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This is Glenn Martin, showing off his jet pack. Prepare to die.

A motorbike engine running on petrol uses car fan-belts to drive two fan propellers that spin horizontally inside what looks like two oversized soup cans.
This ‘ducted fan’ design is more efficient than the unshielded rotor of a helicopter.
The engine, fuel tank and pilot are [...]

The all-fun Jesus laser-and-machine-gun narrative. And it kicks ass!

From William Lamson’s series called “Intervention.”

Hey, it’s the T-rex 5000 masturbating robotic hand! Sure, the average enthusiastic wanker might break it to pieces in a short time, but there’s more where that came from!

The Candom is a brilliant beverage insulator that rolls on to a can like a giant condom. Great fun for parties, or sex ed class, Candoms are the only way to keep your beverage cold. Practice safe sips…use a Candom!
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At the height of UFO hysteria then sweeping the nation, two young barbers and a butcher took a dead monkey in 1953, lopped off its tail and applied a liberal dose of hair remover and some green coloring to the carcass.
Then they left the primate on an isolated road north of Atlanta in the pre-dawn [...]

The arrangement of atoms and molecules in glass is indistinguishable from that of a liquid. But how can a liquid be as strikingly hard as glass?
“They’re the thickest and gooiest of liquids and the most disordered and structureless of rigid solids,” said Peter Harrowell, a professor of chemistry at the University of Sydney in Australia, [...]

When shit happens, it’s awesome.

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