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I Wish This Amazing Photo of the Space Shuttle Piercing the Clouds Were Real

I wish NASA took more photos of the shuttle from other aircraft. There are many that I like—like Atlantis launching next to an F-15—but this one is the best. Too bad it’s not a real image but a montage. [E-y-e-l-e-s-s]

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What The Simpsons’ Springfield Looks Like in Real Life

At last, Matt Groening has revealed where The Simpsons is actually located: the actual Springfield is next to Eugene, Oregon, the state where Groening grew up. We went through the entire city to find what the most important locations look in real life. Talking to Smithsonian Magazine’s Claudia de la Roca, Groening finally confessed: Springfield…

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Hillary Clinton Makes Fun of Herself on Viral Site

Text from Hillary is a web site that makes fun of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, captioning one single photo of her looking at her Blackberry phone with a badass I-am-the-most-powerful-woman-in-the-world face. Does she hate it? No. Actually, she submitted the last entry herself. On the photo above you can see Hillary Clinton with Stacy…

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New MacBook Pro 2012 May Be Imminent

The next-generation MacBook Pro 2012 may be just around the corner: multiple Apple resellers are reporting some of the current models as out of stock, including J&R and Best Buy. In fact, the latter is not accepting online orders at this point. https://gizmodo.com/the-next-generation-macbook-pro-2012-5884734 If you want to get one, you will have to find it…

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The Anti-Steve Jobs Dies: So Long, Jack Tramiel

Jack Tramiel, the antithesis of Steve Jobs, has died. Tramiel was the founder of Commodore. Unlike Jobs, Tramiel believed that computers should be utilitarian and cheap, disregarding elegant design or attention to detail—like the legendary Commodore 64. While Jobs’ sense of aesthetics and obsessive detail permeated everything Apple did, from hardware to software, Tramiel—born Jacek…

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These Imbeciles Thought the Titanic Disaster Was Just a Movie

Titanic. Once the largest ship ever built, it sunk after colliding with an iceberg, spiraling down into the Atlantic and killing around 1500 people on April 15, 1912. Everyone knows this. Oh wait—no, these idiots thought it was just a movie: https://gizmodo.com/the-moon-and-a-mirage-may-be-the-ultimate-causes-of-the-5890968 Is it bad that I didn’t know the titanic was real? Always thought…

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Are These UFOs Spotted By NASA Astronauts Actually Alien Spaceships?

Did the Atlantis astronauts see UFOs in 2006? According to this NASA video and audio, yes, yes they did. Watch them spotting not one but three UFOs in front of them and telling Houston about it. It’s a structure that’s definitely not rigid. Doesn’t look like anything I’ve ever seen on the outside of the…

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This International Space Station Photo Is So Amazing It Seems From The Future

You know those amazeballs space shots from 2001. Those shots where you thought: yes, that’s how the future must look like. Well, my friends, look at this spectacular image taken as the Automated Transfer Vehicle-3 docks with the ISS. The future, it seems, is here. The unmanned cargo spacecraft docked to the space station at…

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Woman Blown Away By Jet Engines Smashes Her Face Against Wall

REMINDER: Don’t put yourself behind a jetplane powering up for take off unless you want to be blown away and eat some cement. That’s exactly what happened to this woman at Maho Beach, Saint Maarten, famous for being right next to an airport runway. Fast forward to 0:27 if you’re too impatient. She just couldn’t…

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Airplane Porn: First Video of the F-35 Refueling At Night

After publishing a photo last month, Lockheed Martin has published this video of the F-35 Lightning refueling at night. It’s very cool, as you would expect. And I love the smell of kerosene in the morning. https://gizmodo.com/the-f-35-looks-like-a-stealth-spaceship-at-night-5897068

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Aftermath Photos of F-18 Crash Show How Lucky Everyone Was

The US Navy has published photos of the aftermath of the F/A-18D crash. They clearly show the damage on the apartments that got hit, along with the foam-covered grounds. It’s amazing how lucky the residents and the pilots were. https://gizmodo.com/f-18-crashes-into-apartment-building-and-explodes-upda-5899790 The Navy is meeting with the residents at the Virginia Beach apartment complex affected by…

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Fleet of Buses Will Cure Your Hangover With IV Treatment

If you are ok with taking a 45-minute intravenous treatment to eliminate your hangover, rejoice: a new service in Las Vegas will do exactly that. You can hop into one of their buses or call them to your hotel room. 45 minute hangover treatment, receive IV hydration, and IV vitamins in a proprietary blend to…

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Lego Architecture Exhibit Is Made of 15,500,000 Lego Bricks

If you’re going to Washington D.C. before September 3, you can’t miss the Lego Architecture exhibition at the National Building Museum. They just added three new iconic buildings to the 15 already in existence. They are huge! https://gizmodo.com/thats-what-she-said-receipt-is-funnier-than-any-stupi-5898129 These three new models took a combined 641 hours to create. The entire exhibit includes the Chicago…

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What’s the Marines New “Highly Classified” Secret Weapon?

