Posts Tagged ‘travel’

The Known Universe

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

After watch­ing this, I just thought of how insignif­i­cant I am in the grand scheme of things. That’s not to say my exis­tence doesn’t mat­ter but we are all but minus­cule mol­e­cules in grains of sand com­pared to all that there is in space.

What’s even more amaz­ing is that we’ve only been able to map out *half* of space, and that’s just with our cur­rent instru­ments. Our near­est neigh­bors are hun­dreds of light-years away, prob­a­bly watch­ing a sim­i­lar video and won­der­ing if they’ll ever meet an alien species. I’d like to say “of course we will” but man … con­sider my mind blown.

War, vio­lence, unrest, your boss, and my next door neigh­bors don’t even mat­ter any­more. How could I focus on such things when there is an abun­dance of what we don’t know?

This is amaz­ing, sim­ply amazing.

Code X Luxury Yacht

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

As in, some­thing James Bond would have on the week­ends before get­ting ambushed by bad guys …

I really should have a ded­i­cated sec­tion on this blog, just for James Bond. I keep find­ing all these cool Bond-esque things. Like this :

Paul Webb DSGN Journal - Code X Luxury Yacht 01

From the site :

The uncom­pro­mis­ingly designed yacht, built by inter­na­tional lead­ing experts, sym­bol­izes a dream come true. CODE-X unites rad­i­cal purism, the opti­mal ben­e­fit of renew­able energy and the sheer power of a rac­ing machine in one boat.

A flex­i­ble solar hybrid propul­sion sys­tem enables both quiet, envi­ron­men­tally friendly cruis­ing in ports and coastal areas as well as the plea­sure of high speeds on open waters!”

Paul Webb DSGN Journal - Code X Luxury Yacht 02

Code X has For­mula 1 engines and uti­lizes solar power as well. Here are some specs :

Engines :
/ 2 x Ilmor marine com­bus­tion engines MV10-710
/ Con­fig­u­ra­tion : 90 degree V 10
/ Horse­power : 2 x 710 HP
/ Torque : 882 Nm @ 4800 rpm
/ Full throt­tle rpm range: 5400 — 6300
/ Capac­ity : 2 x 8.3 liters
/ Per­for­mance : 90 kn
/ 2 x elec­tric engines

Source of Energy :
/ Fos­sil fuel [2 tanks]
/ Solar-power

Paul Webb DSGN Journal - Code X Luxury Yacht 03

There’s even some images of the deck and inte­rior layouts.

via Code X

The Ultimate Carrying Case

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Paul Webb DSGN Journal - The Ultimate Carrying Case 01

It’s refresh­ing to see prod­ucts from peo­ple who get irri­tated by what’s avail­able and makes some­thing that suits them more. I def­i­nitely like this bag but the price tag? Not so much, lol.

Retail­ing for €25,000 [or $37,046.93 at the time of this post] and fully customizable/built-to-order, you too can be a fresh jet-setter on a yacht some­where with lovely beach weather.

Or run­ning from rene­gade agents and mad sci­en­tists a la James Bond.

via Selec­tism / Henk