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Posted 02.26.2010 at 6:00 pm
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This Week in the Future, February 22-26, 2010
Baarbarian
This Texan junkie is both sad and happy. Happy because he's on the way to kicking his destructive addiction using non-habit-forming synthetic opiates newly derived from scorpion venom. And he has a prototype of Darpa's dream Terminator arm, which is a good thing to have. But he's also sad because he may now never own a Hummer to match his aspirational tattoo, and because his home state's government stole his child's blood for military research. Only in the future!
Here are some of our favorite stories this week:
- The Hummer is Dead
- DARPA Orders Smart Robotic Terminator Hands for a Better Tomorrow
- The World's Largest Airplane Graveyard in High Resolution, Now On Google Maps (inspiration for our junkie's opium den's wallpaper)
- Texas Secretly Gave The Blood of 800 Newborns to DNA Database
- Obama Pledges $475 Million to Rescue Great Lakes
- Scorpion Venom Could Make a Safe Alternative to Morphine
This Week in the Future, February 22-26, 2010: The T-Shirt: Leave a comment to win it, or buy it here Baarbarian
Win this shirt! Leave a comment (any comment) to put your name in the pile; we'll randomly choose and announce our winner right here. And, if you just can't wait that long, you can buy the shirt for yourself here. Good Luck!
Until next time. Enjoy our past weekly illustrated roundups here.
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Sweet
What a promising future this nation has...
Singularity is near =)
Its Jesus
This T would be very confusing to anyone who doesn't know where it was from.
BABYS!!!! -Kris Johnson
Sweet shirt!!
Sorry, I think the shirt is badly drawn and would probably be just as ugly if it were drawn well. Plus the picture is just nonsense without the text that appears under the image on this website.
It is a Baby-Texas-Addict-Great Lakes shirt-Prosthetic-Scorpion-all-jumbled-together-with-no-message T-shirt. I have a nicer one already - it's plain white.
Somebody tell me what's "sweet" about that shirt, if you think you can!
I want to confuse people with an awesome shirt.
'Tis a king among shirts.
i can sense it, this one is going to be mine
i have a thing for texas and terminator
I am directly related to Sam Huston. Thats the Sam Huston who was president of the republic of Texas (until kicked out) and was one the founding fathers. Which makes me perfect for this shirt. And to Popular Scientist, what reason do you have to dislike these shirts, their only reason is to confuse people.
The upside represented in the t-shirt image is that the Terminator arm may, by the time the baby is a man, be part of the mechanical soldier that keeps the baby from seeing war; the death of the Hummer may prevent, albeit coerced by our current economic black hole, the Great Lakes from becoming prime beach front property, thanks to global warming; and the scorpion shows that it's finally cool to inject venom.
Who won last week? Was it me? Javor Jav
StephenD.Alverez, you spelled sam houston wrong, plus you put you full name as your username, do you know how insucure that is?? don't blame me if some guy starts stalking you.
sorry, spelled insecure wrong >_<
SDA: I gave my reasons in my comment! I asked for reasons why people might be attracted to the shirt's design. So instead of saying why the shirt is good, you ask me for something I already gave you. In short, this shirt lacks a coherent message, and t-shirts with incoherent messages are bad shirts.
So I repeat: why do you like the shirt? I don't want your ancestors' reasons. Spelling doesn't matter to me that much, but making sense sure does!
BTW: amoeba64, *you* spelled sam huston wrong! It's Sam Huston! In the English language we capitalize all proper names, except for e e cummings and george w bush. You also spelled "your" wrong, and even failed to capitalize your sentences, and to use punctuation! When criticizing other people's spelling, grammar matters, as does spelling.
I love these comments better then the shirt.
Do we have the option of printing up to 10 comments on the back of the sofw?(shirt of the week)
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from Acton, Maine
Yeah!
I want this shirt! The injecting with a scorpion into a cyborg arm and the RIP Hummer tattoo are pure social commentary gold. The only thing that ruins the strength of the design is the POPSCI logo along the base. Total buzzkill.
YES,just.. YES this shirt is PERFECT >:D
At what point did the bone yard surround Texas?
Do u POP Sci want to lose the Texas Business base. Or do U believe only drug & pot heads visit this site. Its not funny
And u better hope no emails this to the state capitol. Its the same as having a T shirt. Saying one in you're state
uses towel paper. Take this crap off you're site. Here in Texas, there's a saying. Don't get mad just get even. And losing the Texas customer base is exactly how Texans will get even with U.
All of u at pop sci have lost you're minds. No no here is laughing.
All of u at pop sci have lost you're minds. No one here is laughing.
It just came down. do not visit this site any more. No problem
was my comment.
It just came down. do not visit this site any more. No problem
was my comment.
woah now. It's just a shirt, and commenting here 5 times won't change that.
haha I will wear that
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Having been to the graveyard and driven a hummer, this shirt has special meaning to me.
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comment for two weeks in a row win!
in response to user "popular science" i think that its a "sweet" shirt because I think that it makes fun of alot of different things in a different way than is so often seen.
Also, there are different kinds of art work and this is one of them, its drawn very well.
As well, there are alot of shirts that people don't understand unless it is explained to them and this is one of them. Can you honestly tell me that you don't own or have ever owned a shirt like that.
Finally if your so against the shirt why bother even clicking on it to view it and then proceed to comment on it. that doesn't make sense to me.
sorry meant to repond to user "popular scientist" not "popular science" my bad.