These guys have recreated the infamous Death Star assault scene from Star Wars Episode IV using just their hands and fingers. The result looks awesome, I love the torpedoes going down the ventilation shaft, great stuff!
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Every geek should have one of these in their closets. Studiocreations.com have step by step instructions and detail everything you need to build your own Stormtrooper armour.
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This is pretty cool, a bunch of geeks on FOO camp in California created a scene from the arcade classic “Space Invaders” which was photographed by a plane capturing high resolution imagery for Google Earth and Google Maps. The “Invaders” images should be online on the Google apps sometime in February.
Anyway, one of the fun […]
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Can chickens live without a head?
Do men really think about sex every seven seconds?
Is yawning contagious?
LiveScience.com has the answers to these and other popular science myths. I don’t know on what basis they have judged these to be the most popular but there are some good ones here.
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This is a cool experiment. A UK-based game company is testing the theory of six degrees of separation. They have supplied a photograph of a man and his name and now it’s up to us and the power of the internet to track this guy down. According to the Six Degrees hypothesis we are connected […]
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Are we alone in the Universe? That seems very unlikely if you do the math: Our galaxy contains 200 - 400 billion stars and is one of several hundred billion galaxies in the observable Universe. These numbers are huge, and as a consequence even if an infinitesimally small percentage of star systems possess planets capable […]
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Sulfur Hexafluoride is a gas which is invisible, odorless, non-toxic and about six times heavier than air. Unlike Helium it decreases the pitch of your voice when inhaled and is so dense that it is possible to float objects on it.
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The railgun works by sending electric current along parallel rails. It creates an electromagnetic force so powerful it can fire a metal projectile at tremendous speed.
The US Navy are testing a railgun that could be in operation by the year 2020. Instead of gunpowder the weapon uses electricity to fire a projectile, accelerating it along […]
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Flash Player 9 for linux is now out of beta, grab it from here.
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Sodium is a highly reactive element which undergoes an exothermic (heat releasing) reaction on contact with water. This is an interesting vid of the disposal of 20,000 pounds of post war surplus sodium in a lake.
I can’t imagine organisations like greenpeace allowing something like this to occur today.
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Can I add new programs to it? –No. Apple wants to control the look and feel and behavior of every aspect of the phone.
Does it run programs from Palm, Symbian, Windows? –No.
Does it connect to iChat? –No.
Does it have games? –No.
Can you change the battery yourself? –No.
Is it ambidextrous? –No.
Does it have GPS? –No.
Does the […]
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To celebrate their one billionth calculator milestone, Casio have released a list of the favourite words that can be written on the calculator display and read when turned upside down.
And you guessed it, BOOBIES is number 1! :)
Casio’s Top Ten favourite calculator words
1. Boobies (5318008)
2. Bellies (5317738)
3. Boobless (55378008)
4. Bogies (531608)
5. Sizzles (5372215)
6. Gobbles (5378806)
7. […]
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