Do you really want to know what would happen if our planet was hit by a meteor? Yeah, you know you want to. According to this simulation it mean lots of trouble for everyone and everything. This video from a Discovery Channel program called “Miracle Planet” details the scary thought of a 500 km (or 300 miles) wide meteor hitting our planet in our lifetime. The amount of kinetic energy released when it meets our planet would be enough to cause a firestorm powerful enough to vaporize all life on our planet and evaporate all of the Worlds oceans.

Click-through to see the same video without the narration and some spectacular music.

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Matthew Harding spent 14 months visiting 42 countries to produce “Where the Hell is Matt?”, a four minute video featuring Harding (and anyone else who wanted to be part of it) doing an incredibly silly, funny dance in the most breathtaking scenery around the world. This are the most heartwarming four minutes of my week, which I usually spend thinking about the depressing reality of a probable robot apocalypse.

Source: Where The Hell Is Matt?

National Geographic has published a series of articles about the global food crisis, explaining how the high cost of food is changing behaviors around the world. According to their latest story, Italians are eating far less pizza and pasta eating is on the rise due to the rising cost of olive oil, mozzarella, and wheat flour:

In fact, the number of Italians who say their favorite food is pizza has dropped from 14.1 percent to 8.7 percent in the past two years, according to a survey from GPF Research Institute, a private opinion poll company….

Olive oil and mozzarella, both vital components of traditional Neapolitan pies, cost more as well. Olive oil prices have risen 10.9 percent and mozzarella prices 14.3 percent since April 2007.

“That’s mainly due to recent fluctuations in [the] oil market. We need it to warm greenhouses and cattle sheds, to fuel machines, to transport products, and we have to import all of it,” said Sergio Marini, president of Coldiretti, the Italian farmers union. “Italian agriculture is deeply affected by international oil prices.”

In total, pizza prices have gone up 13 percent since April 2007, according to Italy’s National Institute for Statistics.

I think the author of this article is misinformed or doesn’t know how to cook, because pasta is made from wheat flour too. And when you eat it, you tend to use lots of olive oil, and cheese. Pasta and pizza are basically the same food in different forms. And cooking pizza in a real Napolitan oven uses wood or coal as fuel, not oil.

What about you? Did you change your eating habits because of the global food crisis?

Source: National Geographic

The name of this cute tiny puppy is Hope. This dog was born without front legs, so orthotist David Turnbill decided it was time to create a robopuppy. He conceived a custom support for Hope using a couple of model airplane wheels, and each one of the “legs” can move up and down independently, allowing Hope to pivot and turn. This is the most adorable thing ever.

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Here’s a video that will teach you how to torment a telemarketer with a single word. Make sure you watch this until the very end.

I used to have fun messing with telemarketers but now they all use dialing machines that call me, and then tell me that I should call them back. Like that’s going to happen.

Source: YouTube via Grow-A-Brain

Experiments during NASA space missions have proven that small amounts of edible meat can be created in a lab, but the technology that could grow chicken nuggets on a large scale without the chicken may not be just a science fiction fantasy.

There would be many benefits from cultured meat. It would spare the lives of animals and cut down on the environmental problems that are associated with farming. PETA is even offering a $1 million prize to the first scientist who can produce lab-grown meat in bulk.

A new public television show, Your Week, asked a bunch of people if they would eat fake meat. It seems a bit hard to swallow for them, but why not as long as it’s safe and tastes identical to the real thing?

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It seems our representatives in the government finally saw the movie Armageddon and decided to take action.The House of Representatives just passed bill H.R. 6063, ordering NASA to come up with plans for a cheap mission to send a craft to the Apophis asteroid to attach a tracking device. Apophis is on route to come closer to Earth than geostational satellites in 2029, and if it smacked into our planet we’d be in a bit of trouble.

The bill also requires the Director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy to come up with a policy for notifying Federal agencies and other emergency response groups of an impending near-Earth object threat.

So their plan is: attach a GPS to Apophis, find out every detail about it, then watch it go into the earth? Awesome. What about surrounding the entire earth with a trampoline, so they just bounce off? Chances are this is an excuse to launch yet another satellite to track us.

Source: Kurzweilai via Gizmodo

It was only a matter of time before some dumb kid would try to emulate the blonde girl’s magical spinning on an escalator. It’s a sad failure, but as our friends over at Gizmodo noted, perhaps not as sad as the marines’s failed disembarking or as sad as the failed striptease.

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Is your sexual partner a little short to be a Stormtrooper? If the answer is yes, you should grab these awesome Stormtrooper high heels. Just get the outfit to go with them, and you could recreate some classic Star Wars’ scenes in a very kinky way. You little geeky perverts.

Source: Style Bubble via Gizmodo

This video of a homemade plane made by a Chinese farmer made me wet my pants. It’s a wonder that he manages to keep it together while flying this death-trap through the skies. Apparently, the guy built this thing out of what looks like dirt and spare parts from a broken aircraft, which is something I wouldn’t want to be riding up 300 feet in the air.

Notice that the camera only points rearwards at the huge flight stick, which must be a metaphor for his manliness and his balls of steel.

Source: YouTube via MAKE

Back in the mid-twentieth century, Soviet scientists did a series of experiments where they kept a dog’s severed head alive by connecting it to a machine. Dubbed “autojector,” the primitive heart and lung machine supposedly supplied the dog head with all that was needed for life. The dog reacts to sounds, opens its eyes, licks its lips, and even eats a piece of cheese, which plops out of its severed neck.

The video has been debated by experts for years. Real or not, this is probably one of the most fucked up experiment in the annals of mad science.

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This video of a 6-year old Indian kid who sets a world record skating under cars is incredible. Not only is he limber, but he also got balls of steel. When he gets down he’s no more than 8-inches in total height. I tried to do this when I was a kid, but my face ended up in the radiator grille of my dad’s car. I have fond memories of that incident though, because the nurse at the hospital had nice boobies.

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