Maybe this is why all my relationships fail.
(Source: smbc-comics.com)
3D Printers Could Make Astronaut Meals
Several decades from now, an astronaut in a Mars colony might feel a bit hungry. Rather than reach for a vacuum-sealed food packet or cook up some simple greenhouse vegetables in a tiny kitchen, the astronaut would visit a microwave-sized box, punch a few settings, and receive a delicious and nutritious meal tailored to his or her exact tastes.
This is the promise of the rapidly maturing field of 3-D food printing, an offshoot of the revolution that uses machines to build bespoke items out of metal, plastic, and even living cells. Sooner than you think, 3-D printed designer meals may be coming to a rocketship, or a restaurant, near you.
“Right now, astronauts on the space station are eating the same seven days of food on rotations of two or three weeks,” said astronautical engineer Michelle Terfansky, who studied the potential and challenges of making 3-D printed food in space for a master’s thesis at the University of Southern California. “It gets the job done, but it’s not exactly home cooking.”
(Source: Wired)
![Let global warming take care of itself!
Here’s an interesting story coming out of Australia - the temperatures are so high that gas vaporizes before you can pump it into your tank. At least that’s one approach to lowering fossil fuel consumption.
The country’s all-time record of 123.26 degrees Fahrenheit was set in 1960 at the Oodnadatta Airport in Southern Australia, but it’s already so hot that people can’t even pump gas. Nikki Staskiewicz and Angela Blomeley were stranded in Oodnadatta — which bills itself as “the driest town [in] the driest state of the driest country” in the world — when they tried to fill up their tank, only to find the fuel vaporizing in the triple-digit heat.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/d7ba321dc64aa57c14c2aa5d06471594/tumblr_mhtvmqQA281qgfmcuo1_500.jpg)
Let global warming take care of itself!
Here’s an interesting story coming out of Australia - the temperatures are so high that gas vaporizes before you can pump it into your tank. At least that’s one approach to lowering fossil fuel consumption.
The country’s all-time record of 123.26 degrees Fahrenheit was set in 1960 at the Oodnadatta Airport in Southern Australia, but it’s already so hot that people can’t even pump gas. Nikki Staskiewicz and Angela Blomeley were stranded in Oodnadatta — which bills itself as “the driest town [in] the driest state of the driest country” in the world — when they tried to fill up their tank, only to find the fuel vaporizing in the triple-digit heat.
(Source: TIME)
“How did men get the dinosaurs to not buck them off of their saddles when people rode then? Were the dinosaurs more domesticated and well behaved because there wasn’t as much sin back them?”
— Creationists are answering the most difficult questions science has to offer.
(Source: fatlip.leoweekly.com)
#Overlyhonestmethods
I’m doing my senior research right now, and I swear that the Experimental sections of the papers I read were written with a Magic 8 Ball. There are plenty more memes if you click through. And feel free to make your own and sent it my way!
h/t Chas
This makes me laugh every time I see it
I know this has already made the rounds on the blogosphere, but I couldn’t help posting it myself. This chipmunk gives the greatest “oh sh**!” reaction likely to ever be caught on film. You have to check out the short clip from the BBC’s documentary Africa, which shows you why the chipmunk reacted like he did; it may have had to do with being stared down by a cheetah.
(Source: io9.com)
awkwardisnotanoption-deactivate asked: I believe there might be some confusion with the recent post concerning the imported water at Town Square. I live in Las Vegas and we've been in a severe drought since 2000. This means the whole region is under strict watering restrictions throughout the year. These restrictions include a limit on the days and amount of time we can water our lawns and a ban on water features such as water fountains. This imported water just helps ease the water used in our region while providing comfort.
This makes much more sense. Thanks for clearing it up! Still, I think the sign is overall pretty absurd - the water feature seems even more excessive than it ordinarily would, when you factor in the cost and energy required to transport the water into the desert.
“Las Vegas cares about the environment…We use imported water.”
I’m trying to imagine the staff meetings they had discussing importing water as well as design approval for this sign. Were there power points and budget analysis? Unreal. Via
If, in the future, someone makes a gravestone for America, I think it will say “We use imported water in our water feature.”
jtotheizzoe asked: This is fun. I hope we start a meme.
This is very, very nerdy. But also pretty fun!
“There are many legitimate and articulate opponents of genetically modified products and, for that matter, of conventional medicine itself. But Oz has consistently chosen guests with dubious authority to argue those positions. Joseph Mercola, an osteopath, runs mercola.com, one of the most popular alternative-health Web sites in the country. Oz has described Mercola as a “pioneer in holistic treatments,” and as a man “your doctor doesn’t want you to listen to.” This is undoubtedly true, since Mercola has promoted such alleged experts as Tullio Simoncini, who claims that cancer is a fungus that can be cured with baking soda. Mercola has long argued that vaccines are dangerous and that they even cause aids. When Oz says that Mercola is “challenging everything you think you know about traditional medicine and prescription drugs,” it’s hard to argue. “I’m usually earnestly honest and modest about what I think we’ve accomplished,” Oz told me when we discussed his choice of guests. “If I don’t have Mercola on my show, I have thrown away the biggest opportunity that I have been given.”
— The New Yorker has an excellent profile of Dr. Oz, the so-called “America’s Doctor” who has a wildly popular daytime show. Dr. Oz tends to get in hot water from the skeptical community for his choice of guests, ranging from psychic mediums to outcasts like Joseph Mercola. Does Oz’s outreach to a group of people normally distrusting of doctors outweigh the often dubious information he peddles? Check out the full article and judge for yourself. Regardless of your opinion of him, I’m sure you’ll find Oz a fascinating figure.
