Ne suivez pas aveuglément votre GPS ! (3)
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Il y a quelques jours, un conducteur polonais a envoyé sa camionnette dans un lac artificiel en suivant aveuglément les indications de son GPS. Il a fait fi des trois...
I Smell Cancer!: Scotch Tape Emits X-Rays (4)
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So scotch tape can produce x-rays (that's a real picture taken with a 30-second exposure showing visible light emission from a roll). In a tour de force of office supply physics, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have shown that it is possible to produce X-rays by simply unrolling Scotch tape. In the current issue of the journal Nature, Dr. Putterman and his colleagues report that surprisingly fierce flows of electrons were unleashed ...
Something In This Picture Doesn’t Belong… (1)
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In the Birmingham International Airport annual report. Sure including a stock photo of x-rayed luggage in the annual company report sounds like a great idea and looks cool, but you should always double check the x-ray. I don’t know what kind of people receive the annual report from Birmingham International Airport but I’m guessing they are the kind of people that aren’t going to be amused to find a motorized cock on the page 11 ...
Scotch tape surprises everyone by producing X-rays (45)
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets As far as we're concerned, sticky tape is mostly just for out-there modding projects, but scientists have confirmed another use for it: X-rays. After hearing word of research in that direction by Soviet scientists in the 1950s, researchers at UCLA peeled scotch tape at 1.18 inches per second in a vacuum chamber and found that X-ray pulses were emitted by the process. A human thumb has already been successfully X-rayed by ...
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Mike Lepore said:
This is just plain old weird - but cool
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captbunzo said:
way cool...
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Matt said:
Huh?
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Ben said:
Say what???
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Patrick Patterson said:
Whoa. After hearing word of research in that direction by Soviet scientists in the 1950s, researchers at UCLA peeled scotch tape at 1.18 inches per second in a vacuum chamber and found that X-ray pulses were emitted by the process.
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Jing said:
yeah i never saw this coming...
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ramcosca said:
What the crap? This is awesome!
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Lee said:
This reminds me of the frog experiments in quicksilver for some reason. Who the hell would have thought x-rays were generated from removing scotch tape?
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warza said:
A little bit of humour.
X-ray Light exposes our failure to be super (2)
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Filed under: Household It's a shame that the amazing always becomes ordinary given enough time and popular exposure. Case in point: the x-ray. Childhood longings to possess such visual power are ultimately replaced by painful memories of leaden-concealed trips to the emergency room. Until this, the X-Ray Light from designer Wonsuk Cho. A whimsical look through the lampshade for eyes eager to see. Unfortunately, these lampshade / lights aren't yet available to purchase -- another ...
x-ray lighting fixtures won’t expose you to radiation (1)
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Usually when I think about X-rays, it conjures up images of sitting on a table in an ill-fitting hospital gown with a weighty lead apron draped over some part of my body. Fortunately, these X-ray lamps require not so much as a visit to the doctor’s office. Designer Wonsuk Cho created these pendant lamps using actual X-rays of incandescent and compact fluorescent light bulbs. Alas and alack, there is no information on if or when ...
Hajj 2008 : La Mecque - Mina bientôt en train ? (1)
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How to get detained at the airport: step one, put these in your bags (1)
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I guess that’s that’s one way to make a statement. Of course, you’ll also be missing your plane. While I’m sure the look on the screener’s face will be worth it for a few minutes when they see a ghostly X-ray image of an LOLcat (or what have you) in your luggage, you’ll probably regret it once they put the hood on you and put you in a pile with other mischief makers. Doubtless creator ...
Halal, hajj, aïd al-kebir et autres informations pour le consommateur musulman (6) permalink
Hajj 2008. Depuis plusieurs années, le nombre de pèlerins lors du hajj est en constante augmentation. Pour faire face à cette forte affluence, les autorités saoudiennes ont multiplié les chantiers (voir Hajj 2008 : plan et maquette des chantiers de La Mecque et de Médine et La lapidation de Satan ...Shared by Reshad (11)Contribute comment
