Archive page 54
NASA Budgets for Asteroid Rendition
NASA plans to put a line for $100 million in an upcoming budget for an asteroid snatching mission with a total expected cost of $2.6 billion. The goal is to grab an asteroid and move it into a lunar orbit so we can get a closer look. What...
Is this Green Meteorite from Mercury?
It’s green and came from outer space. While scientists haven’t completely ruled out a Kryptonian origin, they think this rock may in fact be the first piece of the planet Mercury ever found on earth. Sheared away in a collision billions of...
Is Elon Musk Planning the First Controlled Re-Entry of a Rocket this Summer?
The folks at NextBigFuture via Rocketeers.co.uk are reporting the rumor mill has SpaceX planning to send their reusable Grasshopper test rocket to a height of 300,000 feet in the near future with an eye towards trying a controlled re-entry...
Zimbabwe Tormented by ‘Countless’ Panty-Stealing Goblins
We don’t know who Chief Njelele is, or who elected him, but by the accounts were hearing, he’s got a real problem in his region of Zimbabwe. We’re talking a Nelson Mandela, Bill Gates and Bono level solve-this-crisis. On of his villagers...
Podcast: Blow and Hoe
Bonnie “The Invisible Wife” joins Brian and Justin to discuss the Week of Weird. A school in Maryland begin instituting a series of outlandish new regulations. Can Bonnie and Brian force themselves and their children to adapt? With all the...
Podcast: Salacious Skype Schemes
SpaceX launches does a new rocket test that reminds Justin of a CGI future where humans roam the stars. A new digital scam is fleecing business men our of scads of cash, Justin and Andrew discuss the future of such villainy. Are we...
SpaceX’s Johnny Cash Hover Slam Test a Success (no slam!)
Yesterday at the SXSW keynote, SpaceX’s Elon Musk showed the first footage of their most recent test of their reusable rocket system. In what has to be a new record of some kind, the Grasshopper, a rocket 10 stories tall, flew 268 feet in...
Quadcopters Play Catch Better Than Most Humans!
Quadcopters are the new must-have toys of the tech-headed kids. They’re showing up everywhere and there are thousands of them out ‘in the wild’. For those frightened that these things will eventually be controlled by SkyNet, this latest...
Zombie Perfume For the ‘Preppers Will Make You Socially Acceptable to the Walking Dead!
Fans of The Walking Dead know that if you cover yourself in the leftovers of friends, neighbors and family, zombies will just stroll right on by you…until it begins to rain and things go to hell real fast. Wouldn’t it be awesome if someone...
An Armband That Gives You Superhuman Abilities!
For a LOT of the more nerdy kids out there, we’re placing bets that many of you pretended you had the ability to throw fireballs, move objects by waving your hands and occasionally even tried in vain to channel the Force. That was all fun,...
Most Desirable Woman In Brazil Right Now Has Imaginary Virginity Up for Auction!
Last time we checked Brazil seemed like a place where men really wouldn’t be hard up to find a female companion. We were wrong. Very, very wrong. How wrong? Just…just keep reading. There’s a bidding war going on in Brazil right now over a...
Robot Learns to Throw…Humanity Flinches!
Anyone who’s been following the evolution of Boston Dynamics has been creeped out at one point by their BigDog robot. BigDog is a quadraped robot that has learned a lot of tricks since it was a terrifying little puppy of a machine. It...
Podcast: Brown Menace
Original three reunited again for this very special episode of the podcast! Andrew introduces a birthday question in honor of Justin’s 30th Name Day. A space pioneer wants to make a fly by around Mars but the price may be too high for some...
‘Cigar UFO’ Spotted Doing Volcano Drive-By in Mexico
What’s up with UFOs, volcanoes and Mexico? Just now hitting the internet are videos of a ‘cigar ufo’ doing a drive-by of a volcano in Mexico. In October of 2012 a more daring group of what’s probably the alien equivalent of a tour bus...
Fanta Wants You To Taste Fanta – By Eating the Print Ad About How Fanta Tastes!
In another step toward getting our food like the Jetsons, Fanta has created a print ad to describe, in a lot of adjectives, what their orange-flavored soda tastes like… Then they offer you a chance to taste it. And not by giving you a...
Swedish ‘Hotel’ Where You Can Live Like the Homeless
Ever wonder what it’s like to be homeless? If you live in Sweden, you can quit wondering and put your money where your wondering is. In order to raise awareness for the plight of the homeless population in the city of Gothenburg, an...
Russian Team Creates Cheap, DIY Ostrich Mech – Future Armies Will Look Terrifyingly Ridiculous!
Russia is a unique place. They drive a little differently there, meteors land there and now they’ve decided to tackle robotics…in the form a creepy walking robot disguised as a cute (but threateningly non-cute and blankly-staring)...
Podcast: Smoking Crater
Justin and Andrew are again two against the world. We discuss the Russian meteor and why it explains how terrible Russia’s music taste is. SpaceX is hinting at a new test launch that could leave a smoking crater in the ground. A law is...
LIVE Weird Things Podcast Recording
Watch live video from scamschoolbrian on www.justin.tv
Huge Meteor Burns Out Over Russia – Plays Out Like a JJ Abrams Movie!
Like found footage from an unannounced JJ Abrams flick, video is slamming YouTube from all over Russia about a large meteor that hit the atmosphere. Details are still coming in about the event and we’ll have a fuller piece about it later....