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Friday, October 19th, 2007An automated anti-aircraft cannon went berserk during a demonstration, killing 9 soldiers and wounding 14 more. The manufacturers are calling it a mechanical defect.
Yeah. Just a glitch.
There’s a good quote in the Slashdot post that lead me to the piece:
“The biggest concern seems to be finding the glitches in the system instead of reconsidering automated [...]
Ready for Launch
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Tit Shuttle
Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri.
Imagine this baby on the news:
“Check out the Nice Tits rolling out to the launchpad, Bob. That sight always fills me with a sense of awe, and in just a few short minutes every American will be able to look into the sky and see the Nice Tits soaring overhead.”
“You said [...]
Mutants… From… SPAAAACE
Thursday, September 27th, 2007When scientists get bored and have an overabundance of funding, they get to do really cool things like blast bacterium into space, just to see what happens. They recently did just that with the salmonella bacterium, and it came back as a mutant superbug.
One would think the scientists would say “uh oh, that’s not good” [...]
Save the Earth with… Salt Water?
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007A cancer researcher recently discovered he can burn saltwater and potentially use its energy to drive an engine. As seen in this news footage, he uses radio waves to separate hydrogen from the salt water, then simply uses a spark to ignite the hydrogen. It reminds me somewhat of the Brown’s Gas energy debate, but [...]
Aaaaaliens!
Sunday, September 9th, 2007So the latest viral video to hit my inbox claims to be a Haitian UFO sighting:
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1006571&cache=1
Of course, it’s a complete fake. I thought so for many reasons when I first saw it, the least of which being the video is only 21 seconds long. However, the real fun comes in reading the reviews under the [...]
Water Vapor on Extrasolar Planet
Thursday, July 12th, 2007For the first time, scientists have confirmed the existence of water vapor on an extrasolar planet. This is huge news as water is a requirement for life (as we know it) and confirming water exists on other planets would be an important element in claiming life can exist on other planets.
There’s probably no life on [...]
Doubling Gas Mileage with Acetone
Friday, May 25th, 2007Today I followed a link to this video which claims if you put acetone in your gas tank, you can almost double your gas mileage. This link explains why it works in a little more detail, and claims the acetone will not harm your engine in any way. They both agree on the mix: 2 [...]
Promising New Hydrogen Fuel Source
Monday, May 21st, 2007Researchers at Purdue University have found a new process to generate hydrogen from an aluminum alloy that will make a safer and easier method for generating hydrogen to power small engines and, possibly down the road, motor vehicles. This solves the problems of distributing and storing hydrogen and even at current estimates can be a [...]
To Mars, Damn It!
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007The NASA propellerheads are busying themselves with figuring out all the moral details of a trip to Mars and wasting a lot of time, meanwhile it appears up to half the red planet may have water ice hidden beneath the surface.
It amazes me how concerned they are about the little things. They can figure trajectories [...]
On Global Warming
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007A couple weeks back I read about a scientist who theorizes there’s an alternating cycle of warming and cooling of the sun that corresponds with the ice ages and thaws of the Earth. He feels this same cycle may be responsible for global warming, and says he sees a similar warming on Mars. (Unfortunately I [...]
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