Living on Arsenic

Not to brag or anything, but I called this years ago.
Since the basic concept of life and evolution is random chance, life should be able to be created from anything, given enough time. It may not have dna, or even breathe, but it could still be alive. And that's why I think it's so difficult to for us to find life on other planets. We're looking for earth life, organisms that breathe oxygen, are built out of carbon and 5 other elements, essentially follow a basic set of rules that we defined based on our own experience. It's like knowing what a fork is and trying to find a plate, glass, bowl, etc. They're the same thing, but you aren't going to find it by looking for a skinny, flat, slightly curved metal stick that splits to four smaller sticks. Life does not have to be anything like life on earth. The random chance that creates life essentially guarantees that. If we can find life on earth that violates a major part of our definition of what life on earth is, maybe we need to redefine life. </rant>

Broadway Bombing

Race down the entirety of Broadway on a bike ignoring traffic, pedestrians, red lights, etc...

Took this guy 38 minutes and 41 seconds, which I'm pretty sure is faster than any of the hundreds of cars he passed almost got hit by

Antarctica!

It's really cold!

German Bike Lock

If they can't reach your bike, they can't steal it.
Also, they can throw rocks at it.

If you need the video translated (it's in german), here you go:

"precision engineering"

THANK YOU TEN YEARS OF GERMAN

Images from CERN

Here's some images from some of CERNs first collisions.
You know instead of paying all that money to build the particle accelerator they could've just asked me for some of my MS Paint drawings which are remarkable similar.
9 BILLION DOLLARS PLEASE

World's Largest Solar Array

As of now,
7 football fields

What if an Asteroid hit the Earth?

This.
Or maybe the other 500 options that program gives you.

Millennium Development Goals

Some info on some good performance on some of the goals

Fence Graffiti

This is a good execution of a good idea for a good cause.

Twitter Robot That Upholds Climate Change

I can't believe I'm posting about something that happened on twitter aside,
Somebody wrote a program that tells misinformed twitterers when they are wrong.
Every five minutes it searches the tweeterverse for twits containing false information about global warming, then replies to the user, correcting them, and providing a legitimate source.

For instance

"When someone recently tweeted that "First the Earth goes through #GlobalWarming and #GlobalCooling. Its a natural climatic cycle and contributes to natural selection." Leck's chatbot responded "Ancient natural cycles r irrelevant 4 attributing recent global warming 2 humans" and referenced a detailed discussion of the differences between current global warming and natural heat variations."

 If a computer code can tell you that you are wrong, and provide legitimate evidence against your statement, you should not be allowed to share your opinions.

I hope this type of code gets expanded to the entire internet such that it becomes impossible to post any non-factual information anywhere ever. That would be awesome.

Solar Power's Potential

This is the potential of solar power compared to other sources.

Keep in mind that Solar Cells are only like 10% efficient so imagine the cube a tenth of that size to get the amount of solar power we can actually use.

Putting the Power Back in Solar Power

Just so you realize how much energy is actually in sunlight.
I was really hoping he would put his hand in it.

Dinosaur Graffiti

This is pretty cool even if the video is almost entirely unnecessary.

Corruption Perceptions Index 2010

Sweet.

Legalization of Marijuana

Personally, I'm a huge fan of the music

Chemical Use in Industry

Infographic!

There are about 50,000 chemicals in use
of those, 300 have been tested
of those, 5 have been restricted

if you scale the 5 out of 300 up to the total of 50,000, there should be around 833 chemicals that should be restricted.