The idea of peak oil has haunted us for decades . I say haunt because the concept that sooner or later we’d run out of the stuff has contributed to some terrible public policy in the United States. Read more…
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Article from 1975: The World Will Be Out of Oil by 2015
The colors! The colors! Holy cow, the colors. The world destroyer that is the red hot nickel ball got put to task on floral foam and the result is an awesome burn through that unleashes so many colors and then creates scales and pretty much topples the entire foam tower. Always a pleasure, red hot nickel ball. Read more…
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Red hot nickel ball burning through foam breaks the color spectrum
A police raid in Beijing has shut down a large counterfeit iPhone factory that had produced over 41, 000 handsets, reported to be worth $19 million. Read more…
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Chinese Police Shut Down a Huge Counterfeit iPhone Factory
A few days ago it was revealed that Hot Toys was building a sixth-scale toy version of the Millennium Falcon that would match the size of the company’s incredibly detailed 12-inch figures. And today we already have our first peek at the monstrous creation on display at the Ani-Com and Games convention in Hong Kong. Read more…
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This Is What a Monstrous 18-Foot Long Millennium Falcon Toy Looks Like
Another great thing you can do with drones—take stunning footage of ancient royal burial chambers. This National Geographic video offers an entirely new perspective on the Nubian pyramids that have stood the test of time in the Sudanese desert for over 3, 000 years. Read more…
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Drone Captures Incredible Footage of Ancient Nubian Pyramids
Here’s a fun video showing the rainbow of colors that anodized titanium can become. There are blues and purples and gold and it all changes so fast. It’s basically magic (or science!) that just applying voltage to a piece of titanium in an electrolytic bath can transform the color completely. Read more…
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Video: Anodizing titanium reveals so many beautiful colors
In winter, ice encroaches on Lake Michigan. In summer, sediment and algal blooms from runoff cloud the waters. But on a perfect day earlier this month, the ice had melted to reveal waters so clear, you could see decades-old shipwrecks lying at the bottom of the lake . Read more…
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Old Shipwrecks Are Reappearing In Lake Michigan’s Unusually Clear Water
This recently published photo of an F-35B going supersonic during twilight testing is stunning. The blue-hour moment, the burning colors of the setting sun, the ragged high altitude clouds—and the afterburner, with about ten shock diamonds . Magical. [ Lockheed Martin ] Read more…
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Shock Diamonds Are a Pilot’s Best Friend
Vizio can’t stop making its cheap 4K TVs even cheaper. The company just announced this year’s M-Series Ultra HD Smart TV Collection . They start at $600 for the 43-inch screen, and boy do they look beautiful. Read more…
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Vizio’s Beautiful New 4K TVs Are Cheaper Than Ever
Amazon is looking to end the practice of shady sellers paying money to receive positive four or five star reviews beneath their product listings, with the commerce giant aiming to smash some prolific review-sellers out of business using its immense legal cannons. Read more…
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Amazon Is Starting to Sue Sellers of Fake Five-Star Reviews