Jul 19
The genius behind Ikea is that they’ve streamlined the furniture production process to near-optimum efficiency. If you consider having to assemble the furniture yourself to be efficient, that is. More »
Jul 19
How NASA Uses the Ocean to Train Astronauts for its Most Dangerous Missions [Video]
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The astronauts are wearing white suits with American flags and mission patches on them. They’re aware but unworried about the hostile environment inches away from their noses. They’d be dead in seconds if it were not for their air supply. As they bound nimbly along in a state of near-weightlessness, all each astronaut can hear is breathing. More »
Jul 19
This Terrifying Killing Machine Can Loiter for Six Hours Before Attacking Its Target Like a Mad Hawk [Video]
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The Fire Shadow is an unmanned flying machine that can loiter unnoticed, hovering over an area for six hours, waiting to receive a kill order on any designated moving or static target—and then fall on it like a suicidal bird of prey to destroy it. More »
Jul 19
Roadkill Experiment Shows That Six Percent of Drivers Are Sadistic Animal Killers [Video]
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Our friend Mark Rober from NASA makes some awesome videos, but this science experiment must be his best yet. He basically showed that six percent of the drivers out there are sadistic animal killers. More »
Jul 18
There Is No Such Thing as Normal When You Live at the Bottom of the Sea [Mission Aquarius]
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The Aquanauts had killed the power and strapped on their emergency air masks. Someone smelled burning. In a rich-oxygen environment like Aquarius, fires can spread with ferocity; any hint of combustion is taken with utter seriousness. The air wasn’t circulating as it was supposed to, and, up above, the life support buoy sounded like it was going to explode. Instead of a steady, even hum, the generator sounded like something between a between a bark and like it was gagging. More »
Jul 18
There’s the moment when your phone goes below 20 percent power and you get that foreboding notification—if you don’t plug in soon, you’re going to die. In some situations, even careful planning can’t guarantee a recharge. That’s why there are portable power packs—when the power is out, or your travels take you far from an outlet, these are the gadgets that hold a charge for other gadgets. Do these little juice boxes work? More »
Jul 18
Looking at her picture, you may think that Earth is a water world. But the fact is that she is 99-percent dry rock. According to our current solar system formation model, this is impossible—a mystery that has puzzled scientists until now. More »
Jul 18
Monster-Hating Nuns and Arrowheads in LA: How Mike Novacek Became a World-Famous Dinosaur Hunter [Video]
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You probably don’t know Mike Novacek by name, but he’s one of the most important paleontologists in the world. If you ever yearned to go off into the wilderness and hunt down dinosaur fossils as a kid, Mike Novacek is living your dream. More »
Jul 18
As the average webpage/image/file on the internet has grown, most folks’ monthly allowance for mobile bandwidth has gotten smaller. (Exceptions: Sprint users and those grandfathered into an unlimited plan.) Today, it’s extremely easy to use a gigabyte of data in a month. The quantity will just keep rising—and with it, the potential for massive monthly bills. More »
Jul 18
If you know your bit of technology history, you’d know that Apple was actually working on an iPad before it developed the iPhone. What did those iPad prototypes look like? Well, according to these earliest known photos of an iPad prototype from the early 2000’s, it looked really, really fat. More »
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