When Hermés yacht brand executive Pierre-Alexis Dumas met Wally builder Luca Bassani Antivari they hatched a dream- to combine the terrestrial luxury of your own island with the aquatic bliss of yachting. The fruit of their efforts is WHY (Wally Hermés Yachts), a 36,000 square foot, energy-saving, sustainable yacht unlike any seen before.
Antivari: This revolutionary concept of the moving island is developed with latest and most advanced technologies, recycling thermal energy, as well as any organic and inorganic waste. The architecture of the project fits perfectly in the environment- there are no excesses, nothing is superfluous, the impact on the sea is minimal.
Dumas: We hope to open a new path, to offer a new lifestyle that is different, serene, contemplative and respectful of the environment, moving slowly on the water, combining the pleasure of sailing and absolute comfort.
The whole fascinating story, lots of pictures, stats and more video at Twisted Sifter. WHY's website. (Photos by WHY HWSam)
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See actual pictures of it here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1217180/Hermes-design-luxury-90m-yacht--wheres-half.html
Guess you didn't look at their other video then because it is being built!
I think it's gorgeous...I want one, if I had enough money and owned my own house I would sell up and buy one!
Plankton consists of phytoplankton, bacterioplankton AND zooplankton: (from Greek zoon, or animal), small protozoans or metazoans (e.g. crustaceans and other animals) that feed on other plankton and telonemia. Some of the eggs and larvae of larger animals, such as fish, crustaceans, and annelids, are included here.
So, the Blue Whale is most definitely not a vegetarian!
sloths can swim pretty fast.
BURY!
They poop in a hole and cover it with dirt because they're too lazy to have evolved the ability to move quickly on land.
Actually while not common there are several venomous mammals including the Eurasian water shrew, Southern Short-tailed Shrew, Northern Short-tailed Shrew, Cuban Solenodon, and Haitian Solenodon. And of course the platypus.
Also there is the sort of venomous Slow Loris. These mammals have poison glands on their elbows which they suck on to get poison in their mouths subsequently delivering a poison bite.
Viva la beef
The major reason why blues and other whales can get so big has nothing to do with their diet. It is that water supports their weight, so their skeleton doesn't have to.
The weight of an animal goes up with its volume, which is measured in meters cubed, while the strength of its bones goes up (roughly speaking) with its cross section, which is measured in meters squared. As an animal gets bigger and bigger, the bones required to support its weight must get bigger, faster, until eventually the animal reaches a practical size limit, where as much of it is bone as possible (and it is virtually a stationary tower.) (And that, by the way, is why you cannot have an ant the size of a skyscraper, 50's horror movies aside. If you just scaled up the ant, the weight would go up faster than its structural strength. A skyscraper ant would collapse on its belly, immobile.)
But with whales and other creatures whose weight is supported by water, the limit is set by availability of food, and that is a very high limit. I imagine even larger animals than blue whales could evolve, eventually.
Incidentally, that is also why bigger dirigibles are more cost-effective than small ones. You can double the fabric in a dirigible, and get much more than double the lifting power.