Friday Link: Oct 23

An artist turns pieces of ugly urban technology into works of art. [link]

NASA's LCROSS probe recited Douglas Adams at the Moon before crashing. [link]

The passage in question.

12 million digit Mersenne prime number found. Not much more to the story than that. [link]

The song "Popcorn" played on mideval instruments.

David (Dr Who) Tennant and Simon (Shawn of the Dead) Pegg to work together on a movie. Does it really matter what the project is? [link]

A blob droid.

At the end of Star Wars Han and Luke were given medals from Princess Leia. The droids and the Wookie were left out despite their equally important contributions. Looks like about 12 years ago Chewbacca was given his medal.

Some time back one of the martian rovers saw a dust devil near the poles. [link]
This picture from orbit shows the results of much greater dust devil activity. See, the soil on Mars is gray, but the dust is red. As dust devils blow away the red dust you get these swirls. [link]
And this picture shows lots and lots of the same thing in the shadow of a mountain range. Just without the color. [link]

There's a movie coming out called "The Box". I'll let you find the trailer yourself. It's based on a story that was also adapted for the 1985 Twilight Zone series. Here's part 1 of that episode.

Part 2

Magpies have funerals. [link]

My Krodie's comic related wing of his library. I feel more justified in adding another shelf to my comic wing. [link]

Robots showing off.

Sometimes you get no videos and sometimes I load you up.
The Mythbusters guys test to see if a bullet fired and dropped at the same time hit the ground at the same time. We know what should happen, but the calibration of the equipment is tricky.

I have a dream of someday seeing an educational and comedic science show starring Dr Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant Beaker. I've got outlines for several episodes in my head in one scene where ... OK, read this in your best Kermit voice... "Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm pleased to present to you the Cambridge Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Professor Stephen Hawking! Yeeeeaaaaaah!" You should be waiving your arms in the air as you yell "Yeeeeaaaaaah!".
Now Hawking has retired from that specific role. As of November 1 the job belongs to String Theorist Michael Green. [link]
I suppose it's better this way. I wanted to buy the rights for MC Hawking [link] and have a Muppet version of him and Isaac Newton (the second Cambridge Lucasian Professor of Mathematics).

Along those lines, an explaination of the Theory of Relativity in words of four letters or less. [link]

A garden covering hammock. [link]

Scientist give a fly false memories. [link]

Anvil launching.

Tales of a child re-snatcher. [link]

Artifical black hole. [link]

Galaxy quilts. [link]

Pumpkin sculptures. [link]