Check out This Tortoise with the World’s First 3D-Printed Shell
Freddy the tortoise lost 85 percent of his shell in a forest fire. I, for one, did not know that is what a tortoise looks like under its shell. But clearly that is terrible for Frankie – so the Animal Avengers custom designed a new shell for him, and he was fitted with the hand-painted finished...
In 1957, Five Guys Stood Underneath a Nuclear Blast… on Purpose.
On July 19, 1957, five military men stood in the desert at the Nevada Test Site while a nuclear bomb was detonated 10,000 feet above their heads. A sixth lucky soul recorded it. Before the missile, everybody is squinting and looking for the jets that will fire the nuke. That’s an air-to-air 2 kiloton nuke, and I assume...
The 17 Most Popular Images of Earth Taken From ASTER
ASTER (or Advanced Spaceborne Thermal and Reflection Radiometer) is a super cool piece of equipment that has allowed American and Japanese scientists and engineers to take some badass photos. I’ve sorted through the geology section already, and now, I bring you the top 17 photos (according to hits as of mid-May 2016) of Earth. Even though I...
17 Cute, Crude, Clever and WTF Bathroom Gender Signs
Bathrooms are all over the news and in the courtrooms of America right now. People are threatening boycotts, sending in covert faux perverts to try and prove some weird point that I haven’t quite figured out, bosses are cancelling shows…. All the while, it seems like most people just want to pee. Bored Panda ran a contest...