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Largest Lego Ship Ever Built Is Bigger Than Three Queen-Sized Beds

The 23-foot-long Lego USS Intrepid aircraft carrier should be renamed the USS Insane. It’s the largest Lego ship ever built. Ed Diment made it to minifig scale, complete with Wildcat and Corsair airplanes built by Ralph Savelsberg. Watch the video: https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-the-evolution-of-the-minifig-5070884 I told you. This thing is absolutely insane, larger than Jumpei Mitsui’s 22-foot battleship…

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Video of the Enterprise’s First Manned Glide Flight

Isn’t she a beauty, Captain? Update: Watch the video just released by Virgin Galactic. Today, the VSS Enterprise—which will be the world’s first commercial suborbital spaceship and the first aircraft in Virgin Galactic’s fleet—has completed its first manned glide flight, touching down at the Mojave Air and Space Port, in California. Spaceshiptwo—Enterprise—dropped from the WhiteKnightTwo…

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True Blood, Spawn, and Darwyn Cooke’s Outfit are NYCC’s bestselling comic books

Comic book fans hit the floor at NYCC’s Javits Center, eager to put the “comic” in Comic Con. From classics like Spawn to TV adaptations like True Blood to up-and-comers like The Outfit, here’s convention-goers most wanted comics. It is, at least in theory, the focus of any comic con – the opportunity to expand…

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You Can Scratch And Sniff The Moon

This is a scratch and sniff print that resembles the smell of the moon. So what does it smell like? According to Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke, like gunpowder. In 1972 Duke said, about the moon’s smell: It is really a strong smell. It has that taste—to me, gunpowder—and the smell of gunpowder, too. The…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan

Where Is The Long Piece In Tetris When You Need It?

That long piece in Tetris is so unreliable, I can never count on it to show up when I need it the most. [Optipess via thedailywh.at]

Tech News Casey Chan

Ford Redesigns Car Dashboards To Be More Like Cellphones

Ford recently overhauled their car dashboards to make car interfaces less sucky and more like cellphones. They focused on better usability and teamed up with design firm Ideo to create a consistent UI for all their cars. Ford sought advice from Ideo, maker of Apple’s original mouse, to come up with a consistent DNA that…

Tech News Casey Chan

This Door Is Supposed To Save Lives During Earthquakes

When an Earthquake hits, what do you do? Typical Earthquake 101 tells you to run to the nearest doorway to protect yourself under the “strongest frame in the house”. This bendable door is supposed to improve on that thinking. However! Recent theories (Earthquake 201, I guess) suggest that standing underneath a typical doorway is no…

Tech News Casey Chan

Lung on a chip is the first lab-ready mini organ to be used in drug research

This ersatz lung, no bigger than a multivitamin, could represent a new pharmaceutical testing method. On it, researchers have created an artificial alveolus, one of the sacs in the lungs where oxygen crosses a membrane to enter the body’s blood vessels. A polymer sheet that stands in for the membrane is in the blue strip.…

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Electrostatic traps: When photons are too big

In their quest to study ever smaller and smaller particles, scientists have hit on particles too small even to be captured in a wavelength of light. What can you use to trap these particles? Meet the electrostatic trap. An older post on Io9 discussed optical traps as a way to deal with particles too small…

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The Cold War Museum In Russia Was Actually Once A Real Cold War Bunker

Bunker-42 was built during the Cold War and was a classified bunker equipped with everything necessary in case of a nuclear attack. After the end of the Cold War, it’s been transformed into Russia’s Cold War Museum. The visuals are stunning and they speak to a time where the threat of nuclear warfare was reality.…

Tech News Casey Chan

George R.R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons is really almost done!

