• Cars

    Flying Saucers Come Home

    By SciIll Staff Posted on 11.17.2008 28 Comments

    It’s designed to seat two, take off and land vertically, fly 10 feet above the ground, and reach 75 miles an hour. It’s about the size of a car, but it’s round instead of boxy. Yup, it’s a flying saucer. Next year, California-based Moller International hopes to introduce the M200G personal recreation craft, the first of what the company expects to be a full line of “volanters”—vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft. The design is 300 years in the making.

    11.7.2008 at 04:50pm - Comment by LucidTman

    You guys are 100% missing the point. When the first light bulb was created where you there telling him how garbage it was compared to LED's ? I bet you would have been. The point is, the guy is out there doing something that for all we know could be the beginning of a transportation revolution. I don't see you putting these vehicles together in your back yard... Oh that’s right, you’re waiting for people like him to work their butts off and put their sweat and blood into the innovation so in 50 years you can take advantage of it. So for now just keep telling them how stupid their ideas are ok. Your pessimism is greatly appreciated.

  • Technology

    A Brief History of the Apollo Hoax

    By Jason Daley Posted on 10.1.2008 35 Comments

    When Neil Armstrong pressed the first bootprint into the Sea of Tranquility, most of humanity watched the televised low-res blob and felt pride welling up in their chests. But a few watchers felt something entirely different—an unconfirmed, squinty-eyed skepticism that something about the whole deal smelled fishy. How could the United States, which could barely put a chimp into space in 1961, get two full-grown men on the surface of the moon eight years later? How could anyone confirm that men actually made it to the moon? And, how, exactly, had that $25 billion Apollo budget been spent?

    9.30.2008 at 02:54pm - Comment by LucidTman

    What a ridiculous claim to say that the actual astronauts where at a strip club!? If it really was the worlds most famous and elaborate hoax, Do you really think they would risk letting their star performers out on the night in question? These guys are rocket scientists, Gimme a break! Can’t they see the flag with high powered telescopes anyway?



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