I found a proof that there is a difference between men and women years ago. It goes like this. Men know that men and women think differently, women know that men and women think the same. The fact that they disagree proves that there is a difference, QED.

#3 ...and there's always a hook...

You could do this while that annoying neighbor is having a barbecue... maybe they would drift toward his grill!

Soon enough, the scaffolds will be proteins and nanomaterials and the systems will be powered by light, air, and glucose. Then we will see hoards of nanomachines that can perform tissue repair, surgery, and other operations at the cellular and then molecular levels.

Add noseglasses and nobody would ever know who you are.

You know, Space-X developed a whole new liquid-fueled spacecraft engine in five years from a standing start, and only spent as much money as NASA spends in 11 days... a superb accomplishment. Now they have a six-passenger spacecraft that has flown in orbit successfully, and still are far, far less money than NASA spills in a few days. Time to let private companies handle our space travel needs.

Wow, four thumbs up!

#14 Well, for example, what you wrote is not even close to being correct or what I wrote. Think about it.

That was his reaction to the credit card bill for his family's vacation!

People back then were a lot sharper than most people today, they just didn't have the technical toys and resources we have. Adversity sharpens the mind.

#1 Those aliens are probably staying away because the rest of us don't use blow up things this way.

Now add moving air for wind and hot or cold air for climate and a bit of mist spray for oceans, and a few scent cannisters... Better hook up an IV for food because some people will never come out again.

This shows what independent people can do without the money and resources of Hollywood. Excellent effort, keep working! Incidentally, it reminds me of the work of Moebius in Heavy Metal / Metal Hurlant from the 70's.

#7 Myth not busted, they made some sort of mistake. I built a version years ago that became known on the net as the "backyard death ray" that used similar simple methods and can set fires a city block away easily. I also made a solar generator for making power at home using similar principles. See this link on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W-hguVMmt4

Oh no, more online shootings!

Brilliant man, but NASA has fallen down hard on its perceived mission. They are masters at drawing a plan out for decades and doling out thin rewards for the money. They used to be great, but the people who got them there are dead or retired- the guys there now are just warming their chairs.

The future is not with government, it's with private efforts. NASA probably now means No Actual Science Allowed.

Maybe, just maybe, he can't ... READ?

Okay, it keeps them from flying through it, but what happens when WIND pushes them through anyway? Just saying...

#8 you post a very good question that nobody seems to actually think about. Mars had oceans once but some of that water is lost to space (low gravity) and some is in the form of glaciers today under the dust. But there had to be free oxygen present at some point, just like the Great Rusting here on Earth long ago. This implies that there was some form of life to produce enough oxygen to make this happen. Rusty rocks are one compelling piece of evidence, and the huge quantities of sulfate compounds is another. All the sulfuric acid could not have formed to make those compounds without a huge amount of water and oxygen, regardless of the official NASA position. It's basic chemistry.

We used to provide food for the world, but farm subsidies and paying people not to grow just to control food prices and other factors made it unprofitable. We used to create wealth by turning raw goods into finished goods. We shipped those jobs off to other countries. We used to have massive technical growth, but lawsuits, patent battles, and a failing educational system made that unfeasible. Big business and banking seem to have corrupted and destroyed so much. They have the best politicians that money can buy.

Is Jacque's last name "Jetson"? I wonder where he keeps his car...

#14 the other way to think of this is that your mass is curving the space like a lens, so the light follows curved paths and even light from the sides can reach you at what appears to be impossible angles.

I can't wait to see their cooking show.

NOw, let's figure out how George Jetson folds that car up into a briefcase- that would be truly impressive origami!

This is the kind of guy who combs his hair with a tire...

One of the best animations in a long time, and one with an excellent message.

#7, government is never the answer to any problem. Education is. People who are educated tend to make better decisions. Anyone who would simply throw their trash down is an uneducated fool.

The point is simple- infinity is not a number, it is a concept of being endless. Subtracting something from infinity is like subtracting something from green. Does not compute.

Peewee Herman's voice: "I meant to do that!"

He could afford all that stuff, but couldn't buy some cookies? He's just like the coyote after the roadrunner. Just buy dinner if you have that much money...

Well, set a couple up making bricks, another making stepping stones, one large setup spinning fiberglass and another weaving it into cloth. Make them robotic and let them cruise across the desert making homes and buildings and solar power plants. Soon there would be all-glass cities made of sand and sun by robots.

I did this stuff years ago, and it can make simple bricks, stepping stones, etc. with ease. I also used it to weld, make a steam powered turbogenerator for electricity and a number of other things. You can see my videos on YouTube. The account name is thorargent. Here is one of the videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahZipZ8Di_Q

Incidentally, this is a good idea but his setup is way too complex. It can be done with a lot simpler setup.

Which aisle has the loop-the-loop? Or is that the fruit loop through the produce section?

That's just ducked up.

#5 the diode has less than 100% efficiency of course, and he appears to be getting about 1/3 watt per amp at the operating voltage. So even at 90 amps (his quoted full power rating) at the 2.3 volt operating level, which is 207 watts total input power, 60 watts is about right. For him operating at 124 watts input, his laser is probably putting out around 41 watts or so. But laser diodes are also not linear- highly dependent on temperature and power supply internal resistance.

You can use large shop vacs and do this safely and quickly. But my first thought was "government work program" which still equates with stupid.

Calvin once said "Cartoons are about idiots, anvils, and explosives." Well, this is right up there- idiots, hydrogen, and matches. I love it.

(Duke Nukem voice): That's gonna leave a mark!

