Several T-800 are sent back in time by Skynet. But their mission is scrambled...
And now they are all targeting each other!
Tribute to Arnold Schwarzenegger and Terminator.
At almost 32,000 square miles, Lake Superior is the largest lake in North America. Much of it freezes during the winter. Recently, 77% of the surface was frozen.
Let's say that you wanted to smooth over that surface to create an enormous skating rink. How long would it take for a single zamboni--an ice resurfacing machine--to do the job? The Detroit Free Press found the answer provided by U.P. Supply Company, a Michigan-based clothing retailer:
1 frozen Lake Superior = 52,020,513 ice rinks.
At aboout 7 minutes per rink it would take 364,143,591 minutes to resurface all of Lake Superior. That is 252,877 days.
In all, that means it would take approximate 693 years to resurface Lake Superior in its entirety. The ice resurfacer will have driven approximately 39,015,384 miles.
So: overtime pay. A lot of overtime pay.
-via Dave Barry | Photo: mark6mauno
SoraNews24 staff put this to the test and sent one of their reporters to find out. What they discovered was incredible — you only need a little over 2,000 yen (around $18.50) to put together an entire outfit.
Check it out over at the site.
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In 2018, Vito’s (the orange tabby cat) humans went off on their honeymoon, leaving him behind. Unknown to them, something terrible were to happen to Vito — a car accidentally ran over him.
Luckily, however, the people watching him took him to the hospital immediately. Despite the veterinarian’s best efforts, Vito’s legs had to be amputated.
When his humans returned, Vito was quickly fitted for his prosthetic replacements.
Now, it seems that Vito has adjusted to his new bionic feet, and he’s having the time of his life as a superstar on Instagram.
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Some made us laugh. Some made us cry. Some made us annoyed. Memes have truly come a long way as they journeyed with us across the decade, which will now come to a close.
Know Your Meme provides us The Top 10 Memes that have defined the decade. See all of them over at the site.
Sad to see that SpongeBob didn’t make it to the Top 10.
Which meme is your favorite?
Dorothy Arnold was an educated woman from a high-society family in New York City. She had aspirations of becoming a writer, which her parents discouraged. And one day in 1910, she went shopping and never came home.
As evening approached, Francis and Mary began to worry. They feared their daughter was up to some kind of scandalous business, but eventually broke down, called on her friends, and asked them for clues to her whereabouts. No one knew. Alerting their circle of friends meant inviting high society’s gossip mongers to speculate about a missing heiress. For the Arnolds, the fear of embarrassment and public scandal may have played a part in the decisions they took next. Denial, while just as tragic, goes down a little easier. When a friend named Elsa returned their call quite late at night to check in on Dorothy’s whereabouts, the Arnolds assured her that their daughter was home at last. Could she come to the phone? Not tonight, they said. She was under the weather after a day of shopping.
For the next two weeks, the Arnolds kept things under wraps, refusing to tell the police of their missing daughter. Their refusal to seek professional help during the first days of her disappearance spiralled the case out of control.
The Arnolds' reluctance to besmirch their family reputation caused delays in the investigation of her disappearance that possibly sunk the case forever. When Dorothy's disappearance was finally made public, it caused a huge scandal. Was Dorothy murdered? Did she die from an illegal abortion? Did she commit suicide? Or did she just run away? Read about the disappearance of Dorothy Arnold at Messy Nessy Chic.
We've addressed this question before, looking back at comic book superheroes such as Matter-Eater Lad, Bouncing Boy, and Dogwelder. They never got a big-budget feature film. The Mary Sue looks at the superheroes who have made the big time, meaning being in movies or TV series. There are an awful lot of them now, between the MCU and DC movies, plus TV and streaming services. And trying to make all the superheroes different from each other means some some get super powers that aren't all that useful, like the ability communicate with animals.
I’m not saying that this isn’t something that wouldn’t be really cool in real life. I personally want to know for sure if my dog knows he’s a good boy. But for superheroism? Eh, not so useful.
I guess it depends on the animals and if you can actually control the animals you talk to. Imagine a hero that could talk to cats, but the cats, being cats, don’t care and just let the world end. Again, talking to squirrels would be cool – but can that stop a bank robbery? Even Aquaman knew that talking to fish isn’t useful.
Read about other superheroes whose powers are lamer the more you examine them.
Humongous monsters are often painted as a villain of any story, monsters such as King Kong and Godzilla are viewed with awe by the movie goers. Some of us might just remember these movies with the big, bad monsters as mere action flicks, but there’s also something else included: analogies. Watch as Overly Sarcastic Productions explain the metaphors behind these huge movie monsters.
Ben Workman is a Utah man who does a “magic trick”: he opens up his car with the object in his hand. The trick behind it is one of the four chips implanted in his hands, a Tesla key to unlock his car with a wave of his hand. According to Workman, a piercing studio helped him implant the Tesla key. UPI has the details:
"I play tricks on people who don`t know I have it in my hand. I try and convince them a banana is the key and then I hold a banana up and [the chip] unlocks the door," he told KSTU-TV.
