Author: Jesus Diaz

2015. That’s when the First Interplanetary War starts, when Japanese humanoid robots arrive to the Moon to fight the Nazis stationed there. If there are no Nazis, however, they’ll just set up camp and explore, waiting for humans to arrive. More »

The Air Force’s Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2—designed to attack global targets at Mach 20—has disappeared nine minutes into its first test flight, just after separating from its booster. Contact was lost, and it hasn’t been found yet. More »

This is something that not many people have seen: A close up of the fiery engines of the Saturn V rocket starting up July 16, 1969. The eight apocalyptical minutes in HD are simply awesome. More »

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 will start on June 7 in San Francisco. Five days of endless code orgies and hands-on sessions for iPhone OS 4 and Mac OS X. No word on any possible Steve Jobs’ keynote yet. More »

The dangerous ash from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano brought European air traffic to a halt. For a while, the skies over the north of Europe were almost empty of airplanes. Then, the ash went away and the beautiful mayhem resumed. [Twitter] More »

The University of Florida—funded by DARPA—has found a film-thin material that will add inexpensive, lightweight night vision to everything, from gadgets to cameras to car windshields. The key was in the same technology that powers OLED displays. More »

There’s probably only one thing more terrifying than Nazi soldiers: Nazi soldiers with jet packs—and Nazi UFOs piloted by nefarious hamsters. The difference is that, while the UFOs never existed, the Nazi jet pack did: Behold, the Himmelstürmer. More »

One month into the future, and I love my iPad more and more every day. I use it constantly, for pleasure and work. Lately, I keep it next to my computer on a Joule, a solid aluminum stand. More »

The Maldives. I would like to go back there, become a dive instructor, and live a simple happy life. And I want this to be my house, five meters below the surface, off the coast of Rangali Island. More »

This is a picture of the majestic Carina Nebula—a cool hydrogen and dust titan in the Milky Way Galaxy—as captured by Hubble. NASA has turned it into a 3D volumetric model, allowing you to fly right in: More »

I’ve got to admit that I find this funny, sad, and admirable at the same time. Fusion Garage sent this email to their only 64 JooJoo buyers—out of 90 pre-orders—exposing all their addresses: More »

Pick a book from it, step inside, and start walking. Mens sana in corpore sano until you break all your bones falling down some stairs. [LikeCool] More »

You paid your taxes, the government got your pesos, and here’s where the President wants to spend them in 2011. Death and Taxes keeps being my favorite chart every year. Guess who gets the biggest cake piece (again). More »

This is the deadliest place in the solar system, photographed as never before by NASA’s new Solar Dynamics Observatory. It’s one of the first humbling, terrifying, and beautiful images returned by the spacecraft. The video is equally impressive in HD: More »

Of all the days that you can lose Apple’s secret iPhone… [The Next iPhone Saga] More »

The Gourmet Haus Staudt. A nice place to enjoy good German ales. And if you are an Apple Software Engineer named Gray Powell and you get one too many beers, it’s also a nice place to lose the next-generation iPhone. More »

Here’s the difference between the pros and the amateurs who can’t never find their fucking Lego pieces. Enjoy, the supply room of a Lego maniac: More »

Nicholas Todd has a garden on his work desk, a patch of lawn in which pikmins and gnomes can play while he world. I’d do the same, but I’m sure my dog would find a way to poop on it. More »

Look, Hell exists, and it’s beautiful. Here’s the Sun showing its largest eruption in 15 years, according to NASA. 126 Earths fit into that plasma 500,000-mile-long tongue. Here’s the video: More »

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