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New laser will tear the fabric of space.

Plans are underway in Europe to build a new laser which would be the most powerful in the world. The laser will be 200 times more powerful than the current top lasers, and would be equivalent to the power received by the Earth from the sun focused onto a speck smaller than a tip of a pin.

Contrary to popular belief, a vacuum is not devoid of material but in fact fizzles with tiny mysterious particles that pop in and out of existence, but at speeds so fast that no one has been able to prove they exist.

The Extreme Light Infrastructure Ultra-High Field Facility would produce a laser so intense that scientists say it would allow them to reveal these particles for the first time by pulling this vacuum “fabric” apart.

They also believe it could even allow them to prove whether extra-dimensions exist.

The £1 billion project is due to be completed by the end of this decade.

I mean, we’ve pretty much decimated this planet, might as well start making plans for ruining space too.

In all seriousness, this is amazing. Proving that other dimensions exist, exciting! 

(Source: telegraph.co.uk)

Suicide by Roller Coaster.

The three-minute ride involves a long, slow, climb — nearly a third of a mile long — that lifts one up to a height of more than 1,600 feet, followed by a massive fall and seven strategically sized and placed loops. The final descent and series of loops take all of one minute. But the gravitational force — 10 Gs — from the spinning loops at 223 miles per hour in that single minute is lethal.

I think the idea should be expanded to include bumper cars wired with C4, Willy Wonka style elevators that shoot up into space, and clowns that just walk around with shotguns. Oh, and one in every ten corndogs is laced with ricin. 

This Glowing Kitten May Hold the Key For AIDS Vaccine.

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The end of an era.

Photo by Bill Ingalls.

Sprinkles photographed using an electron microscope by Caren Alpert.

I don’t know if any of you watch J.J. Abrams’ Fringe, but it is the bee’s knees. 

It’s not a cartoon, but in this particular episode it was for a little bit, and it was wonderful. 

Virgin Oceanic Depth Chart. This is so cool.

Virgin Oceanic’s submarine is the first and only ‘human rated’ craft in existence that is capable of taking a person down to the deepest point of the oceans anywhere in the world – the 36,201ft Mariana Trench.

Click through so you can actually see the chart.

NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery begins final journey back to Earth from Space Station.