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more about #engineering Bokusatsu_Tenshi: It seems Lockheed Martin needs to hire more MICHAEL BAAAYYY to sell their products. more » Fossa: This footage is fake. It's probably a mock up which was originally intended to have the sky inserted as the background but instead someone used a gr... more » Ryanraven: I wonder how fast that "high speed sled" is traveling. If it's too fast ground deployment does not seem too feasiable more » blazedshaggy: From the looks of the first video, it seems like you would have to drive pretty close to your enemy to hit them with one of those things. Am I missin... more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: Crap, I wouldn't want to be buddy spiked by this thing. more » fodder650: Now someone will find a way to mount these babies to a motorcycle more » Die Fledermaus: Oh I so want one of these for that driver who will not get out of the left hand lane that I have to pass in the right lane. more » FriarNurgle: Ready... Fight!! more » Dacker: I'm surprised to see the tail fins are deployed when the bomb is just barely clear of the launcher. more » Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: Well, I also know what a walk by crop dusting smells like. more » The Dude: I was sooo waiting for an explosion...especially in that first video. Letdown! more » christianjestrada: How awesome is this? I check out gizmodo and see a picture of myself from snorgtees.com on the front page. Woot! more » badhatharry: This is my favorite nerd shirt: more » FriarNurgle: Ohhh! "Tinker." I first read that as "Tinkle." more » MaaseyRacer: I say keep it closed. Downtown is so nice with out all the traffic. Plus it helps to reduce the bridge and tunnel douche effect on the weekends. #br... more » EBone: Brian Lam channeling his Tonto Halloween costume already? #bridge more » G.O.B.: Come on!: Why it breaking? :( #bridge more » Kaiser-Machead: SF bridge not like gravity #bridge more » Cliff_Dangers: How about a little control panel where you can choose between stock sounds and an option to upload your own sound files? more » OMG! Ponies!: In other news, if my car could make any sound in the world, that sound would be me, shouting: FUCK YOU ALL! I HATE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU COCK-SU... more » -
#weapons
This Is What a Drive-By Bombing Looks Like
Or rather, what it would look like: Lockheed Martin's Scorpion glide bombs, seen here floating toward their targets mesmerizing slow-mo from the bay of a high-speed ground sled, will drop from the skies, not the carpool lane. More » -
#giftguide
Gifts for Science Nerds Who Love To Experiment
Meteorites, microscopes, or mixing things to go boom. Your science nerd loves it all. Here are a couple of gift ideas for that space explorer, mad scientist, or engineer in your life. More » -
#electriccars
Nissan's Next Electric Car Will Sound Like Bladerunner
Electric cars might be beautifully quiet, but they lack the aural balls of a V8, and pose a safety risk to pedestrians. That's why next year's Nissan Leaf will have a whirring sound reminiscent of a Bladerunner Police spinner. More » -
#diy
Crazy Teenager Takes Off In Homemade Pedal-Powered Aircraft
Everyone wishes they could fly, but this 19-year-old kid spent three years building his dream from balsa wood, rip-resistant foil and plastic wrap. And amazingly, the 85-foot-wingspan craft has already hopped a distance of about 35 feet. More » -
#diy
This Is What An Apollo 11 Engineer Ends Up With After 20 Years Of Working On a Travel Trailer
Dennis Schaller was a rocket engine mechanic in the Air Force and an electrical engineer on the Apollo missions. So, it's not surprising that he ended up with this thing after 20 years of working on a travel trailer. More » -
#engineering
World's Biggest Water Pump Under Construction In New Orleans, Would've Been Cooler Four Years Ago
The Army Corps of Engineers has broken ground on a serious construction project: a 150,000-gallon-per-second, $500m pumping station charged with keeping the city of New Orleans a little, uh, dryer than it has been in the last few years. More » -
#engineering
What Is This?
Looks like some sort of Cyberdyne Systems human feeder used by Skynet. More » -
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#engineering
10,000 Year Clock Gallery
First working prototype of Orrey—or planetary display—for the 10,000 year clock. Prototype of a Solar Synchronizer to maintain the clock's accuracy using the sun. -
#retromodo
How Vaccuum Tubes Are Made and Used, Explained in 1942
Just imagine, if everything that used transistors today was actually powered by beautiful vacuum tubes of old. Control yourselves, steampunkers, this 1942 RCA doc "Electrons on Parade" may blow your vintage thought fuses. More » -
#engineering
1.2-Mile Vodka Pipeline Built Between Russia and Estonia
If Capone was Russian, this is what he would have done: Build a 1.2-Mile pipeline to run spirits across the border. The Russian and Estonian gang smuggled 1,638 gallons of vodka before getting caught. More » -
#solar
Radio Uses Calculator Solar Panels to Foretell Bridge Collapses
It's an obvious point, but I didn't know until today that bridges contain structure sensors that burn through batteries, needing constant replacement. Luckily, a new solar-powered radio could simplify these systems greatly. -
#engineering
World's Tallest Bridge Goes Up in China with the Help of Some Rockets
In China, they're currently working on the Siduhe Grand Bridge, what will be the tallest bridge in the world when completed. How tall is it? Well, let's just say that you could put the Empire State Building in the valley below it and it wouldn't touch the bridge, with a whopping 360 feet of overhead. So how do you get cables across a chasm that large to build a bridge with? Rockets, of course. More » -
#shocker
Motorola's "Focus On Android" Won't Yield an Actual Phone Before Christmas 2009
So yesterday, Motorola comes out with some optimistic sounding news (well, unless you're getting the axe) of streamlining the operation and shifting focus to Android, an OS that is built specifically for its relative ease to bring to market. And then, one day later on their quarterly earnings call (in which they announced a staggering loss of $400 million in one quarter), new president Sanjay Jha says we won't see the first Android-powered Moto phone until Christmas of next year, notwithstanding any further delays? Yeah, I guess that's about right. More »
