Dr. Taylor's Terrifying Timepiece! - The Corpus Clock & Chronophage

Dr. John Taylor has invented an entirely new species of clock, one with no hands at all, and a scary "grasshopper" that rides atop it!

"Known as the Corpus Clock, the machine has been invented by and designed by Dr John Taylor for Corpus Christi College Cambridge for the exterior of the college's new library building.

Dr Taylor, an inventor and horologist, has put 500,000 pounds of his own money and seven years into developing the clock, which has been inspired from a design by a clock made by the legendary John Harrison, the pioneer of longitude."

Here's the wild beastie in action!

Discovery Channel: I Love the Whole World!

Sums it up for us here at SF.

Love to all.

Hawk In Space

Someone's got a great sense of humor.

This year, Stephen Hawking got a ride on the "Vomit Comet". For those of you who are unfamiliar, the V.C. is a specially outfitted Boeing 727 which climbs very high into the sky, and then plummets downward, providing the simulation of weightlessness.
So, Stephen Hawking, the God of Theoretical Physics, the man who literally wrote the book on Gravity, goes up and gets to fly weightless, free from all earthly tethers, and someone had the presence of mind to toss an apple into the frame. A delightful nod to Newton.

This photo is one of the reasons why I love humans so much.

Have a great weekend. Be excellent to each other.

-J



Here's a news article:
thisislondon.co.uk