Sunday Family Humour 16th August Page 2

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A Tap On The Shoulder

Thanks to Ray O'.

A SUPPOSEDLY true story from the pages of the

Manchester, NH Evening News:

Last Wednesday a passenger in a taxi heading for Salford

Station leaned over to ask the driver a question and gently tapped him on the

shoulder to get his attention. The driver screamed, lost control of the cab,

nearly hit a bus, drove up over the curb and stopped just inches from a

large plate window.

For a few moments everything was silent in the cab. Then,

the shaking driver said, "Are you OK? I'm so sorry,

but you scared the daylights out of me." The badly shaken passenger apologized

to the driver and said, "I didn't realize that a mere tap on the shoulder would

startle someone so badly."

The driver replied, "No, no, I'm the one who is sorry, it's

entirely my fault. Today is my very first day driving a

cab. I've been driving a hearse for 25 years."

China Seen From A Drone

Thanks to Lee

Smiles

Thanks to Murray S.

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The Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon skywalk

Thanks to Don B.

A bridge too far? China set to open the most terrifying walkway in the world, stretching a quarter-of-a-mile across a canyon at a dizzying height of 980 ft, and it's made of GLASS

The Zhangjiajie skywalk is set to open in July hovering over a 980 ft drop

If you are terrified of heights you would be advised to stay well away from China's latest attraction.

The Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon skywalk will hover over a nail-biting 980 ft drop and is set to smash records to be the world's longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge.

The dizzying footbridge, which spans between two cliffs in the national park of Zhangjiajie, will be open to brave tourists in July.

If you have vertigo look away! The world's highest and longest glass-bottomed bridge is set to open in China in July

The dizzying walkway is suspended between two cliffs in the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon area with unbeatable views of the national park

There are even plans to hold fashions shows along the sky-high pathway, which has unbeatable views of the national park that was the inspiration for the planet Pandora in the movie Avatar.

Israeli architect Haim Dotan was behind the ambitious venture, which will easily dwarf America's Grand Canyon Skywalk which sits 718ft above ground measuring 68ft long.

Israeli architect Haim Dotan was behind the ambitious venture, which will easily dwarf America's Grand Canyon Skywalk

The terrifying platform is no quick stroll, stretching a whopping 1410ft above the impressive Hunan province scenery

Skyhigh fashion! There are plans to hold fashion shows along the bridge set against the picturesque Zhangjiajie backdrop

Visitors will be able to marvel at the stunning Zhangjiajie national park landscape, which boasts over 3,000 sandstone pillars, and was the inspiration for James Cameron's 2009 movie, Avatar

For tourists who catch the adrenaline bug from completing the transparent walkway, there will also be the opportunity to try the world's highest bungee jump.

This record-breaking bungee will snatch the title from Macau Tower's 764ft-high attraction.

Last month a similarly scary walkway opened in south-west China in Chongqing, which extended 87.5ft from the edge of a cliff.

Visitors are suspended in the air with 2,350ft of valley below their feet, leaving them feel as though they are walking on air.

Located in the Longgang National Geological Park, the bridge has been named Yuanduan, meaning ‘at the end of the clouds’

With jaw-dropping panoramic views from its observation deck, it is the longest cantilever bridge in the world

The park is limiting it to just 30 people at a time to ensure visitors have plenty of room to enjoy the view

How Useful Rubber Bands Can Be

Thanks to Paula M.

Abandoned Soviet Space Center

Thanks to Bert

Multi billion dollar abandoned Soviet space center

complete with two unfinished spacecraft inside.....

Check out the last pix close-up for the quality of the fit and finish on heat tiles.

Would you want to be PIC in this bird?

After years searching the internet for the abandoned and forgotten, it takes a lot to shock me these days. But this..... This, is something you don’t see everyday.

Inside a remote rusting warehouse in the Kazakhstan desert that once housed the Soviet space shuttle program, Russian urbex photographer managed to gain access inside the hulking building to find not one but two spacecraft, sleeping under layers of dust and twenty years worth of bird droppings.

Spacecraft are not usually the sort of thing you just leave lying around, but then again, when you’re the losing team in a race between two world superpowers, it might seem like a good idea to hide away any reminders of that failure in a warehouse out in the desert.

“Russia is rapidly losing its status as a leading space power. For more than twenty years, the country has not produced anything new.”

These two crumbling spacecraft are inside a building that closed its giant sliding doors for the last time two decades ago. It’s located on the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the world’s first and largest operational space launch facility which launched the first manned spacecraft in human history, and before it, Sputnik 1.

The facility remains a busy spaceport under the current Russian space program but its Soviet chapter in history remains frozen in time inside this building. These two spacecraft were built for the Buran orbital vehicle program, the largest and most expensive program in the history of Soviet space exploration.

In the 1970s and 80s, the Buran program was started by the Russians as a response to America’s Space Shuttle program.

Despite the Soviet engineers initially being reluctant to design a spacecraft that looked similar to the American shuttles, you’ll notice they look pretty similar to the NASA shuttles because their design was already ideal.

The reusable spacecraft project that cost billions of rubles completed just one unmanned orbital spaceflight in 1988 before it was suspended to lack of funds and the political situation in the Soviet Union. The program was officially terminated on 30 June 1993, by President Boris Yeltsin.