luapo |
September 24, 2011
Want to enjoy the ride of your life along with the last ride of your life? That’s what Julijonas Urbonas envisions with his Euthanasia Coaster.
The three-minute ride involves a long, slow, climb — nearly a third of a mile long — that lifts one up to a height of more than 1,600 feet, followed by a massive fall and seven strategically sized and placed loops. The final descent and series of loops take all of one minute. But the gravitational force — 10 Gs — from the spinning loops at 223 miles per hour in that single minute is lethal.
According to Urbonas, the “Euthanasia Coaster is a hypothetic euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely — with elegance and euphoria — take the life of a human being.”
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luapo |
September 23, 2011
Al Gore, the inventor of the internet, actually told the attendees of a conference today that the new “iPhones” will ship next month. I think it goes without saying that fellow board members at Apple aren’t thrilled with Gore’s little gaffe.
Gore spoke Wednesday at the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. Toby Shapshak, a summit attendee and the editor of Stuff Magazine’s South African edition, told The Associated Press that, when speaking about computing’s exponential growth, Gore said, “Not to mention the new iPhones coming out next month. That was a plug.”
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luapo |
September 23, 2011
Do you happen to need an AK-47, as well as a company to process your credit card transactions? If so, that would make today your lucky day, strangely enough.
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luapo |
September 23, 2011
On Saturday, the 178th Oktoberfest opened in Munich, Germany, with the traditional tapping of the first keg of beer by Munich’s mayor, Christian Ude, shouting “O’zapft is!” (“It’s tapped!”). The Bavarian festival takes place over 17 days, and some 6 million people are expected to attend. Last year, visitors drank more than 7 million one-liter mugs of beer.
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luapo |
September 22, 2011
A couple of computer ads from 1996… Everyone should get a good laugh at these “back-in-the-day” prices. Just look at all those bargains!
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luapo |
September 22, 2011
Magnets on the brain may keep you from lying? What? Where are the magnets that keep people from getting grants for BS studies like this?
A new study shows that strategically-placed magnetic stimulation could potentially prevent your brain from being dishonest. Estonian researchers at the University of Tartu used a process known as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to determine the parts of the brain responsible for truthfulness and deceit. By stimulating these areas, the scientists were able to promote either an honest answer or a lie.
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