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How Big Is the New Enterprise Compared to the Old One?

725.35 metres. A whoppumental 2,379.75 feet. That's how big the new super-sized Enterprise is. Here you can see it compared against the Galactica, the good old Enterprise, the Blockade Runner, and the ISS. Read More >>

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Watch the First Ever Carrier Drone Jet Launch

You are about to witness an historical event: the first drone jet ever launched from an aircraft carrier. In a few decades, when autonomous drone planes battle each other in the skies, fire missiles at drone troops and battleships, humanity will look back at this day as the true beginning of total drone warfare. Read More >>

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How to Stop Time With a Ceiling Fan, Two Torches and a Camera

Remember the now-ubiquitous bullet time effect in the Matrix? That technique requires dozens of cameras and other expensive gear, but JPL engineer, inventor and Gizmodo friend Mark Rober, figured out how to do it for just a few quid. Read More >>

Space
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Watch the Universe Draw an Awesome Spirograph in the Sky

Oh Universe, you will never cease to amaze me, with all your galaxies and your pulsars and supernovas and your planets and your alien civilisations that never show up and all that starstuff we love so much. You know, like the fact that you draw perfect spirographs in the sky all the time. Read More >>

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The World Needs These Star Wars and Indiana Jones Versions of Donkey Kong

Look at these amazing Star Wars and Indiana Jones — and Batman, and Sesame Street, and Dr. Who... — conversions of Donkey Kong. I want to play them so badly. Unfortunately, they are not real editions of the Nintendo's original arcade, but designs by Baznet. They make for awesome t-shirts, but they would make for even more awesome videogames. Read More >>

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This 400,000-Piece Lego Hogwarts School Is Larger Than Harry Potter Himself

Alice Finch has created one of the most impressive pieces of Lego architecture to date: a 400,000-brick version of Harry Potter's Hogwarts School. So large in fact that it can fit Daniel Radcliffe inside. Read More >>

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Tamago Egg App Is the App to End All Apps—and Your Life

It's over, my friends. This is the end. Today—today I want to talk to you about Tamago Egg, the app that ends all apps. After you download it, there will be no need for you to download any other app ever again. It's game over. Read More >>

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This ATM Gives You Money for Free, Expecting You to Help People

This video will restore your faith in humanity but, before you watch it, you need some background information. Read More >>

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The Lego Back to the Future Time Machine Train Is a Must-Have

Our friend Masashi Togami, the founder of Team Back to the Future, has a new BTTF project on Lego Cuusoo: Doc Brown's Jules Verne Train. Like the soon-to-come-to-market Lego Back to the Future DeLorean, this model--created by Sakuretsu-is extremely well designed and fully functional. Read More >>

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Scientists Find Lost Continent In the Indian Ocean

Scientists have found proof of a sunken continent in the Indian Ocean. According to a study published in Nature Geoscience, the continent "was separated from Madagascar and fragmented into a ribbon-like configuration by a series of mid-ocean ridge jumps during the opening of the Mascarene ocean basin." Read More >>

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Russian Ghost Cruise Ship Mysteriously Appears After Two Months Adrift

This is the Russian cruise ship MV Lyubov Orlova. It disappeared shortly after it left Canada en route to the Dominican Republic, in the Caribbean. Two months later it has reappeared as a ghost ship, completely empty, floating adrift 2,400 kilometres off the west coast of Ireland. Read More >>

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This Is Not Mars or Mercury—This Is Earth

Commander Chris Hadfield—god bless his astrochops—just took this photo of Earth with the following caption: "Mars is a very interesting planet, with its rugged, ancient surface. But this is Earth." Absolutely oooohstanding. [Twitter] Read More >>

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The Internet’s Kevin Bacon Effect: Any Web Page Can Be Accessed From Any Other In Just 19 Clicks

In theory, every actor and actress in the planet could be connected to Kevin Bacon in six steps or less. And in theory, according to Hungarian physicist Albert-László Barabási, every random web page can be accessed from any other random page by clicking just 19 times or less. Read More >>

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How Is This Raw Chicken Egg Standing Whole Without Its Shell?

What kind of sorcery is this? How is this egg standing whole without its shell? Apparently, the inner membrane—the thin layer that you can see stuck to the hard shell when you boil an egg—is strong enough to hold it without breaking its shape. But how can you do this? Read More >>

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The Most Accurate and Awesome Lego X-Wing Ever Will Induce a Worldwide Spontaneous Nerdgasm

Witness Lego's Red Five X-wing Starfighter, the latest, baddest and biggest official set to come out of Denmark and, without a doubt, the most accurate and awesome Lego X-Wing ever created. Much better than the original Lego X-Wing Ultimate Collector Series, the previous best. Read More >>