Richie Sowa has started to build another floating island after his first construction (shown below) was destroyed by a hurricane.
The old island, built from over 250,000 plastic bottles, had a house with a toilet as well as a solar-powered oven. You can get more information at ecoble.
Duct tape has been used many times in space. In the photograph above it is being used to extend the sprayguards of the Apollo 17 lunar rover to prevent “rooster tails“.
It has also been used to:
This is what happens when an electricity substation gets overloaded.
(Clip gets extra points for featuring MC Hammer’s Can’t Touch This.)
The Tree of Life is a diagrammatic representation of all life on Earth. It can be split into three branches1: the Bacteria and the Archaea (single-celled organisms) and the Eukarya (multi-cellular organisms).
You see that tiny box labelled “Fungi, Animalia, Plantae”? That tiny box contains all the fungi, animals and plants in the world! Every living thing you’ve ever seen with the naked eye fits in that box! Human beings, other animals and plants make up just a tiny fraction of all life – by far the dominant lifeform on Earth is the humble bacteria.
Woese et al (1990) Towards a natural system or organisms: Proposal for the domains Archaeae, Bacteria, and Eucarya, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 87, pp. 4576-4579. Download