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American Astronaut Reid Wiseman Continues To Dazzle Us With Vines From Space

Twitter When you’re in space and have access to social media, you can basically win the internet on a constant basis with breathtaking views of our planet. Since we posted the first Vine from space,...

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Johnny Depp’s Bizarre Speech From The Hollywood Film Awards Is Amazing

According to everything I’ve read to this point, the Hollywood Film Awards are a joke. Everyone from James L. Brooks to Ben Affleck were poking fun at it, but it was Johnny Depp who truly set the tone...

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The World’s Luckiest Kid Is Now Swinging From This Life-Sized Groot Swing

Via Tumblr According to Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, there’s a new reality show entitled Super Fans Super Builds coming soon. He wasn’t clear about which network it will appear on or...

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Five Sci-Fi Technologies That Became Reality At CES 2015

Trimark The great thing about the future is that it is constantly arriving. What’s fiction now will be reality with shocking speed. And the Consumer Electronics Show is proof; here are five...

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This Seven Year Old Got A Badass ‘Stars Wars’-Themed Prosthetic Arm

YouTube What the people over at E-NablingTheFuture do is nothing short of miraculous. We have spoken of their altruistic awesomeness before, and here we are again with another story that will rekindle...

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Science Researching Your Bladder’s Wolverine-Like Healing Factor

“It would have been nice to know that before I got fired and went to jail. Just sayin’.” While it’s unlikely your bladder will grow a funny haircut anytime soon, it does manage a fairly neat stunt...

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Science Researching Your Bladder’s Wolverine-Like Healing Factor

While it’s unlikely your bladder will grow a funny haircut anytime soon, it does manage a fairly neat stunt your other organs can’t. It can lose approximately 75% of its mass and grow back, complete,...

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Science Builds A Tractor Beam. Well, Kinda.

The humble tractor beam doesn’t get nearly as much credit as the transporter and the phaser in terms of “Star Trek technology” everybody knows, but it actually turns out to be a lot more feasible than...

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Doctor Sonic Has A New Take On Your Favorite Marvel Characters

Many, many image blogs are fun, but goofy, whether they’re bad superhero cakes or the Avengers being unable to text. Doctor Sonic, on the other hand, is quite literally art. Everything the good Doctor...

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Famous Pop Culture Gunmen Wielding Zappers? Famous Pop Culture Gunmen...

Kent Sheely has a dream. A dream of taking famous movie stills, and replacing them with Nintendo Zappers. And he’s pretty far along in achieving that dream. What’s most impressive about these, beyond...

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Here’s The Creepiest/Greatest Ad For An Air Conditioner You’ve Ever Seen

It’s time to play everyone’s favorite game: Argentinian air conditioner ad, or short film by Charlie Kaufman? OK, so, if you read the title, you already know that this is not a (credited) Charlie...

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Marine Walks 5000 Miles Across Asia Using Only Google Maps

Today in inspiring and somewhat nerdy stories: meet Winston Fiore, a man who, using only Google Maps and apparently bottomless reserves of badass, walked 5000 miles to raise money for charity. Fiore is...

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An Astronaut Has The Best Twitter Response To William Shatner Ever

Meet Commander Chris Hadfield. He’s a bitchin’ guitarist, as you can see, and also a Canadian astronaut. Yes, Canada has astronauts. Why wouldn’t it? He was launched back in December to the...

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The U.S. Military Is Officially Installing Laser Weapons Into Fighter Jets

Laser weapons have been genuinely viable for a while, but they’ve been huge, heavy, and largely designed to destroy missiles while being schlepped around on a 747. No, what DARPA is going to start...

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'Big Ass Spider!' Is The Sensitive Drama It Sounds Like

It’s hard not to have an affection for giant insect movies. Granted, we’re not generally talking classics of film here, but then again, you don’t show up to a burger joint and complain about the lack...

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'Presidential Monsters' Turns Historical Figures Into Actual Nightmares

Many would argue you need the mindset of a monster to become a politician. So why not mash up famous presidents and Universal movie monsters? That seems to be the thrust of the Presidential Monsters...

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Science Makes The Spider-Sense A Reality

Spider-Man’s “spider-sense” may be a power that changes depending on the writer, but it is an actual “power” that insects have to some degree: The ability to sense oncoming forces and skitter out of...

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24Hz Sound Wave + Video + Water = Insane Optical Illusion

Video is just as capable of forming optical illusion as ink-and-pen drawing or photography. Like, for example, the latest video from Brusspup, an experienced optical illusionist. This time he’s created...

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The Phaser Has Officially Been Invented. Sadly No Redshirts Were Killed.

It turns out that the phaser is actually a sound-based device. Who knew? Also it’s really tiny. OK, we’re fudging a little bit, here. The phaser in question is not a handheld directed-energy weapon, at...

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos May Have Found Apollo 11’s Rocket Engines

You’ve likely seen them countless times on video: The rocket engines that drove America to space and even to the moon, the F-1 engine. But you’ve never seen the actual engines themselves. They were...

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