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- Ride through Wuppertal on ‘the flying train’ in clear footage from 1902 https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/08/the-flying-train-moma/ 130 comments
- Bloom: 28,000 Potted Flowers Installed at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/03/bloom-28000-potted-flowers-installed-at-the-massachusetts-mental-health-center/ 7 comments
- An A.I. Model Helped Uncover 303 Previously Unseen Nazca Lines in Peru https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/09/nazca-lines-ai/ 12 comments technology
- Polar Bears Occupying an Abandoned Weather Station in Russia https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/01/dmitry-kokh-polar-bears/?fbclid=IwAR1nvY5tnhgxt5PSRNHRfM7ESG6g41gazZQBb-MNJwQXt7322e1UZx4HMsg 2 comments russia
- Irregular grid https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/stalberg-7-960x540@2x.jpg 6 comments gamedev
- Staggering Photos Capture a Frozen Apartment Complex in Vorkuta, a Dwindling Russian City That's the Coldest in Europe https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/03/arseniy-kotov-vorkuta-photographs/ 6 comments worldnews
- Cycling Activists Build Bamboo Car Skeletons to Demonstrate Space Taken by Single Occupancy Cars https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/10/lets-bike-it-bamboo-car-skeletons/ 38 comments bicycling
- Painted wall in Lisbon, Portugal http://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/vhils-1.jpg 10 comments europe
- An 80-Foot Steel Kraken Will Create an Artificial Coral Reef Near the British Virgin Islands http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/10/80-foot-steel-kraken/ 79 comments worldnews
- 150th Anniversary Edition of “Alice in Wonderland” Features Rare 1969 Salvador Dali Illustrations http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/09/salvador-dali-alice-in-wonderland-illustrations/ 141 comments books
- Medieval Book Historian Erik Kwakkel Discovers and Catalogs 800-Year-Old Doodles in Some of the World's Oldest Books http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/10/the-worlds-oldest-doodles/ 4 comments books
- Press a button, print a story. http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/11/short-edition-vending-machine/ 13 comments raspberry_pi
- Star Wars Characters as Ancient GREEK Statues http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/11/star-wars-sculptures/ 5 comments greece
- Starting With the Earth as a Marble, This Is the First Timelapse of the Solar System to Scale http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/09/to-scale-the-solar-system/ 61 comments space
- Glass books http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/09/ramon-todo-glass-books-and-stones/ 14 comments books
- Where can I find a super high resolution version of Hubble's new photos of Pillars of Eternity? http://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/heic1501a.jpg 22 comments space
- The Octographer: An Octopus Was Trained to Take Photographs of Aquarium Visitors in Just Three Tries http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/04/octographer/ 40 comments nottheonion
- Honey on Tap: A New Beehive that Automatically Extracts Honey without Disturbing Bees http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/02/honey-on-tap/ 32 comments technology
- He was Pantone, before Pantone was cool. http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/05/color-book/ 4 comments history
- Cycling activists build bamboo car skeletons to demonstrate space taken by cars. http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/10/lets-bike-it-bamboo-car-skeletons/ 3 comments bicycling
- A collection of medieval doodles! http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/10/the-worlds-oldest-doodles/ 4 comments books
- Since the 1970s a Man In India Has Been Planting a Forest Larger than Central Park, One Tree at a Time http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/07/forest-man/ 3 comments worldnews
- Amazing Solar Flare Eruptions Captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory http://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/10448656_683032438410649_2538041345365400407_o.jpg 39 comments space
- Amazing 'Pantone' book from 1692 http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/05/color-book/ 248 comments books
- LIX: The World’s Smallest 3D Printing Pen Lets You Draw in the Air http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/04/lix-the-worlds-smallest-3d-printing-pen-lets-you-draw-in-the-air/ 3 comments technology
- 900-Year-Old Coded Viking Message Carved on Wood Fragment Finally Solved, It Says “Kiss Me” http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/02/jotunvillur-code-cracked/ 14 comments nottheonion
- 900-Year-Old Coded Viking Message Carved on Wood Fragment Finally Solved, It Says “Kiss Me” http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/02/jotunvillur-code-cracked/ 102 comments history
- Face Painting at the Maha Shivaratri Festival http://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/8555581293_90305a64fb_c.jpg 8 comments india
- This Programmable 6,000-Part Drawing Boy Automata is Arguably the First Computer and It Was Built 240 Years Ago http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/11/the-writer-automata/ 7 comments technology
- Man Spends 40 Years Building Giant Kinetic Carnival Rides to Advertise Family Restaurant in Italy http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/10/ai-pioppi-kinetic-carnival/ 7 comments worldnews
- A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95 http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/07/the-pixel-painter-a-97-year-old-man-who-paints-using-microsoft-paint-from-windows-95/ 96 comments technology
- This is What Happens When You Run Water Through a 24hz Sine Wave http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/03/this-is-what-happens-when-you-run-water-through-a-24hz-sine-wave/ 6 comments science
- Japan Erects Massive Sculpture of the Last Standing Tree from a Forest Destroyed by the 2011 Tsunami http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/03/japan-erects-massive-sculpture-of-the-last-standing-tree-from-a-forest-destroyed-by-2011-tsunami/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+colossal+%28colossal%29&utm_content=google+reader 6 comments worldnews
- Amazing MRI images of fruits and vegetables http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/10/amazing-animations-of-fruit-and-vegetable-mris/ 12 comments science
- Wireless Wooden Keyboard http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/09/the-oree-wireless-wooden-keyboard/ 4 comments technology
- RGB Colorspace Atlas Depicts Every Color Imaginable http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/09/tauba-auerbachs-rgb-colorspace-atlas-depicts-every-color-imaginable/ 30 comments web_design
- Book Igloo http://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/home-1.jpg 44 comments books
- Carved Books (blasphemy or art?) http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/12/carved-book-landscapes-by-guy-laramee/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+colossal+%28Colossal%29 13 comments books
- Embroidery Comes to Life in an Animated GIF http://thisiscolossal.com/2011/06/an-embroidered-animated-dog/ 3 comments reddit.com
- Book Shelf Porn. http://thisiscolossal.com/2011/04/customized-book-side-tables/ 18 comments books
