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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…
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…
Taiwan’s Special Forces just showed off its new uniforms and they’re totally stepping toward a Star Wars/Stormtroopers future. The gear is impressive: bulletproof masks, all-black duds and enough intimidation to win any war before the war even starts. https://gizmodo.com/taiwans-new-special-forces-uniforms-are-wearable-night-1456588256
If you blink, you’re gonna miss it. Hell, even if you’re looking right at it, you still might not see it. But you’ll definitely feel it. The Aviationist found a video of a Syrian fighter bomber flying overhead and caught it dropping a bomb pretty much right on top of the cameraman. The plane sends…
“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.
What was supposed to be a nice, heartwarming picture of four Chinese government officials visiting an elderly woman in a sign of respect and caring for the people and giving back and all that ended up being another Photoshop nightmare for China where three giant men plus a floating disappearing half man creepily hover over…
Irina Neustroeva made this incredible video that mashes up 75 years of opening title sequence for animated movies. There’s 234 films here including all your favorites like Toy Story, The Lion King, Shrek but also a lot of lesser known flicks and completely forgotten animated movies too. It’s like the evolution of title sequences but…
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…
Though it may look like it, this is not a still frame from a torture porn movie directed by the sadist Eli Roth. Instead, it’s the new synthetic cadaver that medical students are now using to get their learn on. Instead of poking humans or operating on animals, medical students can play doctor with these…
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…
If you’re wondering where heaven on Earth is, it’s in China. Surprising, I know. But it’s undeniable after you see this ginormous pink and green ball pit found at the Kerry Hotel in Shanghai. It’s the world’s largest ball pit and stretches over 80 feet long and 40 feet wide. The pit is filled with…
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.
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.
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:…
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.
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,…
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…
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…
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
Nikon just announced the winners for its 2013 Small World Photomicrography Competition. It’s basically a collection of the best images of things you can only see under a light microscope. Or better yet, it’s the best photographs of things you can’t actually see. Here are some fantastically creepy shots that were our favorites. The picture…
