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NASA FINDS SOME SHRIMP

VBS.tv Blog — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:22:07 -0400

When NASA engineers are’nt talking about going to the moon (or, more likely, talking about not going to the moon) or setting up underwater retreats, some of them go shrimp fishing in Antarctica.

NASA scientists drilled a hole through a huge chunk of ice and stuck a camera down 600 feet. To their surprise, a little shrimpy came into view! The critter is a Lyssianasid amphipod, a cousin of the creature that people grossly eat. Until this discovery, scientists were pretty sure nothing would be able to live in the brutally cold environment under the ice.

AFTERNOON LINKS

VBS.tv Blog — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:47:41 -0400

In honor of everyone who spent last night getting plastered, we’re posting our morning list of links in the early afternoon. So, for everyone just waking up or still sleeping in a small pool of their own puke, here’re your stories.

This is very exciting news for the anti-aging crowd.

Trees are so old, it’s screwed up.

This shark is even older than those trees!

2010: The year the federal government finally, sort of accidentally, recognized gay marriage.

Nerds: Please read this story about Microsoft suing Linux.

A TO Z OF SEXUAL HISTORY: PENIS PANIC

VBS.tv Blog — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:21:59 -0400

Imagine one day waking up and looking down and realizing your dick has shrunk. Just a little sure, but you can feel it recoiling, turning itself against you, ultimately with the intention of killing you. This is penis panic, and despite what you think you know about it, prepare to have your dick’s mind blown all over again.
Of course, your dink isn’t really disappearing. Penis panic is medically known as genital retraction syndrome – a pathological belief the genitals are shrinking, most common in South East Asia where it is called koro or shook yong. It can occur in any community that believes there is a real penis shrinking disease. Sufferers believe in it with such conviction that they see it happening, break out in sweats, have heart palpitations and tremors. Often, in the hysteria of desperation they tie a weight to the end of it or safety pin it to the inside of their thigh to keep it in place.

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BRIAN ANDERSON ON EPICLY LATER'D TODAY!

VBS.tv Blog — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:47:32 -0400

Today we’re premiering Epicly Later’d with Brian Anderson. We take you to the hills of San Francisco to hear the story behind BA’s legendary career. But first, check out our collection of photos below taken by Sam Smyth, talent manager for Girl and Chocolate Skateboards.

Brian Anderson Part 1 of 5

VBS.tv Videos — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:51:43 -0400

It has been a minute since a new Epicly Later’d has gone up, so who better than to come back with than Brian Anderson. Since 1996 Brian has constantly have evolved as a pro skater. When his first video part came out in Toy Machine’s Welcome to Hell, he came out of nowhere and held his own along side some of the heaviest names in skateboarding at the time. By the time his second part came out, in Jump off a Building, he was pro. To continue his ascension to legend status, the following year he was awarded Thrasher’s S.O.T.Y. It would seem that with natural progression his skating would have slowed a bit, but it only got heavier. He moved on to Girl Skateboards, and his skating got even better. Anytime one of the Girl or Fourstar videos comes out he seems to be killing everything at demos with the new hungry guys on the team. I think Patrick says it best in the intro when he talks about Brian being a regular dude who happened to get the opportunity to become pro, and didn’t kook it.

Brian Anderson Part 1 of 5

VBS.tv Videos — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:00:54 -0400

UNDER THE SEA WITH DENNIS CHAMBERLAND

VBS.tv Blog — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:42:17 -0400

Today we’re debuting a new episode of Motherboard that takes you deep underwater to manned, space-age colonies on the ocean floor. Our guide on these expeditions was renown NASA engineer Dennis Chamberland. When Chamberland joined NASA in the early ‘70s, as the manned space program was starting to thunder forward, he latched on to an idea being floated by NASA at the time: using the sea as a test bed for space exploration. As a developer of the agency’s Advanced Space Life Support Systems, which monitors the safety for all off-planet habitation pursuits, Chamberland soon became a lead proponent of research on underwater habitation and what he calls the “space-ocean analog.”

THE FUTURE OF NASA

VBS.tv Blog — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:09:20 -0400

The atmosphere surrounding last night’s 10th annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate was a bit heavier than usual. “The Moon, Mars and Beyond: Where Next for the Manned Space Program?” the topic chosen by the directors of the American Museum of Natural History, was announced just before the Obama administration released its controversial NASA budget, which for now cuts out the possibility of an American-led return to the moon (or Mars) in the near future. “What was originally just going to be us putting out opinions now turns out to have huge implications,” museum director Neil deGrasse Tyson told a sold-out audience at the start.

Read the rest on Motherboard.

ST. PATRICK’S GAY

VBS.tv Blog — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:56:37 -0400

Today millions of plastic Paddys will be getting drunk on heavy black beer in honor of a Welsh sheep farmer who turned the Irish onto Christianity in the fifth century. But before all you Mexicans and Maoris fart in the face of genetics, geography, religion, and good taste by sticking the wig and face paint on, I’d just like to point out exactly what Patrick did for Ireland.

As much as you might like him for establishing the shamrock as our national symbol and for providing every other Irishman with a first name, what St. Patrick did was basically spoil the scene on Europe’s hottest party island.

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HOUSE OF THE SETTING SUN ON CNN

VBS.tv Blog — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:53:26 -0400

This week CNN’s running House of the Setting Sun, the Vice Guide to Travel all about elderly sex workers in Mexico

We visit an amazing place called Casa Xochiquetzal (The House of the Beautiful Flowers), a retirement home for older prostitutes in Tepito, one of the sketchiest neighborhoods in Mexico City. The house has a minimum age requirement of 60 and can accommodate up to 45 women. Right now, there are only 23 retired ladies of the night living there. The majority of them continue working, because there are still people who want to pay to have sex with them.

Watch the whole thing here.