is acid the new tylenol?

last september LSD cleared FDA clinical trials for to treat anxiety in cancer patients for a bunch of people it seems as if tripping is the only way to go about a regularly painful life...

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the godzilla of jellyfish invade japan!

holy crap. its not godzilla but worse, JELLYFISH! BIG ASS ONES!

"Japanese researchers monitoring the activity of giant jellyfish in Chinese waters are warning of a potentially historic and catastrophic invasion this year.
Marine surveys conducted in late June have revealed alarming numbers of Nomura’s jellyfish — massive creatures that grow up to 2 meters (6 ft 7 in) in diameter and weigh as much as to 220 kilograms (about 450 lbs) — lurking in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea. The researchers warn that ocean currents may bring swarms of the monster jellies to Japan, which has been plagued by similar invasions in recent years.

Based on what they have seen so far, the researchers warn this year’s onslaught of Nomura’s jellyfish (Nemopilema nomurai, or Echizen kurage in Japanese) could deliver a massive blow to Japan’s fishing industry, rivaling even the devastating 2005 deluge that caused tens of billions of yen (hundreds of millions of dollars) in damage nationwide.
The surveys are being conducted by a team led by Shinichi Ue, a professor of biological oceanography at Hiroshima University who also chairs a government research committee tasked with developing technology to predict and control jellyfish explosions. Ue has been monitoring the population density of Nomura’s jellyfish in the southern Yellow Sea and northern East China Sea since 2006.
Between June 20 and 24, 2009, Ue’s team observed numerous specimens with umbrellas measuring 10 to 50 centimeters across, and they calculated an average distribution of 2.14 jellyfish per 100 square meters. This figure is more than 200 times higher than the 0.01 jellyfish per 100 square meters observed in the same region in 2008. It is also nearly triple the 0.77 jellyfish per 100 square meters observed in 2007, when the fishing industry in the Sea of Japan suffered widespread damage."




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the worlds first stealth fighter

that luftwaffe and Hermann Göring were a tricky bunch. who knows what would have happened if this bad mother-effer made to production.

"As it turns out, Hitler had an stealth fighter in the Ho 2-29. Thanks to the use of wood and carbon—which increased its radar absortion—jet engines integrated into the fuselage, and its blended surfaces, the plane could have been in London eight minutes after the British radar system detected it. In comparison, other planes took 19 minutes since detection to target, which gave the RAF fighter enough time to scramble and hunt down the bastards. The Ho 2-29 would have made the interception almost impossible, if at all."

the Horten 2-29 was reproduced by northrop grumman and tested to see if it would evade wwII era radars. currently residing at Air and Space Museum’s Paul E. Garber Restoration and Storage Facility.



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mother effing grossness

massive worm found in a north carolina sewer, it looks like throbbing clit if you ask me!

human teachers will soon be obsolete!

yikes! forget outsourcing to idea, robots are the new threat to the domestic job market!
the robot model Saya teaches a class!

"Saya, can express six basic emotions — surprise, fear, disgust, anger, happiness, sadness — because its rubber skin is being pulled from the back with motors and wiring around the eyes and the mouth."






"The robot SAYA, far right, appears in the lesson at the school in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Thursday. (Photo Courtesy of the Chiyoda Ward Government)
Students at an elementary school in Tokyo recently received a lesson from an unusual visiting teacher -- a humanoid robot.

A total of 61 fifth-year students at Kudan elementary school in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward took part in the special lesson by android SAYA on Thursday. The robot, designed by Tokyo University of Science professor Hiroshi Kobayashi, has a female appearance. It can move its neck and change its facial expressions, with a total of 30 moving parts, including its eyes and mouth, and can also speak. The robot's name comes from the Malay word for "I."

In the lesson, SAYA, operated by remote control, greeted the students and asked them, "Do you know what kind of robot I am?"

Students were surprised by the robot, saying it looked just like a human. Kobayashi said he hopes it will spur students' interest in science.

"I hope the robot can be used to continue lessons conveying the fun of science and technology," Kobayashi said."

in its previous incarnation Saya was receptionist but has since been promoted to teaching, here she is being super creepy!

villian - Lonnie the banjo player

Lonnie was the creepy, inbred idiot savant banjo player in the film Deliverance If you haven't seen it, you should.

Poop while biking!

downright the scariest place to mountain bike
Cliffs of Mohan, Ireland

a giant blimp will now be hovering above you

Pentagon plans blimp to spy from new heights
The giant dirigible would use radar to closely and constantly monitor activity on the ground from 65,000 feet.
By Julian E. Barnes
March 13, 2009
Reporting from Washington -- The Pentagon said Thursday that it intends to spend $400 million to develop a giant dirigible that will float 65,000 feet above the Earth for 10 years, providing unblinking and intricate radar surveillance of the vehicles, planes and even people below.

"It is absolutely revolutionary," Werner J.A. Dahm, chief scientist for the Air Force, said of the proposed unmanned airship -- describing it as a cross between a satellite and a spy plane.



Eye in the sky
The 450-foot-long craft would give the U.S. military a better understanding of an adversary's movements, habits and tactics, officials said. And the ability to constantly monitor small movements in a wide area -- the Afghanistan- Pakistan border, for example -- would dramatically improve military intelligence.

"It is constant surveillance, uninterrupted," Dahm said. "When you only have a short-time view -- whether it is a few hours or a few days -- that is not enough to put the picture together."

The project reflects a shift in Pentagon planning and spending priorities under Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who has urged the military services to improve intelligence and surveillance operations while cutting high-tech weaponry costs.

If successful, the dirigible -- the brainchild of the Air Force and the Pentagon's research arm -- could pave the way for a fleet of spy airships, military officials said.

However, it marks the return to a form of flight that has stirred anxiety and doubt since the 1937 Hindenburg disaster. Thirty-six people were killed when that airship went up in flames in New Jersey.

The military has used less-sophisticated tethered blimps -- called aerostats -- to conduct surveillance around military bases in Iraq. But flying at 65,000 feet, the giant airship would be nearly impossible to see, beyond the range of any hand-held missile, and safe from most fighter planes.

And its range would be such that the spy craft could operate at the distant edges of any military theater, probably out of the range of surface-to-air missiles as well.

The Air Force's intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance abilities have improved dramatically in the last five years with the expansion of the Predator and other drones. Although such craft can linger over an area for a long time, they do not watch constantly.

The giant airship's military value would come from its radar system. Giant antenna would allow the military to see farther and with more detail than it can now.

"Being able to observe threats [and] understand what is happening is really the game-changing piece here," Dahm said.

The dirigible will be filled with helium and powered by an innovative system that uses solar panels to recharge hydrogen fuel cells. Military officials said those underlying technologies -- plus a very lightweight hull -- were critical to making the project work.

"The things we had to do here were not trivial; they were revolutionary," said Jan Walker, a spokeswoman for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon's research arm.

The Air Force has signed an agreement with DARPA to develop a demonstration dirigible by 2014. The prototype will be a third as long as the planned surveillance craft -- known as ISIS, for Integrated Sensor Is the Structure, because the radar system will be built into the structure of the ship.

While the military says the craft is closer to a blimp than a zeppelin -- which has a rigid external structure -- officials usually call the project an airship. Blimps get their shape from helium gas pressure.

The Pentagon has not yet awarded a contractor to build the prototype. Earlier work was done by Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach -- as well as Baltimore and other locations -- and by Lockheed Martin in Palmdale, Calif.; Akron, Ohio; and Denver.
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this SUV trails obama's motorcade

thanks ray!

the most painful insect bite

belongs to the bullet ant.


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HAPPY HOLLERWEEEEEENS!

careful out there.