What you’re looking at is a cat lung being blown up with a straw. I know. It’s ginormous. More ginormous than what you would think is inside a cat. But that’s because lungs are incredibly expandable. What looks like a pile of bloody meat inflates into this perfectly pink balloon.
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Not everything in Russia is crazy people in cars, anti-gay mobs and a Nazi government with no respect to human rights. Here’s something that I wish we had: a machine that gives you a subway ticket for 30 squats in less than two minutes.
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Here’s Lady Gaga floating over a stage in a ridiculously cool and absurd flying dress made with fiberglass and six propellers. It’s a world’s first—just like her steak dress. She calls it Volantis.
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You know what’s missing from technology these days? Sound. We have noises but no sound. We open our laptops and we’re automatically connected to Wi-Fi. Our phones only squeak for alerts, they don’t provide a soundtrack for the future. The old dial up modem handshake though? Now that was real sound. That was like hearing technology happen. This is what that sound looks like. This is something your kids will never know.
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This is one of the most satisfying things I’ve seen in a long time: watch Jar-Jar Binks—the biggest assclown in the galaxy far far away—getting killed in a deleted Star Wars scene that has been perfectly edited by fans.* Again. And again. So satisfying.
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This ridiculously awesome man made version of Thor’s hammer Mjölnir is so impressive that even our most Thor-like human Chris Hemsworth would have trouble swinging it around. Though it’s not quite the weight of 300 billion elephants, it’s the closest thing to Mjölnir on Earth. That’s because it’s made from 10 separate pieces of steel alloyed with chromium and molybdenum. At its heaviest, it can weigh over 200 pounds.
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In a planned mission, three ISS crew members took their Soyuz out for a ride around the ISS. Why? Did they want to show Sandra Bullock’s character in Gravity how it’s really done? Not exactly. Instead, it’s actually the astronaut equivalent of moving your car out of a parking space so your roommate can park his. Only we’re dealing with Soyuz spacecrafts as cars. And the ISS as your apartment. And oh yeah, space.
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It had to happen, people: The Lego Movie is coming with its own set of never-before-seen minifigs. It includes William Shakespeare and Abraham Lincoln, which are two of my favorite minifigs in history already. These, like the rest of these minifig series, will become collector items.
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The teaser was great,
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Quietly, NASA keeps advancing in their manned deep space exploration: you’re looking at Orion—the first spaceship that hopefully will leave Earth and the Moon behind en route to Mars and other places in the solar system—powering up for the first time ever. It feels like a restart of Humanity’s journey to the stars after the Apollo program shut down.
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