Today, I watched a young shop assistant try her hardest to flirt with my 20-year-old son. When he continued to be totally oblivious, she outright invited him back to her flat. When he asked, "What for?" a piece of my soul died at how completely I have failed as a father. FML
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Can You Guess If These Girl Scout Badges Are Real Or Fake?
Philip.paulssonCrazy. I got 9/15.
The Girl Scouts of America have been earning merit badges and selling cookies for centuries. But can you tell which badges really exist?
Charon
Charon
Icy world Charon is 1,200 kilometers across.
That makes Pluto's largest moon only about 1/10th the
size of planet Earth but a whopping 1/2 the diameter of
Pluto
itself.
Charon is seen in unprecedented
detail in this image from
New Horizons.
The image was captured late July 13
during
the spacecraft's flight through the Plutonian system
from a range of less than 500,000 kilometers.
For reference, the distance separating Earth and Moon is less than
400,000 kilometers.
Charonian terrain,
described as
surprising,
youthful, and varied, includes
a 1,000 kilometer swath of cliffs and troughs stretching below center,
a 7 to 9 kilometer deep canyon cutting the curve of the upper right edge,
and an enigmatic dark north polar region
unofficially
dubbed Mordor.
50 Miles on Pluto
50 Miles on Pluto
A 50 mile (80 kilometer)
trip across Pluto
would cover the distance indicated by the scale bar
in this startling image.
The close-up of the icy world's
rugged equatorial terrain
was captured when the
New Horizons spacecraft was about
47,800 miles (77,000 kilometers) from the surface, 1.5 hours before
its closest approach.
Rising to an estimated 11,000 feet (3,500 meters)
the mountains are likely composed of water ice.
Suggesting surprising geological activity,
they are also likely young
with an estimated age of 100 million years or so based on
the apparent absence of craters.
The region pictured is
near the base of Pluto's broad, bright, heart-shaped feature.
also the nuclear fallout could make a moon base tricky. just sayin'. i just happen to think it's hard enough to live on the moon without NUCLEAR FALLOUT
Philip.paulssonNuke the moon!
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Did speeding American manhole cover beat Sputnik into space? Top boffin speaks to El Reg
Philip.paulssonNeat story!
As any space enthusiast knows, beachball-sized Sputnik was the first manmade object to orbit the Earth after it was launched by the Soviets in October 1957. But it's possible the US managed to put an object into space a few months before that.
In 1956, astrophysicist Dr Robert Brownlee was asked by his boss at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to figure out a way to test nuclear weapons underground. The scientists working on Operation Plumbbob were concerned about the amount of radiation spewed out by the nukes during tests above the surface, so Dr Brownlee started experimenting with the idea of blowing up small a-bombs below the surface.
"Most of the radiation generated in a blast has a half life of about four hours," Dr Brownlee, 91, of Loveland, Colorado, told The Register. "We figured you could keep everything in but for a few per cent by going underground. But Mother Nature can outwit you in a great variety of ways."
In July 1957, for an experiment codenamed Pascal A, the team drilled a borehole 500ft deep for what was to become the world's first underground nuclear test. Unfortunately, the bomb yield was much greater than anticipated – 50,000 times greater, apparently. Fire shot hundreds of feet into the air from the mouth of the uncapped shaft, in what Dr Brownlee described as "the world's finest Roman candle."
Let's try again
The next month, in a test codenamed Pascal B, the team wanted to experiment with reducing the air pressure in the explosives chamber to see how that affected the explosion and radiation spread. A four-inch-thick concrete and metal cap weighing at least half a ton was placed over a 400ft-deep borehole after the bomb was installed below. The lid was then welded shut to seal in the equipment.
Before the experiment, Dr Brownlee had calculated the force that would be exerted on the cap, and knew that it would pop off from the pressure of the detonation. As a result, the team installed a high-speed camera to see exactly what happened to the plug.
The camera was set up to record one frame every millisecond. When the nuke blew, the lid was caught in the first frame and then disappeared from view. Judging from the yield and the pressure, Dr Brownlee estimated that it left the ground at more than 60 kilometres per second, or more than five times the escape velocity of our planet. It may not have made it that far, though – in fact the boffin, who retired in 1992, believes it never made it into space, but the legend of Pascal B lives on.
"I have no idea what happened to the cap, but I always assumed that it was probably vaporized before it went into space. It is conceivable that it made it," he told us.
"Many years later, when I was in Baikonur, the subject of Russia being the first to launch something into space came up. I did not raise my hand to add to the discussion, though I thought about doing so."
Did a twisted chunk of American hardware make it into space before the Soviets? We'll never know, but this was just one of the weird and wonderful experiences Dr Brownlee has had in a lifetime's nuclear research, about which we'll be telling you more later today. ®
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People Were Challenged To Sit In A Hot Car And Couldn't Even Make It 10 Minutes
Philip.paulssonI love saunas, so I imagine this would be a cakewalk for me.
“I can only imagine how a child or baby would feel.”
877kars4kids challenged adults to sit in a hot car for at least 10 minutes to win $100. They ended up failing and learned a shocking lesson about leaving anyone in a car.
Strangers were offered to participate in the Hot Kar Challenge, which included being locked in the vehicle. If the heat became too unbearable, there was an emergency button.

