i learned that the Japanese bullet train system is equipped with a network of sensitive seismometers. On March 11, 2011, one of the seismometers detected an 8.9 magnitude earthquake 12 seconds before it hit and sent a stop signal to 33 trains. As a result, only one bullet train derailed that day (x)
Broke: sci-fi technology, plasma weapons, lightsabers, lasers, and more will most likely always be fiction
Woke: tech youtubers have literally created plasma laser guns because they wanted to make an irl plasma laser gun from a videogame they like
you guys know i’m not fucking kidding in the slightest right.
this dude created a working plasma laser canon based on an overwatch weapon
also made a lightsaber
this dude was able to turn a microwave into a low tech microwave gun
the dude again made a cryo gun
HERES AN INTERVIEW FROM A NEWS STATION, OF THIS GUY LIFTING A TRUCK WITH HIS EXOSKELETON
AND THIS ISN’T IT. THERE IS SO MUCH MORE THIS, ABSOLUTE, FUCKING MAD GENIUS HAS DONE.
THIS FUCKER HAS MADE A LITERAL FUCKING ROCKET HAMMER.
GRAPPLING HOOKS
PLASMA RIFLES
A GOD DAMN EXOSKELETON, THAT LETS HIM LIFT CARS WITH EASE
SPIDER MAN GRADE SUCTION CUPS
STILL NOT DONE
THIS FUCKER MADE A JET SPRINTER IN ONE FUCKING DAY,
AND YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE, YOU KNOW WHAT HUGE FUCKING PROJECT HE’S DOING RIGHT NOW?
HE’S CREATING A LITERAL FUCKING, FUNCTIONING MECH SUIT, AND HE’S GOTTEN THE CLAMPS DOWN SO FAR
OH AND BEFORE I FORGET.
THEY ARE CREATING THEIR OWN BUISNESS, AND THEY’RE HIRING.
irl iron man
All these big tech companies are just rereleasing the same product every year whilst some bored guy who plays video games is making fucking plasma guns and mech suits
Hello yes i would like to obtain mass numbers of these to create a technologically advanced paramilitary.
For uh, research purposes.
I am not 100% certain of the validity or long term use of these things but good on him for finding a lil niche on youtube he likes.
You all are sleeping hard on Colinfurze, a man who started life as a blue collar plumber that got really interested making his own cheap jet engines:
And went on to create an honest to fuck hoverbike:
It’s not a ‘scientists have found’ and much more ‘people have been already doing that for thousands of years and it’s just gaining more attention recently’
Scientists didn’t know. It should be “Scientists just found out”
There’s actually been a load of vitriol leveled against folks who try to raise traditional colored cottons, because a lot of cotton growers don’t want the colored cottons cross-pollinating with their standard white cotton.
But anyway cotton can be grown in lovely natural shades of greens, reddish-brown ochres, and browns, all of which deepen with a good boil in water with a bit of washing soda thrown in.
The color obviously doesn’t fade or run, because it’s not dye. It’s the intrinsic color of the fiber itself.
I….I want clothes made out of those colors. They don’t hurt my brain!
Aren’t they lovely?
I’m biased because I love the natural earth tones of many fibers, of course…browns, blacks, creams, copper-reds, ect…but I think they’re just gorgeous.
If anyone wants to know where you can get yarn or cotton like this!
Ok natural cotton varieties are cool, but that’s not what the recent buzz is about. A team of Australian scientists published a paper on successfully using gene editing to produce cotton in vibrant colors. This is potentially a big deal because the dyeing process uses pretty toxic chemicals, produces nasty waste products, and overall isn’t great for the environment (or workers).
It’ll be a while before the tissue cultures actually grow up and produce cotton, so it isn’t a sure thing yet, but cool progress nonetheless.
Oh I had no idea that they were doing this! The only colored cotton I knew about was the traditional naturally colored varieties!
This miniature ecosystem has been thriving in an almost completely isolated state for more than forty years. It has been watered just once in that time.
The original single spiderwort plant has grown and multiplied, putting out seedlings. As it has access to light, it continues to photosynthesize. The water builds up on the inside of the bottle and then rains back down on the plants in a miniature version of the water cycle.
As leaves die, they fall off and rot at the bottom producing the carbon dioxide and nutrients required for more plants to grow.
if you don’t think this is fucking rad then get out of my face
ifesbob 