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I want a ride in the sleekest Lego spaceship I’ve seen in a long time

I love Lego everything, but spaceships are by far my favorite subject. The great ones—like this one by sioka sculpting—are outstanding examples of sci-fi design and engineering—it’s the best way to materialize your future space exploration dreams. Too bad Humanity can’t build these at full scale. Yet. I also love the descriptions they usually come…

Watching pee in super-slow motion is surprisingly fascinating

I just can’t stop looking at how the drops carve the water, one after the other, making a hole in it. The experiment was captured by the Brigham Young University’s Splash Lab. Here’s their description of what’s happening: This stream of water is a simulated urine stream entering a body of water similar to a…

Ender’s Game is a thrill ride that feels rushed

“The first 45 minutes or so are quite spectacularly executed,” says io9’s Lauren Davis but, ultimately, the new us-vs-them space war movie Ender’s Game is “not heart-breaking” and rushes the viewer to “its moral about compassion in times of war.” https://gizmodo.com/enders-game-is-thrilling-but-not-heart-breaking-1456600995

Some black holes may be usable as time machines and space portals

Most black holes are deadly singularities that will crush everything inside, even stopping time. But there’s a special kind of black hole that will let you travel in time—or to another Universe. Esther Inglis-Arkell explains: https://gizmodo.com/finally-a-black-hole-that-you-can-visit-and-survive-1456402257

This is the amazing Lockheed Martin SR-72—the space Blackbird

Aviation Week’s Guy Norris has an exclusive article on the successor for the Lockheed Martin SR-71 Blackbird, the legendary spy plane that may be the favorite of every airplane nerd in the world. The hypersonic SR-72 is the first aircraft that can fit perfectly in Star Wars or Galactica, a true space age ship. https://gizmodo.com/the-thrill-of-flying-the-sr-71-blackbird-5511236…

Exclusive: All the cool official minifigs from The Lego Movie

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. 71004 LEGO Minifigures Series 12: THE LEGO MOVIE. William…

These incredible sky lights look like alien spaceships coming to Earth

It looks like a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but it’s real—an awesome view of one of the weirdest sky phenomena you can watch from Earth, witnessed at the Levi ski resort, in the Finnish lapland. The photos were taken by photographer Pauli Hänninen: It was cold and very foggy, the temperature…

Carl Sagan’s Jack-o’-lantern is also made of starstuff

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff,” said Dr. Sagan. Pumpkin pies too.

The Shining is the scariest movie of all time, says science

The British movie site Play.com had a wonderful idea. First it asked people to pick the scariest movie of all time. Taking the top ten, the company organized an experiment: get test subjects connected to heart monitors to watch the movies while recording their beats per minute. The winner: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The scariest…

Nine two-sentence horror stories scarier than any Hollywood movie

Not so long ago, Reddit users gathered around a digital fire to tell horror stories using only two sentences. The experiment demonstrated that the power of suggestion is infinitely more powerful than the explicitness of modern Hollywood gore. Here are the top 10: I begin tucking him into bed and he tells me, “Daddy check…

This running man was drawn in the air using a magical light wand. It’s not a graphic overlaid in a computer. I missed this amazing application of PixelStick yesterday. So neat.

First official The Lego Movie trailer is here

The teaser was great, but the official trailer is better. The movie is directed by the excellent Phil Lord and Chris Miller—who made Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs—and stars Will Arnett as Batman plus Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, and Morgan Freeman. https://gizmodo.com/the-lego-movie-trailer-is-here-and-it-sure-is-quippy-514180125

You don’t need a spaceship to visit this alien world

If you want to feel like you are in another planet, just get a plane to Reykjavík and ask someone to get you to Hverir, the volcanic landscape pictured in this photo by Stéphane Vetter. Don’t miss the rest of his beautiful photo series in Nuits sacrées.

A supernova will be visible from Earth in the next 50 years

Ohio State University astronomers have concluded that there’s a probability of almost 100 percent that a star will go supernova in the Milky Way during the next 50 years. The explosion, they said, will be visible from Earth. This study suggests that they have a solid chance of doing something that’s never been done before:…

This giant breaded clod is the world’s biggest chicken nugget

You’re looking at the largest chicken nugget in the world—51.1 pounds of chicken goo breaded and fried on 500 gallons of oil for 45 minutes. That’s 720 times larger than a regular nugget, says Time’s Newsfeed. So big that it may reach critical mass and become a breaded black hole.

Look at this witch screaming in space

Because it’s Halloween, NASA has published a new view of the beautiful Witch Head Nebula taken by their Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer. Beautiful even when you realize the witch profile that gives this cluster of new stars surrounded by dust its name. Astronomers say the billowy clouds of the nebula, where baby stars are brewing,…

You’re now free to use your phone during all your flight, says FAA

Once all airlines are certified by the end of the year there will be no more annoying flight attendants asking you to turn off your phone, tablet, computers or game console at take off or landing. It’s official: The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved the usage of all electronics for…

Transylvanian university scientists create working artificial blood

It may sound like a Halloween prank, but the Balkan News Agency claims that a team of scientists in a Transylvanian university has created artificial blood. The researchers say that they have successfully tried it on mice. If human tests work, this could be one of the biggest breakthroughs in modern medicine. Scientists have been…

North Korea Army’s camouflage must be a prank on them or us

This has to be a joke, right? One played by that great buffoon that is Kim Jong-Un. It just can’t be real. Just look at the following images. I think that guy on the left is one of the stuntmen for the A-Team. https://kotaku.com/north-korean-camo-actually-isnt-that-awful-1455805558

New York’s next skyscraper may be a big shiny mistake but I love it

The 1,050-foot-tall MoMA Expansion Tower will start rising on West 53rd Street in 2014—holding 145 luxury condos and 36,000 square feet of museum space. Maybe it’s mistake, but not for the reasons you imagine. You can’t stop building the future… This city was built on the desire to create a new world. It respected nothing.…