Apparently German television is now being taken over by dinosaurs. I suppose it’s just a matter of time before this happens in America. Though I’m sure Oprah wouldn’t go down easy, putting up an epic fight against these creatures. Now that would be some good TV.
Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Dinosaurs Upstage Dorky German Television Show Host
Thursday, October 8th, 2009“No Bones About It” – The Mütter Museum’s New Show
Friday, September 18th, 2009The Mütter Museum now has an online video program “No Bones About” which is hosted by Museum Director Robert Hicks. Unfamiliar with the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia? Well, let’s just say that it is one of the most uniquely morbid medical collections of oddities and aberrations in the world, and they are world famous for their calendar that features the museum’s collection.
30 Ways To Die Of Electrocution
Monday, December 15th, 2008Photographer bre pettis took a trip to the Technisches museum in Vienna. There he took a series of photographs of the “30 Ways to Die of Electrocution” exhibition. Now you’ll know at least 30 means of shocking yourself to death. And knowing is half the battle…
Source – Boing Boing
Vampire Moth Discovered
Monday, December 1st, 2008Entomologist Jennifer Zaspel and her team have found moths that will drill their hook-and-barb-lined tongues under the skin and suck you blood. Thought to be an evolutionary jump from drinking the juices of fruit, these tiny winged blood suckers from Russia are virtually indistinguishable from their central and southern European fruit drinking cousins.
Those who suffer from Mottephobia (the fear of moths) and Sanguivoriphobia (the fear of vampires) can now proceed to freak the hell out.
Source – National Geographic News
Beware The Carnivorous Brain Worm! [Kind of NSFW - Brain Meats Shown]
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008Doctors thought that Rosemary Alvarez of Phoenix had a brain tumor at the base of her brain stem. That is until they got her onto the operating table and discovered something even more unsightly… a parasitic worm named Taenia solium, also known as a pork tapeworm. And how did Mrs. Alvarez end up with a tapeworm nuzzled around her brain stem you might ask? By eating food tainted with the feces of a person infected with the pork tapeworm parasite. Yes, her food had traces of poo in it because someone didn’t wash their hands properly.
“It wasn’t that she had poor hygiene, she was just a victim,” said Rosemary’s neurosurgeon Dr. Peter Nakaji.
So the lesson to learn here kids is to wash your hands after you take a dump for fuck’s sake! Or Mother Nature is gonna give you the Carnivorous Brain Worms.
Drinking Coffee In Zero-G Environment
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008From last night’s video feed on NASA TV, Dr. Don Pettit shows us that Man will always find ways to get their caffeine fix.
1/10 Scale Nautilus
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Above is pictured one Pat Regan with his 1/10 scale working replica of the Nautilus from the film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Is is obviously one of the coolest people in the universe.
He’s a massive fan of the film and has also built other replicas from the film including underwater rifles and diving suits, and restored one of the film’s original diving suits. He even has instructions on how to build your own replica Nemo rifle. Pretty swank my friends.
To see all of the projects he’s done, of which most include production notes, check out Regan’s site at Vulcania Submarine.
Source – Dethroner
Large Hadron Collider
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Tomorrow will dawn a big day in the scientific community, let alone the world in general, when the switch is thrown to the massive Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator which will collide beams of protons. Once that happens one of two things will happen…
1. Science FTW! Scientists finally discover the ever elusive “God Particle”, which is the only elementary particle that has never been observed by science, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and missing links in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass.
2. We’re Doomed! The high-energy particle collisions performed might produce dangerous phenomena, including micro black holes, strangelets, vacuum bubbles and magnetic monopoles. Kiss your ass goodbye!
So, if you’re an optimist you can actually watch the LHC start up in real time via the CERN video broadcast. If your a doomsayer, well I guess you can hunker down and keep an eye on things at the Has The Large Hardon Collider Destroyed The Earth Yet? site.
Either way we here at Zombie Monkey Projects will be cracking open a fine bottle of booze to salute science… or curse it.
MythBusters Paint With 2100 Barrel Paintball Gun
Friday, August 29th, 2008Adam and Jamie of MythBusters created a massive 2100 barrel paintball gun to create their own version of the Mona Lisa – all in one single shot. And it looks pretty damned good.
The big gun took six months of work to create and was for Nvidia’s Nvision tradeshow. Named Mona Lisa, it was used as part of a demonstration (on an absurdly large scale) on the difference between a CPU and a GPU, the massive paint gun representing the GPU and a smaller robot seen at the beginning of the video named Smiley being the CPU.
Beyond the fact that most of us mortals could give a rat’s ass about the difference between a CPU and a GPU, this demonstration was of a typical MythBusters level of over the top we know and love them for.
Source – Gizmodo
