama of Mount Everest - by David Breashears. Almost too much to look at - an impossibly detailed alien landscape, lifeless except for the insect-like trails of climbers and their colourful detritus on some modern pilgrimage to the highest point on the planet. via
Robots at Work and Play - robots robots robots, robots robots. Robots robots robots? Robots! #35? Baby-faced firefighting segway. Freaky.
Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Station - near-fully-constructed power plant in Austria, never actually commissioned. flash-free images
Bonus Merry Christmas! corner:
The Spirit of Christmas - lovingly told by Cyriak himself. Awww...
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