edthebear meets…

"best use of an animated dinosaur."

fuck.yeah.

oh god yes. told you we were living in the future.

fuck.yeah.

it's not important what i was downloading.

okay so that 10 day cooling off period where i limit my dls/day may have got abandoned in favour of watching my downloads tab move.

1 mb/s baby. still only 1/2 what my mum gets but around the same as my brother so i’m all good. but 2 years ago i was getting less than 10% of that.
the 1.5tb drive i bought may be slowly filling with the help of utorrent and transdroid.

fuck.yeah.

stop what you’re doing.

do whatever it asks. watch the whole thing.

install chrome (pc people) if you haven’t already. trust me, it’s worth it.

best music video experience ever. you must link it to your shit when it asks, i tried it with both and i’ll never go back. even the webcam.

cheers, tokyomango.

fuck.yeah.

the navy railgun.

“the gun that fired the bullet is the navy’s experimental railgun. the gun has no moving parts or propellants — just a king-sized burst of energy that sends a projectile flying. and today its parents at the office of naval research sent 33 megajoules through it, setting a new world record and making it the most powerful railgun ever developed…with a 1.5-million-ampere spark of light and a boom audible in a room 50 feet away, the bullet left the gun at a speed of mach 8…all that energy was “dump[ed] in 10 milliseconds,” but since there no explosion powering the projectile, why should the railgun have made any noise at all? answer: the bullet went so fast it released a sonic boom.”

it was going 2722.32 m/s.

250 m/s = cruising jet speed

975 m/s = muzzle velocity of m16 rifle

“the ultimate goal is to fire the gun at 64 megajoules, making it capable of sending a bullet 200 miles in six minutes. that’s 10 times farther than the navy’s already-powerful guns can fire“

cheers, danger room.

fuck.yeah.

i’ll ease back into posting with a couple a day for now. most of it you may have already seen.

but seriously. what a time to be alive.

cheers, [i haven't got a fucking clue after all this time. probably reddit.]

fuck.yeah.

it takes a while to get going but the last 5 mins are amazing.

“in 1998, kevin warwick, a professor of cybernetics at reading university, became the world’s first cyborg. well, to be exact, he had a radio frequency id implanted in his arm.”

it’s a short video, about 10 minutes, but my mind is already swimming in the future. and i’m jealous. sure i knew i’d never be the first cyborg but i want to be one now. he gives a really nice explanation of the singularity and what the world might be like in the not too distant future. he describes one part of his research as profound, and i’d have to agree. his ideas about the future of communication, based on his research are fascinating. i’m going to be thinking about this for a while i can tell.

watch it, enjoy it.

cheers, bb.

fuck.yeah.

it makes me feel warm inside.

i got a new phone yesterday.

it all started about 3 months ago when i went to visit my brother, saw his htc desire and instantly became fist-bitingly frustrated and jealous. he taunted me (as is the norm) and sent me links to lesser phones that i should get. my response, petty? yes, was to buy exactly the same phone.

after some teething troubles the realisation dawned on me that once again i’m at the tip of the information spear after so many years off.  when i’m at a pc i can connect to reader and get my fix, but there was always something missing. if you’ve ever been out for dinner with people who have smart phones, you know what i mean.

i know it’s juvenile and materialistic, but this possession actually makes me feel better. the coin a crappy phrase, i have the world at my fingertips, and i don’t ever want to look back.

fuck.yeah.

and i was stupid enough to think wave machine technology had plateaued

money shot around 3:50.

just think of the practical applications. just think of them. science bless japan.

cheers, liveleak.

fuck.yeah.

and the finished version:

there are some really nice pictures at his website, worth a look.

fuck.yeah.

you should know by now my obsession with the dune universe. this on-set video taken by sean young (the wonderful character of chani) is fantastic.

cheers, dangerousminds.

fuck.yeah.

by soichi noguchi.

by albert jakobsson.

cheers, badastronomer/profbriancox.

fuck.yeah.

that's right. "the" tubatron.

it’s hard to say what this retweet means and how much i love it. here’s a good reason:

1) it’s what the internet was for. so i could read something on one of my feeds and tweet it to a hero. he retweets it to the world, credits me and includes a simpsons quote.

if you don’t know who david “tubatron” silverman is:

read. read. watch.

an all round dude.

fuck.yeah.

sakurajima volcano - multiple lightning flashes caused by fast moving fine ash

cheers, pink tentacle.

fuck.yeah.

i knew they were cool. but this is mindblowing.

ants did this.

entomologists get respect.

fuck.yeah.

