An Old Man and His Garden An old Italian man lived alone in New Jersey. He wanted to plant his annual tomato garden; but it was very difficult work as the ground was hard. His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison. Love, Papa A few days later he received this letter from his son: Dear Pop, Don't dig up that garden. Love, Vinnie At 6 am the next morning, FBI agents and local police arrived and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. This Will Mindfuck You: The Double-Slit Experiment The video below shows scientific proof that there is something NOT quite logical or scientific about this universe. The mere act of observation can completely change the outcome of an event! Before I get too ahead of myself, you need to watch the video below to understand: (Forgive the corny cartoon character explaining the concept — at least he knows his stuff) Recap: When a camera observed the electrons, they acted as particles. So what’s the reason for this? Want even further proof? Then in 2002, a group of researchers set up the experiment in a way that the electron could not possibly receive information about the existence of an observing instrument. Here’s the kicker: The insertion of the interferometer took only 40 nanoseconds (ns) while it would take 160 ns for the information about the configuration to travel from the interferometer to reach the photon before it entered the slits. The Results: The photons acted like particles 93% of the time that they were observed. 1. 2. 3.
You Are Not So Smart The Egg The Egg By: Andy Weir You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. And that’s when you met me. “What… what happened?” “You died,” I said, matter-of-factly. “There was a… a truck and it was skidding…” “Yup,” I said. “I… I died?” “Yup. You looked around. “More or less,” I said. “Are you god?” “Yup,” I replied. “My kids… my wife,” you said. “What about them?” “Will they be all right?” “That’s what I like to see,” I said. You looked at me with fascination. “Don’t worry,” I said. “Oh,” you said. “Neither,” I said. “Ah,” you said. “All religions are right in their own way,” I said. You followed along as we strode through the void. “Nowhere in particular,” I said. “So what’s the point, then?” “Not so!” I stopped walking and took you by the shoulders. “You’ve been in a human for the last 48 years, so you haven’t stretched out yet and felt the rest of your immense consciousness. “How many times have I been reincarnated, then?” “Oh lots. “Wait, what?” “Well, I guess technically. “Sure.
10 strange hings about the universe you should know Space The universe can be a very strange place. While groundbreaking ideas such as quantum theory, relativity and even the Earth going around the Sun might be commonly accepted now, science still continues to show that the universe contains things you might find it difficult to believe, and even more difficult to get your head around. Theoretically, the lowest temperature that can be achieved is absolute zero, exactly ?273.15°C, where the motion of all particles stops completely. One of the properties of a negative-energy vacuum is that light actually travels faster in it than it does in a normal vacuum, something that may one day allow people to travel faster than the speed of light in a kind of negative-energy vacuum bubble. One prediction of Einstein’s theory of general relativity is that when a large object moves, it drags the space-time around it, causing nearby objects to be pulled along as well. Relativity of Simultaneity This is similar to arranging tiles evenly on a floor.
Amazing Steampunk Motorbike Powered With Steam and Electricity I have seen a lot of steampunk creations and artworks but I do not remember that I have seen a steampunk motorbike, at least not something like this. Here you can see an amazing hand-made steampunk motorbike made by Tom Sepe, a steampunk artist from West Oakland. This motorbike is not only special because of its design, it also has a very specific engine. It is powered with hybrid electric-steam engine. If you are not familiar with the steampunk creations you would probably think that this weird bike is worthless bunch of junk, however, for steampunk enthusiasts, this is precious and priceless artwork.More photos of the build can be found on Tom's flickr site and his personal art site.
Inspired by an xkcd Comic, Guy Creates Script to Buy Him Stuff on eBay In theory, the fact that PhD student Paul Hunkin gave his computer a tiny budget and told it to purchase whatever it wants is really cool. He's like a stepdad trying to win over his wife's kids by letting them put all of the junk food they want in the shopping cart. What's disappointingly less-cool is the stuff his computer is deciding to buy. Hunkin's script, which was inspired by an xkcd comic, searches for the cheapest items on eBay with no shipping fee and automatically buys them. The catch? Its budget starts at $1, and while the script earns a new dollar every day, it wants to spend its money, so more often than not Hunkin is gonna end up with some weird one-dollar items arriving at his doorstep. He's only just started the experiment, but the system's first purchase was a pack of five watch batteries and apparently Hunkin doesn't own a watch, so you can imagine how bananas things are bound to get.
10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2010 1. Anthropomimetic Machines No matter how closely a robot resembles a human on the outside, if you crack it open, the jumble of wires is unlikely to bear much resemblance to our insides. 2. Yesterday's fuel cells, like those seen here on Spacelab, require a hydrogen infrastructure. Coal is dirty, and fuel cells run on hydrogen--that's the conventional wisdom. 3. For the past five years, scientists at the University of Alberta in Edmonton have been working on the Human Metabolome Project, a database of the 8000 naturally occurring metabolites (that is, small molecules involved in chemical reactions in the body), as well as 1450 drugs, 1900 food additives and 2900 toxins that turn up in blood and urine tests. 4. Scientists at Caltech have been folding microscopic strands of DNA into interesting shapes for the past few years. 5. (Illustration by Leandro Castelao) 6. (Photograph by Associated Press) The ideal prosthetic limb would behave like part of the natural body. 7. 8. 9. 10.
BabeScene - Hot sexy pictures of celebrities, amateurs and models 6 Human Character Flaws (That Saved the Species) Eat right. Lay off the booze. Take a damned bath. It turns out that all of our bad habits came about for a reason, and in order to become nature's biggest winners, we first had to act like pretty big losers. Ever stop to wonder why humans don't have fur? With some exceptions. It's not a minor point; our hairlessness is a big reason why human civilization even exists. Oh, and the need to keep warm may have also contributed to our ancestors learning one other mildly important skill: making fire. "Awesome! So how did we wind up as the hairless monkeys we are today? We were filthy. Yes, one leading theory is that we did such a horrible job keeping our fur clean, parasites became rampant. Bathing is for pussies. After all, we as a species actually went naked because we couldn't be bothered to clean our once naturally occurring monkey suit. Obesity is the plague of the Western world--here meaning any place where you can purchase fried chicken filled donuts. Obviously we know why people want to eat.
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An Open Letter to the “Lamest Generation” You have had the best possible ride anyone could ever have had. Because you were born after the “New Deal” had become a done deal, you enjoyed incredible opportunities. Thanks to the Fair Labor Standards Act, you didn’t have to work yourselves into the ground for a subpar wage. You could actually live on what you made. And thanks to widespread unionization, even if you were in a non-union shop, you still got taken care of better-because a good employee might have jumped to a union shop if he or she wasn’t treated well. Imagine never having had to worry about where the money for the bills was going to come from! Unfortunately, it would seem that in way too many of you, this also bred a sense of entitlement. That sort of sums you up in toto. That brings me to another little boiling point of mine. How do I know this? That’s what makes me maddest of all about you selfish pigs. You are truly The Lamest Generation. Link to original post