When this washing machine gets spinning at full speed, it reminds me of that spinning ring machine from the movie Contact.

That must be why my socks keep disappearing.  They're passing through a wormhole and ending up on a planet orbiting Vega.

The UN has announced they are building a satellite powered by feces.

Houston, this is Shitstar 1.  My God, it stinks up here!

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The problem with the Richter Scale is that because it is logarithmic, it's hard to really grasp the immense power of the higher numbered earthquakes.  It's a handy number for news people to toss around, but Joule equivalent or TNT energy yield equivalent lets you better understand just how much energy is involved.

The earthquake in Haiti was 7.0 and ( Read more... )

Now you can watch events unfold live at the Large Hadron Collider.

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

Be sure to check it often to see if the world has been destroyed yet.

NASA's current plans call for a return to the moon with Orion 15, tentatively scheduled for June, 2019.

Whatever happened to being able to put a man on the moon in under a decade?

I made a useful discovery today.  Apparently the process that makes my Transitions lenses get darker is exothermic (and the lightening process is endothermic).  The glasses get darker faster if the lenses are cold, while they stay dark for a long time after going indoors if they are still cold ( Read more... )

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Tried using my new camera to take a picture of the moon.


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