Good news from New York Comic Con’s Del Rey / Spectra panel: George R.R. Martin is just 5 chapters away from the end of A Dance with Dragons! Plus, we’ll soon see old school Del Rey titles in ebook form. Several members of the Del Rey/Spectra team gathered to preview their upcoming books. Panelists included…

Books & Comics Kelly Faircloth

Today Is 101010: The Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question

Today is October 10, 2010. 10/10/10. In binary, that’s 42. And 42 is The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. Or at least, that’s what Douglas Adams says. Many people wonder what Adams exactly meant by 42, the answer given by the supercomputer Deep Thought in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to…

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Rescue Of Chilean Miners To Begin Wednesday

After the drill reached the trapped Chilean miners, work began on fortifying the rescue shaft with steel. With that almost done, officials are now saying that the miners will be pulled out on Wednesday in a 48-hour effort. https://gizmodo.com/drill-reaches-chilean-miners-dangerous-phase-of-rescue-5659850 There was discussion on whether to line the entire rescue shaft with steel, part of the…

Tech News Casey Chan

How seabird excrement paved the way for American imperial expansion

In 1856, seabird guano was an in-demand fertilizer, so the the United States Congress passed The Guano Islands Act. This legislation was a precursor to American imperialism, as it allowed citizens to claim bird-crap-covered islands in the USA’s name. Says Columbia University law professor Christina Duffy Burnett of this scatological land grab: The Guano Islands…

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Matt Smith coming to America: The Doctor faces the fearsome might of Richard Nixon!

American Doctor Who fans, rejoice: The long-running time travel show will indeed be filming in the U.S. this fall, for a story in which the Doctor and his friends visit Utah in the late 1960s… and then the Oval Office. Spoilers below… According to a press release from BBC America, next month the Doctor Who…

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Why do Superman movies keep featuring the same old enemies?

We only just learned Zack Snyder is directing the Superman reboot, and already the word is that General Zod is coming back as the villain. Seriously, we have to ask: where the hell are some new Superman villains? There’s this pervasive myth that Superman only has three good enemies: an evil version of himself, Lex…

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This Stormtrooper Helmet Was Made With Two Milk Jugs

Here’s an awesomely creative example of being resourceful: a Star Wars fan built a Stormtrooper helmet out of two milk jugs. Yes, that helmet in the picture was made with those plastic milk gallons in your fridge right now. The full instructions are available over on his site but the gist of it was rather…

Tech News Casey Chan

M. Night Shyamalan cagey about the possibility of Unbreakable 2

At NYCC’s “Unbreakable: Ten Years Later” panel with M. Night Shyamalan, the director made his first Comic Con appearance of any kind, period. He encountered an enthusiastic crowd and discussed ideas for Unbreakable 2 that have never come to fruition. After showing a clip from Unbreakable, Shyamalan met the crowd to a rapturous applause and…

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Leaked T-Mobile HTC HD7 Looks Gigantically Awesome

As a successor to the tragedy that was the HTC HD2, the HTC HD7 actually has a chance to be the awesome. It packs updated hardware in a more gorgeous body while running Windows Phone 7. https://gizmodo.com/htc-touch-hd2-review-a-tragedy-5400593 The accompanying leaked specs: same 4.3″ ginormous 800×480 screen and same 5-megapixel camera but boosted 576MB of RAM…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Archer’s Paradox: you can’t hit a target by aiming exactly for it

We imagine that real-life archers are constantly frustrated by the inaccuracies of movies and comic books. Namely, the fact that no one realizes you can only hit a target if you’re aiming somewhat away from it. Let’s consider two typical action movie shots. The first is a zoom out from a target, maybe a bad…

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Largest Lego Ship Ever Built Is Bigger Than Three Queen-Sized Beds

Video of the Enterprise’s First Manned Glide Flight

True Blood, Spawn, and Darwyn Cooke’s Outfit are NYCC’s bestselling comic books

You Can Scratch And Sniff The Moon

Where Is The Long Piece In Tetris When You Need It?

Ford Redesigns Car Dashboards To Be More Like Cellphones

This Door Is Supposed To Save Lives During Earthquakes

Lung on a chip is the first lab-ready mini organ to be used in drug research

Electrostatic traps: When photons are too big

The Cold War Museum In Russia Was Actually Once A Real Cold War Bunker

George R.R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons is really almost done!

Today Is 101010: The Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question

Rescue Of Chilean Miners To Begin Wednesday

How seabird excrement paved the way for American imperial expansion

Matt Smith coming to America: The Doctor faces the fearsome might of Richard Nixon!

Why do Superman movies keep featuring the same old enemies?

This Stormtrooper Helmet Was Made With Two Milk Jugs

M. Night Shyamalan cagey about the possibility of Unbreakable 2

Leaked T-Mobile HTC HD7 Looks Gigantically Awesome

The Archer’s Paradox: you can’t hit a target by aiming exactly for it

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