The pictures below look like they were taken by a multi-billion dollar NASA satellite but these photos were actually taken by a 19-year-old teenager using a camera attached to a helium-filled balloon. Adam Cudworth, from the United Kingdom made his aerial device in just under 40 hours using a insulated box, GPS tracker…
The $2.5 billion dollar, nuclear powered Mars Curiosity Rover is not autonomous. On Earth, NASA engineers manually drive the robot around the surface of Mars. If you are picturing a NASA geek, red hand clinched tightly around a joystick, with a ear-to-ear grin – you’d only be partially correct. Driving Curiosity is not done in…
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has a new pet project that he hopes will shape the Internet of the future. His project, the “Web Index” measures and ranks over 60 countries on three broad states. These include: web readiness, such as infrastructure; web use, the quantity of web content available; and web…
Lionsgate has announced the start of principal photography on the sequel to the blockbuster film, The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire will film primarily in and near Atlanta, Georgia. The film will subsequently be shot on location on the beaches and jungles of Hawaii before wrapping up in late December, 2012. The Hunger…
Chinese hackers have launched a dedicated attack against Guild Wars 2 ArenaNet servers in a successful attempt to obtain private player information. According to Guild Wars: Hackers have lists of email addresses and passwords stolen from other games and web sites, and collected through spyware, and are systematically testing Guild Wars 2 looking for matching…
Techspot is reporting that Blizzard secretly embeds World of Warcraft player information into screenshot graphics in an effort to track down illegal private servers. A Slashdot member notice strange artifacts in WOW screen shots that he was taking. According to Techunknowns, after a few days, a group from OwnedCore was able to decrypt the information…
Scientists have just generated the world’s fastest laser light pulse, a beam that shoots for 67 attoseconds, or 0.000000000000000067 seconds. Such a quick burst is useful for allowing scientists to view extremely fast quantum mechanical processes, such as movement of electrons during chemical reactions. According to Wired magazine: To achieve their record-setting blast, the researchers…
Two separate sightings on Monday indicate something big happened on Jupiter. Two astronomers reported seeing a bright flash on the surface of Jupiter on Monday at 6:35 AM CDT. One astronomer, George Hall from Dallas, recorded the event which set the astronomer community abuzz.
On sol 33 (the 33rd Martian day), as one of the last steps in its inspection process, the Mars Curiosity Rover removed the clear dust cover from its camera lens (and put it back on for lens protection). The difference in picture clarity is remarkable. The pictures below were taken about five feet above the…
The folks over at Vintage Confections make a pretty strange collection of lollipops. They have a unique method to embed edible objects inside the lollipop including such interesting, and in some cases icky, objects such as spiders, bugs, bloody bones, and planets. Here’s some of their stranger candies.
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