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Takayuki Furuta has a dream.  He wants to help promote the field of robotics to children and he thinks the best way to do it is to built a full sized, fully working Gundam.  He has crunched the numbers and he thinks it will only cost a mere $742 million.  Go here to see the actual blueprints.

I don’t know about the kids, but the thought of seeing one of these bad boys walking down the street appeals to me.

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When I was a kid, I once built a scale model of a German tank. It was 1/35 scale and made from plastic. This one is 1/1 scale and made entirely of balloons. Click on the photo to see a larger version.

Those Germans have come a long way. I can’t help but think that Erwin Rommel would be really pissed. More then just a little embarrassed, and very pissed.

That is what I call a well camouflaged soldier. No matter where the fight takes our military, the men and women in our armed forces are ready for the challenge. Whether it’s the mountains of Afghanistan or the sofa in Grandma’s living room, our fighting men and women can blend into almost any environment.

(photo stolen borrowed from Imager.cc)

Like a lot of people, I sometimes have a hard time telling the difference between Ninjas and Muslim women. In this case, I feel fairly confident that this is a good Muslim woman and not a Ninja.

How did I arrive at this conclusion? First of all, she is not holding a Chinese throwing star. Second of all, she doesn’t appear to be killing this bearded Arab looking man. In fact, she appears to be affectionately embracing the bearded Arab looking man.

That is something no good Ninja would ever do.