"awe.some."

i know i’ve been on about this type of thing before, but bad astronomy put it well:

“oh, baby. the cloud is only a few dozen meters across, and can’t be more than a few seconds old.

i love stuff like this. i tend to think of Mars as a stiff, still, unchanging place, but then hirise goes and slaps me in the face with something like this. mind you, this is an avalanche. on another planet. caught as it happened.

awe. some.”

and this is worth a watch:

milky time lapse

cheers, ba/break

fuck.yeah.

looking for a hook for science next term and have just seen this clip and tried the experiment.

it works.

i love science.

fuck.yeah.

it'll move.

i’ve been a bit too excited about augmented reality recently and i can’t wait for my smart glasses (and associated gadgetry) out so i can walk down the street and see the wonderful world of imagination. read halting state.

i’ve already toyed with having an rfid chip implanted in the back of my hand so when i walk from the kitchen at work to my classroom i don’t have to put the mugs down to swipe my pass. but this is also worth considering.

“researchers there are developing silicon-and-silk implantable devices which sit under the skin like a tattoo. already implanted into mice, these tattoos could carry leds, turning your skin into a screen.

the silk substrate onto which the chips are mounted eventually dissolves away inside the body, leaving just the electronics behind. the silicon chips are around the length of a small grain of rice — about 1 millimeter, and just 250 nanometers thick. the sheet of silk will keep them in place, molding to the shape of the skin when saline solution is added.”

also, retinal display translation glasses.

cheers, wired science/pink tentacle.

fuck.yeah.

handcuff keys

science fiction has prepared me for 3d printers, but things like this make me feel warm inside.

we’re almost there.

cheers, bb.

fuck.yeah.

old/new hubble.

we’ve never seen this before.

cheers, wiredscience/universetoday.

fuck.yeah.

that shadow is 25 miles long

another reason why i fucking love science.

another moonlet found we didn’t know about until last week.

awesome.

cheers, wiredscience.

[update] bb has a link to something else awesome found in the rings.

fuck.yeah.

cheers, danger room.

fuck.yeah.

yep. the sea. and that's some famous ship. hms something.

its been an interesting couple of hours. i went to the letting agents and sat waiting for about 10mins because the guy was running late so that put me right off. we got into his car and drove to the place in fratton which wasn’t all bad, but wasn’t great either. the location was pretty wank and it was going for £525 or something. on the way back i asked about other properties and he said he could show me one for £570 and i said i’d have a look. as we were in the car he also mentioned one for way more and i thought i might as well have a look, since i’m here and my other appointment wasn’t for an hour or so. killing time etc.

so the builders were still in there having lunch when we walked in and this place is so fucking money. its massive compared to the others i’ve seen and way bigger than my flat. the open plan kitchen lounge is wizard and its all brand new. sure its unfurnished and i’ll be completely broke living there but i have to admit, its one of the nicest flats i’ve ever been in. “i’ll take it” i said after about 5mins.

when i thought about a flat in portsmouth i wanted somewhere near portsmouth harbour train station and i could – well, perhaps not me, but someone who was good at throwing could throw something at it and probably get it after a couple of tries. its close is my point.

the downside is, apart from the extortionate rent, its not as close to the chinese supermarket as i wanted but its only a mile away. plus no fibre optic.

so i’ll be staying in for the next two years (my contract) and eating boiled rice but i’m really looking forward to it.

fuck.yeah.

superkamiokande

“the sun as you’ve never seen it before: this picture was taken at night! it was taken looking down through the earth! and it was taken not with light but with neutrinos! neutrinos are ghostly subatomic particles produced as a byproduct of the nuclear reactions that that generate sunlight in the heart of the sun . whereas light takes about 30,000 years to work its way from the centre of the sun to the surface, neutrinos take about 2 seconds. eight minutes later they arrive on earth. so neutrinos show us what is happening in the sun now.”

cheers, dr. karl/marcus chown.

fuck.yeah.

toilet of tomorrow. today.

i’ve been looking for a fuck.yeah. post for a while but nothing really did it for me. until i saw this.

admittedly inax’s satis asteo washlet isn’t as advanced as some of the others (it doesn’t have urine temperature analysis or some amazing bidet functions) but it does have that sweet nighlight.

cheers, bornrich.

i’ve been looking for a fy post for a while but nothing really did it for me. until i read the bornrich feed.