That's photo from a test firing of XCOR's new 7,500 pound thrust liquid methane and liquid oxygen rocket engine, developed for NASA for spacecrafts to and from the Moon and Mars.Link: XCOR press release | New Scientist a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/21/liquid-methane-and-oxygen-rocket-engine/Australian scientists found out how sick sheep heal themselves: they eat things that make them feel better, and they learn it from their moms!Sheep, he says, are smarter than we think. "There is something called...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/21/sick-sheep-eat-their-way-to-better-health/The COSMOS survey by Hubble resulted in the mapping of the dark matter distribution:Normal matter appears in red, its distribution observed primarily by the European Space Agency’s XMM/Newton telescope. The blu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/21/dark-matter-as-seen-by-hubble/Engadget's Benjamin Heckendorn had just made a Wii laptop!Here's the Wii laptop features: * 16:9 widescreen LCD, 7-inch diagonal.* Stereo sound* Gamecube controller port* Built-in short range Sensor Bar* Por...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/21/the-wii-laptop/Photo: Dr. Pete Vukusic, Exeter UniversityLook closely - the unique structures of the tiny scales on the Cyphochilus beetle makes it the whitest insect in the world:The finger-tip sized Cyphochilus beetle, f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/21/the-whitest-insect-in-the-world/So far this weekend, we’ve seen a raccoon jump from a demolished building, a deer rescued from the ice, and a chicken kicked onto a roof. Now, it’s the story of a duck who was shot, taken home, kept in th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/cold-duck/There’s so much research going into artificial intelligence. But the real challenge is to reproduce human stupidity via technology. It’s really difficult to get a computer to act as dumb as humans can, bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/artificial-stupidity/Your t-shirt says one thing, your jacket says another, and together they say something completely new! Evil Mad Scientist has instructions on making your own ensemble with a mixed message. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/mixed-messages/Scientists at the University of Rochester have figured out a way to store entire images on a single photon. From the article: "It sort of sounds impossible, but instead of storing just ones and zeros, we're storing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/storing-a-picture-on-one-photon/The *real* reason they want you not to sit or climb on zoo fences! Via Miss Cellania....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/please-be-safe/W.Y. of Random Citations has a post of this amazing sculpted Buddha: the world's largest jade Buddha statue!The statue was sculpted from a piece of jade 7.95 meters high, 6.88 meters wide, 4.10 meters thick, weighing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/worlds-largest-jade-buddha/A woman fed up getting political mailers from Colorado Rep. Marilyn Musgrave [wiki] (that's her on the left) decided to do something about it, which landed her in court:Invoking Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Hankey from t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/tired-of-political-mailers-woman-wrapped-it-in-dog-poo-and-returned-it-to-congresswoman/The story of the Lovers of Teruel [wiki] (Los Amantes de Teruel) goes like any other great love stories:... Diego Marcilla had returned with great riches and with the intent of marrying Isabel. Diego had not counted...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/lovers-of-teruel/From Spluch:In the caverns deep in the mountain in Anshun of southwest China's Guizhou Province, live nearly a hundred villagers. People of the Tajing village, all from the Miao minorrity group, have lived there for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/modern-day-cave-dwellers/Anita over at Say No to Crack has a neat post about all kinds of clothings made from ... toilet paper! The photo on the left is but one example of things you can make from it: a toilet paper wedding dress!Links: Toilet P...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/toilet-paper-clothes/What would happen if a person with severe Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder have a TV shopping show? Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via WTTF...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/the-add-shopping-network/continue driving as if there's nothing wrong! http://ueba.net/hosted_pages/Safety-First-20070115 - via A Welsh View...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/truck-missing-back-wheels/OK, this one's pretty weird: a Japanese "toy" that Flickr user Greg Jagiello found at the Daiso store in Daly City, California. The swan got a little packet of stuff that once you squeeze it, a chemical reactio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/weird-japanese-swan-toy/You don’t have to call someone to help you move this table, because it walks! No motor or batteries, just a set of mechanical legs, for those who are just too cool to put wheeled casters on their furniture. From...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/walking-table/A woman has found a real pearl inside a supermarket oyster in what must be a million-to-one chance. Teri Preece bought a pack of 6 oysters and inside one of them was a pearl worth approximately £100. Colleagues hav...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/woman-finds-realy-pearl-in-supermarket-oyster/What was she hoping to get out of it? Sweet mug shot by the way. JANUARY 18--Meet Sherry Herzner. The Kentucky woman, 31, is facing criminal charges for allegedly arranging an alcohol-soaked slumber party for her 15...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/slumber-party-goes-wrong/First it was the two-faced cow on Neatorama, now it's the two-faced pig! Meet Choppy, a two-headed pig in China whose birth was hailed as a miracle and a good sign of fertility!Link - via Random Good Stuff...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/choppy-the-two-faced-pig/The Eye of Horus [wiki] is a powerful Egyptian symbol used as protection from evil. Indeed, the "Rx" symbol used in medicine has its origin in the Eye.But did you know that the Eye of Horus was used to count fr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/learn-arithmetics-with-the-eye-of-horus/Here's a clip of Japanese acrobats, filmed in 1904 by Thomas Edison himself: Hit play or go to http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3149367437490602918&hl=en [Google Video] - via UrsiA little more digging revealed th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/japanese-acrobats-filmed-by-thomas-edison-in-1904/Urban Retro Lifestyles has a neat list of 5 cool walls with retro game themes. This one above is the Pac-Man bathroom [Flickr] at Game Junkie - via smidigt.se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/pac-man-bathroom/Photo: Jens HackmannBoing Boing tuned us into Comet McNaught, the brightest comet in decades:The brightest comet in decades is unexpectedly now visible. The most optimistic predictions have Comet McNaught (C/2006 P1)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/comet-mcnaught-the-brightest-comet-in-decades/Stephen Colbert explains the whole AT&T thing: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via J-Walk....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/ma-bell-strikes-back/In collaboration with Toronto's Kingbridge Centre and Killdee Scientific Glass, Acme Klein Bottle company has created the world's largest Klein bottle [wiki]:The Kingbridge Klein Bottle is 1.1 meter tall, 50 cm diame...
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