"Wow" video: 10 /10 on the visuals, 9/10 on the sincerity, 2/10 on the cheese ball music.
Fact: Pickles will kill you.
Every pickle you eat brings you closer to death. Amazingly, the "thinking man" has failed to grasp the terrifying significance of the term, "in a pickle." Pickles are associated with all the major diseases of the body. Eating them breeds wars and communism. They can be related to most airline tragedies. Auto accidents are caused by pickles. There exists a positive relationship between crime waves and consumption of this fruit of the curcurbit family. For example:
Nearly all sick people have eaten pickles. The effects are obviously cumulative.
99.9% of all people who die from cancer have eaten pickles.
100% of all soldiers have eaten pickles.
96.8% of all communist sympathizers have eaten pickles.
99.7% of the people involved in air and auto accidents ate pickles within 14 days preceding the accident.
93.1% of juvenile delinquents come from homes where pickles are served.
Evidence points to long term effects of eating pickles:
Of the people born in 1839 who later dined on pickles, there has been a mortality rate of 100%.
All pickle eaters born between 1908 and 1918 have wrinkled skin, have lost most of their teeth, have brittle bones, and failing eyesight--if the ills of eating pickles have not already caused their death.
Even more convincing is the report of a noted team of medical specialists:
rats force-fed with 20 pounds of pickles per day for 30 days developed bulging abdomens. Their appetites for wholesome food were destroyed.
In spite of all the evidence, pickles growers and packers continue to spread their evil. More than 120,000 acres of fertile US soil are devoted to growing pickles. Our per capita consumption is 4 pounds.
Eat orchid petal soup. Practically no one has as many problems from eating orchid petal soup as they do from eating pickles.
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Very Superstitious Stevie Wonder Metallica Mash-up
A thing of beauty. Very Superstitious gets a heavy metal make over with this mash up that actually works extremely well.
How to make Fire from ICE
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I'm not sure most of you city slickers would ever need this, but ya never know...
Fresh Start? The best way to send humans to Mars is to not worry about bringing them back
All current plans to send human explorers to Mars suggest the first mission is 25 years away. But a one-way journey could actually be possible very soon, and it might be just what we need to kick-start human space exploration.
That's the only slightly crazy idea put forward by Washington State's Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Arizona State's Paul Davies. Although their notions may seem like the stuff of science fiction - their scholarly paper discussing the idea actually has the Star Trek inspired title "To Boldly Go" - they believe the technology to send astronauts to Mars exists right now, or will in just a few years, and there really is no time like the present.
via io9.com
California City California: Google Tourism
California City, California is one of those massive urban development projects designed to spike real estate speculation and growth in 1965. The city was planned to spread over 203 square miles around a central park with a fake lake.
Never happened. Only 14k people made a home of it somwhere to the west of this map. A view from Google's eye in the sky shows the miles and miles of roads to nowhere.
A couple of days, a couple buddys and a couple of dirtbikes could make a nice weekend of this abandoned relic.
3D Solar Powered Printer Prints Glass from Sand
Solar Sinter, Siwa, Egypt (credit: Markus Kaiser) Markus Kaiser’s solar sintering project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance. In this experiment, sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D printing process, combining natural energy and material with high-tech production technology. His work with solar-sintering aims to raise questions about the future of manufacturing and the use of solar energy. Glass bowl (credit: Markus Kayser) More: Colossal Markus Kaiser
