Preparing to Rescue Hubble (69)
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The Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to launch next month (October 8th), carrying new instruments, batteries and gyroscopes to the Hubble Space Telescope. This will be the final servicing mission to Hubble, the 30th flight of the 23-year old Atlantis, and one of the final 10 flights of the Space Shuttle program, which will be retired in 2010. Even though Shuttle launches may seem to have become commonplace, their preparation and execution is still a ...
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Jason Allen said:
gotta love the scale
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Sander said:
Shitfuck wat is zo'n raket groot. En tof.
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Jeremy Botter said:
Everyone should subscribe to The Big Picture. It's a blog from Boston where they post giant, high-resolution photos of awesome stuff.
Thom and Jonny cover Neil Young (2)
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Thom and Jonny covered Neil Young's "Tell Me Why" last night at the Hollywood Bowl. Here's the video: Radiohead :: "Tell Me Why" (neil young cover) from gorilla vs. bear on Vimeo. MP3: Radiohead - "Tell Me Why" More information about this show, including the setlist and reviews, can be found at our gigography. (via Gorilla Vs Bear via At Ease)
Protester Raises Crucial Issue At Convention [Publicity Stunts] (12)
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We take it back: The Democratic National Convention is more than just a meaningless dog-and-pony show. It clearly remains a hotbed of vibrant political discourse, as demonstrated an hour ago on MSNBC, when a brave protester stood behind talking head Michelle Bernard and sent a message to the Obama-PepsiCo cabal conspiring against delicious beverages pushed off the margins of society. This is truly a defining moment of our era.
Protester Raises Crucial Issue At Convention [Publicity Stunts] (1)
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We take it back: The Democratic National Convention is more than just a meaningless dog-and-pony show. It clearly remains a hotbed of vibrant political discourse, as demonstrated an hour ago on MSNBC, when a brave protester stood behind talking head Michelle Bernard and sent a message to the Obama-PepsiCo cabal conspiring against delicious beverages pushed off the margins of society. This is truly a defining moment of our era.
The Wrong Door: If Terry Gilliam Directed Transformers as a TV Variety Show [Robots] (13)
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Leave it to the BBC to introduce a show about robots attacking humans and generally making a mess of the landscape that's both funny and tailor-made for the ADHD audience. The Wrong Door is a violent, live-action Robot Chicken prone to the same breezy matter-of-factness that made Terry Gilliam's Python interludes both funny and horrifying. Check out the clip above, where a computer takes revenge on a frustrated user, and after the jump, where the ...
The Wrong Door: If Terry Gilliam Directed Transformers as a TV Variety Show [Robots] (3)
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Leave it to the BBC to introduce a show about robots attacking humans and generally making a mess of the landscape that's both funny and tailor-made for the ADHD audience. The Wrong Door is a violent, live-action Robot Chicken prone to the same breezy matter-of-factness that made Terry Gilliam's Python interludes both funny and horrifying. Check out the clip above, where a computer takes revenge on a frustrated user, and after the jump, where the ...
High Quality Top Gear Season 7 Rips Now Available (1)
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Yep, we’re up to season 7 now. This was the season with the gang heading to southern France and the cheap Italian supercar challenge. As usual, please try and keep seeding until you get to at least a 1.00 ratio to help others out.
Klingon knife scares the crap out of dumb British scandal-sheet (51)
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Piss-poor scandal-sheet The Daily Mail has a hilariously breathless account of a giant stainless steel Klingon fighting-knife received by police during a knife-amnesty; to hear them tell of it hooded thugs are roaming the streets with Klingon duelling swords looking for little old ladies to terrorise. A spokesman for police in Gloucester, where it was surrendered, said: "It is a particularly nasty weapon that can, literally, take someone's head off. We are very glad it ...
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Maarek Stele said:
Note: Anthony Smitha has 3 of those things.
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Jemimus said:
Whahhaha!! The next thing we need now, is someone to actually go out and murder someone using a betleH. Think of the headlines! For a cool overview of other Klingon weapons: http://www.klingonimperialweaponsguild.org/pages/kristak.htmYou can buy replicas of ALL of these, btw. The one features in this new article is a pretty bad replica, btw.
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Gary M said:
I want one.
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Lee said:
This made me snort. An extremely dangerous weapon in the hands of someone trained to use it. Thankfully Klingons aren't real. And it is a horrible design for a weapon. It just looks scary but it is damn near just a sharp shield. The Star Trek folks worked very hard to make it look menacing, but it is just silly. I know it is based on a combination of martial warts weapons, but there is a reason the knife and its longer cousin the sword are so common. They work. This thing... just damn.
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captbunzo said:
surely britain must be getting safer day by day...
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MikeD said:
Yes, it's still covered in green plastic wrap.
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Benjamin Kohler said:
Holy shit. :-)
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lmjabreu said:
Hey! That's my bat'leth!
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Jason Allen said:
classic picture
Our New Front In The War On Hell: Giant Robots [Mecha Spawn] (9)
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As if being murdered and then brought back to (un)life by a demon from Hell as a zombie superhero out for revenge wasn't bad enough, Todd McFarlane's Spawn is about to go through his most extreme transformation yet - into a giant robot. As part of October's new Robot Wars line of toys, McFarlane is taking his once-popular hellbound superhero in a more mecha direction. The new line sets up a brand-new setting for the ...
Netflix crash caused by botched Oracle upgrade [Breakdowns] (10)
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How did Netflix end up with massive delivery delays? "Because of massive database corruption in their Oracle cluster caused by a botched upgrade," according to a tipster. But don't blame Oracle (or Microsoft), necessarily. The tipster believes Netflix's own database adminstrators who bungled the upgrade. Why not just roll back the system? I believe it's more complicated than that — probably transactions that happened *after* the upgrade that they now need to reconcile manually. The ...
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Logan said:
shared this for the pic... didn't know how they sorted all of those DVDs and I certainly hadn't guessed it was done by hand.
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Robert said:
ouch!
Netflix crash caused by botched Oracle upgrade [Breakdowns] (1)
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How did Netflix end up with massive delivery delays? "Because of massive database corruption in their Oracle cluster caused by a botched upgrade," according to a tipster. But don't blame Oracle (or Microsoft), necessarily. The tipster believes Netflix's own database adminstrators who bungled the upgrade. Why not just roll back the system? I believe it's more complicated than that — probably transactions that happened *after* the upgrade that they now need to reconcile manually. The ...
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Alex Roy reviews his dream car: the Audi R8 Blackbird - Autoblog (8)
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Filed under: Gadgets, Coupes, Sports/GTs, Tech, Videos, Supercars, Audi, ToysClick above to view video after the jumpAlex Roy, currently locked in an M5 with our own Damon Lavric, recently got a video tour of a rather nifty Audi R8 owned by someone who insists he remain nameless. Codenamed Blackbird, the coupe is stuffed with enough gadgets to be a testbed for NASA's shuttle replacement, but don't for a second think the interior resembles a jungle ...
Laser Gunship Fires; 'Deniable' Strikes Ahead? (3)
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Boeing announced today the first ever test firing of a real-life ray gun that could become US special forces' way to carry out covert strikes with "plausible deniability." In tests earlier this month at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, Boeing's Advanced Tactical Laser -- a modified C-130H aircraft -- "fired its high-energy chemical laser through its beam control system. The beam control system acquired a ground target and guided the laser beam to the ...
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Jason Allen said:
if this kind of stuff is public one has to wonder what else they have in hiding
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