Here's a cool animation someone shared today of molecular machine in your cells known as ATP synthase, which provides energy for all the cells in your body. During ATP synthesis, the central rotor turns in the direction shown about 150 times every second. In order to provide energy to sustain...
Voyager 1 Has Entered 'Cosmic Purgatory,' Where No Probe Has Gone Before
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-12/voyager-1-has-entered-cosmic-purgatory-where-no-probe-has-gone
'Mythbusters' cannonball hits Dublin home, minivan
"The cantaloupe-sized cannonball missed the water, tore through a cinder-block wall, skipped off a hillside and flew some 700 yards east, right into the Tassajara Creek neighborhood, where children were returning home from school at 4:15 p.m...
When my parents, youngest brother, and middle brother with his wife and four year old come over, it's about reconnecting and sharing stories for the first three days, and this is when we appreciate being thankful for our time together.
Then it quickly devolves into the dysfunctional hell...
Two hunters went moose hunting every winter without success.
Finally, they came up with a foolproof plan. They got a very authentic female moose costume and learned the mating call of a female moose. The plan was to hide in the costume, lure the bull, then come out of the costume and shoot...
With Thanksgiving coming up and family coming in town, to include a 5 year old nephew, I ran out to get a secure lockbox to keep my CZ out of easy reach. My needs being a simple-to-operate, small locking device that could store one handgun at a minimum; I decided on the Stack-On Quick Access...
Gun-toting grandmother says alleged robbers messed with wrong person-
Phyllis Gigl said two alleged robbers messed with the wrong person when they conspired to steal her purse and she pulled a .380-caliber handgun out of a holster in her pants and pointed it their way.
Someone passed this gem along at work..I don't feel bad about checking my freezer once a year now.
http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/is-it-safe-to-cook-a-reagan-era-frozen-turkey/
An elderly man in Phoenix calls his son in New York and says, âI hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty-five years of misery is enough.â
âPop, what are you talking about?â the son screams.
âWe canât stand the sight of each...
North Houston Battle Royale
Machetes, grenades...and a wedding
Okay, this is a weird one. A really weird one, involving accusations of parents smoking weed with children, divorce and remarriage, divided families, indestructible young women, hand grenades, garden hoes, machetes, other...
I just found an entertaining gunsmithing site where a student of gunsmithing has been recording his class projects for posterity on his blog, nerdgun.blogspot.com. Check it out, if you have an interest.
He's behind you! Meet the world's worst hunting dog. This beagle failed to spot the fox behind him. The dog had strayed too close to a den containing four fox cubs, but their protective parents stood their ground. Naturalist and photographer Mircea Costina captured the scene in a forest north of...
The steam-bike (wonder why it never caught on): Antique motorcycle expected to break world record price at auction
It is a bike whose inventor was once arrested for riding it but later released when police couldn't work out what crime he had committed.
And with a record like that it's not...