Today, the European Space Agency successfully landed a probe on a comet moving at 80,000 miles per hour. That’s an extraordinary achievement. What the scientists and engineers operating the Philae lander have accomplished is unprecedented.

It can be hard to grasp the significance of this feat. The 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet is tiny.

How small is it? Christopher Becke, a high school physics teacher in Williamsburg, Virginia, created several illustrations to demonstrate. He laid photos of the comet over New York City, Washington, and the Rock of Gibraltar, as well as next to space craft from Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and Firefly.

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This is the PianoArc, an invention by Brockett Parsons. He's a keyboardist for Lady Gaga, so he wants an instrument as outlandish as his boss. With 294 keys, it's 3 conventional keyboards put together. The exterior diameter is about 6 feet. The height is adjustable and the PianoArc can be set at an angle.

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Now hopefully people will take me seriously when I talk about my idea for a circular set of bagpipes.

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You've invited some of the most famous artists from history to join you for Thanksgiving dinner. They've stayed out of the kitchen, but are indulging their creative sides when it's time to serve the food. Hannah Rothstein, an artist in San Francisco, shows how they would plate their foods in their own distinctive styles.

Who came to dinner? Among your guests are Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol. Hopefully they'll stay to clean up after everyone is done eating.

We have a problem? No, you have a problem. It's not my business and not my problem. Or, you could say in Polish, that it's not my circus and not my monkeys.

Matt Lindley of the travel blog Hotel Club illustrated 10 idioms in languages other than English that might baffle native English speakers. Use them when you travel and you'll be, as we say in the Texan language, safe as Granny's snuffbox.

According to designer Keita Suzuki of the Product Design Center, the average person will cry 64 liters of tears during his or her life. That's assuming that you, well, cry after the age of 5. We guys don't do that, right?

So our chairs would be much smaller. A more weepy person would be comfortable on this blob of 0.3 millimeter thick vinyl filled with the waters of sorrow. I'm thinking of this as an office chair--one that I would require a guest to sit on.

This is a brilliant idea! Cheri Alberts of The Watering Mouth shows us how to make shot glasses using just marshmallows. The delicious cups are entirely edible. Just toast a marshmallow over a fire or a hot stove. Bake all sides except one, which will implode. Pour liquor or liqueur into that hole.

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You have to drink them pretty quickly. So I suggest making 10, then immediately drinking them. Then repeat the process as often as necessary.

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It seems impossible for a woman to walk around Coruscant or through the streets of New York City without being harassed by Star Wars characters. This parody of Hollaback's anti-bullying video shows Princess Leia trying to mind her own business in the midst of a few Jedi, Jawas, and Mandalorians who need to be Force-choked. She's got it as bad as a typical Skyrim warrior.

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Filmmaker Oscar Rene brings us Star Wars Jedi Babies - Crib Wars Episode I : The Baby Menace. While you're waiting for Episode VII to come out, you can feel the thrills of the original series as three warriors--Darth Vader, Leia Organa, and Yoda--battle for control over the one cupcake in the house. Even at a young age, the Force is strong in these three.

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João A. Carvalho makes clever use of horizontal lines to convey three-dimensionality. He draws blue lines that create the impression of that you’re looking at doodles on notebook paper—doodles that look like they’re about to leap off the page.

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In 1820, James M. Crowley moved to what is now DeKalb County, Georgia. He bought 500 acres of land before dying in 1828. His family buried him on a hillside on his own property. His descendants would later join him in what became the family cemetery.

The cemetery is still there at the insistence of the family, though it is now surrounded on all sides by a Walmart parking lot. Atlas Obscura describes his unusual mausoleum:

As time passed, the Crowley estate was slowly parceled off with the remaining portion remaining in the possession of a family relation or descendant of James Crowley. Finally in the 1960s a huge portion of the land was sold to make way for the new Avondale Mall. The only problem was that this included the hilltop family plot. However the builders agreed to leave the graves untouched and the mall construction got underway. As the ground was flattened to a straight grade to make room for a parking lot, the construction ended up shaving down around 12 feet of land, leaving the bodies at the top of the hill high and dry. However, good as their word, the Crowley Mausoleum was constructed which surrounded the burial site, essentially leaving the bodies interred on the roof. The building holds 13 graves on its flagstone covered roof. 11 of them are buried in unmarked stone box graves and two of them have headstones. From the ground, the mausoleum shows little indication of its true nature.

You can see more pictures of the graveyard at the International Black Sheep Society of Geneaologists.

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Holly Lofthouse's recipe looks quite simple. She took canned biscuit dough and sliced a pocket into each biscuit. She then stuffed sliced cheese and tiny pepperoni shingles into the pocket. After sealing the pocket, she cooked them on a waffle iron for 3 minutes.

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Pictured above is enough cake to feed District 12 for a month and an imprisoned Tyrion Lannister for a year. Lara Clarke of Tasty Cakes makes life-size cakes of pop culture characters. She tells BuzzFeed that her Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games) cake consists of:

. .  . about 150 eggs; 22 pounds of flour, butter, and sugar; 11 pounds of chocolate ganache; 22 pounds of modelling chocolate; and over 110 pounds of sugar.

Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones) demanded a trial by combat. Perhaps a better choice would have been a trial by cooking.

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When the Athenians smashed the Persian army at Marathon, Pheidippides ran from the field of battle to Athens to inform the people there of the joyous news. According to the legend, he died immediately afterward—but not before slapping a 26.2 sticker on the back of his chariot. Modern marathon runners have kept this tradition to honor him.

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PYT is a restaurant in Philadelphia known worldwide for its research into the burger sciences. The geniuses in its laboratory have developed revolutionary new hamburger products, such as the cheeseburger-stuffed donut, the deep fried Twinkie burger and the peanut butter and jelly sandwich bun burger.

Since Thanksgiving is fast approaching, PYT is now offering its Thanksgiving meal burger. It has a patty made of turkey dark meat, stuffing, rosemary gravy, and cranberry sauce. Yummy!

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That's Kim Kardashian on the left and Liam Helion on the right. It's hard to tell the difference, right? That's because Helion is a master of disguise. He takes photos of celebrities and remakes them with his own exhaustive supply of costumes and makeup. 

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