The most extreme things

Paraskiing As if jumping out of a helicopter to go skiing heli skiing wasn’t extreme enough, there are some thrill seekers who combine skiing and flying even more. Paraskiing is a combination of skiing (or snowboarding) and parasailing. The skier wears a parasail and when they pick up enough speed to make the parasail rise, they’re lifted off the ground and start soaring. Some parasailers fly for the entire run while others bounce back and forth between sailing and skiing. It essentially combines two extreme sports into one ultimate extreme sport. To get to an even more extreme level, some athletes combine keli-skiing and paraskiing – which opens up a whole new world of terrain. Wingsuit Flying Right now, wingsuit flying is probably the closest humans can get to controlled, non-machine-assisted flying. Wingsuit flying is a variation of sky diving in which the “pilot” or jumper wears a special suit that essentially makes them look like a flying squirrel. This specia...

Indira Gandhi Planetarium, Patna, India, opened in 1993, look like Saturn with a series of rings Piano and Violin Building, Huainan City, China, built in 2007 to promote a newly-developed area, designed by some students of Hefey University of Technology with the designers of the company Huainan Fangkai Decoration Project Co Montaña Mágica Lodge, in Huilo Huilo, a private Natural Reserve in Chile, a four-star water spewing volcano hotel with only 9 rooms The 1,100 square feet home of Bruce Townsley, converted from an Atlas F missile silo in Texas Toilet-Shaped House (named Haewoojae), built by Sim Jae-Duck, the chairman of the organizing committee of the Inagural General Assembly of the World Toilet Association The two-story Dune House by William Morgan, built into the Atlantic Beach sand dunes (created by Hurricane Dora in 1964) in 1975, Florida Shrek and Fiona Castle in Akimovka, Ukraine Sutyagin House in Arkhangelsk, Russia Headquarte...

10 Tiniest Planet Earlier this year, the Kepler Observatory discovered a star system with three planets, including the  smallest expolanet  found to date. The Kepler telescope is conveniently located in space, allowing it an unobstructed view to the stars without that pesky atmosphere thing in the way. Dubbed Kepler 37-b, this baby planet is smaller than Mercury and only about 200 kilometers (124 mi) larger in diameter than our own Moon. Unfortunately, it’s also sitting  uncomfortably close to the threshold that saw Pluto demoted from full-time planet. 9 The Milky Way’s Fermi Bubbles The Milky Way galaxy looks absolutely immense when viewed flat, as we’re accustomed to seeing it in illustrations. When viewed edge-on, however, it’s underwhelmingly wispy and scrawny looking. Or at least it was, until we looked at it in the extremely short end of the spectrum: X-rays and gamma rays. The Fermi Bubbles jut out perpendicularly to our galaxy’s disc and encompass a l...