No, not Global Thermonuclear War.
Space Invader + Physics = Physics Invader
Physics Invader is a Flash based game applies physics, including gravity and mass to the demise of the 8-bit aliens. As your laser cannon pierces each invader, its tiny little pixelated body falls to the ground, and their little carcasses pile up at the bottom of the screen. But why write up wordy descriptions of the game when you can play it for yourself?…
(OK, that was making fake “Red Label” Scotch)
We already know you can check your wine and find out if it’s bad
Now there’s How to make cheap wine taste like a fine vintage
The secret this time is an electric field. Pass an undrinkable, raw red wine between a set of high-voltage electrodes and it becomes pleasantly quaffable. “Using an electric field to accelerate ageing is a feasible way to shorten maturation times and improve the quality of young wine,” says Hervé Alexandre, professor of oenology at the University of Burgundy, close to some of France’s finest vineyards.
University of Burgundy. Figures. They don’t do this kind of work at Boone’s Farm State University, or Ripple Tech.
Never, never do this.
Lighter in a blender.
via Geeks are Sexy
Warning: Do not attempt to do this at home, or in fact, anywhere, ever.
The Bad Astronomy Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2008
Instructions are in Norwegian, but you can figure it out.
More stuff: animated gifs of things being thrown at the Prez
Some ingenious, some creepy
Update: another game
CDs as flywheels, on the ISS
Archimedes and the 2000-year-old computer
[I]n 212 BC, the Syracusans neglected their defences during a festival to the goddess Artemis, and the Romans finally breached the city walls. Marcellus wanted Archimedes alive, but it wasn’t to be. According to ancient historians, Archimedes was killed in the chaos; by one account a soldier ran him through with a sword as he was in the middle of a mathematical proof.
One of Archimedes’s creations was saved, though. The general took back to Rome a mechanical bronze sphere that showed the motions of the sun, moon and planets as seen from Earth.
“LHC destroys earth” being one of them.
(In case you didn’t know, Jeane Dixon was a “psychic”)
Tony Soprano, Archimedes. Archimedes, Tony Soprano.
So Tony Soprano pitches ties a concrete block to Salvatore Bonpensiero and pitches him into the ocean, where he will inform the police no more. Being a big guy, Bonpensiero has a fairly low density compared to your average human being – say, 0.96 grams per cubic centimeter. That’s less than water and so he’d have floated were it not for the weight. Assuming Bonpensiero has a mass of 140 kilograms, how much concrete would Tony need to sink him?
Hmm. A big guy, so a lower density? You callin’ me fat?