Pertamina—Indonesia’s state-owned oil and gas corporation—will have a new headquarters in Jakarta in 2020. One that looks like a smooth spaceship about to take off and generates electricity thanks to its design, created by American architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
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Cool photo from Sandia National Laboratories of what appears to be some exotic plasma cannon to be installed in the first US star destroyer—until your dreams are destroyed when you read the caption: it’s a centrifuge "used to simulate gravity for re-entry situations."
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Sugru is a clay-like synthetic wondermaterial that can be easily shaped with your hands and hardens completely after 24 hours. You can use it to fix and modify anything. It’s really cool in itself, but awesome when you combine it with powerful magnets.
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This is the RQ-180, the Pentagon’s new super-spy plane, which has been secretly developed for years. Unlike Lockheed Martin’s SR-72 Son of Blackbird,
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The Arvo Brothers have created a perfect Lego model of the most famous bike in sci-fi comic and cinema history: Kaneda’s chopper from Akira. And while Lego may not make it into a commercial set, don’t worry, the Arvo Brothers are publishing an online manual so you can build it yourself.
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Wow, this is really cool. Audio Zéro recently made a video called Wikidrummer that shows how the same song on drums can sound completely different depending on where the drums are played. Out in the field, on a road, underneath a highway, inside a garage, in the park and so on can change the overall feel of the drums and make it sound louder, heavier, punchier, lighter and so forth. The snare gets especially gnarly.
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The beautiful Milky Way is above us and around us but is also actually in our coffee cups too. What? Just watch Modernist Cuisine pour creamer into coffee in super slow motion, it’s like watching another galaxy form or something. Life should have a slow motion mode so we can appreciate the little things.
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Everything I own, everything I will buy, every fiber of my body, everything in this world should be dipped into water paint. The hydrocoating process is popular in weapons and helmets but really deserves to be shmeared all over the world. We might have to come up with better designs but I never want to use a paint brush to paint again.
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Do you want to buy a house or a piece of Star Wars history? Would you like a Ferrari or the DL-44 Blaster that Harrison Ford used? A college education or a toy gun? The answer is obvious right? It’s Han Solo’s DL-44 Blaster every time. The blaster pistol made famous by Han Solo is up for auction and it’s expected to fetch more than $200,000. Let’s pool our money guys.
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