At first, the contestants were feeling pretty comfortable.

But the heat and claustrophobia soon began to kick in.

The Demon
Philip.paulsson"living with a demon" reminds me of the show I saw last night "Hand to God". Holy shit it was hilarious. Highly recommended!
http://www.broadway.com/shows/hand-to-god/?gclid=CjwKEAjwiZitBRCy0pb3rIbG9XwSJACmuvvzHt7U5DyRYkC9-TCO8uqg2v6P2gLC8W823DrXCAFORBoC-EXw_wcB

'Goat Simulator' headbutting its way to PS4 and PS3 August 11th
Philip.paulssonLOL nice.
Parts Of British Columbia Are On Fire And Smoke Is Choking Vancouver
Philip.paulssonHow bad is it, prettos?
More than 150 fires are burning in the province, sending smoke into low-lying areas such as Vancouver.
Morning broke in Vancouver and brought with it a day of smoky skies.
The city is under a cloud of smoke due to more than 150 fires raging in other parts of the province.
The area around Pemberton, in northern B.C., is seeing some of the most aggressive fire activity. This photo from the B.C. Wildfire Service shows part of a blaze that covers roughly 1500 hectares.

That's about 2,700 NFL football fields.
As a result of the fires, there was a very rare and slightly frightening weather forecast for Vancouver.
19 Reasons It's Time You Embraced The "Shower Beer"
Philip.paulssonShower beer is the best beer.
Drinking beer in the shower is a thing and you should all be doing it.
Drinking a beer in the shower is one of life's great simple pleasures.

So it's sad that so few people know that it's a thing.

Because just look how happy it can make you.

Some people may question the logic of the shower beer, they might say it makes no sense.

"I never dreamed, when Apollo astronauts left the moon in 1972, that there might come a day when there was nobody still alive who had been to the moon. But now it seems that could come to pass. How heartbreaking is that?" [Sad]
Philip.paulssonSad. But we have had at least one human in space for the last 15 years, which is pretty awesome.
New Horizons checks in OK after Pluto flyby
Philip.paulssonWoo! Looking forward to the pics this afternoon!
Overnight update: The tension was thick tonight as the whole world waited for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft to phone home. At 8:52:37 pm EDT mission control received a signal from NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) confirming the spacecraft was healthy and on its way out to the outer reaches of the Solar System. When the signal came in, the crowd at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab broke out in thunderous applause.
The signal was part of a a 15-minute communications pass and contained only engineering information—no science data will come in until tomorrow. John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's science mission directorate, equated tonight's phone home with the Curiosity Rover's landing back in 2012 and said "The best is yet to come. Tomorrow we can expect the science team to dazzle us. We haven't seen anything yet."
Charlie Bolden, NASA's administrator, said in a post-event press conference, "This is a historic
win for science and exploration. We are inspiring the next generation of explorers and have truly raised the bar of human potential."
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UK might ban social media to combat the specter of ISIS
Philip.paulssonWhen did the UK turn into China?
We Asked 14 Anti–Fox-Hunting Protesters For Their Messages To David Cameron

