i want!

This would be a massively uncomfortable ride.

Post Last Updated:02.04.2008 at 17.14

Astronomers have announced the discovery of the most distant galactic collisions ever seen: a cluster of early galaxies caught in the act of merging into one giant galaxy when the universe was just a toddler.

The galactic "proto-cluster," named LBG-2377, is a whopping 11.4 billion light-years away and in the past. It provides a window into a time well after the universe inflated and spread matter far and wide, but still at a time when all of that matter was coalescing to make the clusters and super-clusters of galaxies that collectively create the cob-webby structure of matter in the modern universe.

Using the volcano-top Keck Telescope in Hawaii, the team captured the image of the galaxies in the act of coming together at about two billion years after the Big Bang. The discovery was originally part of a broader survey of distant galaxies.

Not sure how awesome this is...guess it's awesome depending on your perspective.

Face-to-face tandem

A Taiwanese inventor has created a face-to-face tandem, and is in negotiations with factories to have it mass-produced.

Chen Yugang, the director of a creation centre took a year to build the bike. On a traditional two-person bicycle, the rider in the rear seat can only see the back of the one in front. So I started wondering how I could get them sitting face-to-face, he said.

His new bicycle can be ridden face-to-face, conventionally or even back-to-back as the seats rotate and the gears can be set to move the bike in either direction.

The bicycle is very easy to change. Any person can change the riding mode in around 10 seconds without the help of tools, says Chen. Face-to-face is suitable for a parent and child, or dating couples, while the back-to-back mode gives both riders a good view, and the one at the back can have both hands free to shoot pictures or eat snacks. ananova

Post by Pirostitch

Not sure how awesome this is...guess it's awesome depending on your perspective.

It really depends who you're looking at.

Haha that's so naff. I can't wait to see people riding up Swanston Street on it :D

Blind faith

But the dangers of it

Post Last Updated:10.04.2008 at 04.39

Aww poor horse

In all cases I'm guessing the horses felt it a lot less than the riders.

don't you ride, Daniel? Go for blind faith on your next outing!!! :D