Monday, July 12, 2010

Multiply Each Tiny Dot By a Billion

Multiply Each Tiny Dot By a Billion


Multiply Each Tiny Dot By a Billion

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 03:00 PM PDT

Multiply Each Tiny Dot By a Billion Yup. Every single dot represents a galaxy containing BILLIONS of stars. Holy...

Just think about it. Insane.

"The galaxies seen in this image are all in the distant Universe and appear as they did 10–12 billion years ago. They are colour coded in blue, green, and red to represent the three wavebands used for Herschel's observation. Those appearing in white have equal intensity in all three bands ...more

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History of the World Explained (Using Hundreds of Buckets of Paint)

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 12:00 PM PDT

History of the World Explained (Using Hundreds of Buckets of Paint) If you have yet to see the work of famed graffiti artist/filmmaker Blu, you're in for a real treat. Blu creates films with painted still images (graffiti style), installed in various public spaces. He photographs the paintings, and then assembles them into a stop motion animation.

The following project, titled "BIG BANG BOOM", is described by the artist as "months of work and hundreds of buckets ...more

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How About a Ride on My Robo-Insect?

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 09:00 AM PDT

How About a Ride on My Robo-Insect? This simple yet odd robot moves like a four-legged, single unit of a centipede, which unfortunately makes me think of the Human Centipede (shudder, don't click on the second video in the gallery below if you're faint of heart... or at work).

OK, maybe a stretch. But for whatever reason, I connect the two. Perhaps because the inventor looks a bit weird perched on his pet 'bot... Previously, Creepy ...more

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HowTo: Roast a Pig on a Spit

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 06:00 AM PDT

HowTo: Roast a Pig on a Spit Why settle on just pork chops or ribs when you can string up the entire pig? Serious Eats posts an great slide show on roasting a whole pig, from materials to the process to the perfect pig roastin' sauce.

Warnings

PETA members should probably exit this page right about now...

Here we go:

Store on ice.
Not immediately ready to roast? Store your dead body on ice, wrapped in a plastic bag, mafia ...more

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How Long Can a Man Survive in a Deadly Space Vacuum?

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 03:00 AM PDT

How Long Can a Man Survive in a Deadly Space Vacuum? Here at WonderHowTo, we certainly have an affinity for outer space-related topics, so I couldn't pass up this horrifying video of a man who just barely survived a simulated space vacuum.

Back in '65, Jim LeBlanc stood in as a test subject for a dangerous NASA test, in order to determine if space suits could handle a zero-pressure vacuum (as such is the state of the moon).

But the tube pressurizi ...more

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