Guy Bell / Rex/REX USA
At an anti–fox-hunting protest outside of the houses of parliament on Tuesday, hundreds of people, led by Queen guitarist Brian May, opposed the relaxation of the hunting ban.
The government had planned to have a free vote in parliament which, if passed, would have allowed hunts to use unlimited numbers of dogs to hunt foxes rather than the two which are currently allowed.
The vote, which was due to take place on Wednesday, was postponed after the SNP pledged to vote against it, meaning it would have been likely to have been defeated. The protesters used today as a celebration of that, but also as a warning to the government to "keep the ban". These are the protesters' messages to David Cameron.
1. Brian May wrote that fox-hunting has "no place" in the 21st century.

Matthew Tucker / BuzzFeed
2. Gregor O'Regan, dressed as celebrated fox Basil Brush, wrote: "No animal needs to be hunted."

Matthew Tucker / BuzzFeed
3. Sharon Frankish and Karen Huxley just want to #KeepTheBan.

Matthew Tucker / BuzzFeed
4. There were an enormous number of fox puns being made at the protest. Natalie Bookman wants David Cameron to: "Shut the fox up!"

Matthew Tucker / BuzzFeed
5. "Remember how democracy works," wrote Katie Nugent.

Matthew Tucker / BuzzFeed
6. Madeleine Goumas and Chris Cotton think Cameron is "a sadist".

Matthew Tucker / BuzzFeed
7. David Cameron is attempting to "turn back the clock", according to Matthew Simpson.

Matthew Tucker / BuzzFeed
8. Angus Robertson, the leader of the SNP in Westminster, is "glad" his party made the decisive move that made the government postpone its fox-hunting vote.

Matthew Tucker / BuzzFeed
9. This man, who wanted to remain anonymous because he's a civil servant, wrote that "hunting is barbaric".

Matthew Tucker / BuzzFeed
10. Lauren Savage thinks the government is acting like a bunch of "hunts".

Matthew Tucker / BuzzFeed
11. Nina, who didn't want to give her surname, thinks David Cameron is an "upper class cunt".

Matthew Tucker / BuzzFeed
12. Victoria Eisermann and Pola Pospieszalska, who run a dog charity called K-9 Angels, want to "keep the ban, for fox sake".

Matthew Tucker / BuzzFeed
13. Ademola Adebomi wrote that Cameron shouldn't ignore the protesters.

Matthew Tucker / BuzzFeed
14. And this corgi DEMANDS that Cameron enforces the hunting ban.

Matthew Tucker / BuzzFeed
Meet the faces of Japan's first robot-staffed hotel
Philip.paulssonHahha love the dinosaur.
Simple Pranks For People Who Just Want To Watch The World Burn
Philip.paulssonHahah love the cat in the microwave one...
Give in to the dark side.
Download this gif of three dots and send it to friends to make it seem as though you're typing FOREVER.

