MetaFilter posts tagged with large

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is.

loquacious — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:23:55 -0800

Space is really big. A perspective on the Earth and Moon from the view of a pixel.

Big Ol' Large Hadron Collider Accident ... (But We're Not All Doomed)

WCityMike — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:46:04 -0800

BBC: Hadron Collider forced to halt. An underground tunnel fault released one ton of liquid helium, which had been acting as coolant, into the tunnels of the Large Hadron Collider, causing 100 supercooled magnets to heat up by an extra 100°C and then fail. Vacuum was lost as well.

Hacking the Hadron

fixedgear — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:17:15 -0800

Hackers attack Large Hadron Collider Hackers have mounted an attack on the Large Hadron Collider, raising concerns about the security of the biggest experiment in the world as it passes an important new milestone.

Bring in 'da statistical noise...

Blazecock Pileon — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:52:02 -0800

The Large Hadron Collider. The Large Hadron Countdown. The Large Hadron Rap.

No to the skinny platform!

Armitage Shanks — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:01:30 -0800

No to the skinny platform!

everything big is small again

jessamyn — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:51:12 -0800

World's Largest Things including the world's largest collection of the world's smallest versions of the world's largest things, in a mobile museum. Seen previously, but much expanded -- now on Flickr, blogspot, lomohome, and friendable on MySpace. I found it while trying to look up this ball of postage stamps.

Is that a comically big thing in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

cortex — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:21:48 -0800

Comically Large Things is a blog about things that are so dang big you could fit everything at Smallist [previously] in any given entry. For example: nose! [via Projects and our own jbickers]

Calamari for Christmas

spitbull — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:42:46 -0800

Live giant squid captured off Japan. (Reuters video). Alas, the squid died during capture. Poor squid.

Beyond monster trucks

blahblahblah — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:02:52 -0800

Bagger 288 eats bulldozers. The largest land vehicle in the world (yes, bigger than the NASA crawler-transporter, with its storied history) looks like it escaped from a post apocalyptic thriller, featuring an excavating blade 22 meters in diameter. The world's biggest vehicle overall, meanwhile, is delivering Christmas presents, which seems less macho than strip mining 76,000 cubic meters of coal a day.

Big Head George and the Presidents

arco — Thu, 22 May 2003 16:53:54 -0800

"Virginia Attraction to Put its Heads Together." Like a bizarre hybrid of Easter Island and Mt. Rushmore, the future Presidents Park in Williamsburg, VA, will feature 43 house-sized busts of the presidents of the United States, allowing you to get very, uh, close to history [scroll down a bit]. Hopefully this will be as glorious as that other monument to the presidents in South Dakota; you know, this one.