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These fucking Russians don’t know what “limits” are.
¿De qué tanque me hablas, payo?
Loving Baikonur’s giant space penises.
Wedding Palace (Tbilisi, Georgia, 1985) © Frederic Chaubin.
“This bulky machine constructed by one enthusiast retiree from the Russian city of Kirov is powered by the old Yamaha motorcycle engine and is entirely made of scrap. Fiberglass seat was formerly a part of a small carousel, gear shift lever was a part of an unidentified old Coca-Cola souvenir. The front skies are covered with fluoroplastic, a material with extremely low friction factor. The main distinctive feature of this snowmobile is a big wheel instead of a regular for such kind of transport rubber heavy caterpillar made of metal and rubber. For this reason this monster is very light which allows it to drive on fresh crumbly snow.
Another thing is that this wheel is much less complicated in maintenance and will never cause a stop in the middle of a snow field if one detail is broken, as caterpillar does. The engine is mounted in such a way that it could warm the driver and give some heat to the fuel supply system. Construction works on this unusual snowmobile have taken about one year.”
More at English Russia, who definitely should upgrade to Photobucket Pro.
Esto son 400 toneladas de bicho que podía acelerar hasta la mitad de la velocidad del sonido, aterrizar sobre el agua con olas de cinco metros y cargar con el doble de su peso. Oficialmente sólo se construyó este, que actualmente se oxida en un muelle. La galería completa aquí. Se te caen los ojos de bonito.
Guillermolo me lo mandó primero pero no ha sido el único. Os quiero, muchachos.
Esto es Lo Mejor que he visto desde por lo menos ayer.
Triple LOLz of the Day: The Ice King himself, Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko, performing a Platinum Medal-caliber routine that features the rarely witnessed Battle Axel jump.
[thanks aaron!]
Photo by Art Kane, 1960.
Found at melisaki, a good imagelog that (and this is rare, sadly) credits photographs, links to the sources and tags its entries by subject and decade. Niiiice.
Update: Oops. Kudos to Fluzo, who spotted her 5 days before I did.
Qué grandes son. Aunque yo juraría que eso que están haciendo le pega más a Laika.
Russian cosmonauts follow certain little rituals in memory of the Soviet hero Yuri Gagarin - few minutes before climbing into the launcher they stop off for a quick pee, just as Gagarin did before his historic flight. (image via picapixels)
Me jode no saber qué tanque es. ¿Un T-34 modificado? Meh. En cualquier caso, la fuente original de las fotos es Peter Sobolev y el post que las ha hecho populares, de English Russia (por supuesto).
Por cierto, eso que el operador comparte con mamá osa no es cangrejo ni arenque en conserva, sino leche condensada. ¡Animalicos!
(via tmblg)
