November 7
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What Space Invaders Really Look Like (T-Shirt) [Fashion]

All these years, we pegged the Space Invaders for grotesque aliens. Really, they’re men and women just like us, flying spaceships in a war they neither want nor understand. $18. […
November 6
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Ok, Now I Totally Get Aardvark

This is, apparently, not a fake exchange. A young journalist comes to Aardvark user Ryan Asava for help. Things go downhill from there. If you never quite understood the service, you’ll get it…
November 6
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Martian landscapes

Since 2006, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High…
November 4
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The Beatles catalog being released on limited edition USB stick

You know what’s kind of like online digital distribution, and yet not at all like that? Selling the entire re-mastered Beatles catalog on a USB drive that slots into a fake apple. The…
November 4
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Improved arm mounted flame thrower

prometheus-flame-thrower[Everett] is at it again with Prometheus, an arm mounted flame thrower.This is the third generation of the project and makes some huge advances over the second generation we saw last…
November 3
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Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy [Space]

Physicist Axel Mellinger travelled 26,000 miles and pieced together over 3,000 individual images to create this, one of the most stunning panoramas of our galaxy every assembled.

Piecing…
October 31
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Overloaded truck

Speaking of, here’s another good one:

It's full of people. People!

Took me awhile to realize that truck is carrying more than just baggage.

Tags: this is a metaphor for something
October 31
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Launch of the Ares I-X

On Wednesday, October 28th, NASA launched its Ares I-X prototype vehicle, the first launch from Kennedy’s pads of a vehicle other than the space shuttle since the Apollo Program’s Saturn rockets…
October 31
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Build a Silent, Standalone XBMC Media Center On the Cheap [Winter Upgrades]

You won’t find a better media center than the open-source XBMC, but most people don’t have the space or desire to plug a noisy PC into their TV. Instead, I converted a cheap nettop into a…
October 30
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CERN HL 2.jpg

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