Via youtu.be

Via youtu.be
Fill up a container of orange juice with water mixed with the powder mix from a box of mac n' cheese.
Make any screen look like it's been shattered.
New Horizons
Philip.paulssonOh god damnit, now it's happening to me, too! "]Ever since astrophysicist Katie Mack pointed out that "New Horizons" appears in the lyrics to A Whole New World, I've gotten it stuck in my head every time I've seen something about Pluto."
New Horizons
What if New Horizons hits my car?
—Robin Sheat
The New Horizons spacecraft is currently flying past Pluto.[1]Ever since astrophysicist Katie Mack pointed out that "New Horizons" appears in the lyrics to A Whole New World, I've gotten it stuck in my head every time I've seen something about Pluto. For the last few days, it's been giving us our first clear look at the world, and it should be making its closest approach at the moment this article is posted. Either that, or hitting your car, I guess.
It's hard to imagine how that could happen, even if New Horizons had headed to Earth by mistake. Unless there's been an especially strange freeway accident, your car is currently within the Earth's atmosphere. All that air stops spacecraft from flying into the ground at full speed. But maybe you took a wrong turn and ended up near Charon, or maybe you drove into a freak extremely-low-pressure system, leaving no atmosphere above you. It could happen![2]It really, really couldn't.
New Horizons is about the size and weight of a grand piano, and is currently screaming along at about 14 kilometers per second. If it hit your car, it would be pretty bad for both vehicles.
How fast is 14 kilometers per second? Here's my favorite comparison for putting that speed in perspective: If you were standing at one end of a football field and fired a gun toward the other end, right while New Horizons flew past you, the spacecraft would reach the far end zone before the bullet made it to the 10-yard line.[3]In that same amount of time, a speeding car would travel about an inch.
This high speed means that by this afternoon, New Horizons will be on its way out of the Pluto system,[4]People often ask why New Horizons is just doing a flyby, and not sticking around to orbit Pluto. The answer is: If you can figure out a way to do that, go for it. Pluto is really far away, and to get a probe there before your career ends, you have to go really fast. When you're going that fast, it's hard to stop. (At least, if you want to stop in one piece.) and over the coming days and weeks it will let us know what it saw today. It can't talk to Earth and take photos at the same time, so right now it's spending all its time taking pictures and gathering data.
Later today, the spacecraft will pause the data-gathering for a moment to send a brief message to Earth. No results—just, "Hey, I'm still alive". If it is still alive, that is. It's flying at terrifying speed through a part of the Solar System we've never visited. There could be, say, a bunch of small rocks there.[5]In case of disaster, New Horizons has sent back a few snapshots and data dumps right before the encounter, so at least we'll have those. Or a car.
New Horizons will send the "I'm okay" message in the afternoon, but it takes light four and a half hours to get back to Earth, so it will get here around 8:53pm Eastern US time—so if you're going to have a Pluto party, that's the time to do it. You can tune in to NASA TV to watch the nervous people in mission control wait for the signal. You'll know it worked if there's lots of cheering and hugging.
For more details on the mission, check out Emily Lakdawalla's comprehensive Planetary Society post, What to expect when you're expecting a flyby, which has dates, times, and background on all the equipment. (For up-to-the-minute coverage, her Twitter feed is probably the best place to go for updates, context, and excitement.)
So what does all this mean for your car?
Passenger cars have "crumple zones," which are areas of the car designed to fold up and absorb some of the force of an impact before it reaches the passenger cabin. Unfortunately, in a hypervelocity impact, materials like metal aren't nearly strong enough to hold together. Instead of crumpling, they splash. New Horizons and your car's crumple zone would splash as bits of them passed through each other, and the resulting spray of metal would do the same to the rest of your car. From a distance, it would probably look approximately like this.
Here's the good news: NASA will have to pay for your car. Under the Convention on the International Liability for Damage Caused by Space Object, NASA and the US government would clearly be on the hook for the damage. And, since you wouldn't be considered at fault in the accident, in most states insurance companies would be legally prohibited from raising your premiums.
The situation would be slightly complicated by the fact that this would be a nuclear accident. New Horizons flies too far from the Sun to use solar panels, so it's powered by the heat from a bunch of lumps of plutonium-238. The container holding the plutonium is sturdy, since it's designed to survive atmospheric reentry (and has done so). However, it's not designed to survive entry into a Chevy. The container and the plutonium inside it would be splattered across the landscape. The US government will not only have to replace your car, it will probably have to replace much of your neighborhood.
This has actually happened before. In 1978, the Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, which carried a nuclear reactor, reentered the atmosphere and disintegrated over Canada. The Canadian government spent millions cleaning up the radioactive debris near Yellowknife. They demanded over $6 million (CAD) from the Soviets for the cleanup, and were eventually paid $3 million.
Hopefully, New Horizons is currently flying past Pluto. But don't worry; if it somehow hits your car instead, the US government will cover things. To find out which one it is—Pluto or your car—tune in to NASA TV.
And watch your driveway.
News in Brief: Harper Lee Announces Third Novel, ‘My Excellent Caretaker Deserves My Entire Fortune’
Philip.paulssonLOL
NEW YORK—Shocking the literary world once again, acclaimed author Harper Lee announced through her publisher Tuesday the surprise release of her third novel, My Excellent Caretaker Deserves My Entire Fortune. “On behalf of Ms. Lee, we’re delighted to bring the public this moving new story, which follows the heartwarming relationship between a deaf and nearly blind author in the small-town South and the extremely kind and attentive caretaker to whom she wills every penny of her $45 million estate,” said HarperCollins president Michael Morrison, adding that the 185-page tale vividly brings to life the setting of a present-day assisted living facility in Monroeville, AL, where an 89-year-old protagonist named Harper comes to the life-changing decision to hand over all the money in her bank account, her property, and all future proceeds from the books she has published to her extremely upstanding and unselfish friend and lawyer, Tonja. “This ...
Lumos helmet keeps cyclists safe with automatic brake lights
Philip.paulssonAwesome. Just kickstarted this.
5 Horrifying Fan Theories That Make Way Too Much Sense
Philip.paulsson#5 is pretty hilarious. tl;dr version: Uncle Joey (Dave Coulier) is the father of all the children in Full House and was having an affair with Bob Sagat's wife. Then he does it again with Jesse's wife Rebecca. All based on the hair color of the children all being blond, while the parents were brown haired. Hilarious! Also explains why Danny Tanner's fifth grade classmate (Joey) moves in and helps him raise the kids for eight frickin' years. Cause they're his!
Man With “White” Tattoo Who Shook Hands With Hillary Clinton Is Not A Supremacist
Philip.paulssonLOL
A picture of Clinton shaking hands with the man was removed from her Twitter feed last week after questions were raised. The tattoo, however, is part of a larger piece that says “white trash.”
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton campaigned in New Hampshire over the 4th of July weekend, walking in a parade and stopping at the Dairy Twirl for ice cream in the town of Lebanon.

