Archive for the 'Science' Category

Real dinosaur at the Natural History Museum of LA County

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Extinct, my ASS! from The Original Joe Fisher on Vimeo.
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has a “live” dinosaur running loose inside the museum!
If you watch the video closely, you’ll see exactly how this dinosaur is living. Man, I really wish I had a dinosaur like this. This would be the ultimate gift [...]

Human ovulation captured on camera

Friday, June 13th, 2008

What is that, you ask? They are photos of the exact moments of ovulation in a woman, of course!
Captured so clearly for the first time by doctor Jacques Donnez at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) in Brussels, Belgium (while performing a partial hysterectomy), these photos are an incredibly detailed look at how humans initially [...]

Small star unleashes monster flare

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Believe it or not, the image above is a photograph, not a computer generated image!
The star above is called EV Lacertae, and it is smaller and younger than our Sun. However, the flares that are coming from it are the largest and most powerful ever recorded!
For many years scientists have known that our sun gives [...]

Robotic Exoskeletons allow for super-human strength

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

A company named SARCOS has spent 6 years developing an amazing robotic exoskeleton that can make a normal human being have super-human strength!
The company hopes to deploy robotic exoskeletons like this in the military. An exoskeleton like this would greatly aid in the rescue efforts of earthquakes and other natural disasters, allowing a normal human [...]

What is on the other side of the world?

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

My previous post about the time it would take to travel between two places on the globe got me wondering about what exactly would be on the other side of any given location on Earth.
It turns out that zefrank has a Google Maps mashup that can answer this question.
Sorry to break it to ya, but [...]

Go from any two places on Earth in 42 minutes

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Hypothetically, if there was a way to travel through the Earth to other parts of the world, the effect of gravity on our traveling speed would allow us to get from one place to the other in exactly 42 minutes. [via]
It wouldn’t matter where you are going or how far the physical land distance between [...]

Buzz Lightyear to be launched into space by NASA!!!

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

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On May 31, 2008 (@ 5:02PM), Buzz Lightyear will finally be able to live his dream of becoming a real space cowboy! NASA and Disney have teamed up to send the karate-chop-action toy to space on the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-124.
Buzz’s dream of going “to infinity and beyond” will finally [...]