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What I want to know is when do they harness this technology to build a planet destroying weapon?

http://gizmodo.com/5926239/scientists-fire-the-worlds-most-powerful-laser?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Grand Moff Ballz.

RvZ wrote:Grand Moff Ballz.

Dragons Den here I come.

'I'm out'. Duncan Bannatyne is now no more than a wisp of smoke

Fandango Widewheels wrote:What I want to know is when do they harness this technology to build a planet destroying weapon?

http://gizmodo.com/5926239/scientists-fire-the-worlds-most-powerful-laser?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

155,425 pieces assembled by hand, proper engineering

http://gizmodo.com/5926502/awesome-time-lapse-shows-how-rolls+royce-builds-its-jet-engines

putting out fires with BASS?

hell yes

Didn't know where to pu this so it's going here.

http://gizmodo.com/5923216/this-summers-best-water-gun?tag=battlemodo

Water gun reviews.

We used to have some ace supersoaker fights, kids need reminding how much fun these bad boys are.

This :




and this as a sidearm





that's all you needed when we were kids

Sherrers wrote:This :




and this as a sidearm





that's all you needed when we were kids

Brilliant.

I can't see those pics. I'm guessing it's an apple, an orange, a whipping top and a lump of coal tied together with a dead badger.

Improv

Great we've got wee Nod who wants to put up tunes but is deaf and now we have a blind moderator.

You didn't put that in your CV boy

T.B wrote:Great we've got wee Nod who wants to put up tunes but is deaf and now we have a blind moderator.

You didn't put that in your CV boy

I didn't provide a CV. I was headhunted

Ballz' interview. Yesterday

If only I was that useful

bril

your left leg I like...

$1.8 million a year to be Batman

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/07/how-much-would-it-cost-to-actually-be-batman/

I don't even have to click on that to know it's balls.

The bills would be more than that.

I know what it costs to heat a mansion.

Sherrers wrote:I don't even have to click on that to know it's balls.

The bills would be more than that.

I know what it costs to heat a mansion.

Captain Imagination strikes again

I don't think they were focussed on his domestic living costs Thaty kind of discussion tends to turn people off.

It's still rubbish. Lucius Fox would be paid that in a year as a salary never mind bonus.

Aviation fuel. Very costly.

Kevlar and titanium weave? Not cheap.

If someone said $1.8 Billion I'd still ask if they meant a US billion or a proper one.

Sherrers wrote:It's still rubbish. Lucius Fox would be paid that in a year as a salary never mind bonus.

Aviation fuel. Very costly.

Kevlar and titanium weave? Not cheap.

If someone said $1.8 Billion I'd still ask if they meant a US billion or a proper one.

You've not even read it have you?

I simply refuse

Pointing out the failings in an article you haven't even read.

Achilles. We've found your weakness. It's comic trivia.

Shagging ants day is upon us (I said ants, not grannies, calm down Gus)

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/cleared-for-takeoff-its-the-day-of-the-flying-ants-7966292.html

Fandango Widewheels wrote:Pointing out the failings in an article you haven't even read.

I read the story about the police saving the dirtied sex doll....har har

This is mental and scary all at the same time

http://www.webpronews.com/gunsmith-uses-3d-printer-to-make-a-rifle-2012-07

I'm sure everyone has noticed but the entire interweb is awash with such stuff after the Batbomber.

Is this where it all goes wrong....genetically modified mosquitoes.



Scientists to breed GM mosquitoes to stop spread of dengue fever
Huge numbers of genetically modified mosquitoes are to be breed by scientists in Brazil to help stop the spread of dengue fever, an illness that has already struck nearly 500,000 people this year nationwide.

Dengue affects between 50 and 100 million people in the tropics and subtropics each year, causing fever, muscle and joint ache as well as potentially fatal dengue haemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome.
The disease is caused by four strains of virus that are spread by the mosquito Aedes aegypti. There is no vaccine, which is why scientists are focusing so intensely on mosquito control.

The initiative in Brazil will produce large quantities of genetically modified male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which will be released into nature to mate with females, the health ministry said.
"Their offspring will not reach adulthood, which should reduce the population," it said in a statement.
The new mosquitoes will be produced in a factory inaugurated on Saturday in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. Four million insects will be churned out per week.

Will nature find away to alter the mosquitoes....