Vincze Miklós, Author at Gizmodo

The Most Mind-Blowingly Beautiful Artists’ Conceptions of Exoplanets

When we discover a brand new exoplanet, we can only imagine what it might look like. But luckily for us, our imagination has some pretty brilliant visual aids. Artists (including our own Ron Miller) have created some droolworthy images of planets outside our solar system. Here are the most gorgeous of them all. HD 189733b,…

io9 Vincze Miklós Oct 15 '13

The Uncanny Places on Earth That Look Like Alien Worlds

We’ve made huge strides towards finding exoplanets and surveying the other worlds in our solar system recently — but most of us will never know what it’s like to stand on another soil, especially under another sun. Good thing there are a lot of places on Earth that you could easily mistake for strange new…

io9 Vincze Miklós Oct 14 '13

Awesome Photos of NASA Equipment Tests

There’s no hardware as cool as space hardware. And there’s nothing cooler than watching astronauts and scientists testing out equipment to take us off-world — even equipment that was never used. Here are our favorite images of NASA testing its equipment on Earth. Top image: Reduced Gravity Walking Simulator, located at the Lunar Landing Facility…

io9 Vincze Miklós Oct 11 '13

These Futuristic City Wallpapers Will Take Your Breath Away

These gorgeous images of futuristic cities are postcards from a future world where humanity has managed to survive and thrive. Make these your wallpapers and escape to the world of tomorrow! Futuristic Idyllic City by Robert D. Brown (via Robert D. Brown) Malaysia in 2210, by 3yen (via 3yen) Babel Myth by Frederic St-Amaud (via…

io9 Vincze Miklós Oct 10 '13

Amazing Hand-Tinted Photos of Egypt from the late 19th century

In the late nineteenth century, Western archaeologists and tourists were fascinated by the ruins of ancient Egypt. Here are some of the incredible photos they took, which were hand-tinted in the fashion of the day. This is like meta-history, where we look back on an historical method of looking back at ancient history. Temple of…

io9 Vincze Miklós Oct 9 '13

Ancient Archeological Sites That Were Destroyed By Stupid Humans

Humans love to hear about ancient history, but they aren’t always that great at preserving it. Here are some of the worst, most thoughtless, and just plain dumbest ways that humans have wrecked their own heritage. The discoverer and destroyer of Troy, Heinrich Schliemann in the 1870s Schliemann found Troy in 1871, but there were…

io9 Vincze Miklós Oct 8 '13

Get Obsessive With These Size Comparison Charts

Size matters. Especially when it comes to starships, giant monsters, buildings, and . . . well, pretty much anything else that you can obsessively categorize using common measurement systems. Here are some of the most outrageously detailed size comparison charts you’ll ever see. Spaceship Comparison Chart by Dirk Loechel Check the chart in full size…

io9 Vincze Miklós Oct 7 '13

Historic Bridge Disasters Caught On Film

People have been obsessively filming bridge collapses for over 70 years. Here is some footage of classic disasters that look like they could have been caused by kaiju. Honeymoon Bridge or The Upper Steel Arch Bridge (also known as Fallsview Bridge), Niagara Falls, Ontario, collapsed after an ice storm on 27 January 1938 due to…

io9 Vincze Miklós Oct 4 '13

The Oldest Alcoholic Drinks on Earth

A long-preserved historical artifact always carries an air of heady mystery with it. You’re touching something that people touched hundreds of years ago. But when it’s an alcoholic beverage, preserved for centuries, that head-spinning feeling has the potential to become real. Here are the oldest drinks still in existence. Top image: 7,000-year-old organic residue of…

io9 Vincze Miklós Oct 3 '13

Artistic Masterpieces That Have Been Stolen, Destroyed or Lost

Just because something is a great work of art doesn’t make it immune to the hazards of war and the fingers of thieves. Pictured here are some of the greatest artworks that we’ve lost over the past century. Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints John the Baptist and Nicholas and Angels, by Lorenzo Monaco, 1402.…

io9 Vincze Miklós Oct 2 '13

Explore the Trashed Magnificence of Dystopia in these Wallpapers

Oh gorgeous destruction! These gorgeous wallpapers give you a window on the beautiful ruins waiting in our apocalyptic future. Visions of Dystopia – The Crown Fountain, Chicago, by CrypticStickman (via CrypticStickman) Fallout 3 (viaGameHDWall) Paris, by M-fly (via m-fly) The Post-apocalyptic warrior, by Juhho (viaJuhho) Post-Apocalypse New York (via Gothamist) Disney Apocalypse, by Alex Ruiz…

