Category Archives: Science

Buzz Lightyear and Buzz Aldrin, together again for the first time

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Yep, looks like every able-bodied military person in the US must be overseas, because NASA has apparently turned to imaginary American Buzz Lightyear for their next mission.

Real American and real hero Buzz Aldrin is his mentor.

O, how the mighty have fallen.

There’s a clue to the motivation for this travesty in the YouTube info:

Veteran astronaut Buzz Aldrin mentors Buzz Lightyear, co-star of the Disney-Pixar Toy Story films. Buzz (the toy) is headed to the International Space Station aboard Space Shuttle Discovery to commemorate the opening of “Toy Story Mania!” at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida and Disneyland Resort in California.

I wonder how many zeros Buzz Aldrin got for his dignity.

Quiz: skin disease or D&D character?

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Skin disease or D&D character?

Stolen from Mental Floss via Neatorama. Here are the instructions:

The game is simple: we’ll give you a name, you choose if it’s a skin disease or a character from the realm of Dungeons and Dragons. Get all 16 right and you’re qualified to be either a dermatologist or a dungeon master, so pretty much all doors are open.

Skin Disease or Dungeons and Dragons Character?

Score: 100% (16 out of 16)

Woohoo, I knew those premed courses would pay off one day! Now I can be a world-famous Dungeon Mistress! Imagine the riches that shall be mine!

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Mathmaticious is Delicious

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Tom Lehrer can die in peace, now that the heir to his great tradition of mathematical musical doggerel (also this and this) has emerged from the steaming bowels of YouTube. Behold! And pay attention, class, because there’s going to be a short quiz next period.

Lyrics over the jump

PS:
Analytic and Algebraic Topology of local Euclidian Metrization
of Infinitely Differential Remanian Manifones FTW!

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Cum for the Show!

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cross-posted to TeenyManolo, even though I’m sure I’ll catch crap for it

As our devoted readers know, we at the ol’ raincoaster blog are vigorously opposed to sexism. Naturally, then, it is with mixed feelings that we present the following: it is both too bizarre to ignore and by its very nature completely sexist:

Sperm for tickets

The purpose of this website was to test market interest through a pilot scheme.
Applications for donation packs have far exceed the expectations.
Our clients are calling a halt to the invitation to apply for packs,
and will review the results of the scheme to decide on how to proceed.

All submissions sent to the website are fully protected under Irish privacy regulations,
and will not be released to ANY third party.

Well, presumably eventually they WILL be released to a third party, or what’s the whole point?

Does this company know their market or, like, what?

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Arthur C. Clarke, Cephalopodcaster

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Enjoy this fine, fine television programming from the golden days of the Seventies: so much to mock, so much to adore. Charlie’s Angels. Watergate. Jethro Tull. Fat Ties. Fat Lapels. Fat Elvis.

Arthur C. Clarke.

Chariots of the Gods.

Sea Monsters!

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