I’m glad the History Channel is producing mockumentaries like The Great Martian War. The real documentaries are not much different and science-fiction alternative history lines are always more interesting than our savage and grim historical realities. It’s also very well made. Read more…
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Fake documentary shows terrifying war against the Martians in 1913
Astronaut Reid Wiseman captured this sequence of the Dragon spaceship ” breathing fire as it rendezvoused with [the International Space Station] last week.” The spacecraft was firing its thrusters to adjust its course. The original video was quite shaky, so I stabilized it for your GIFing pleasure. Read more…
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Dragon spacecraft quickly firing thrusters to adjust course
Defense giant Lockheed Martin, Notre Dame University, DARPA and the Air Force Research Lab have begun flight testing a streamlined and greatly miniaturized airborne laser turret that has the potential to totally transform air combat as we understand it today. Read more…
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Lockheed’s New Laser Super Turret Could Change Air Combat Forever
The Hitachi Seaside Park is one of the most beautiful parks in the planet: A place where millions of flowers grow every year in the most amazing displays of colors imaginable. Here you can see about 4.5 million baby-blue nemophilas blossoming in April—but there’s more, much more. Read more…
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A never-ending ocean of 4.5 million flowers in Japan
Chuck Palahniuk is writing the second part of Fight Club. It won’t be a new film (yet?)— Dark Horse is publishing this new story in a 10-issue maxiseries illustrated by Cameron Stewart, starting in 2015. Read more…
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Fight Club 2 is coming in 2015
The USNS Fall River , the fourth vessel in the US Navy’s new Spearhead -class of high-speed, shallow-draft transport catamarans launched for the first time over the weekend. This multi-function catamaran will transport up cargo and up to a battalion of troops between ports. Read more…
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The Navy’s Newest "Pickup Truck of the Sea" Just Launched
With an increasing number of bikes now sharing American roads with vehicle traffic, it’s more important than ever to be as visible as you can on two wheels, especially at night. But with the Zap commuter jacket from Sugoi, that won’t be much of a problem. Read more…
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This Bike Jacket Uses Embedded Glass "Pixels" to Light Up the Night
Electric chainsaws aren’t anywhere near as powerful as the ones with gas engines, but Makita’s X2 LXT comes close—and offers several key advantages if you don’t need a tool capable of clear-cutting a forest. Read more…
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An Electric Chainsaw So Badass It Needs Two Batteries
The zippy Snapdragon 800 pushes pixels beautifully on gadgets like the Nexus 5 and the Kindle Fire HDX, but now there’s a new kid on the block. Qualcomm just announced its Snapdragon 805 complete with 4K powers, and it’s coming to devices starting next year . Read more…
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The Blistering New Snapdragon 805 Is Going to 4K All of the Things
The Mission RS isn’t notable because it’s electric or because it’s designed and made in America. Or even because it’s really, really fast. Why you’re going to sit down and read every single word of this world-first review is simply because it’s a superior performance motorcycle to any yet made. Period. Read more…