Transformer made from recycled cars with Olympic Bird's Nest Stadium in background

In comics and movies, transformers are are normally vehicles that turn into giant robots. A huge Chinese sculpture has done that, iterally, recycling old motors into a massive Optimus Prime.

The 11.5 meter (38 feet) high replica is made out of parts of scrapped minivans and motorbikes.

The recycled Autobot is being displayed in the lead up to an exhibition being prepared on recycled materials in Beijing.

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International Space Station

NASA Commanders do not allow sexual intercourse on the International Space Station, it has been disclosed.

“We are a group of professionals,” said Alan Poindexter, a NASA commander, during a visit to Tokyo, when asked about the consequences if astronauts boldly went where no others have been.

“We treat each other with respect and we have a great working relationship. Personal relationships are not … an issue,” said a serious-faced Mr Poindexter. “We don’t have them and we won’t.”

Mr Poindexter and his six crew members, including the first Japanese mother in space Naoko Yamazaki, were in Tokyo to talk about their two-week resupply mission to the International Space Station.

The April voyage broke new ground by putting four women in orbit for the first time, with three female crew joining one woman already on the space station.

Sexual intercourse in space may appear out of bounds, but astronauts have been known to succumb to earthly passions.

In 2007 former NASA astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak allegedly wore adult diapers when driving hundreds of miles across the United States without bathroom breaks to confront a suspected rival in a romance with a fellow astronaut.

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