The Marines are about to arm their tactical drone, the AAI RQ-7B Shadow. They were going to use an off-the-shelf precision-guided killer missile but they mysteriously changed their mind at the last minute. Nobody knows what they are cooking. They picked something completely different, a highly classified “high-TRL [technology readiness level] system”, according to Lt.…

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Silent Era Back to the Future May Be Silly, But I Like It

After watching The Artist and now this Back to the Future Doc Brown to the Rescue! short, I hope that Hollywood starts re-releasing every film with the silent film treatment. That would be a lot better than making every old hit 3D. And screw DTS and Dolby while you are at it: put a pianist…

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Rolling 4500-Ton Blocks of Steel Seems Like a Lot of Fun

Bath Iron Works are building the new Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers for the US Navy. First they build modules at their Ultra Hall and then they roll them outside to be joined together in complete ships. It seems like a lot of fun. According to Bath Iron Works, this 4500-ton block is the largest ship module…

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How the Google Glasses Actually Look in Real Life (Hint: Not Good)

Here’s Google cofounder Sergey Brin demonstrating how the Google glasses actually look when used by a real human instead of a model. Awkward. https://gizmodo.com/google-glasses-first-look-would-you-wear-these-augment-5899091 Hopefully, if the glasses ever becomes a reality, they would be parts hidden inside real glasses, because there’s no way I’m going to put these on and look like a space…

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New Detailed Reconstruction of Titanic’s Sinking Narrated By James Cameron

This video is great: witness a new detailed reconstruction of Titanic sinking narrated by none other than James Cameron, filmmaker, adventurer and overall cool dude. It’s really detailed and fascinating.

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RAF Typhoons to Aggressively Defend London During Olympics

The Brits are not taking the defense of this year’s Olympics lightly. The RAF is in full alert, ready to intercept anything that flies off their planned path or into prohibited air space. The Battle of Britain 2! The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense has issued a list of directions for pilots flying anywhere through…

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Man Transplants His Cousin’s Feces Into Himself

It’s gross, but fecal transplant can save lives. A Nova Scotia man living in Cape Breton Island, Canada, read about it and decided to stop an intestinal bacterial infection doing the fecal transplant himself—using feces from his cousin. https://gizmodo.com/the-taboo-treatment-how-fecal-transplants-save-lives-5893234 The 66-year-old man got the infection 18 months ago after surgery at Cape Breton Regional Hospital.…

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I Wish This Amazing Photo of the Space Shuttle Piercing the Clouds Were Real

What The Simpsons’ Springfield Looks Like in Real Life

Hillary Clinton Makes Fun of Herself on Viral Site

New MacBook Pro 2012 May Be Imminent

The Anti-Steve Jobs Dies: So Long, Jack Tramiel

These Imbeciles Thought the Titanic Disaster Was Just a Movie

Are These UFOs Spotted By NASA Astronauts Actually Alien Spaceships?

This International Space Station Photo Is So Amazing It Seems From The Future

Woman Blown Away By Jet Engines Smashes Her Face Against Wall

Airplane Porn: First Video of the F-35 Refueling At Night

Aftermath Photos of F-18 Crash Show How Lucky Everyone Was

Fleet of Buses Will Cure Your Hangover With IV Treatment

Lego Architecture Exhibit Is Made of 15,500,000 Lego Bricks

What’s the Marines New “Highly Classified” Secret Weapon?

Silent Era Back to the Future May Be Silly, But I Like It

Rolling 4500-Ton Blocks of Steel Seems Like a Lot of Fun

How the Google Glasses Actually Look in Real Life (Hint: Not Good)

New Detailed Reconstruction of Titanic’s Sinking Narrated By James Cameron

RAF Typhoons to Aggressively Defend London During Olympics

Man Transplants His Cousin’s Feces Into Himself

JBL Authentics 500 Retro-Style Home Speaker Hits 40% Off, Now at Its Lowest Price as Amazon’s Spring Sale Clearance Begins

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Artemis 2 by the Numbers: Breaking Down NASA’s Big Return to the Moon

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It