My Nephew has built backyard luges for several years. Some are long and loopy. Some have interior rooms and tunnels the track runs through. This year he went for altitude! Check it out here.
The structure of this ant colony covers 538 square feet and travels 26 feet into the earth. In it’s construction, the colony moved 40 tons of soil. Billions of ant loads of soil were brought to the surface. Each load weighed four times as much as the worker ant, and in human terms, was carried over 1/2 mile to the surface.
In the video scientists pour 10 tons of concrete into the colony to learn about it’s structure.
Amazing!
My brother has long begged me to watch this movie. It was filmed in 1921. The movie follows Nanook and his family as they live their lives in one of the harshest places on earth. To me, the most remarkable thing is their obvious heartfelt joy!
This is just a bit of the movie. I found it in its entirety, at our local library. It is interesting, compelling, startling and at a fundamental level, inspiring.
These are very interesting and in most cases I think, not very desirable. I would like to look inside most of them. Especially the upside down house. To be livable, it obviously has to be somehow reversed on the inside. We saw an upside down building in Orlando, but wouldn’t spring for the fee to go inside.
Another nominee for weird houses is a set of condos we saw in Montreal this summer. Here is a photo of that amazing piece of architecture.
Go to The Folks Aren’t Home to see more of our amazing trip to Newfoundland, the Maritimes, The Great Lakes and New England!
