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more about #rankspeculation more comments → Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.: Magrathea! more » rek: Is it really "real-time" when you're watching the light of something that happened hundreds or thousands of years ago? more » techgoddess: Only .002 cents per byte: It's probably the Caeliar and they're building a Dyson sphere XD more » twophrasebark: Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational Death Star... more » phoenix: Okay, I'm going to dork out for a second in the midst of all this hilarity, if no one minds. So if the artist's conception looks anything like what ... more » Anekanta - Go Play!: So what is this lump anyway? I imagine the speculation going like this: Kid: It might be a tumor... Arnie: It's not a tumor. more » Grey_Area: Hopefully, hostilities with the Idirans won't hold up construction. more » Lassus: -faints- more » gorehound: I have smoked pot sincve sept.1968 and i am pissed off that you can go and drink yourself to death but you can not have legal pot. FUCK YOU USA !!!! more » Invisible-Echidna: But it hurts sooooo good. more » Bender is my hero!: Having conducted years and years of "personal research" on this matter, I can attest that this is probably true. THC has vast potential and provides ... more » J_Frank_Parnell: Does this mean I can still get high? more » Sabbatai: I am concerned that this study would even induce thoughts of using it's resulting applications in the manners described. On a side note, Marijuana ha... more » I Think We're Property: Using drugs or chemicals to inflict pain wouldn't be classified as any more "humane" than waterboarding, which also technically avoids inflicting any ... more » RandomFrequentFlierDent: The link doesn’t take me directly to the paper. Why are you not enabling my laziness? more » -
#spaceporn
Spitzer Telescope Captures Images of Mysterious "Space Lump"
NASA's planet-finding Spitzer Telescope has picked up infrared light in a pattern that suggests a giant lump of material is forming in an otherwise smooth disk of debris around a star. Is somebody building an Orbital? More » -
#madscience
The Mysterious Chemical That Eases Pain, But Also Causes It
Endocannabinoids are the body's natural form of THC, a chemical in marijuana that can ease pain. Now a new study shows this chemical is a double-edged sword, making people more sensitive to pain too. Could endocannabinoids be used for torture?
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#robotzombies
Will New Intelligent Combat Robots Use Dead Bodies For Fuel?
The Pentagon is funding a company called Robotic Technology, whose main project is developing an autonomous robot called EATR that fuels itself on "biomass." This biomass could include vegetation, paper, and even corpses on the battlefield. More » -
#pharmaceuticals
An Anti-Anxiety Drug That Could Create Super-Soldiers
Soon you may be able to buy a drug that can make you calm by mimicking the body's natural self-soothing process. But you wouldn't feel drugged. What would happen to people who suddenly became fearless without side-effects? More » -
#madscience
A Medicine That Can Make You Schizophrenic and Then Sane Again
A new form of gene therapy could make you insane, then set you right again. More » -
