By Baarbarian Posted 08.13.2010 at 5:27 pm 17 Comments

This Week in the Future, August 9-13, 2010 Baarbarian

Powered by butter and screwed into the sandy ground -- is this what Max Headroom foretold two decades ago?

Welcome to the future.

This week in the future on PopSci:

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FingersVIII
08/13/10 at 5:33 pm

I'd prefer to be buried standing up

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jfh1864
08/13/10 at 6:45 pm

Idiom's long awaited day...your screwed

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dereksmalls1985
08/13/10 at 9:06 pm

I really want this!

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rocky9999
08/13/10 at 11:21 pm

TSHIRT> YES> ME WANT.

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87hjarc
08/14/10 at 2:21 am

cremation is better than vertical coffins

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Phizix
08/14/10 at 4:57 am

heh rubix cubes

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imanididit
08/14/10 at 7:03 am

Totally.

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brucet45410
08/14/10 at 10:08 am

Amazing story here. Even more amazing shirt!

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ste3v3
08/14/10 at 11:17 am

dropping my name in the hat

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geekygal15
08/14/10 at 5:03 pm

nice.

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StephenD.Alverez
08/14/10 at 5:12 pm

Why is BF of the diesel?

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Loopi
08/15/10 at 12:36 am

Because it goes great on waffles?

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madcat07
08/15/10 at 7:27 am

nice shirt!

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sobchakenator
08/15/10 at 12:28 pm

Life is short, and then you die.

Some people even screwed in death.

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NikhilKunapuli
08/15/10 at 12:47 pm

I want it!

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Cetus93
08/16/10 at 1:52 am

Cool... I guess.

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shoobobbypoopstick
08/16/10 at 10:56 am

Supercool Shirt.


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