Nov 21
Watch the International Space Station’s cannon in action for the first time. It’s name is J-SSOD and it’s attached to the Japanese module Kibo. But wait, you say, what happened to the no weapons in space thing? Is this Death Star Alpha?
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Nov 20
Redditor Ma Petit Choufleur did something really cool: mark all the deaths in the Game of Thrones novels and then take this cool photo. Yeah, that’s lots of deaths. "All the marked deaths are present tense confirmed deaths. No flashbacks, and no implied deaths," he says.
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Nov 20
I’ve never seen the International Space Station at "night," when astronauts and cosmonauts go to sleep, so when I saw that I immediately though "that’s so damn cool!" "The dots near the hatch point to Soyuz if we have an emergency," says astronaut Mike Hopkins.
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Nov 20
Off the coast of Japan, an exploding volcano has formed a new island about 650 meters in diameter. You can see it spewing and spouting black volcanic ash all around as it fills itself out. Pretty cool.
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Nov 20
There are a lot of water-repellent surfaces, but nothing as incredible as this new miracle material that—according to research published in Nature—repels water way beyond "what was previously thought possible." As you can see in the clip above, the water bounces completely off the surface as fast as possible, leaving nothing behind.
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Nov 20
English Russia has a splendid selection of the Top 25 Fantastic Soviet Buildings. I think the word they were looking for wasn’t fantastic but crazymadmegalomaniacal. They look straight from the imagination of a sci-fi writer with double utopian-dystopian personality. It was hard to pick, but here are my five favorites:
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Nov 19
We have seen a lot of its bow,
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Nov 18
In what might be the most creative use of tissue ever, Fuyu Arai created this wonderful stop motion animation video for Nepia, a Japanese tissue paper company. It shows different animals like birds, dogs, kangaroos, frogs, etc. being formed through just tissue paper. The animation is so fluid that you almost believe that these tissue animals are alive.
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Nov 18
I love this photo by U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Shane A. Jackson: sailors standing aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Bulkeley during a turn at full speed. It’s crazy to think that a 509-foot-long beast that displaces 9,200 tons can make such high-speed maneuvers.
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