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more about #explosions Dr Emilio Lizardo: We need Roklimber to shed some light on this. He seems to be at least a physicist, maybe an astrophysicist. [io9.com] more » FrankenPC: Ok...I'm no braniac here. But, what happens to the fusion engine in a star when it absorbs atomic matter of a different type into into it's makeup? ... more » lightninglouie: I'd love to see Dean Koontz versus Anne Rice in a no-holds barred Cage Match of Egotistical Batshit Lunacy. more » alphanumeric1971: Fer all youz haterz out there, try pickin up a copy of "Odd Thomas"!Boo be straight trippin, cuz that shiznits off the hook yo!* *Sorry, I'll go take ... more » Smeagol92055: Recipe for every Dean Koontz book: 1. precocious child that considers itself an alien/mutant 2. smart dog, usually golden retriever. 3. other bullshit. more » ManchuCandidate: Is Dean also going to write about being terrorized by a martini drinking talking white dog that drives a pickup truck? It's one thing to deal with cri... more » Grey_Area: Horror author/actor Michael Boatman topped this in last year's the Revenant Road. In it Obadiah Grunge, best-selling author and monster-hunter, is cha... more » crashedpc - Haifisch: So basically the critic is the self-appointed leader of my debate team back in high school. Dickface. more » steampoweredboy: You'd think all those piles of money would soothe Koontz's furrowed brow. more » Alexis: Remember Lady in the Water? The evil critic got mauled. If a student did this in a writing class they'd get chewed out like no other. What is Koontz/S... more » Andrew James Gordon: If I had to read a Dean Koontz book, I'd probably go insane too. ba-zing! more » Mathmos: So, who on the io9 staff should review this book? Is Charlie Jane volunteering? more » reddingofish: Being an IT guy I wonder how much processor time that took and what computer they used to render it on. more » Mount_Prion: Needs sound FX ("psssssshhaaaaaah! mrrrreeeeeeooooow! cuuuuthhummmmmm!") and slow-mo. more » Skunky: It's really too bad that these things take so long to happen in reality, we'll never get to properly watch what happens. With that in mind, I wonder h... more » -
#spaceporn
How Weird "Blue Stragglers" Are Born Out Of Interstellar Conflict
Blue straggler stars are an astronomical mystery - they are bigger and age more slowly than stars born at the same time. It turns out these stars are created by two kinds of violent interstellar struggles. More » -
#deankoontz
New Dean Koontz Novel Proves Book Critics Are Evil
A bad review must have really gotten under Dean Koontz's skin. His new book, Relentless, is about an evil book critic who gives a nice novelist a bad review — and then becomes a monster. More » -
#spaceporn
When Supermassive Stars Eat Their Own Young
How do stars get to be four times as massive as our own sun? By exploding and then eating the products of their own firebursts. More » -
#megaindustry
The Pyrotechnic Tragedy of Sheffield's Hyperbolic Cooling Towers
Over the weekend, an industrial-age legend was blown up — literally — in Sheffield, England. The Tinsley water cooling towers, two hourglass-shaped, 250-foot-tall structures, were built almost 70 years ago as part of a long-demolished power plant. Several local artists tried to convert the abandoned structures into art projects, but the lonely hulks were instead blown up by a company that is replacing them with a biomass power station. Thousands of people gathered to watch the towers blown up, and now you can see the tragic carnage too. More » -
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#railgun
The Navy's Explosive Super Weapon Crushes Speed Records
Here are some photos of the Navy testing its new electromagnetic railgun at the Naval Surface Warfare Center. The railgun fires at 10.44 megajoules, with a muzzle velocity of 2520 meters per second. Click through for more details and a gallery of splodey pics. More » -
#scienceart
When Nano-Wires Explode
This image of "Nano-Explosions" won first prize in this year's "Science As Art" competition. Fanny Beron from the École Polytechnique de Montréal used an electron scanning micrograph to record the explosion that happened when a CoFeB magnetic array was overloaded. The chaotic blasts are a "reminder that nanoscale research can have unpredicted consequences at a high level." Beron has also been a star soccer goalie. [NanoWerk] -
#art
Massive Detonation Leaves A Permanent Scar
The largest piece of gunpowder art in history detonated last year in Fujian province, China. Cai Guoqiang, a New York-based artist, designed the "controlled explosion" to leave burn marks in the shape of a 59-foot-by-30-foot banyan tree. Check out the results. More »
