Ok, this is one of the freakiest things I have ever seen (probably up there with the creepy tree). It’s a video of NASA’s EPOXI probe showing the Moon passing in front of the Earth from 31 million miles away. Apparently nothing like this has ever been seen before, (I believe that). It truly is breathtaking, and slightly freaky at the same time. Does anyone else think the Moon looks artifical?
You know it is right? Some aliens made it. I swear.
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Being an avid conspiracy theorist, I will give the benefit of the doubt to almost any theory there is. Except the moon one. We landed there shut up already.
That being said, here’s a nice parody showing how Google proves me wrong. Not the parody part Isaid before, because as i said before that, WE LANDED THERE SHUT UP ALREADY.
This is a very nice, fun, interesting, and overall destructive little interactive flash Meteor Impact Calculator.
I’ve spent the better part of an hour making various sizes, and speeds, and angles, and types of rock to see what happens, and, so far in all of them, I am dead. Oh well, the world’s gonna end anyway, at least I’ll have a front row seat!
Here’s an example i went through:
3300m wide, 27 degree angle, 30km/s, rock hitting rock.
That’s a decent sized crater, 770meters deep, and a 9 on the Richter scale, not bad i’d say.
Deeper then The Empire State Building though, that’s tough.
I’d wager that I probably wouldn’t have survived, i mean, I’m mostly covered in 3rd degree burns and whatnot. Oh well, at least it only happens ever 18 million years or so.
Ever wanted to see what the solar system does to earth? Well, geology.com has a nice Google Maps set up with locations of many meteor impact craters on earth. Most are not very vissable due to errosion and ovegrowth, but a few stand out.
Apparently, I have an I.Q. of 108 after taking the A.E.C Offical I.Q. Test, for 2004-2005. Not bad, that’s average apparently. I don’t know. It was a 20 minute timed test asking various math, matching, and geometry problems. I was able to get all the geometry ones, those were easy. The math ones were alright, and the “which one is different” was simple.
The Dice problem was the hardest one i thought. I spent a good five minutes on that one, and finally guessed in the end. I’m not gonna put what I guessed, cause I don’t know if its right, and dont want to spoil it for you.
I like how it doesnt give the correct answers, this way you can’t cheat and get a better I.Q. Then again, this is the internet, so you could probably find all these answers pretty easy anyway.
Oh well, I enjoyed it.
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Ah, what silly wastes of time these things provide. This one was entertaining at the end, because notably missing from the chart above but not the final printout the give is “Human” I have a 15% chance of surviving an attack by a human.
Missing from both is “Robot” this is clearly a needed addition because it is only a matter of time before A.I. develop, and begin enslaving us all. We must know our survival chances if we are to guesstimate how much of a resistance we will be able to have to fight.
Granted, all this will become useless if time travel is invented in another dimension, because then we can open up a portal to the dimension of Nazi Dinosaurs, and they can battle the robots, and hopefully we humans will be able to sulk in the shadows while they kill each other.
However, because time travel will not be invented, we must defeat the robot uprising before it happens.
Here’s a nice flash animation showing the 4 seasons in a cool revolving sort of way! This is the sort of thing that Flash is food for, and nothing else.
Erik Nordenankar had a dream, to create the biggest drawing the world had ever seen, literally, the world. To do that, he didn’t set out to find the biggest sheet of paper, no, he actually went small, briefcase small. You see, his canvas was the earth itself, and his brush was a GPS enabled briefcase.
Using a custom designed briefcase with GPS tracking software in it, he gave DHL specific instructions on where to go, and after 55 days, he had all the data he needed. The portrait itself is massive, over 40,000 X 40,000 kilometers, in scale, and due to the technique used, the drawing is one complete brush stroke. However, the only true way to see it is to shrink it down and put it on a map, or globe. It is a pretty interesting, and ingenious idea.
For his next project, I think he should get a few of them traveling around the globe, for some more interesting designs.
Here’s a video of the making of it (basically just a following of the case)
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The only questions I have for him is cost, it must have been through the roof!
That, looks like Master Chief’s armor, part of the SPARTAN-II project. Or, an early version of it anyway. This new exoskeotin has lots of potential, potential to kill us all. For if you exit it, it becomes a robot, robots are bad, very bad, don’t we know that by now?
This is my type of list! Of course the Atom Bomb leads the way, and I would have no other weapon as number 1. Some on the list are kinda dumb, and the Puke Flashlight, not so much spooky, but The Rods from God, sounds like a really awesome one.
Just think, dropping giant metal rods from orbit down to earth at hypersonic speeds, and destroying whole cities. That’s awesome!
