• Entertainment & Gaming

    Futurama Returns!

    By Posted on 6.10.2009 5 Comments

    The Space Pope has answered our prayers! After years of cancellations, network changes and direct to DVD purgatory, Futurama, Matt Groening and David X. Cohen's genius vision of the year 3000, will return to the air with original episodes.

    6.11.2009 at 03:39am - Comment by hans_lubricant

    Yay! This was the BEST show Ever! Yaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!

  • Science

    Water Rolls Uphill On Metal Blasted By Powerful Femtosecond Laser

    By Dan Smith Posted on 6.2.2009 12 Comments

    Using an unbelievably powerful laser over an unbelievably short period of time, scientists have been able to alter the surface of metals to control the flow of water across their surfaces down to the individual molecule. And when we say an unbelievable amount of energy, we’re talking about the power of the entire grid of the United States at once. When we say an unbelievably short period of time, we’re talking about a femtosecond, which is to a second what a second is to 32 million years. Think about both of those for a femtosecond.

    6.3.2009 at 02:21am - Comment by hans_lubricant

    Do I really need to say this? Make a ramp out of this stuff, put the low end in a pool of water and have it dump into a higher tank, have that drain back into the lower pool Through a turbine for limitless energy. Am I crazy or is this possible? Would the author please comment?

  • Science

    The Zero-Emissions One-Wheeled Motorcycle

    By Posted on 5.28.2008 53 Comments

    Uno Cost to Develop: $45,000 Time: 2 years Prototype | | | | | Product Just before his plane dipped into the clouds above Beijing International Airport two years ago, Ben Gulak caught the last clear view of the sun that he would see for two weeks. On the ground, the 17-year-old, who was on a family trip to China, quickly spotted a source for much of the thick haze hanging over the city: smog-spewing motorbikes. Thousands of them, everywhere. “Right then,” he says, “I decided that I wanted to create an alternative mode of transportation, something clean and compact.”

    5.14.2008 at 03:29am - Comment by hans_lubricant

    And exactly how do you stop this thing without filliping forward? past say 10 mph you'd do a face plant with any hard stop!



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