December 2011
46 posts
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Impact: Earth! →
Ever wanted to calculate the impact of a humpback whale being thrown at the earth? This impact calculator is upsettingly fun to play with. You set the distance from the earth, as well as the projectile, impact and target parameters. Then, this impact calculator shows you the effects it would have on the earth: atmospheric entry, energy, global damages, whether or not it caused a tsunami, etc. Is...
Lego Large Hadron Collider will discover the...
Using 9,500 LEGO bricks over a 33 hour period, Sascha Mehlhase created this 1:50 scale model of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The project cost roughly $2614 and measures 1m x 0.5m x 0.5m in size. Whether it will find the elusive L-shaped Lego piece you fucking swore you just saw in the bucket is still up in the air.
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Sergeant Stubby →
“the most decorated war dog of World War I and the only dog to be promoted to sergeant through combat.” (via postelsia’s fb)
You slept naked in my bed. Unfortunately, you were...
This might be my favorite craigslist missed connection of all time:
“Hey there, Emily? We met last Friday morning. Well, maybe “met” isn’t the right word. I believe the first thing you said to me was, “Who the FUCK are you?” That’s a funny thing to say to a guy after wandering into his apartment, passing out in his bed, and accosting him wearing...
Art in Abandoned Places →
14 very cool projects
nguyendesign:
TAG: We’re it. New interactive installation experience about memories. Very cool work using Microsoft tags.
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Norway is Experiencing a Butter Shortage →
“You guys, this is an emergency.
Norway is running out of butter.
Reuters reported that a diet craze involving low carbs and high fat is partially to blame for a butter shortage in the European nation, which will likely spell trouble as the holiday season fast approaches.” -Huffington Post
Ink, Liquor & Hell.: THE FORCE IS REAL, THE GOD... →
thisisrumour:
If confirmed next week, this will be the biggest news in the history of physics since the birth of the Theory of Relativity: CERN scientists may have already found evidence of the existence of the elusive Higgs boson. THE FORCE, dudes. A respected scientist from the Cern particle physics…
Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time →