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• Look at this crankshaft from this engine for a tanker from Slashdot.
  
  
  
• Need to train in a super deep pool (from Gizmodo
  
  
  
• Checkout the big detector from Backreaction
  
  
• Finally, deviating a bit from the theme, check out some of these fluid movies (via Slashdot)
  
  

Brian May? Anyone? Anyone?

Guitarist for the rock group Queen, Brian May used to be a doctoral student in astronomy. Cool. Well, he's back to astronomy putting out a book on the Big Bang with others, saying

"I think there's a sort of purity about both of them," he said recently, according to The Guardian newspaper. "Because you can immerse yourself in thoughts of the universe, or in music, and you're really abstracted. You're a million miles away from all your worries and personal problems and the dust and smoke of where you are."