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Part 2 - continued from above. Then, of course, there’s all the navigational data, which is almost certainly the hardest to work with. Since Loon is dependent on the wind to travel, the team gets publicly available weather data from NOAA. They then make three-dimensional wind maps that can...

A two part, longer story: Part 1 The Incredible Calculations That Keep Google's Project Loon Aloft When we last checked in on Project Loon—Google’s moonshot project to blanket the world with internet-packing weather balloons—one had just circumnavigated the globe in a very quick 22 days. I...

Nordic Stronk! How Did The Ancient Vikings Make This Super-Strong Sword? When we look at the history of new technologies, we tend to think of only our most recent past. But more than a thousand years ago, blacksmiths succeeded in making a set of ultra-strong swords — that are tricky to...

:lol: I do look like that, sort of. A bit younger though, and with gold eyes. :partay:

Darkside of Innocence - Bloody Mistress Norther - Death Unlimited

Funny thing, I thought all Pakistani men looked like this: Until I saw your picture, then I was like:o:... :cray:. :partay:

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Watch How Los Angeles Boomed Over 125 Years With This Gorgeous Map Contrary to what New Yorkers would like to tell you, Los Angeles is freaking old. Older than the United States of America, in fact. And it’s easy to see just how old the city is with built:LA, an interactive map that...

The 650 Official Colors the US Government Uses What color are the thousands of USPS mailboxes in your city? What about the millions of stop signs in the US? They’re all the same, but not by chance. In fact, figuring out those colors has been a 70-year process. This week, the Washington Post...

This Is How NASA Tests Its Spacecraft-Saving Parachutes How do you test the parachutes that will save spacecraft as they tumble towards the surface of a planet from the reaches of space? In the world’s largest wind tunnel, of course. This is a view inside the giant wind tunnel at NASA Ames...

This Tiny Self-Folding Robot Will Destroy Itself When Its Job Is Done Not content with creating a robot cheetah that can run and jump over obstacles at astonishing speeds, researchers at MIT have also developed this incredibly tiny origami robot that can not only fold itself, it can also...

Neat time lapse of NASA assembling the space shuttle engine, the RS-25 NASA’s RS-25 rocket engine powered the space shuttles and four of them will be used to power the core stage of NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS), the launch vehicle that’ll bring humans to deep space missions like...

We'll agree to disagree here, I'm very exited about some of Google's new projects:yahoo:! Project Jacquard Hands-On: Google's ATAP is Putting Sensors In Fabric Roaming around the floor of Google I/O we got our hands on one of the prototypes from ATAP, Google’s DARPA-like experimental lab...

MIT's Robot Cheetah Now Jumps While Running, So Walls Won't Protect You MIT has already demonstrated that its incredibly nimble and fast robot cheetah can run free without the need for cables or safety tethers. But now it’s not only able run down its prey out in the open, it can also jump...

El Capone Margarita 2 oz. Sauza Blanco ¾ oz. DeKuyper Sour Watermelon Pucker Liqueur 1¼ oz. fresh watermelon puree ¾ oz. fresh lime juice :chilli:

Once again, slow news day, so how about something else? I Raced My Hummer On An Actual Race Track A few weeks ago, I got an e-mail from a racing instructor named Ron, asking if I wanted to get some track time in my Nissan Skyline GT-R. So I pondered Ron’s question for several minutes, and I...

Opps:partay: Some Knucklehead In the Military Accidentally Shipped Live Anthrax Some bonehead at an Defense Department lab accidentally shipped live anthrax spores to government and commercial recipients through a commercial shipping service. What a goof! They were supposed to be shipments...

:( I can't find a funny picture of Norway:cray:. You win this round:angry:.

:laughcry: Vegetarian now, vegetarian forever!

You leave that squirrel alone:angry:. Be more like this bunny:smitten:. First this raspberry, then your soul:devil:.