Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Put On Blast

The Falcon Heavy — which has the power of eighteen Boeing 747s at takeoff — successfully went to space today.
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Watch SpaceX's Incredible Falcon Heavy Launch
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The Falcon Heavy — which has the power of eighteen Boeing 747s at takeoff — successfully went to space today.
IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD
The Curiously Elastic Limits Of Endurance
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Reaching the "limits of endurance" is a concept that seems yawningly obvious until you actually try to explain it.
FASTINATING
The Speediest Winter Olympic Sports
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The Winter Olympics are all about speed, and not only in the races.
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Absolut Vodka Made An Ad Where Everyone Is Naked And It's Hilarious
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Absolut Vodka makers have nothing to hide with their production process. In fact, they shot their newest ad at their factory in Sweden, with their actual employees, who are completely naked. Like we said, nothing to hide.
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The Supersonic Parachutes Carrying NASA's Martian Dreams
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A new generation of space scientists is using high tech materials to resurrect the long-neglected supersonic parachute.
TWICE AS ICE
A Newly Discovered Kind Of Ice Is Thought To Exist In Uranus' Center
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Here is an ice cube you do not want to put in your Diet Coke: A solid lattice of oxygen atoms with protons whizzing around inside of it. This ice is not normal on Earth, but might be elsewhere. And scientists have created it in a lab.
SPACE ROCKS
Scientists May Have Discovered The First Planets Outside The Milky Way
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Researchers planned to study a black hole and chanced upon something entirely unexpected.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
A BRIGHT IDEA
Here's What Happens When You Shine The World's Brightest Flashlight On The World's Brightest Paint
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The guy behind The Action Lab has already shone the world's brightest flashlight at the world's darkest black, but now he's got his hands on some of the world's brightest pigment.
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Why AWS Dominates The Internet
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How Amazon Web Services (and AWS engineers) came to the forefront.
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