you know those lawn mower robots? vegetarian roombas.
the implication in this post that regular roombas consume meat is frankly kind of terrifying
dust is 80% skin particles
actually lawn mower robots “attack” the most animals. Ecpecially if you let them run at night. A lot of hedhogs get mutilated because they run into lawn mower robots.
Good news for everyone with blurry vision or a strong desire to become Superman. The Ocumetics Bionic Lens may give you 60/20 eyesight — three times better than 20/20. It’s a major leap in eye prosthetics, takes 8 painless minutes to install — and could be here sooner than you think.
What do you suppose a Pokeball feels like? I mean, what’s the texture and weight really like in your hand. It’s a piece of technology that costs about two dollars – is it just rattling plastic? Do Apricorn balls have more of a wooden feel to them, like artisan, hand-carved balls?
And look at this:
That’s definitely like, die cast metal and rubber grips. That’s nice. Cherry red finish.
The actual physical textures of Pokeballs have been on my mind lately, is what I’m saying.
I think it’d be super heavy because it has some kind of on board field generator that takes time to maximize the capture beam’s power.
So like…. Imagine lobbing an expensive camera with a great flash and big lenses on it.
Do you think that’s what it feels like to be a Ghostbuster?
This one looks like it’s all rubber. Probably not too heavily glued down. Someone with fidgeting fingers like me would definitely end up peeling the grips off my Dusk Balls.
1. Lungs don’t just facilitate respiration – they also make blood. Mammalian lungs produce more than 10 million platelets (tiny blood cells) per hour, which equates to the majority of platelets circulating the body.
2. It is mathematically possible to build an actual time machine – what’s holding us back is finding materials that can physically bend the fabric of space-time.
3. Siberia has a colossal crater called the ‘doorway to the underworld’, and its permafrost is melting so fast, ancient forests are being exposed for the first time in 200,000 years.
4. The world’s first semi-synthetic organisms are living among us – scientists have given rise to new lifeforms using an expanded, six-letter genetic code.
5. Vantablack – the blackest material known to science – now comes in a handy ‘spray-on’ form and it’s the weirdest thing we’ve seen so far this year.
7. A brand new human organ has been classified, and it’s been hiding in plain sight this whole time. Everyone, meet your mesentery.
8. Carl Sagan was freakishly good at predicting the future – his disturbingly accurate description of a world where pseudoscience and scientific illiteracy reigns gave us all moment for pause.
9. A single giant neuron that wraps around the entire circumference of a mouse’s brain has been identified, and it appears to be linked to mammalian consciousness.
10. The world’s rarest and most ancient dog isn’t extinct after all – in fact, the outrageously handsome New Guinea highland wild dog appears to be thriving.
11. Your appendix might not be the useless evolutionary byproduct after all. Unlike your wisdom teeth, your appendix might actually be serving an important biological function – and one that our species isn’t ready to give up just yet.
12. After 130 years, we might have to completely redraw the dinosaur family tree, thanks to a previously unimportant cat-sized fossil from Scotland.
14. Earth appears to have a whole new continent called Zealandia, which would wreak havoc on all those textbooks and atlases we’ve got lying around.
15. Humans have had a bigger impact on Earth’s geology than the infamous Great Oxidation Event 2.3 billion years ago, and now scientists are calling for a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – to be officially recognised.
16. Turns out, narwhals – the precious unicorns of the sea – use their horns for hunting. But not how you’d think.
17. Human activity has literally changed the space surrounding our planet – decades of Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio communications have accidentally formed a protective, human-made bubble around Earth.
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