io9 Vincze Miklós Oct 1 '13

These Breathtaking Cliffside Walkways Will Give You Vertigo

Humans have been scrambling up mountainsides for thousands of years, using some seriously precarious walkways to reach their destinations far above sea level. Here are some of the most hair-raisingly narrow cliff paths that humans have created. They are both terrifying and gorgeous. The 700-year old Chang Kong Cliff Road with a 12 inch (30…

io9 Vincze Miklós Sep 30 '13

Beautiful Destroyed Structures of the Modern Age

Some of the world’s most beautiful buildings have risen up, only to be destroyed or demolished just a few years or decades later. Here we remember some these great structures for what they once were. The Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London, designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 The building…

io9 Vincze Miklós Sep 27 '13

The First Animals In Space

Some of these space-faring animals gave their lives for the sake of discovery, but many of them returned safely to Earth. Here are the stories of these incredible and brave animal explorers. Fruit flies aboard an American V-2 rocket, launched on February 20, 1947. The rocket reached 68 miles (109 km) and made those flies…

io9 Vincze Miklós Sep 26 '13

Strange Snapshots Of Police and Emergency Services From the Past

Over the past century, our methods for fighting crime and responding to emergencies have changed dramatically. These photographs of early police and emergency responder forces capture another age, whose sometimes absurd and sometimes amazing practices are long gone. An early method of measuring the feet of criminals, which was part of the Bertillon method of…

io9 Vincze Miklós Sep 25 '13

These Are The Most Extreme Buildings Ever

Sometimes a group of architects just goes completely crazy. Or somebody with a lot of money to burn decides to pay some architects to realize a completely insane dream. Either way, what you get are these examples of the most extreme buildings ever created. Piano and Violin Building, Huainan City, China, built in 2007 to…

io9 Vincze Miklós Sep 24 '13

The World’s Oldest Newspapers Still Being Published Today

People always bemoan the slow death of the newspaper industry, but to be fair many newspapers have had a significantly long run. Here are several papers from around the world that have weathered many centuries, and are still publishing today! Post-och Inrikes Tidningar (or PoIT) is the government newspaper and gazette of Sweden (above). It…

io9 Vincze Miklós Sep 23 '13

Strange Historic Photos Of Intelligent Animals

Some of the best vintage LOL pictures from history feature animals acting as intelligent as humans. Which — you be the judge of just how intelligent that really is. An elephant from the American vaudeville stage riding a specially constructed tricycle, 1918 (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) A close-up of Mike, the world’s only canine…

io9 Vincze Miklós Sep 20 '13

Wonderful Castles and Mansions That Are Haunted by Tragic Ghosts

Sometimes it’s easy to understand how legends of hauntings get started. These towering, incredible castles and mansions look like they should contain spirits — and each one has a fantastic ghost story to go along with it. Eltz Castle, above the Moselle River in Germany, construction started in the 1150s Maybe it’s the only castle…

io9 Vincze Miklós Sep 19 '13

Designs for Great Architectural Landmarks that Were Never Built

If you’re writing an alternate history, these would be the buildings you’d want to include. They’re the discarded designs for famous landmarks. Imagine if the Lincoln Memorial were a pyramid! It almost was . . . and these other buildings were almost dramatically different too. Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. as a pyramid. Proposal by John…

io9 Vincze Miklós Sep 18 '13

Vincze Miklós

The Most Mind-Blowingly Beautiful Artists’ Conceptions of Exoplanets

The Uncanny Places on Earth That Look Like Alien Worlds

Awesome Photos of NASA Equipment Tests

These Futuristic City Wallpapers Will Take Your Breath Away

Amazing Hand-Tinted Photos of Egypt from the late 19th century

Ancient Archeological Sites That Were Destroyed By Stupid Humans

Get Obsessive With These Size Comparison Charts

Historic Bridge Disasters Caught On Film

The Oldest Alcoholic Drinks on Earth

Artistic Masterpieces That Have Been Stolen, Destroyed or Lost

Explore the Trashed Magnificence of Dystopia in these Wallpapers

These Breathtaking Cliffside Walkways Will Give You Vertigo

Beautiful Destroyed Structures of the Modern Age

The First Animals In Space

Strange Snapshots Of Police and Emergency Services From the Past

These Are The Most Extreme Buildings Ever

The World’s Oldest Newspapers Still Being Published Today

Strange Historic Photos Of Intelligent Animals

Wonderful Castles and Mansions That Are Haunted by Tragic Ghosts

Designs for Great Architectural Landmarks that Were Never Built

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