Thursday, May 13, 2010

Five Creatures That Prove Life Could Exist On Other Planets (Or In Space)

Tardigrades, also known as water bears, look like cute little sea caterpillars with eight legs
Want to know what life will look like on other planets? Look no farther than these five creatures, who are already prepared for life on Saturn's moon Titan - or in the hard vacuum of deep space.

Unlike humans, with our pesky need for things like oxygen and sugar, some creatures are more flexible in the habitats where they feel comfortable. Here are five lifeforms who are prepared to live on other planets right now.

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Via: io9

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

5 Cheap Magic Tricks Behind Every Psychic

f you had incredible psychic powers that could change the course of science and history how would you use them?<br />How about bending cutlery?
I got into magic at the age of five. I stopped thinking psychics were real at the age of five-and-a-half. Mainly because most of them were doing tricks I had just read in the colorful magic book I had bought for three dollars the week before.

Somehow these people had been able to turn the sentence "Here's a neat trick that will amuse your family and friends" into "Here's a way to pretend you have God-like powers and convince crowds of credulous and needy people to give you their money." For them, that three dollar book certainly paid for itself.

If you want to follow their lead, allow me to present five things you must do if you want to use your cheap magician skills to convince the world you have real psychic powers.

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Via: Cracked

Rooster changes Sex

All change: Gianni the former rooster has taken to laying eggs and trying to hatch them
Gianni started life as a red-blooded cockerel and would often wake his Italian owners up crowing on his farm in Tuscany.

But when a fox raided Gianni's enclosure and killed all of the hens inside, Gianni felt it was time for a change.

Within days the bird was laying eggs and trying to hatch them as he began his new life as a hen.

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Via: Daily Mail