Eliyes

Okay, so the Rawlemon solar collector is an awesome idea and more efficient than photovoltaic panels and will work on parts of the globe where PV panels are just not getting enough sunlight for them to be worth their expense. And they collect solar energy from the moon. That's very cool, and the ickle beta.ey gizmos that can charge a phone look pretty neat.

But I see no reason why we can't have those and Solar Roadways.

Check out this awesome shit:



C'mon, you know you want the giant crystal balls plus the light-up roads, okay. I sure do.

Scientists successfully generate gasoline out of thin air

Hm!

You heard me. XD

It's the 31st anniversary of Canadarm's first use in space as today's Google-art informs us, and so, this conversation happened when I pointed this out to kiffie:

kiffie: ARM! :D
eliyes: 31st anniversary, baby!
kiffie: Ever since Iron Man came out, I now can't shake that the Arm sounds like Dummy
eliyes: only in space
kiffie: XD
eliyes: manufacturing fake hydrolic-like Darth Vader hsss-psssht noises for drama
kiffie: Yesss. :3
eliyes: secretly penpals
kiffie: Not so secretly. XD
Tony: What the--
eliyes: Dummy: :D *flails expressively, making noises*
eliyes: Tony: Seriously? The Canadarm?
eliyes: Dummy: *Happy beep*
kiffie: D'aww. :3
kiffie: Email Canadarm: SUCCESS
eliyes: Dummy: *happy dances*
eliyes: Rhodey: What's up?
Tony: I think Dummy has a girlfriend. From Canada.
( more under the cut! XD )

Technically, this is RPF.

Anything they want.




Science Bros Ask 10 by =ecokitty on deviantART

Unambiguous evidence of water on Mars! *does a dance*

You know that tool in most photo-editing programs that lets you sample a colour in what you're working on and then use it? It's usually called a "colo(u)r-picker"?

Here's one that works in real life. You hold it up to something you want to sample the colour of, scan that, and the pen reproduces the colour in its ink.

Is that not wonderful? 8D

A victim of the London bombings has had a prosthetic arm fitted to her bone and skin in an operation which could herald "a new generation of reconstruction".

AWESOME!

Those crazy bastards! They's going to make stuff from Gundam REAL! 8O

In roughly 34 hours from the time I've begun typing this post, something will happen. There is a 1 in 5000 chance that this will result in the destruction of 80% of the galaxy or thereabouts, including, of course, our planet.

That's right, they're going to use the Large Hadron Collider, aka the LHC. It's a physicists dream come true: they're going to "smash protons moving at 99.999999% of the speed of light into each other and so recreate conditions a fraction of a second after the big bang."

So. In the unlikely (but more likely than the planet being struck by an extinction-event-level meteor, apparently) event that we are all destroyed, I just wanted to say that it's been fun. :3

Check out the countdown!

eta: *massive pout* They postponed it.

So, I've been reading articles at Suicide Girls (which is an outgrowth of my earlier activity today: reading online resources for Sons of Ether) and saw this awesome and totally true quote from Wil Wheaton:

"Hollywood faces its greatest challenge in the history of adapting comic books to movies with Watchmen. Many executives won’t understand what it’s about. Neither will their young, allegedly hip assistants they hired out of Harvard Business School.

If Hollywood really wants to do this right, and really doesn’t want to fuck it up, my advice is to listen to the focus group at Comic-Con. I mean, really listen, because if Hollywood fucks up Watchmen, there’s going to be a nerd riot so terrifying, it will be like a thousand studio executives cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."

It's from this excellent article.

Another cool article by Wil is this discussion of communication and it's ramifications on... a lot of things. I also had fun reading this, this, and this. (Diamonds and tectonic plates, holes in the universe, and an interesting theory about people in the future and us that I don't quite understand at the moment. It's late. I'm kinda tired.)

And here you probably thought SuicideGirls.com was nothin' but sexy girls. It also has science and geekery! :D

And while geeks appreciate pictures of girls on the net, girls appreciate pictures of geeks on desks, on the net. Or a table, in Steve's case, there. ;3