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SteelCurtain · April 7, 2015 at 6:29 am

I guess you can reinvent the wheel! Very interesting. I don't have a fireplace, so I couldn't use it. But if I did, that would be mine.

Exian · April 7, 2015 at 12:11 pm

I always go through a roller coaster of emotions when I see something as simple as that axe. At first I think "Yes! This is awesome!", and then it's "Fuck me, why didn't I think of that?!" But the reality is even if I had thought of it, what the hell am I gonna do with the idea?

**Jenny A** · (This post was last modified: April 7, 2015 at 1:18 pm by Jenny A.)

(April 7, 2015 at 2:10 am)Exian Wrote: Little bit of mechanical science. As a person fairly new to the firewood chopping game, I'm excited about this. I'm gonna order one this summer. Hell, maybe sooner; looks fun.
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I have to have one of those. The big deal about it is not just less work, but much less possibility of flying wood. I chop wood in a residential setting and that is huge.

SteelCurtain · April 7, 2015 at 1:17 pm

Shark Tank that shit!

Exian · April 7, 2015 at 2:43 pm

(April 7, 2015 at 1:17 pm)Jenny A Wrote: I have to have one of those. The big deal about it is not just less work, but much less possibility of flying wood. I chop wood in a residential setting and that is huge.

Ha I didn't even think of the safety aspect. I'm out in the boonies, but, of course, my daughter likes to watch, so it's always a big deal making sure she stays behind the imaginary perimeter. She might even be able to take a few whacks with this axe.

(April 7, 2015 at 1:17 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Shark Tank that shit!

I wish! That would be a cool experience. I never make it a point to watch that show, but I always end up glued to it.

My friends always send me pictures of when they find the dual draft guard in a stores to tease me, because I made a few of those for our doors at the old house a few years before those were made. I was sick of repositioning the door sock every time you opened the door, so the easy solution was to attach two together with a strip of fabric and slip the fabric under the door. Now some dude is making a pretty penny off that. *sad face*

A few others: When I was a kid I rigged a silly string can to my wrist to be able to shoot it Spider-Man style. Then Boom! They made it. My mother and I were developing a scanner that attached to shopping carts, so you could have everything scanned before the checkout line. But now with smartphones and whatever, it's a pretty antiquated idea. Plus, I think we saw that some stores already had them in place. *moar sad face*

The dual draft guard one really hurts because the idea is so simple that it would have been very doable for a start-up.

**Alex K** · (This post was last modified: April 15, 2015 at 5:45 am by Alex K.)

Lowest temperature ever, created in rubidium atoms

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Atomic gas cooled to 0.00000000005 degrees Celsius above absolute zero

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rubi...ure-—-ever

SteelCurtain · April 16, 2015 at 7:52 pm

A group of scientists using an ROV spot a Sperm Whale and get adorably excited:

Exian · (This post was last modified: April 17, 2015 at 2:56 pm by Exian.)

Wow! That's incredible. It's really fun to sort of be there for their find. At one point you can hear a guy doing the Dory whale talk from Finding Nemo lol.

Here's my contribution for the day. I don't normally share what I read on iflscience because they're pretty high profile; I assume everyone has read it, but this one is pretty amazing.
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-ani...se-hunting

Quote:During this time, the scientists observed troop members snapping off branches, removing the leaves and even using their teeth to trim and sharpen the ends. On average, these tools were around 75 centimeters (30 inches) in length. Weapon in hand, the chimps would then creep up on sleeping bush babies and stab them, either mortally or wounding them enough to make them easy to snatch and kill with hands and teeth

SteelCurtain · April 21, 2015 at 6:37 am

They're on their way to being our benevolent overlords.

**Iroscato** · April 22, 2015 at 1:08 am

So, time for me to start earning the title I gave myself here. Some of my fave bits of space porn.

This Star Size Comparison vid. This is humbling, and pretty scary.

And this Black Hole Size Comparison vid. This is terrifying in ways it is hard to articulate with words. You're welcome.

The largest galaxy in the known universe - IC 1101. This is somehow as scary as the black hole vid, but in a slghtly different way to me.

...Feeling small yet? Big Grin

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