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​Simon Pegg drinks his way through the apocalypse in This Week’s DVDs

Look, The World’s End is definitely the big release of the week, possibly tied with season five of the remastered Star Trek: The Next Generation on Blu-ray, but all I want you to know is this week’s DVDs includes a horror movie about shepherds fucking a broom. Seriously. • The World’s End Simon Pegg convinces…

Photographer Felix Meyer captured this shot of the sun setting behind Dresden’s Centre for Energy Technology, an experimental power plant where researchers focus on the future of sustainable energy—from biomass, to thermal, to photovoltaic. While primarily a research facility, the plant generates electricity for the surrounding campus. [Felix Meyer on Flickr/Creative Commons]

That ISON comet is looking more and more spectacular by the day

The European Southern Observatory has published a new photo of ISON. This thing is going to be a huge show in November 28, when it gets really close to the Sun. I wish we could zoom in and discover the Silver Surfer right in the middle of that blue glow. https://gizmodo.com/incredible-photo-of-a-comet-you-can-see-in-the-sky-righ-1465491738

FAA Discovers That Commercial Pilots Suck at Manually Flying Planes

Excited about flying home for Thanksgiving to see your family and friends’ shining faces? Well, you won’t be after reading this! Because according to a soon-to-be released study commissioned by the FAA, if it weren’t for automated systems, our pilots would suck at flying—bad. That doesn’t mean automation is evil, though. In fact, over the…

The Trashed Remains of Abandoned Disney Projects

We’ve had galleries of abandoned amusement parks and toy factories, but nothing matches the sad splendor of abandoned Disney parks. https://gizmodo.com/the-crumbling-chaos-of-abandoned-amusement-parks-514682250 https://gizmodo.com/these-abandoned-toy-factories-and-shops-will-haunt-your-1458651194 The original ImageWorks: The What-If Labs, an interactive area (“the creative playground if the future” at Epcot’s Imagination! Pavilion, Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. It was opened in October…

Too bad this awesome stadium for Qatar’s World Cup is made by slaves

I like Zaha Hadid’s design for Qatar’s flagship World Cup football stadium, but I hate everything else about it, from the modern-day slaves being used to build it to the fact that nobody wants a World Cup in Qatar except the corrupt fat gangsters that rule FIFA. Anyway, now you can take a virtual walk…

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Iran Unveils New Drone Amazingly Not Held Together by Tape

Iran welcomed a new addition to its drone fleet on Monday with the unveiling of the Fotros. Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan says this familiar-looking can do anything from taking pictures of Israel to protecting Iran’s borders. So he says. Dehqan told the crowd at the unveiling ceremony in Tehran that the Fotros…

Blade Runner, as recreated in 12,597 gorgeous watercolor paintings

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. I’ve seen Swedish artist Anders Ramsell “paraphrase” the movie Blade Runner by animating literally thousands of watercolor paintings, strung together in one unbelievable 35-minute video. All those moments…

Kwikset Kevo Smart Deadbolt Review: Convenience Doesn’t Come Cheap

You’re getting too old to still be losing your keys like this. Seriously, they were right there, in your hand, like a second ago. Time to jimmy the kitchen window again, right? Wrong. The Kwikset Kevo gives you not one but three means of entry, so you’ll never get locked out again. What Is It?…

The telephone will have become a relic of the past, and by means of wireless telegraphy the citizen may communicate with any city or town in the land. – December 24, 1900 Boston Globe about Boston of the year 2000

I’d lose contact with reality if I watched this sky in real life

This incredible photo by Stéphane Vetter—featured as NASA’s astronomy picture of the day—makes my head spin a little bit. The weirdly shaped clouds—a glowing tentacle! a spaceship!—combined with the curved aurora that seems to be coming from the mountain and the sun near the horizon makes the entire shot seem completely unreal. It was taken…

Which “sexy” uniform sticks out the most like a sore thumb?

Uniforms (and costumes generally) tell us lots of stuff about a character. Where they come from, what organization they belong to, their rank, their skillset… and sometimes, how sexy they are. Which randomly sexy costume or uniform seems the most out-of-place in a science fiction or fantasy series? Please include a (tasteful) picture or clip…

An Earthly Messenger Bag That Looks Ready For a Space Walk

It’s all but impossible to leave your house with just your phone and wallet these days. You also need charging cables, maybe a back-up battery, and a host of other accessories you probably can’t survive the day without. In fact, most of us leave the house better equipped than astronaut’s taking a spacewalk—which is why…

Christmas Is Cancelled: It’s A Wonderful Life Sequel in Development

Hollywood wants to make sequel to the holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life. FUCK THIS SHIT. George Bailey is apparently great at giving angels their wings but shit at teaching his family life lessons, because Hollywood has a crackerjack idea for a sequel to the 1946 classic starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed. Variety is…

50,000 generations of bacteria prove that evolution never stops

In a remarkable experiment that’s been going on for nearly a quarter century, biologists have shown that lab-grown bacteria — even in a stable, unchanging world — will continue to evolve in a way that makes it increasingly good at reproducing. Above: On left is a petri dish with equal numbers of colonies of two…

Holy crap! Look at this giant demon squid from hell

Deep Sea News has this incredible composite image of a Magnapinna squid, made from a freaky video taken 1.5 miles underwater by a Shell’s remote operated vehicle. This is the video, which I remember seeing a few years ago: According to Wikipedia, these beasts are harmless, dragging their long flexible tentacles to grab their prey.…

New Plan: Let’s All Move to Iceland

Green aurorae unfurl above Vatnajökull, Iceland’s largest glacier, in this spellbinding photo by French photographer Stéphane Vetter. Photo featured by kind permission of Stéphane Vetter Via NASA APOD points out a few more of the phenomena visible in this photo: On the far right is a long and unusual lenticular cloud tinged with green light…

Guy lost his house in a tornado but he’s happy because his PS4 survived

Redditor HepatitisC posted this photo taken from his Facebook feed: “He lost his house in the tornado yesterday but there’s some light at the end of the tunnel…the PS4 survived!” Obviously, he can only be so happy if he has full home insurance.

Why The Hunger Games: Mockingjay is a Better Book than Catching Fire

Pretty much everybody loves The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins’ masterful dystopian novel. But the two novels that follow are divisive: Some people love Catching Fire, others love Mockingjay. Very few people seem to love both. And for me, personally, Mockingjay is the superior novel. Here’s why. Top image: Seia5018/Deviant Art Spoilers for both books below……