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The 10 Most Absurd Scientific Papers 127

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 11, 2010 @03:14PM from the burning-potential-of-fire dept.

Lanxon writes "It's true: 'Effects of cocaine on honeybee dance behavior,' 'Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time,' and 'Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull?' are all genuine scientific research papers, and all were genuinely published in journals or similar publications. Wired's presentation of a collection of the most bizarrely-named research papers contains seven other gems, including one about naval fluff and another published in The Journal of Sex Research."

Dying Man Shares Unseen Challenger Video 266

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @12:27PM from the new-perspective-on-an-old-tragedy dept.

longacre writes "An amateur video of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion has been made public for the first time. The Florida man who filmed it from his front yard on his new Betamax camcorder turned the tape over to an educational organization a week before he died this past December. The Space Exploration Archive has since published the video into the public domain in time for the 24th anniversary of the catastrophe. Despite being shot from about 70 miles from Cape Canaveral, the shuttle and the explosion can be seen quite clearly. It is unclear why he never shared the footage with NASA or the media. NASA officials say they were not aware of the video, but are interested in examining it now that it has been made available."

Comment Preminitory Gibson again (Score 1) 256

by klek on Thursday July 23, 2009 @12:46PM (#28796931) Attached to: Hacking Nuclear Command and Control

"Amidst the confusion of the traditional attack, communications could be disrupted, false declarations of war could be issued on both sides, and early warning sensors could be spoofed." -- Shades of the Panther Moderns, only far more catastrophic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer

Comment Re:I'm Suprised (Score 1) 440

by klek on Monday May 12, 2008 @08:49PM (#23386306) Attached to: USAF Considers Creation of Military Botnet

)>> What was it, that Iraq, Afghanistan, Panama, Vietnam, Korea, Germany or Japan could've hit, )>> but chose not to because of our (continuing) adherence? )> )> Like I said: breathtakingly shortsighted. Japan is the only one of those nations that ever attacked US soil. A minor point, German U-boats were trolling US East Coast waters... to the point where cities started 'going dark' at night to make it harder for the water-nazis to find the harbors and attack ships. Perhaps not technically "attacking US soil", but pretty damn close.

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