Stuff I found while bored

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From Wikipedia Article:

"Trojan Nuclear Power Plant is a decommissioned pressurized water reactor (PWR) nuclear power plant in Rainier, Oregon, USA, and the only nuclear power plant to be built in Oregon. After only sixteen years service it was closed by its operator, Portland General Electric, almost twenty years before its design lifetime.

The iconic 499 foot tall cooling tower was demolished via dynamite implosion at 7:00 AM on May 21, 2006. This event marked the first implosion of a nuclear cooling tower in the U.S."

Video of a water ballon breaking in space.

"So here is the little project that grew to 12 feet. We added a GPS receiver so now we have a 12' clock that sets itself, displays hours/minutes/seconds, and is accurate to 100ns. Beat that bed side alarm!"

The How To Article

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6 year old Ulf Wong solves a Rubik's Cube in 37.89 seconds. I've seen videos of it being solved faster, many you could tell that the cube was not properly scrambled to begin with, so this one is very impressive, even forgetting about his age.

"What happens when you put a CD in the Microwave?"

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"This is how disconnecting a 500kV line under load looks like."

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"By Ron Fedkiw, Assistant Professor at Stanford Computer Science, whose research areas include computational fluid dynamics and computer graphics"

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A clip showing a cut-out that is built backwards intead of forwards, giving the illusion of movement from a stationary object. Watch the end of the video to see how it is pulled off.

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Video taken by the Havard Japan of Club, showing the Japanese "Train of Tomorrow"

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Yes, The Optimus Keyboard, has been announced to be released February 1st 2006! Take a look, this is a awesome keyboard with great use of LED technology!

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