Would be interesting to know what effect the keys have on the gas mileage.... probably makes it really suck!

Japanese WWII aerial recon camera.

Surprised that bands haven't adapted this on the edges of stages.

On a geekier side, the flame oscilloscope was invented way back in 1862: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koenig%27s_manometric_flame_apparatus

...TOO many "joystick" jokes....

The real problem is the 'everybody needs to go to college' myth. Over the last 50 years, the value of a 4-year college degree has been diluted down to that of a High School diploma in 1960.

There are a LOT of people in college who shouldn't be there....

To be fair on #9 and #10, humans would tend to only colonize planets similar in size, gravity and structure to the Earth (or as Trek puts it, EM-class or Earth/Mars planets...)

If there are tens of millions of Earth-like planets in the galaxy, it wouldn't make sense for us to colonize anything else that would be uncomfortable or deadly to live on.

Awwwwww poor widdle gold-digging babies....

Let me break out the world's tiniest violin and suggest they DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE with their lives instead of leaching.

Actually that's an early 60's concept "space taxi" for astronauts.

I remember seeing it in either the Smithsonian or the USAF Museum.....

WHAT the software programmer doesn't take into account
IF the structure remains the same but
THEY have a different way of looking at the world and
SPEAK in ways we've never encountered or make
STUPID reference we know nothing about (Darmak and Jilad)...

You know how fast you have to be going to propel a ton-and-a-half car over 100ft through the air??

We're not talking going 40 in a 35mph zone.

That car HAD to be going well over 70mph....

Tool for working molten glass (bottle-making??)

"What do you mean you couldn't solve the networking problem??? Here smarty.... let me turn it over to our EIGHT YEAR OLD sys admin...."

(Don't wanna work anywhere near that boss)

A couple of decades ago, my wife and I watched for an hour as an elephant fashioned a lever out of a five-foot-long branch and tried to pry open a gate at the Columbus OH zoo.

Bales of hay had been stacked 10feet beyond their outdoor enclosure and the bull decided he REALLY wanted it. He studied the situation (you could see him working the problem) and tried everything he could to get the lever between the gate and the padlock chain.

He tried everything he could but did not have the dexterity and could not get the leverage he needed to pop it. He finally got frustrated and gave up, but it was fascinating to watch him actually fashion a tool.

(BTW: this was when the zoo was run by Jack Hannah who we had seen working with them since he was a teenager.)

Basic Rule: Muppets Should NEVER have legs.

Kermit's bicycle riding scene in the very first movie is a good exception, but that rule should otherwise never be violated.

PETA fought long and hard to close a small zoo down here in South Florida. They finally achieved a court order.

The animals, mostly rescued injured and unable to exist in the wild, could not be placed in other zoo facilities and thus had to be destroyed.

PETA sucks.