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Tech NewsThe Audacia Lays 100 Feet of Pipe On the Ocean Floor Every Minute
Undersea energy pipelines constitute a vital physical link between deep water wells and onshore refineries, but it’s not like we can just lay these lines like oversized bendy straws. That task of constructing and sinking these tubes instead falls to vessels like Allseas’ newest addition to its pipelaying fleet, the Audacia. Over short distances, sure, … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Story of George
George is a male Lambeosaurus, except for his head, which is female, and one of his toes, which is fake. George hails from the prehistoric swamps of Alberta, but relocated to Vancouver where his bones are squished in plaster on a cramped museum wall. George is my first dinosaur. George, embedded in a wall of … Continued
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Tech NewsSploid
Godspeed, Bill Dana, legendary test pilot and aerospace pioneer
The guy in the white flight suit is Bill Dana—a true American hero. Bill Dana was a legendary test pilot, a historic pioneer, a man whose fearless work made the airplanes and spaceships we fly today possible—one of those very few guys made of the right stuff from an era that is now completely gone. … Continued
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Bicycling Is Now The Fastest Growing Method Of Commuting To Work
So long, flying cars! It turns out that the transportation of the future might just already be propped up next to your garage: the bicycle. According to a new Censusreport on how we’re getting around these days, biking is the fastest-growing mode of commuting to work in the U.S. today. Interestingly, the temperateness of the … Continued
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Design Legend Massimo Vignelli Is Very Sick—Send Him a Letter
The man who gave us everything from the NYC subway’s signage and map to the American Airlines logo, Massimo Vignelli, is currently spending his last days at home—and his son has an unusual request: Would you send him a note? Luca Vignelli put out the call to the internet today on The Creative Review, asking … Continued
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io9The 10 Best Stories In the Star Wars Expanded Universe
The Star Wars Expanded Universe is no more. In many cases; this is no big loss — some stories and characters are best tossed into a black hole and never spoken of again. But the EU had plenty of good stories, too — tales so good we’re genuinely sad they’ll lose whatever little canonization they … Continued
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Tech NewsHow Airplane Evacuation Slides Deploy In Under 6 Seconds
It’s probably quite a bit different when you see one from inside a plane, but from down here on the ground, watching airplane evacuation slides deploy is pretty damn mesmerizing. Thankfully, Core77 just uncovered some great footage of the slides being both made and tested. The production process is understandably arduous; fitting something meant to … Continued
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What Mel Gibson Would Have Looked Like As Wolverine
Before Hugh Jackman donned the adamantium claws as everyone’s favorite mutant Wolverine, there were a few other Aussies up for the gig. Including one Mel Gibson — and here’s concept art showing what Wolverine could have looked like. Three years before Bryan Singer’s first X-Men movie Gibson was in the lead to play Logan. This … Continued
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Are Religious Beliefs Going To Screw Up First Contact?
Are humans really prepared to meet an extraterrestrial civilization in this century? A new study suggests we’re psychologically ill-prepared for this monumental event — and that the prominence of religious beliefs has a lot to do with it. Despite the eerie Great Silence, there’s good reason to suspect we’ll eventually make contact with aliens. Our … Continued
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Tech NewsSee Your City Like a Hazy Point Cloud from Another Dimension
We saw last month that data sets hidden in Google Street View can be extracted to create immersive 3D point clouds that make every city look like a holograph. Inspired by that work—by designer Gonzalez Vivo—Callum Prentice has mocked up an interactive version, a Google Street View search that shows you any available address as … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Future Is a Real-Life Tron Bike
Gizmodo’s Home of the Future is full of items that will help you get around today that seem like they’re from tomorrow. Motorized longboards? Check. Murdered-out bikes with USB ports? Check. An actual street legal Tron bike? Check, check, mother loving check. Maybe you know Mott Street Customs bikes. Maybe you know Revolights. But you … Continued
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Why It’s So Hard To LIsten To A Song All The Way Through, In Graphs
You’re almost exactly as likely to skip a song while streaming music as you are to listen to the whole thing. This series of graphs explains what it is that makes it so hard to listen to a song through the end. Paul Lamere (who previously used music streaming data to generate maps of the … Continued
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29 Wonderful Bike Ads From the Golden Age Of Cycling
For a few brief decades of human history, just before combustion engines and motorcycles and cars burst onto the scene, the bicycle was the most advanced personal land vehicle around. They were wonders of technology and personal style—as these beautiful ads show. As Gizmodo continues its Bike Month coverage, take a second to imagine what … Continued
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io9Legends Of Oz Comes From the Island Of Misfit Animated Movies
Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return arrives in theaters limping. After long delays, endless rewrites and decisions like “let’s add songs by Bryan Adams,” it finally comes out with a 5 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. What the heck went wrong with this film, anyway? Legends of Oz is a sequel to The Wizard of … Continued
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ABC’s New TV Line Up Is Full Of Aliens, Singing Princes And Immortals
ABC is fully committing to being the network that delivers campy fairy tale shows. And now they’re raised the bar, because their latest fairy tale show has the cast SINGING. Check out ABC’s new scifi and supernatural TV line-up. As Upfronts rolls on and each TV channel trots out their latest wares the biggest genre … Continued
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io9X-Men: Days Of Future Past‘s Quicksilver May Be Awesome After All
We’ve seen his outfit and raged. We’ve seen him eat hamburgers and wept. But this new promo centered around the speedster has a lot of new footage of Quicksilver in action, and all that footage is looking pretty damned awesome. To be fair, most people who gotten to watch X-Men: DOFP early have said that … Continued
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