Col. John Paul Stapp was an Air Force Surgeon who underwent trials to see how much a human pilot could take. He volunteered for a series of tests at Edwards Air Force Base on rocket sleds. Stapp broke speed record after...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/40-Gs-Because-Someone-Had-to-Do-It/[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzInhnm8Mu4](Video Link)George Takei played Lt. Hikaru Sulu on the original Star Trek television series. He recently sat down with Neil deGrasse Tyson, a celebrity physicist and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/George-Takei-Talks-about-Meeting-Gene-Roddenberry-for-the-First-Time/I wonder where these are coming from 1/3 pic.twitter.com/ZWKAwd0LsQ— Tim Veekhoven (@Sompeetalay) April 16, 2015Masked villain Kylo Ren | Image: Tim Veekhoven (@Sompeetalay) on TwitterToday...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/Star-Wars-The-Force-Awakens-Promo-Art-Leaked/[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7FIpqPvL7E](Video Link)The 1997 hit song "Barbie Girl" by Aqua imagined life inside the Barbie universe, complete with plastic houses and endless parties. That's pretty much life in the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/Soldiers-Sing-Barbie-Girl-While-Marching/Smash Victor by DooomcatFor every round of smash battling there must be a victor, but who woulda thought that little yellow furball Pikachu would be the one to come out on top?! It's impossible to tell from this pictori...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/Smash-Victor-Gotta-Crush-Em-All/Luciano Faggiano kept battling a toilet that clogged up regularly at his restaurant in Lecce, Italy. In 2000, he’d finally had enough and enlisted his sons to dig up his plumbing system and fix it once and for all....
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/Blocked-Toilet-Leads-to-New-History-Museum/Although the rule has not always been enforced, in general, Jedi aren't supposed to be married. They're supposed to live celibate lives of contemplation and service. This came as dismal news to 7-year old Colin Gilpatric...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/George-Lucas-Tells-Little-Boy-That-He-Can-Get-Married-and-Still-Become-a-Jedi/[https://youtu.be/A_K10fX9DSY] (YouTube link)When we saw the first trailer for Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens, everyone was amazed by the new droid design. We all assumed it was some sort of CGI, but today, he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/BB-8-at-Star-Wars-Celebration/Robotic hands need to be able to securely grasp and move objects with different shapes without breaking them. Festo, a German automation and controls company, has developed a new type of device to do so. The Flex...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/Robot-Hand-Based-on-a-Chameleons-Tongue/One of your spring chores is to get all that winter coat off your dog’s face and body so he can stay cool in the summer and not shed so much hair everywhere. The bonus is that you can finally see what he looks like...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/What-a-Spring-Haircut-Can-Do/According to one source, the Google translate information on the Japanese associated with this video says that it's an April Fool's joke. How one tells the difference between an April Fool's joke and an actual ad in Japa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/Japanese-Cell-Phone-Holder-Most-Likely-an-April-Fools-Joke-Needs-to-be-Real/Jenn of Epbot attended MegaCon this past weekend in Orlando. There, she spotted these great cosplayers who mixed two gems from the 60s: Star Trek and Gilligan's Island. The three hour tour has turned in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/Star-TrekGilligans-Island-Cosplay/Here it is, folks, teaser trailer two for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Fantastic, right? The occasion of Star Wars Celebration is the gift that promises to keep on giving for as long as the force...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/Star-Wars-The-Force-Awakens-Official-Teaser-Trailer-2/Today, US Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas was attending a meeting of the Senate Finance Committee. The committee was addressing a weighty issue of trade policy, but Sen. Roberts just wanted to "Let It Go."His phone...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/Senators-Frozen-Ringtone-Goes-Off-During-Committee-Hearing/(Images: Dimitri Timtchenko)Bruce Thomson is an industrial design professor at Humber College in Toronto. He assigned his senior students to design a distinctively Canadian car. Dimitri Timtchenko responded with not a po...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/This-Is-a-Wheelchair-Accessible-Snowmobile/Bay Former 6 by NinjainkBay was getting tired of his model 6 battle armor, and Hiro was looking for a suit with more flash and upgraded firepower, so they went to work and came up with a pair of slick suits that were mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/Bay-Former-6-Big-Heroes-In-Disguise/[https://youtu.be/-0TSzwLoqpQ] (YouTube link)The Tulln Domino Team of Austria set a popsicle stick bomb that included 30,849 sticks. It took very little time for all those to go off! But they set a new world record with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/World-Record-Largest-Stick-Bomb/Louis Wain was an artist born in 1860s Victorian England who was as intensely gifted as he was mentally disturbed. His fanciful work is examined and featured on the internet from time to time (including on ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/The-Psychadelic-Madness-of-Louis-Wains-Cats/[https://youtu.be/Fylt_tRHcTw] (YouTube link)John Green is back as host of the mental_floss List Show, but the setting is different. He’s at the Indiana State Museum at the Lincoln exhibition to talk about Abraham...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/20-Facts-About-Abraham-Lincoln-And-His-Family/(Photo: Benny Mazur)Jim Zub is a comic book artist and writer in Toronto. He's got a great idea for a business:I want to start an airport D&D stand. "Flight delayed? Time for a dungeon delve, ma'am. Here's a pre-gen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/Brilliant-Business-Idea-Airport-Dungeons-and-Dragons-Stand/Knowing a Van Gogh painting when you see it is one thing, but understanding it is quite another. In order to truly see and appreciate a van Gogh piece such as “The Starry Night,” you have to be able...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/Vincent-Van-Goghs-The-Starry-Night/In 1892, Lord Frederick Stanley, the 16th Earl of Derby, donated a great silver cup the best hockey team in Canada. It has been ever since a treasured prize in that sport. But the shortsighted Lord Stanley did not antici...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/Stanley-Cup-Made-of-Bacon/[https://youtu.be/IfNfnL64rOQ] (YouTube link)The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library of Kansas created a parody of Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” to celebrate National Library Week. The video for &l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/Check-It-Out-A-Song-for-National-Library-Week/(Photo: Max Besser)Texas-style barbecue is, of course, the finest in the world. The best of this emerges from my father-in-law’s backyard pit.But other barbecue methods, with the exception of Memphis-style, are edi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/16-Wonderful-Barbecue-Styles-around-the-World-Other-Than-Texan/The Darvaza Crater in Ahal Province, Turkmenistan, is known as the “Door to Hell.” The story goes that Soviet petroleum engineers created the hole in 1971 while looking for gas. The collapsed crater spewed da...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/The-First-Man-to-Descend-into-Turkmenistans-Door-to-Hell/Whether it's a corporate motivation piece or an ad designed to lure all-American, choice-choosing, leather-miniskirt-clad babes and their Marlboro Men, there's no doubt that any fly on the wall of the board roo...
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