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‘Star Trek’ Fans Can Now Virtually Tour Every Starship Enterprise Bridge

The tour

and even more

Don't go in you might not come out !

I regularly read up on news from the part of the world that I came from. Today I saw a picture of a location that brought back some shocking memories. The road that the car is on is the place where it all happened. I went for a drive with friends of mine and were in almost the exact location when a motorbike overtook us. The road bends round to the right. The rider disappeared round the bend at high speed, and somehow lost control of the bike. By the time we came round the bend he was as good as dead. Blood everywhere. Soon afterwards I too had a motorbike accident that nearly killed me. That was the last time I rode or sat on a bike of any sort. I was 18 then.

That picture shown was taken quite recently. I doubt that any changes have been made or signs erected. In any case belting down the road on a motorbike isn’t a good idea. Sticking to the speed limit is.

Dutch designer Maarten Baas's giant Real Time Schiphol timepiece replaces traditional clock hands with a 12-hour-long video performance (+ movie).

The three-metre-high clock has been installed in Amsterdam's Schiphol airport and features a film showing Baas drawing and redrawing the clock's hands with a roller and paint.

Intended to portray a "hyper-realistic representation of time", the video took exactly 12 hours to film and will take as long to watch in its entirety.

Baas wore blue overalls for the film, referencing the uniforms of the many staff responsible for cleaning the airport.

The timepiece is housed in a stainless steel box, attached to a ladder "to enable this imaginary man in his blue overalls to enter the clock".

"He has a red bucket and a yellow cleaning cloth and he is cleaning up after the hands of time, after which he creates a new minute, every time again," added the designer.

The clock is an addition to Baas' Real Time series, which dates back to 2009. It so far includes a similarly oversized clock face with hands made from rubbish being moved by sweepers and a grandfather clock with a video loop in place of a face.

"Real Time is a term that is used in the film industry," said the designer, who recently unveiled plans for a tree-grown armchair and a giant logo that would change colour according to the seasons.

"It means that the duration of a scene portrays exactly the same time it took to film it. I play with that concept in my Real Time clocks by showing videos where the hands of time are literally moved in real-time."

So long and thanks for all the fish...

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam to become The Democratic Socialist Republic of Vietnam, perhaps? 

Not just us then

Vodafone and Three to merge.

Less competition means prices up normally.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65842845