Incredible Platforms From Around The World

Balcony of the Alps

Nicknamed the ‘balcony of the alps‘, the Dachstein Sky Walk is formally enthroned at 2,700 m above sea-level, high up on the 250 m vertical rock face of the Hunerkogel.
A 360 degree panorama allows the visitor a view of Slovenia in the south to the Czech Republic in the north. This “balcony of the Alps” is distinctly higher than the platforms of the Niagara Falls or the Iguazu waterfalls in Brasil.

The Landscape Promontory

The landscape promontory is a suspended viewing platform designed by paolo bürgi as part of the cardada project, a revitalisation of the cardada mountain that is expected to finish in 2010. as with ‘il binocolo’, the steel and titanium platform enables you to walk amongst the tree tops and experience a view of lake maggiore that was previously unattainable.

Grand Canyon Skywalk

The Skywalk extends 65ft beyond the edge of the Grand Canyon and offers an unprecedented view from 4,000 ft above the ground!

The Horseshoe shaped skywalk is constructed of glass walls 4 inches thick and visitors must don special scratch-proof socks as they partake in the view.

The work is a true engineering feat that can hold up to 70 tons (roughly 14 African Elephants) and withstands winds of 100mph.

Top of tyrol

Innsbruck-based architects Astearchitecture have completed a mountain-top viewing platform located on 3200m at the Stubai Glacier in Tyrol, Austria.The same view could’ve been gained without the steel platform but it definitely provides a decievingly safe area for tourists wanting a perfect view of stubai glacier. plus there’s always the attraction of the thrill factor as you stand 9 metres away from the mountain.

Aurland Lookout

Can’t remember your anniversary, hubby? Try getting down on one knee. Memories are highly embodied in our senses. A scent or sound may evoke a distant episode from one’s childhood. The connections can be obvious (a bicycle bell makes you remember your old paper route) or inscrutable. A recent study helps decipher some of this embodiment. An article in the January 2007 issue of Cognition reports that episodes from your past are remembered faster and better while in a body position similar to the pose struck during the event.
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Strange and Ugly Monstrous Fish

"Why are the Earth's oceans more mysterious to us than the Moon?"
- Bill Bryson, "A Short History of Nearly Everything"

It's commonly said we know more about the surface of the moon than we know about what happens right here on our own planet, in that murky world at the bottom of the sea. And indeed, we have only explored less than 5 percent of our oceans (we have better maps of Mars than we do of the ocean floor!)


Here's a fun fact for you: did you know that you, an unprotected human being, can last for about two whole minutes in a vacuum -- say on the surface of the moon? Here's another amusing bit of knowledge: did you also know that you, still just an unprotected homo sapiens, would last only the barest smidgen of a second before being totally, completely pulped by the crushing pressures at the bottom of the sea?

There is also more light on the dark side of the moon than there is down, down, down in those ocean depths... One thing we do know, though: even in the deepest part of the ocean, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, despite the crushing pressure (at least 16,000 pounds per square inch) and the absolute, total, complete darkness, there is life. Auguste Piccard, who made an adventurous trip in 1960 to the bottom of the Deep in his bathyscaphe, the Trieste, saw a few extreme creatures that managed to made that extreme environment their home.

The Fangtooth Fish lives at depths of more than 5,000 meters:




While not as deep – but just as dark – as the Deep, scientists have found, and continue to find, an amazing, and sometimes nightmarish, world of creatures in the abyssal plains, which make up more than a staggering 50% of the earth's surface.



Light is so rare down there that its uniqueness is an allure, for mating, as well as a lure, for eating. Grammatostomias flagellibarba, 'dragon fish' to you and I, uses bioluminescence – biological light – mainly for the latter: EATING. Any deep, deep, deep swimmer that notices and becomes interested in a certain tiny flickering light will end up becoming caught by the dragon fish's monstrously huge and needle-sharp toothed mouth. The light being a glowing lure at the end of a long, thin filament connected to the underside of the fish's jaw:


The sea angler uses a similar trick, though it's more globular instead of having the dragon fish's lean and nasty body. The angler's lure has the same function, but a different location: its flashing trick is a kind of deadly finger between its eyes and its similarly sharp-toothed mouth rather than being at the end of a thin strand like the dragon fish.

Found two kilometers beneath the Coral Sea, off the shores of Australia - the Hairy Anglerfish: "The long hairs of the anglerfish carry sensory information to the fish's brain":



The "Longhead Dreamer" anglerfish (Chaenophryne longiceps) was found in waters near Greenland


The Bathysaurus, or deep sea lizardfish, can and will bite with any opportunity. It's also a half-a-meter long:



Yet another contender for the oddly pretty prize is the so-called barreleye. This fish takes vision to a new level of spooky strange. Sure, it has eyes, but instead of having to deal with an oh-so-annoying skull that gets in the way of what it's trying to see, the barreleye's head is transparent: to look up it just moves its eyes to focus through its clear – and a bit disturbing – cranium.


Atolla & Periphilla Jellyfish:



A see-through sea cucumber, Enypniastes, was spotted at depths of about 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometers). It lives in the northern Gulf of Mexico, at depths of 2.7 kilometers (bottom left). On the right is "Dumbo" - with ridiculously big "ears":


The Ping Pong Tree Sponge is one of the family of carnivorous demosponges (I bet you read "Demon-sponges, didn't you?) and is pretty big, at least half a meter in height.


The granrojo (above right) is not hooked or spiked, but this deep-water jellyfish is just as odd, with chubby arms and an almost plastic looking crimson bell.

While neither of these fish and jellies – and there are far too many to name here – are monsters in size, there is something called abyssal gigantism, the tendency for other forms of extremely deep-dwelling organisms to not only be odd, strange, bizarre and darned creepy but also – yes, you guessed it – HUGE.

Do you have a small dog, a cat, or a larger-than-average tortoise? How would you like to have a pet the size of any of them but isn't just from a different species but from a whole different phylum?



Cute? Not really. Cuddly? Absolutely not. But the giant isopod would certainly be a conversation starter if you took it out for a walk: imagine a pill bug weighing over four pounds.

Other abyssal giants include the poster child for arachnophobia, the Japanese spider crab, which averages 12 feet from leg to creepy leg; and then there's the giant ... well, we'll get to him in a minute.



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Amazing Miracle and Succesful Plastic Surgery

It is about plastic surgeries that made people better and were quite successful. Plastic surgery is a medical specialty that deals with the correction or restoration of form and function. While famous for aesthetic surgery, plastic surgery also includes two major areas: body modification and reconstructive surgery. The word “plastic” derives from the Greek plastikos which means to mold or shape, and its use here is not connected with the synthetic polymer material known as plastic

“In Romania is a TV show with people who have different defects and by participating on the show the defects are corrected by cosmeticsurgery, dentistry, even wardrobe is changed.
Pictures are BEFORE AND AFTER .

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