Animals Buzz Good. Great. Wait, no. This is actually terrifying and not OK. I am not OK with this.
Culture Buzz We are going to be in so much trouble when these orchid mantises quietly take over the planet. So much trouble.
This is fucking terrifying. Cornell Lab's Creative Machines hooked up Cleverbot (the chat program that learns to be more human with every conversation it has) with another Cleverbot. They should get a room. And then, presumably, destroy us parasite humans before we try to shut them down. (via crackajack.de)
Eguchi Aimi, a member of the popular Japanese girl group AKB48, has just been revealed to be a computer generated composite of all of her bandmates. Fans who thought she was a real person are in shock. This is the video that revealed the terrifying secret to the world. (via nerve.com)
CanBot is an adorable little robot by Ron Tajima that is hidden inside a beer can. The robot can walk, stand, roll, and transform in and out of stealth beer can mode. It is controlled by a Wii remote.
Let's just hope it doesn't tell mom jokes as good as you can. Then you'll be rendered totally useless.
Great, now even the robots are out of work and panhandling for spare change.
Here's a real thing that's a dead alien that they definitely found in Russia. Creepy!
This is now something that I am terribly worried about. Living in the world of tomorrow can be terrifying.
Rebecca Black is just the tip of the iceberg. Check out this amazing launch party from Ark Music, the evil geniuses who are at work right now building an army of abysmal tween pop robots to take over the universe. This is the way the world ends - not with a bang, but with an autotuned whimper. (Via)
Completely sane California based radio station Family Radio has declared that according their research, the Rapture is set to begin on May 21st, 2011. Don't worry though, the world is not going to end 'til October. Still got some time to get all those sins out.
Via extreme nerdery, apparently. It terrifies me that the only thing standing between us and a robot apocalypse is geeky Linux jokes. (Borepatch, via Neatorama.)
Science Buzz NASA has discovered a new life form unlike anything scientists have seen before. All living things are made from six elements including phosphorus. But, this new bacteria discovered in a toxic lake is made up of arsenic instead of phosphorus. NASA is holding a live press conference to announce their discovery.
Geminoid 4 plays the part of an android in a play in Tokyo. You know we're in trouble when the robots start taking our arts jobs.
Science Buzz Move over Porn, Cern is gonna big bang the sh*t outta you. Scientists Record 1st Lead Ion Collisions in Atom Smasher in Search of Universe-Forming Quark-Gluon Plasma. SCIENCE!!
More UFOs were spotted and recorded in El Paso, TX that are eerily similar to those seen in Manhattan just days prior.
I went to the official NYC site and saw this and screen captured it. I went back and it was gone. Interesting!!! [Ed. note: So there's this UFO thing that happened in New York yesterday, which was predicted by some Air Force officer. And now this screenshot. Government conspiracy! Video of the UFOs is below. They look a lot like balloons!]
Gliese 581g, the most Earth-like (in the sense of the possibilities for life to evolve) planet discovered to date has been found orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 581. This is the same solar system that Bebo sent “A Message from Earth” to a few years back. [Ed. note: One thing is certain: The aliens who live on Gliese 581g have very different ideas about good names for planets than most normal people.]
Not only this robotic pet can be moved using a mobile phone, it cries when it is being spanked or gets dizzy when shaken. (via CrunchGear)
MIT has unveiled the Seaswarm, an autonomous, oil-cleaning robot. The robots group together (hence the “swarm”) using WiFi and GPS to clean an affected area. Had the technology been available, 5000-10,000 of these robots could have presumably cleaned up the Gulf spill in a month. Below is a video detailing how the robots work. More here.
Where else would it come from? Ah yes, I'd like my ice cream cone with some pralines and genocide of the entire human race, kthx XD
Politics Buzz So, like, there are these terror babies, right? These terroristic Muslim babies fly to the United States to get born so that they will be United States citizens. And then they wait. For, like, 30 years. And then they fuck us all up with their terror. Here's actual United States Congressman Louis Gohmert to explain for you.
Run for your lives. These clouds look like they are out of a scene from “The Fog.”
Asimo has the ability to recognize objects and determine object families. [Ed. note: Hopefully it goes without saying that you should get your rifle and make your way as quickly as possible for the proverbial hills. Like, right now.]
Science Buzz Now that National Geographic Explorer exposed Iran's potential to develop nuclear weapons, it's best to prepare ourselves for the worst case scenario. Here are ten things to help get you through the inevitable nuclear apocalypse.