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If At First You Don’t Succeed… Orbital Sciences Will Try To Launch Antares...
Launching a human-made object into space is a complicated and difficult endeavor, so we won’t fault Orbital Sciences or NASA for scrubbing the launch of the Antares rocket a few times so far. They...
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New Study Used QR-Like Codes to Prove Ants Have a Corporate Ladder
QR codes are generally something we think of as silly. Most people aren’t interested in scanning the code you put on your band’s flyer to get more information. It turns out they can actually serve...
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College Football Coach Uses Drone To Get Overhead View of Players, Terrify...
Adding robots to things is a pretty good way to get my attention. Although I usually don’t have any interest in college football, this week a coach at the University of Tennessee wanted an overhead...
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Geekolinks: 4/21
How to catch the Lyrid meteor shower this weekend (GeekSugar) Mediaite’s Joe Concha talks Twitter vs. TV News on CNN (Mediaite) Thermal imaging helicopter video of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s capture (Hyper...
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Watch All of Star Wars Episode IV in This One-Minute Animation
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is one of my favorite movies, because it’s one of the best ones. At 125 minutes long I don’t always have time to sit down an watch it all. Thankfully, it’s the latest...
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Chris Hadfield Explains How to Throw Up in Space, Stops Mercifully Short of...
We’re big Chris Hadfield fans here, and we’ve recently become huge fans of the ISS Commander’s latest series of videos, in which he explains how things are different in space to Canadian grade school...
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Police Released Images of Marathon Bombers To Take Hold Of Investigation From...
Social media did some things right during the hunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. They also got plenty wrong, misidentifying suspects and throwing around the names of people who ended up...
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Twitter Celebrates Earth Day By Being Rude To All Other Planets
The original intent behind Earth Day was to celebrate the planet we live on and remind us to be be good stewards of it. Unfortunately, since we’ve continued to more throughly destroy that planet every...
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Learn How To Be One Of The First Mars One Astronauts Live This Afternoon...
Do you want to be one of the first astronauts to go to Mars? Are you ready to give up on life here on Earth and do your duty helping mankind establish a place for itself among the stars? Well, tune in...
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Comedy Central Will Host #ComedyFest Comedy Festival on Twitter and Vine
My Twitter feed is a pretty even balance between news sources I trust and comedians I enjoy, but next week it’s probably going to lean heavily to the comedy side of things. That’s because Comedy...
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National Film Board of Canada Launches Chris Hadfield-Themed Space School...
Canada seems to be rallying behind astronaut Chris Hadfield in a big way, and rightfully so. He’s the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station, and he’s doing a lot to bring...
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Seriously, People, Stop Taking The Cinnamon Challenge, It Is Literally...
Because they apparently needed a new way to be really disappointed in today’s youth, doctors from across the nation have deemed it necessary to issue an official declaration that taking the cinnamon...
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Days of Futurama Past: Comedy Central Ends The Show’s Run Sep. 4
Futurama has been cancelled before, but it looks like this time it might really, truly be over. Comedy Central has decided not to order any more episodes of the show, and will just it march slowly...
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The Antares Rocket Finally Launched Over The Weekend, And Put Something...
It took Orbital Sciences a few tries, but they successfully launched their Antares rocket on Sunday. The rocket’s primary payload was just a “mass simulator” that was standing in for their Cygnus...
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Need to Cure a Lazy Eye? Try Playing Tetris
After a long day at work, there’s not much more therapeutic than a round of blasting terrorists or aliens or zombies whatever your bad guy of choice. But if you’re looking for a video game to cure...
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Geekolinks: 4/22
Plan your wedding with this iPhone app (GeekSugar) Celebrate The Doctor’s wedding anniversary with this TARDIS pinata (The Mary Sue) Daenerys pics set to Van Halen? Sure. Daenerys pics set to Van...
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Netflix Will Soon Offer a Family Plan With More Simultaneous Streams
Current Netflix subscribers are limited to streaming movies and television shows on just two devices at the same time, but for large families that might not be enough. That’s why Netflix announced...
View ArticleTrue Facts About The Duck Are Surprisingly NSFW. No, Seriously.
We’ve brought you several of Zefrank’s True Facts videos in the past, because they tend to be adorable, funny, and interesting. The new one that covers facts about ducks is all those things, and more....
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Empathy for Robots Looks Very Similar to the Empathy We Feel for Humans
Robots may not have the capacity to care about us yet, but that won’t stop humans from feeling unrequited love for their android buddies. While it may seem obvious to those of us who have harbored a...
View ArticleEverything You Need to Know About Particle Accelerators in a Three Minute...
It should come as no surprise to regular Geekosystem readers that we’re big fans of cartoons over here. We’re also mad into things like particle accelerators. So when we come across something like...
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