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NASA Dreams of Launching Spacecraft With Rail Gun
NASA engineers have proposed a system comprised of a two-mile-long rail gun and a scramjet to launch a spacecraft into orbit. The rail gun would have a 240,000- horsepower motor that would convert 180 megawatts into enough force to...
Boy Weeps Blood
Calvino Inman weeps blood. TLC is airing a documentary this month called The Boy With Bloody Tears about Calvino and this medical mystery. [Daily Mail]
Authorities Hunt For Cause Of Chilean Pyrokinesis [WeirdThingsTV]
Podcast: Baby Panda Terror
We complete the epic adventure of Spiro & The Fudge when our law enforcement tandem attempts to utilize their keen detective skills and uncomfortably close relationship in solving a murderous mystery in mob-controlled Italy. Brian tries to...
Clusterwink Snails Use Bioluminescent Shell-Flashing Defense
Located off the eastern coast of Australia, the clusterwink snail (Hinea brasiliana) uses a luminescent shell-flashing defense when its shell is tapped or when it detects predators nearby. Scientists think that this could either be a...
China’s UFO Launching Pyramid
It’s a pyramid. In China. Wait, it gets weirder. It’s on top of a mountain and is not (as far as researchers can tell) a burial tomb for a royal dynasty. In fact, local legend has it that the elevated platform has been used as a UFO...
Could A Stolen Yeti Paw, Skull Come Home For Christmas? [WeirdThingsTV]
Listen to the WeirdThings Podcast gang talk about this story as well!
Chernobyl To Open For Vacationers
Bound to be the hottest tourist spot next year, the 30-mile radius surrounding Chernobyl is set to open for day trips starting next year. While “illegal” tours already operate in the zone, these new tours will be government sanctioned....
Horrifying Video Of A Botfly Maggot Ripping From The Flesh Of Delighted Professor
No words.
Transparent Marine Specimens
New World Transparent Specimens offers marine creatures from the Japanese artist Iori Tomita that are transparent with colored bones. Using a method that involves the dissolution of natural proteins Tomita adds red dye to hard bones and...
Is There A Planet of Diamonds?
Scientists claim that the planet Wasp-12b has such a high carbon-to-oxygen ratio that the planet may literally be littered with diamonds and the core of the planet could have diamonds as well. It is the first carbon-rich planet observed...
See It, Shoot It, Share It
Look alive, Morgan City. Seriously though, what in the world is this? [io9]
Podcast: Officer Fudge’s Mystery Package of Death
In the first of a two part episode we’re introduced to the macho cop alter egos of Brian and Justin. Brian eats up NASA’s arsenic announcement despite Andrew and Justin telling him why he shouldn’t. Then we all learn a valuable holiday...
Proof Found That Giant Storks Ate Hobbits [WeirdThingsTV]
Solar Powered Hornets!
Scientists have recently discovered that the exoskeleton of the oriental hornet (Vespa orientalis) contains special structures that trap sunlight and convert it to energy. Using an atomic force microscope they discovered that the yellow...
Croatia Planning Moon Landing in 2012
The Croatian Astronomical Society Vidulini is planning on putting a rover on the moon by the end of 2012 near where Apollo 17 last landed in 1972. The rover is called Histrohod and will only cost 20,000 Euros to build. The Astronomical...
Fully-Automized Robot Debones Ham
Sure, let’s invent a robot that utilizes the sophisticated technology necessary to artfully carve up a soft meat like a ham. Great idea. When the streets are littered with the cleanly picked skeletons of the resistance, let me know how...
Otters Plot Take Over Of Boca Raton Suburbs
They are coming. They don’t like being filmed. They are the otters who will one day govern Boca Raton, FL. [Sun-Sentinel]
Cassini’s Hyperion Flyby
Here are the pictures of Cassini’s flyby of Saturn’s moon Hyperion stitched together in an awesome video. [Discover]
Hairless Creature Captured, Dubbed “Oriental Yeti”
Hunters in the remote woodlands of the Sichuan province in China caught a small hairless creatures that is said to resemble a bear with a kangaroo tail. The creature has been shipped to Beijing for scientists to examine and DNA test. The...