Tag: "Science"
It’s A Shame that John Bad Mutha Shut Yo Mouth Didn’t Discover This Comet
Some comets hide debris in their long tails. Comet Lovejoy hides a fist and a leaping spin-kick.
If the World is Devoured By A Giant Space Squid on Saturday, Blame NASA
We sent a squid into space today. Let me say that again. We sent a squid into space today. Now, when I say “squid”, I don’t mean an old sailor or some sort of WWII vintage weapon. I mean we sent a ten-armed marine cephalopod into space. Oh, and it’s not just any squid. It’s [...]
Naval…Lasers? Yes, Please and On A Battleship!
Oh, United States Navy, you had me at “lasers” and “pirates”. The US Navy’s MLD system, designed and built by defense contractor Northrop Grumman, is a bit different in nature. The MLD is a 15 kilowatt laser specifically designed to handle the pitch and roll of a ship deck without losing track of its target. [...]
Well, At Least We Weren’t Devoured By the Nuclear Chaos
Good news, everyone! The Large Hadron Collider has succesfully caused its very first high-energy particle collision. The experiment went off pretty much as planned, which means it did not create a planet-swallowing black hole nor did it rend the very fabric of space and time and create a gateway through which horrors beyond man’s reckoning would heave [...]
Science Geeks, Fire Up Your Browsers and Stock Up the Dew!
When I was a kid, I used to love leafing through my Dad’s old collection of Popular Science magazines. He didn’t have quite as many of them as he did National Geographic, but he had more than plenty to keep a curious Science Geek in Training busy for many hours*. I got away from PopSci [...]
Hide the Cyclone!
The science is unsettled. Research by hurricane scientists may force the UN’s climate panel to reconsider its claims that greenhouse gas emissions have caused an increase in the number of tropical storms. The benchmark report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said that a worldwide increase in hurricane-force storms since 1970 was probably [...]
Whoa Up There A Bit, Science. You Lost Me at “Voodoo”.
Okay, scientists, we get it. You’re incredibly smart and able to tinker with the DNA of even the smallest animals. And…well…it’s not that we don’t trust you, but whoa up a bit, okay? Before you turn your “Swarms of Engineered Voodoo Wasps” loose on the various crop pests of the world, can you make extra [...]
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