Darren McCollester / Getty Images
The man, seen in the background of this picture holding an ice cream, told BuzzFeed News on Monday that he is not a white supremacist. The "white" tattoo seen on his right arm is actually part of a larger piece that says, "white trash."

Hillary Clinton / Via Flickr: hillaryclinton
Nicholas Brown, 33, got the tattoo four years ago, after a bout of pneumonia put him in a coma for six weeks and caused him to lose his legs.

The phrase represents how he felt about himself as he got out of the hospital, he said.
"I got out, and I saw my body totally messed up," he said.
On July 3, he and his girlfriend went to the ice cream stand without knowing Clinton was planning an appearance.
"I was just standing in line and turned around," he said. "She started talking to me."
Brown said he wants people to know he is not a white supremacist or racist. And though the Clinton campaign's photo caused some to misconstrue him, he said he still supports her.
In their brief meeting, he said he felt like he connected with her as a real person, not just a politician.
"Nobody really gives me a chance a day to talk, and she was willing to talk to me," he said. "She just feels like a down-to-earth person."
Nicholas Brown
Bryan Cranston Dropped The Ultimate ‘Your Mom’ Joke At Comic Con
Philip.paulssonHaha!
And a poor guy from Albuquerque is feeling the burn.
At a Bryan Cranston Q&A for Nerd HQ at Comic Con, a guy from Albuquerque asked Cranston an innocent question about Breaking Bad.

The Nerd Machine / youtube.com
But then Bryan dropped this line.

"Woah, that's a little mean", you can hear the Albuquerque man say.
The Nerd Machine / youtube.com
**HE THEN DROPS THE MIC **

The Nerd Machine / youtube.com
BURNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN ? ? ?

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Kittens Meet Puppies For The First Time
Philip.paulssonI die.
Cause who doesn’t love baby animals hanging out together!?
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Are You More Key Or Peele?
Philip.paulssonLove this show. But was underwhelmed by this season's premier.
“Noooooice.”

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