Check out this awesome Video. Here's Wikipedia on Oobleck, in case you are mystified re: what the hell I'm talking about.

Apparently, you can escape death with only minor injuries in the vacuum of space, if rescued with pressurized oxygen within 90 seconds after exposure. You fall unconscious after 10 seconds. After 90 seconds, though, your blood starts to boil and your heart stops and that's bad.

From the blog of Alan Bellows, "Outer Space Exposure." Thanks to rich_forest ( Read more... )

Ganked from whswhs, Anders Sandberg's Warning Signs for Tomorrow. These I happily mined for ideas for Verge's growing List of Awesome, which will be included in the text as an idea list.

Check out this short animation, The Inner Life of a Cell. It's absolutely amazing, especially when you understand that it pretty accurately represents the processes that occur inside each and every one of our living cells.

Thanks to bruceb for the link!

A new article in the Washington Post describes the latest experiments on mirror neurons. I think this is one of the more important discoveries in hundreds of years, because of its application to empathy and morality.

For only $78 million, you can own your own 65-meter luxury yacht submarine, capable of 16 knots on the surface and 10 knots below. It has a surface range of 3500 nautical miles and can remain submerged for 20 days at rest. The thing looks like a sleek luxury yacht above the surface.

When I am an evil overlord, I will have a fleet of these.


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Doing a little research for a game idea I have, I came across this page on interstellar distances. I love this page.

It is impossible to make a physical model that shows Man, the planets, and the stars on the same scale. If we make the Earth a quarter (one inch or 2.5 cm in diameter), the Moon becomes a pea 29 inches (74 cm) away. The Sun is 9 ( Read more... )