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I’m really okay with Chris’s pose.

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#photography #photos #Architecture #liverpool #docks #pretty #bricks #red #bluesky #blue #sky #Idon'tusuallytakegoodphotos

Got to be one of my favourite drawings ever. Credit: reddit.com/u/ManicMoron51

#drawing #sketches #red #dress #blood #scary #blonde #empty

"How sweet life would be, if I could be free from the sinner in me"

Depeche Mode

#depechemode #depeche #mode #sinner #sinnerinme #guilty #pleasure

iftadwascool

*gasp*

#plottwist #omg #surprise

Hmmm

#fml #sex #awkward

metrosnoozin

holy crap…this is my life

emietook

My entire existence in four panels.

merleawe

A girls life in 4 panels.

helloyellowsnow

Not just girls...

I wish this happened to me occasionally

#fml #storyofmylife #relationships #girlfriend #boyfriend

sciencesoup

Got spare car parts? Let’s save some babies

Annually, four million babies die within a month of their birth. 1.8 million of these die from a lack of consistent heat before they gain body fat and are able to regulate their own body temperature—but if they spent just one week in an incubator, they would survive. Most of these babies are born into developing countries, and so they can’t afford conventional incubators, which cost approximately US$30,000 per unit and are expensive to run. Units are donated to them, but 98% stop functioning within five years, because when something small goes wrong and one breaks down, no one has the parts or the knowledge to fix it again. Instead of simply attempting to build a durable, low cost incubator, a team at Design That Matters took a more lateral approached and asked: “If incubators aren’t easily maintained in third world countries, then what equipment is?” The answer: cars. Mechanics can be found in most towns, and car parts are relatively cheap and are shipped even to developing communities—so the designers set out to build an incubator entirely out of car parts. Headlights were used for a heating element, dashboard fans for heat circulation, indicators and door chimes for alarms, engine intake-filters for removing dust, bugs and pathogens, and motorbike batteries for back-up power. The idea is, anyone who can fix a car can now fix this “NeoNurture” incubator. The company is still figuring out how to mass-produce their invention, because each component can’t be too specific to a model—but this ingenious innovation has a lot of potential.

(Image Credit: Design That Matters)

helloyellowsnow

Rather cool...

8bitfuture

New asteroid mining company launches.

After the launch of Planetary Resources last year, a new asteroid mining company has gone public with their plans in the hope of attracting further investment.

Deep Space Industries hopes to initially use low cost CubeSat components to build it’s 25kg “FireFly” spacecraft, which would launch in 2015. Several fleets of the spacecraft would be sent into the solar system to hunt for resources.

Starting in 2016 the company plans to launch larger 31kg “DragonFlies”, for round trip visits to bring back asteroid samples. Those expeditions would take two to four years.

Ultimately the company hopes to process raw materials in space, using their patent pending “Microgravity Foundry”. “The MicroGravity Foundry is the first 3D printer that creates high-density high-strength metal components even in zero gravity,” said Stephen Covey, a co-Founder of DSI and inventor of the process. “Other metal 3D printers sinter powdered metal, which requires a gravity field and leaves a porous structure, or they use low-melting point metals with less strength.”

helloyellowsnow

Just really really cool.