"It’s not the fall that kills you," as the saying goes, "it’s the sudden stop at the end." Humans are a rather splattery bunch when dropped from a sufficient height, but that hasn’t kept us out of the sky. Instead, we’ve spent centuries perfecting the process of controlled falling to make the stop after any fall as soft as possible. The result: the modern parachute, a canopy of silk and nylon, and engineering genius.
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Think Los Angeles at rush hour is bad? Try doing it half-blindfolded with nothing but a radio and a few blinking lights to show you the way. That’s how pilots navigate the invisible highways in the sky, and there’s a beautiful design that makes it all work. It only took about a hundred years to come up with it.
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This article was written on November 11, 2010 by CyberNet.
I’m a pretty big fan of Reddit, and a lot of that is because of the awesome community behind it. Well, okay, it also has something to do with the hilarious images that are posted, but still, the community rocks. There’s been times I haven’t been able to check it for days (*gasp*), and when I jump back in I feel like I missed a bunch of good stories.
Thanks to Reddit Snapshot that is no longer a problem. Since mid-September 2010 it has been taking hourly snapshots of the Reddit homepage. To be honest I’ve been flipping through this archive, and I’ve been coming across a lot of stories/images I don’t remember seeing (particularly those back in September). It can provide hours of enjoyment for any Reddit fan.
I’m curious to see how long they end up keeping the archives around because at some point that top bar is going to get pretty cramped. Years from now it could be pretty fun to come back to this to see what was popular on Reddit at this time.
Reddit Snapshot [via Reddit]
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A New Zealand break-out singer from New Zealand is out front again this
holiday season. Back in August when she released her successfully
popular top forty pop hit, "Royals," she confused the public with a
somewhat contradictory world debut. While on the one hand, she hid
behind the pseudonym ‘Lorde‘ to protect her anonymity, on the other. . .
This week, the internet’s collective chortling
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Many of history’s most iconic memories endure in written form, as paintings or, perhaps at best, as cringe-worthy photographs. But what if those historic moments had been cheekily snapped and posted on Instagram?
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Poison can be a curse, a killer, and even a medicine—an alchemical substance that appears in everything from myth to literature. You might not think of poison as being this multifaceted, but that’s exactly what the American Museum of Natural History’s new exhibit—The Power of Poison—delightfully urges you to do.
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It’s one of those things you’ve probably idly wondered but never really lent masses of thought: what the hell would the planet be like if humans had never existed? Fortunately, this video tries to explain.
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With over 137 million artifacts, works of art, and specimens in its collections, the Smithsonian can’t display even one percent of that at any given time. Many historically significant pieces won’t go on display in our lifetimes and other likely won’t ever see the light of day again. But their replicants will.
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The Computer History Museum has released something rather special for you to download: the original DOS source code for the 1978 Apple II.
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