The other chips in Workman's hands allow him to unlock doors at work, log on and off of his computer and share contact information using the same technology as Apple Pay and Google Pay.
He said most of the chips were installed by a family member, but he required the help of a piercing studio to implant the Tesla key.
image credit: screenshot via ABC7 News Bay Area
Here’s a shocking revelation: most of the famous people on Instagram have Lord Farquaad’s haircut, the short bob with the ends notably flipped inwards. From Selena Gomez to Kylie Jenner, a lot of celebrities are sporting this hairstyle. Has Lord Farquaad finally gained influence in the masses? Maybe so, as Elle details:
Jesus Guerrero, the stylist behind the Kardashian-Jenner flips says it's "an easy chic look" that will help you channel your inner Lord. "I love how simple it is, yet it exudes so much power," adds Guerrero.
image via Elle
A 65 year-old man became Santa Claus on the streets as he threw wads of cash to passersby and screamed, “Merry Christmas”. However, the money he gave away wasn’t his, but from the Academy Bank in Colorado Springs. David Wayne Oliver threatened the bank to give him an undisclosed amount of cash, which he then tossed all over the place. Reuters has the details:
A police spokesperson could not immediately be reached for comment, but Colorado Springs television station KKTV reported that eyewitness Dion Pascale recounted Oliver stepped outside the bank and tossed the money “all over the place.”
Pascale said bystanders retrieved some of the money and returned it to the bank as Oliver walked to the Starbucks, sat down and appeared to be waiting for police to arrest him, KKTV reported.
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People are much more uncomfortable and stressed during short flights than they are during long flights to other continents. See, while airlines are trying to save money everywhere they can, having people stressed and uncomfortable during long flights is counterproductive, discourages repeat patronage, and can be dangerous. Therefore, they make an effort to ease a passenger's experience. Short flights? Eh, those people aren't paying enough to justify any effort on the airline's part. That's why I came up with before I watched the video. Bright Side tells us a lot more on how you shouldn't be discouraged from intercontinental flight, or even ultra-long flights, just because you hate shorter flights. -via Digg
For a decade now, Barry Petchetsky has been compiling a year-end roundup of foreign objects that doctors have removed from people. After the exodus of writers from Deadspin, that list is now at Vice. The case studies are presented in simple lists categorized by orifice, with an annoying lack of details. Some are disturbing, gross, and scary, so be warned before you check out the list here. -via Metafilter
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Dollar stores are known as "small box" stores, compared to the "big box" retailers like Walmart, and that's one reason they are popular- they are everywhere, they are convenient, and they are cheap. It's much easier to pop into a nearby dollar store, after parking close to the door, pick up a few things, and check out relatively quickly. You will probably also be impressed with the selection. Some only stock items priced at one dollar each, while others have a range of prices that are still fairly low. How can the company make money doing that? If you weren't in such a hurry, you might start to compare these items with those sold elsewhere.
According to analysis by The Guardian and The Washington Post, paying $1 for a 16-oz bottle of milk at a dollar store is the equivalent of paying $8 for a full gallon, which is more expensive than the fancy organic stuff at Whole Foods. Similarly, the $1 bag of raisins at the dollar store weighs only 4.5 ounces (128 grams), while a 72-ounce (2-kilogram) bag from a big-box store costs $10.50, or 52 percent less per ounce.
By shrinking package sizes, dollar stores can get away with charging way more per volume, which is one of the main strategies that dollar stores use to wring the most profit out of every sale. Just because you only paid $1 for that roll of aluminum foil doesn't mean that it's a good deal. That $1 roll is only 15 feet (4.5 meters) long, while Walmart sells a 75-foot (23-meter) roll for $4.06, the equivalent of more than 18 feet per dollar. (Of course, if finances are tight, maybe you'd rather pay $1 for 15 feet of foil rather than $4.06 for 75 feet.)
That's a part of what's known as the "poor tax." We know it would be cheaper to buy in bulk, but that's not possible if we don't have enough cash to do it. There's more to the economics involved in dollar stores, which you can read at How Stuff Works. -via Mental Floss
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After a huge meal, we feel a wave of tiredness that makes us drowsy and in need of a bed to lie on. This is normal, and not just a random coincidence because you want to laze around. This phenomenon is called the postprandial dip, or at its extremes, a “food coma”. Food coma is the way your body takes a break to digest all the food that you’ve ingested, ABC News detailed:
The science of food comas is mostly based on animal models and inferences from our current knowledge on how the body works, says Emma Beckett, a nutrition scientist at the University of Newcastle.
There are three main theories, and Dr Beckett thinks they probably all play a role to some extent.
The first theory involves the activation of the parasympathetic nervous system — that's the rest and digest pathway, as opposed to the sympathetic nervous system which is fight or flight.
"We've got a bunch of nerves around the digestive tract. And one of those big nerves — the vagus nerve — signals between the brain and the gastrointestinal tract," Dr Beckett says.
"From an evolutionary point of view, if you've come across abundant food — the feast period — you don't want to be going running around and risking losing that food."
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