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[bigROBOTbill]

Astronauts in banal situations

http://hunterfreeman.com/site/galleries/2

[Ngati_Grim]

^nice

Boy with 24 fingers and toes

http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Boy_with_24_fingers_and_toes?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+C2C-InTheNews+%28Feed+-+Coast+to+Coast+-+In+the+News%29

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HE'LL GROW UP TO BE POPULAR WITH THE LOIDIES.

[Dr Woomanchu]

Great outfit to wear to a game

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[bigROBOTbill]

^^ what a wally!

[maorifulla]

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[frankytanky]

[mattnz]

[Retardobot]

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[Speakman]

[Spork]

Spoiler :

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Spoiler for medium to large size picture.

[frankytanky]

Speaking of zombies, I see Brad Pitts production company brought the rights to WWZ, and there is rumours he will be starring in it. That would be an epic movie. (if they don't let Micheal Bay do it)

[doberman-08]

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Fractured

This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the floor of a large impact crater in the southern highlands, north of the giant Hellas impact basin. Most of the crater floor is dark, with abundant small ripples of wind-blown material. However, a pit in the floor of the crater has exposed light-toned, fractured rock.

The light-toned material appears fractured at several different scales. These fractures, called joints, result from stresses on the rock after its formation. Joints are similar to faults, but have undergone virtually no displacement. With careful analysis, joints can provide insight into the forces that have affected a rock, and thus yielding clues into its geologic history. The fractures appear dark, which may be due to dark, wind-blown sand, precipitation of different minerals along the fracture, or both.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

[Ngati_Grim]

From high-brow to low-brow:

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[Lvl10]

If you had $15.6 septillion and 94 cents in your account, would you save the world from the economic crisis or build a Death Star, destroy the world, and move on to invade the galaxy?

A guy called Ryszard Gold—who probably is an alien villain from the Outer Rim planets and got a 49-point score in our Geek Social Aptitude Test—made the calculation of the most basic Death Star's price with current materials and space transport costs here on Earth. Here's a quick summary:

• First, assume that 1/10 of the 17.16 quadrillion cubic meters of the Death Star is something other than empty space and 6/10 of the total volume is pressurized space.
• That will require 1.71 quadrillion cubic meters of steel, about 134 quadrillion tonnes. That's $12.95 quintillion in current 2008 prices, and that's without counting strange alloys and elements.
• Shipping that to space will cost $95 million per tonne: So add $12.79 septillion in transport.
• Now you need to add air, which will require 8.23 quintillion cubic meters of Nitrogen, and 1.65 quintillion cubic meters of oxygen, for a total delivery cost of $2.81 septillions and $212.46 quintillion.

The total: $15,602,022,489,829,821,422,840,226.94.

Yes, that's a whooping 1.4 trillion times the current US Debt. Or a sightly more meaningful number: 124 trillion years of war in Iraq.

That will only get you the very basic model of Death Star, no options, no GPS, no radio, no leather heated seats, no mega-laser to obliterate planets, no turbolaser towers, no computer systems, no miscellaneous life support systems, no crew quarters, no turbo-elevators, no energy generators, no showers, no air conditioning, no Darth Vader's jacuzzi, no Emperor's home theater system, and no bloody canteen. And don't get me started on the cost of all the lunch trays and the constant supply of penne all'arrabbiata and peas needed for all the Death Star personell*. That will probably double the final bill, coupled with the construction costs, for a total of more than $31 septillions.

As for the answer to the first question, there's no doubt about it. But then again, I always liked the Emperor's robe. He goes naked everywhere and nobody notices.

[Spork]

Those are some monetary amounts which I did not even know existed.

[bigROBOTbill]

I was going to ask if they took eftpos?

Or American Express, you get fly points...

And I'd like mine in old bricks with a Banksy job on the starboard side.

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[Arnifix]

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This makes me so very, very sad.

[Retardobot]

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[mattnz]

[-CowwieStyle-]

Serious subject but 1 in 3 wtf kind of claim is that and what does it say about nz men in general.

[pop]

they might not be afraid of men, probably cats

[Virus.]

I love the kid on the ground with the man's face.

[toofast]

I love the kid on the ground with the man's face.

That is just creepy shit.

[mattnz]

Looks like an episode of Little Britain.