He worked through adversity and made something amazing of his life. How many complainers do you know who have this much time but do nothing with it?

#8, yes, a yellow laser based on the frequency of sodium atoms is used to create a synthetic "guide star" which is a tiny dot in the sky. By measuring how the synthetic guide star trembles or twinkles, the computer distorts the telescope mirror slightly to compensate for it. This is called "adaptive optics" and it makes very clear images that way.

I would much rather drive the Mantis. It can eat up the competition.

patches and gum stick to fur- must have real cigarette

#2 when your fruit starts doing that, it's time to compost it.

As I was going down the stair,
I met a man who was not there.
That same man wasn't there today.
I wish that man would go away...

#14 well, they must get rid of the old ones somehow.

Can we get a hummer version of this?

Yeah, in three weeks Nintendo will be doing this for Mario World. Then kids will think that everything is that hi-rez. Time marches on.

What the hell was that?? I'm going to invent Mini Giraffe Tetris now...

#6, uh, because most of them don't know any other languages?

This is a good thing in nature- a predatory animal might mistake this for some larger, potentially more dangerous creature rather than a few small bugs. A scary, moving rug-thing might have a dangerous appetite.

Wow, if you see this happening, it's time to TAKE YOUR MEDS.

ZING! This is gold.

...and they accidentally hack a DoD site and you go to jail...

Yeah, it's all fun until somebody puts an eye out- then it's hilarious!

Wow, are we still this gullible?? "As they are walking around, they are sampling the environment themselves"- like spying on everyone at once, hmm? Why is it that they start with some outlandish claim of a fourth, "missing" circuitry element and then fly into nanodevices that can collect... harmless data everywhere as people act as the nodes for that collection...

Something is seriously amiss here.

I experienced this sort of thing in Rome many years ago. Packed tightly is an understatement.

I was waiting to hear Richard Attenborough saying "the preying mantis faces off the tarantula wasp".

Then the wreck happens and nobody is crushed in the metal but the glass shards are a problem.

"Ooh, hey, I love these things! Crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside!"

He probably spilled his drink.

Uh, you missed a spot...

If clowns patrolled the streets instead of cops, there would probably be a LOT less crime! Who wants to face an armed clown?? Besides, when you go to sleep, the clowns will devour you.

Wow, it's bigger than a semi and apparently invisible. He turns, Darwin scores!

Not impressed. Now if it were a unicycle-skateboard-hang glider submersible... over broken glass... hmm.

But now you have to convince your wife to reset all this stuff. It might be easier to have her get you a beer!

The commercial is not important- it's the message you take from it that is important. For that I give it the highest marks.

Gold certainly is not the softest metal- cesium is, and sodium is soft enough to squeeze into shape by hand- been there, done it, wear gloves! This video is really annoying, what does she mean by "flue rite"- fluorite? And the furnace, "whose temperature is..." I didn't know the furnace was a who. Nice video, needs polish, perhaps a professional company could do this properly.

Johnny Cash Bicycle- "I fell into a burning ring of fire..."

His wife probably says he's not doing it right.

I wonder how panda steaks with that cheese might taste?

"Are they endangered?"
"Well, this one could be."

Next expo she does the "Are You Sara Connor" dance. The lyrics go something like "Autoloader, laser sight, Uzi..." we know the rest.

Now all we need to save the world from these is a large robotic shoe!

Wouldn't it be great to have that in your back yard? You would never need a television.

"Yeah, I think we're dying. Oh, and could you send pizza with that rescue vehicle? Lots of pizza. And cookies. Is it here yet? Time's going really, really, really slowly."

Now, let's see them do it with skateboards!

#13 gastric acid is mostly hydrochloric acid and is capable of dissolving metals. It reacts with most metals to produce hydrogen gas, will dissolve aluminum, zinc, iron, magnesium, copper, stainless steel and many other metals.

At 3:57 it says "Only 2900 breading pairs remain worldwide." I don't really want to bread a vulture because I hear they taste terrible, so maybe they meant "breeding pairs"?

"I smell gas."
"Yeah, let's throw some fire in there."
(Musical interlude: Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly".)

"Hey, I just ran over that turkey, you think he's okay?"
"Keep driving, Peter."
"No, really? I mean, maybe we should stop..."
"Just keep driving Peter."

#16, we only have to make the first nanomachines, they grow the rest to our specifications. It is trivial at that point to literaly grow trillions of them in vats like vintners produce wine today. We are already producing custom cells and organisms, in a few years we will have perfected the means of growing any material to our whims.

Just think of all the times you didn't get the job because you failed the Rubik's Cube test or couldn't play Chopin. Just saying... lol.

One minute and forty seconds of gritting teeth and cringing - who knew injury could be so... entertaining?

I started out with fond memories of Heavy Metal from mid 1970s and then ended expecting Julius Zimmerman. Too bad that Corben and Bilal were not in on this. Excellent piece!

That guy looked like he was delivered by the Reaper, not the stork... just saying...

What's REALLY funny is that as I watched this, there was a Twix ad on the side of the page! Eeww.

#9, he was probably already wet, whether he hits water or not!

Now all he needs is the Acme Rubber Band Autoloader with Duke Nukem voiceover.

This idea has been around literally for decades but in this country at least, nobody wants to give up their trunk space for it. Imagine the drifting and spinning that idiots will do when they do get this.

What happens when you put two or three of these together?

But he missed the crotch- where's Darwin when you need him?

#2 That is why Doc Brown's hair stands up- he had to put all the meth in the flux capacitor to make time travel work.

No traffic signs? Amazing. And none of these accidents erupted into "kung fu fighting". More amazing!