via YouTube – Midichlorian Rhapsody.

The three panels show a 1986 test of a Tomahawk cruise missile. The missile traveled 640 km (400 mile) low over the terrain to detonate above the target, a decommissioned fighter plane. It’s pretty clear the test was a success.

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Oh, and one more thing. This Tomahawk test was done 24 years ago. How much has the technology improved since then?

Yikes.

via Kablam! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine.

The evolution of the warp drive effect from the Star Trek movies, from the spectacular neon streak photography of The Motion Picture through the rather less awesome animated trails of the later TOS movies to the feeble CG of Nemesis, where they couldn’t even be bothered to include the ‘warp stretch’ effect. And what’s with those smoke trails? Has the Enterprise got a cracked manifold? *sigh*

via YouTube – Warp Speed!.

via The Daily What.

via Cow poop. – Lolcats n Funny Pictures of Cats – I Can Has Cheezburger?.

Coin with Actual Piece of Concorde Heat Shield in it, Tristan da Cunha

This coin celebrated the 20th anniversary of Concorde in 2009, it’s gold plated and each coin produced contained a tiny piece of Concorde’s titanium alloy heat shield, collect them all and build your own miniature Concorde!

via 25 Bizarre Coins that are legal tender « AdvanceLoan Finance Blog.

There’s stranger and more bizarre, but this was one of the more interesting ones.

The following steps should significantly extend the battery life on your phone.

1. Please connect the phone to the charger with the phone powered on, and allow the phone to charge until the notification LED is green, indicating the device is fully charged.
2. Disconnect the phone from the charger, and power it off.
3. Reconnect the phone to the charger with the phone powered off, and allow the phone to charge until the notification LED is green.
4. Disconnect the phone from the charger and power it on.
5. Once the phone is powered completely on, power it off again and reconnect it to the charger until the notification LED is green.
6. Disconnect the phone, power it on, and use it.

You need to use this sequence only once.

via [HOW TO] Calibrate Desire Battery – xda-developers.

via sugarlips.

Related: I’m going to be so incredibly obese it won’t be funny.

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View of the solar system showing the locations of all the asteroids starting in 1980, as asteroids are discovered they are added to the map and highlighted white so you can pick out the new ones.

The final colour of an asteroids indicates how closely it comes to the inner solar system:

Earth Crossers are Red
Earth Approachers (Perihelion less than 1.3AU) are Yellow
All Others are Green

via YouTube – Asteroid Discovery From 1980 – 2010.

Label crayon colors with the names of the chemical compounds that produce them

via Make: Online : Color chemistry crayons.

via YouTube – Seaswarm.

In July 2002, Appled filed a patent for a “Breathing Status LED Indicator” (No. US 6,658,577 B2). They described it as a “blinking effect of the sleep-mode indicator in accordance with the present invention mimics the rhythm of breathing which is psychologically appealing.”

via Flood Lite – Apple’s Attention to Detail.

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We searched high and low, across millions of miles of virtual space; we worried that we’d never succeed. But we found him: The architect of the best infographic explanation of Inception, the summer’s most complicated film.

via Infographic of the Day: Inception Contest Winner! | Co.Design.