Nano Bots, Jet Packs & One Bee Ball You Don't Want To Mess With
Welcome to Science Goes Boom, your weekly chance to watch people break things in the name of science. Today we begin with a little alternate history:
”Iceberg! Dead ahead!”
”Okay, ram it head-on.”
”What!? Are you mad?!”
”Trust me. I know science.”
I appreciate the math used in reaching this conclusion but I really think this is something we need to field test, just to be sure. "Hey, NASA, I know a few guys…”
As my mechanic father-in-law once told my daughter: No, the heart isn’t the engine, it’s the fuel pump:
Imagine a cutting-edge liquid substance so small and inconspicuous that it could be injected into the body and directed by electronic signals. Now imagine what would happen if those who put it there did so for nefarious purposes. Just asking questions here:
I’ve said before that bees have got to be one of God’s top ten best ideas. But I never knew how rad bees are when they unify to take out a threat. Behold, the bee ball you don’t want to mess with:
I kinda wonder if the Navy should keep some of these old battleships around, just in case, you know, the Chinese-manufactured guidance chips in modern destroyers suddenly “fail.”
You get a jet pack! And you get a jet pack! And you get a jet pack!
It sounds like a good idea in a pinch, anyway. I know a few Alaskan Bush pilots who’d prefer flying out in this little guy to dying alone in bear country. Or even just to escape the mosquitoes:
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