Came across this video on Twitter today and had to share it.  Details thanks to holykaw.alltop.com.

"Behold the Kuroshiro Sea, the main tank at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium. The whole thing holds 1,981,290 gallons of water and has the second largest acrylic glass panel in the world."

As a diver that would be one of the coolest places to go for a dip, but could you imagine cleaning it?

Jason

...if it ain't Broken, make it bigger, much bigger and see thru.

Image via Wikipedia

The Broken Planet pages were set up to showcase things that are a bit quirky, and point out a few of the different aspects of our planet, and the way we deal with them.

If you are going to go quirky, then take a look at the 5 smallest countries in the world found on Neatarama.com is worth a look.  From Vatican City to Nauru, if you ever wanted to know the finer details about your country - then here it is.

Some interesting information is about how some of these places, being so small, survived for so long.  In some cases geography was a factor, as for San Marino:

"Its history belies its simple motto: "Liberty." Indeed, San Marino was such a good neighbor that it was hardly ever conquered by larger enemies (it was briefly conquered in the 1500s and the 1700s, for like a month each). Even when Napoleon gobbled most of Europe, he left San Marino alone, saying it was a model republic!"

Well worth checking out.

Jason

...if it ain't Broken, do like Napoleon and leave it alone.