Super Yachts

Fraser offers the largest fleet of superyachts for sale over 30m worldwide and thanks to our longstanding relationships with owners and shipyards we have access to thousands more, including those not publicly advertised for sale.

ACCESS THE WORLD'S SUPERYACHTS
Superyachts come in all shapes and sizes, measuring from 20m to over 100m there are motor yachts that can zip from one island hotspot to the next in record time or sailing yachts that allow a more gentle cruise along the coast, there truly is something for everyone. Fraser offers a range of displacement and semi-displacement motor yachts, as well as a variety of sloop and ketch rigged sailing yachts for sale. If you’re familiar with superyachts you may prefer to choose your yacht by shipyard or designer.

FIND THE PERFECT YACHT FOR YOU
Our brokers are the experts who can guide you through the thousands of yachts to choose from. However for an initial glance you can use our specialised search feature to look for what is important to you, you can search by price, length, number of guests, the year the yacht was built and who it was built by. Then you can order the search results by the same parameters and choose which currency to show or measurement unit to display. Just like the perfect yacht for sale, the choice is yours.  READ MORE

Photo Variety

 

On Track for Global Collapse

Human society is on track for a collapse in the next two decades if there isn't a serious shift in global priorities, according to a new reassessment of a 1970s report, Vice reported

In that report — published in the bestselling book "The Limits to Growth" (1972) — a team of MIT scientists argued that industrial civilization was bound to collapse if corporations and governments continued to pursue continuous economic growth, no matter the costs. 

The researchers forecasted 12 possible scenarios for the future, most of which predicted a point where natural resources would become so scarce that further economic growth would become impossible, and personal welfare would plummet.

The report's most infamous scenario — the Business as Usual (BAU) scenario — predicted that the world's economic growth would peak around the 2040s, then take a sharp downturn, along with the global population, food availability and natural resources.

This imminent "collapse" wouldn't be the end of the human race, but rather a societal turning point that would see standards of living drop around the world for decades, the team wrote.  READ MORE

A Few Old Cartoons

 

The Art of WAR

"If you now wish to inquire into the Way of [the ancient sages], may I suggest that one can hardly be certain of it? To be certain of it without evidence is foolishness, to appeal to it though unable to be certain of it is fraud."   Hanfeizi (3rd century BCE)[1]

“Translation,” an American poet and translator of Dante’s Inferno opined, “is the art of failure.”[2] In Don Quixote, the eponymous character notes that distortion is often a natural byproduct of the effort: “translation from one language into another…is like looking at Flemish tapestries on the wrong side; for though the figures are visible, they are full of threads that make them indistinct, and they do not show with the smoothness and brightness of the right side.” 

The reverse tapestry is an apt metaphor for reading any ancient Chinese text, particularly The Art of War. While the use of logographs to express complex thoughts has been a constant feature throughout China’s recorded history, the written language of thousands of years ago differs significantly from its modern variant. 

While the original Art of War consists of approximately 6,ooo characters, a modern Chinese version requires more than double that number to convey the same approximate meaning.  Even most native Chinese speakers, therefore, read a translation of the original.

While The Art of War is surprisingly short and compact, much remains ambiguous in its received message. As a result, our contemporary interpretations require constant skepticism, debate, and revision. While Sun Tzu’s text is arguably the oldest within the core strategic canon, it has been studied for the least amount of time by Western military theorists, in comparison with Thucydides and Clausewitz, for example. 

First translated into English only in the early twentieth century, strategists largely ignored The Art of War until the Vietnam War renewed interest in Asian military thinking. READ MORE

Riding Buddies

 

Snow Leopard

A photograph of a wild snow leopard often referred to as ‘ghost of the mountain’ camouflaging in the rocky terrain has sent the netizens scratching their heads. The image giving an optical illusion with the ferocious animal resting in the hiding has confused the viewers who have been struggling to spot the ‘phantom cat’. 

The image was shared on Tuesday by the IFS officer Ramesh Pandey on his official Twitter handle. Sharing the tricky picture, the forest officer tasked the internet to search the location of the apex predator.

The elusive big cats are known for their stealth and predatory behaviour. Often 1.8-2.3m in size, the snow leopards don’t usually roar like the lions but send the yowling cries across the mountainous regions only exceptionally during the breeding season. These cats are primarily solitary and are active hunters during the dawn and the dusk by taking a quiet ambush, meaning they are crepuscular. 

In the image shared by the Forest officer, the cat had been presumably patrolling the ridge-lines and rocky terrain searching for food. However, it’s a tough feat for anyone to locate its bearing in the depicted area.  READ MORE

Just Dancing

 

Giant DONG

 

Van Halen

 

Schools

 

Science

 

Breathe Freely

Genius Australian Device Helps Anyone With Lung Conditions Breathe Freely – Without Drugs. And It’s Finally Available Worldwide!         Sponsored by AirPhysio

If you’re one of the 1 billion people who suffer from a lung condition like asthma or COPD, then you’re going to love hearing about this recent breakthrough: A new device that cleans your lungs of mucus – along with strengthening them without the need for drugs – is now available worldwide.

Lockdowns

 

Pelosi and Hypocrisy

 ‘Epitome Of Hypocrisy’: Archbishop Rebukes Pelosi For Calling Herself A ‘Devout Catholic’ In Defense Of Abortion....

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Blowin' 'Round

 

Just Passing By

 

Tech Entrepreneurs

So, what does it take to create a startup that succeeds? Is it knowing the art of building successful apps? Or it is all about technical skills? For many startups where non-technical founders have created award-winning tech products, nothing could be further from the truth.

For those who liken creating apps without tech knowledge to cooking in the absence of the right recipe, here’s news. Founders and CEOs with non-technical skills are shaping tech startups worldwide. Let’s start with the startup that revolutionized the concept of a home away from home: Airbnb.  READ MORE

Kiss Me

 

Safe Source of Power

China is moving ahead with development of an experimental reactor that would be the first of its kind in the world, but could prove key to the pursuit of clean and safe nuclear power. According to local news reports, the Chinese government intends to finish building a prototype molten salt nuclear reactor in the desert city of Wuwei in the coming months, with plans to establish a number of larger-scale plants in similar settings thereafter.

With an ability to generate power while producing very minimal carbon emissions, nuclear reactors have a clear upside when it comes to the sustainable generation of energy. But there are very valid reasons the technology hasn't been widely adopted across the world, many of which stem from the reliance on uranium and plutonium for fuel.

Not only is uranium expensive and rare, it can also be used to build nuclear weapons. These reactors also generate radioactive waste that needs to be safely stored, and carry the very real risk of catastrophic meltdown, as seen at Fukushima in 2011.

Since the 1940s, scientists have been exploring an alternative known as molten salt reactors, which promise a far safer way forward. In place of uranium and plutonium, these reactors use the widely abundant, silvery metal thorium, which cannot be easily used to make bombs. Furthermore, these reactors would operate in a way that doesn't pose the same dangers as conventional ones.  READ MORE