Extraordinary photo of rocket launch taken from space a few minutes ago

Extraordinary photo of rocket launch taken from space a few minutes ago

I’ve seen some spectacular photographs of spaceships launching to orbit, but this has to be one of the best: The contrail of an Ariane 5 rocket launch taken "just a few minutes ago" by astronaut Rick Mastracchio from the International Space Station.

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New cool car carries a drone for terrain reconnoissance

New cool car carries a drone for terrain reconnoissance

This is the Renault KWID, a car that carries a quadcopter drone for terrain reconnoissance tucked inside a little hangar on its rooftop. It may seem like a silly James Bondigh invention, but it actually makes a lot of sense in certain situations.

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How they made electronic music 30 years ago

Garage Band, Pro Tools, Logic, sequencers on tablets and phones—anyone can create music these days with zero programming knowledge. But Diode Milliampere shows you how it was done with MS-DOS. Yes, that command line inputting, C-drive accessing MS-DOS from 30 years ago. It turned out pretty well!

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These alien landscapes are made of the most common material on Earth

These alien landscapes are made of the most common material on Earth

A nebula in space? The surface of a faraway planet? A fantastic sci-fi illustration? Or just microscopic goo? It’s just ice, like the rest of these fantastic photos by Michael Wagner:

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This insane 7-foot Lego Halo spaceship took 4 years to build

This insane 7-foot Lego Halo spaceship took 4 years to build

Every so often a Lego build comes along that’s so epic and so amazing that it literally has me drooling over greebles. Mark Kelso’s 7-foot long HALO Lego ship is one such build. The UNSC Spirit of Fire was a colony ship from the game HALO.

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Amazing video puts actor into six iconic scenes in one brilliant shot

Amazing video puts actor into six iconic scenes in one brilliant shot

Movie magic makes fantasy worlds feel real everyday, but this short film called "Icons" takes it to a whole other level by transforming one actor over and over again, putting him in multiple iconic scenes and works of art in a single incredible shot. From the Thinker to Mad Men to Reservoir Dogs to Daft Punk.

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First high quality moon panorama since the Apollo 17 in 1972

First high quality moon panorama since the Apollo 17 in 1972

At last, a good panorama from China’s Chang’e 3 lander. It shows a three-step time-lapse of the Jade Rabbit robotic rover heading south, getting away from its mothership "likely never to return again." Zoom in:

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3 Ways to Chill Your Canned Beverages Before Kickoff

3 Ways to Chill Your Canned Beverages Before Kickoff

This is a Public Service Announcement: If you have warm beer (or may be receiving warm beer during the game today), you should read this post we originally ran two years ago.

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Impressive 3D brain scan shows every neuron connection in a brain

Impressive 3D brain scan shows every neuron connection in a brain

If you look at the wires behind your entertainment console, you’re going to see different colors tangled up with different things leading to different places you forgot existed. It’s an awful ugly mess. Seeing the brain is like that, only the opposite because in its chaos is beauty. Just look at the 3D brain scan above that shows every synapse, it’s like a 3D Jackson Pollock painting.

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This is what NASA would build if we gave them enough money

This is what NASA would build if we gave them enough money

I just got an email from NASA touting their upcoming Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Symposium, an open conference that will take place at Stanford University next week. It came with the image you can see above, by Iron Rooster Studios’ Peter Rubin, something that makes me very happy.

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