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1/22

Int.

symbol of diabetescasiopeia-its damn bright

but cant be seen on earth

and reveals only on long

time exposure

the

flying object is haleys

comet Hubble had lens problem so they

changed the lens of the telescope

Strelka belka the first dog

couple to go to space

Its the hayabusa sat for

studying asteroids and

STEREO is for studyingsun

Lise Meitner-she

found radioactivity

element 109 named

after her

mandrill

save

electricity mission

Jcbose- invented

crescographThe word robot was

coined in this play-

name--rossums

universal robots

Dna portrait

the root 2 tablet by

Babylonians edisons last breath is

inside this

its used to calibrate

black and white

tvs...nowadays they

use color bars...

tesla coil

Venezuela

stagg field stadium-place whre the first nuclear fission took place


2/22

11

sidi- the remains of

aurangazebs observatory

dobson-dev dobsnometer dobson spectrophotometer

it is petite curie it

brought x rays to the

front during world war 2

lynx

and lamb gabe found

Prussian blue birthday of gaston Julia

pacific garbage dump

friendship graph by fbtokamak

reactors

tokamak field and current

oatmeals suggestion fo

tumblrs 503 page

William Herschel-

discovered Uranus

the

scientists are looking at the

demoncore which killed two

scientists

EURion constellation pattern found on currency notes to

help software detect the presence of a banknote in a digita

image. Such software can then block the user from

reproducing banknotes to prevent counterfeiting using

colour photocopiers.


3/22

That twitter account is

counting down to the

dramatically-named

"IPCalypse", the day we

run out of allocatable

IPv4 addresses.

Apparently, the end is

nigh.

john napier-invented log

This is

what happens when you let Lady Gaga invent something

Sunglasses with two displays which can display random

videos.

A "code wheel" to a game

adaptation of William

Gibson's famous novel

Neuromancer. The

codewheel was a

primitive copy protection

mechanism.

Geohot the hacker who first

jailbroke the iPhone now

hacked the PS3.

Sega

decided that toilets in japan were too boring and saw a

huge untapped market in pee-pots and made games fo

them. They call it "toylet".

Otto Rohwedder's bread

slicer patent. The phrase,

of course, is "The

greatest thing since sliced

bread"

what device?-Quoth Rogi:

"It's the early Los Alamos

attempt at nuclear fusion

given the moniker

'Perhapsatron' by it's creator,

Jim Tuck."

A Veitch diagram. Youprobably have heard of the Karnaugh map. K-maps were a

refinement of Veitch diagrams.


4/22

where wud u find dis-

The Standard Galactic

Alphabet - used to script

"Omnispeak", thelanguage of the

Commander Keen

universe.Ivan

pavlov Terrafugia Transition, a car that can fly!

whats blacked-LASER.

First page of the

notebook wherein

Gordon Gould coined the

LASER acronym, and

described the technologic

elements for constructing

the device.

Leslie Speaker that uses

Doppler effect to create

special effects in produced

output. It is generally used

with a Hammond Organ but

it is used with other

instruments also.

Launchpad, Canonical's web-based open source project

management tool. The dude, of course, is Mark

Shuttleworth.

Dennis Crowley who

started Dodgeball, sold it

to Google only to see it

shout down, quit and

started Foursquare.

The first working transistor!zombie

character chart


5/22

Karl von Frisch who

decoded the Waggle

dance of bees.

Soylent Corporation, from

the sci-fi movie Soylent

Green.The Pixar Image Computer. Pixar was initially a par

hardware company. This was their "flagship" graphics

computer, which bombed because it was a bit too

expensive.

Bill Amend of Foxtrot

drawing a guest comic for

Randall Munroe of xkcd.

Google Books's 404 page of

sorts, which is a reference to

Moby Dick!

Arthur Eddington

confirmed theory of relativity by showing that light bends

due to gravitational force. Since you can see stars during an

eclipse, he measured the position of stars near the sun and

showed that they had shifted positions.

Logicomix, a graphic

novel that follows the life

of Bertrand Russell and

talks about some

foundational concepts of

mathematics.

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes,

liquefied Helium, discovered

superconductivity. Super cool

dude.

A fully

functional replica of the Antikythera mechanism built out of

Lego parts, by a certain Mr Andrew Carol


6/22

Hari Krishna Prasad

Vemuru, who discovered

security flaws in the

Electronic Voting

Machines (EVMs) used in

Indian elections. He was

awarded an EFF Pioneer

award for his efforts.

Image is the cover of "With a

little help", Cory Doctorow's

self-published short story

collection. The image on the

cover is, of course, one of the

recurring characters on XKCD

- a stick figure that

represents Cory.

In 1977 at Bel

Laboratories, Ken Thompson (beard) and Joe Condon

developed a custom chess-playing computer called "Belle"

A self-referential formula

defined by Jeff Tupper

that, when graphed in

two dimensions

Nanoputian -- Molecules

whose structural formulae

look like humans!NASA Researchers in Mono Lake, California, have

discovered a microorganism (pictured) that uses arsenic

instead of phosphorous to thrive and reproduce. This

shatters a lot of our current beliefs about what

environments can support life.

Magdeburg hemispheres

- Designed by German

scientist and mayor of

Magdeburg, Otto von

Guericke in 1650 to

demonstrate the air

pump which he had

invented, and the

concept of atmospheric

pressure.

Velcro

Wolfgang Pauli and Neils Bohr, deeply inspecting a Tippe

Top. The toy is know to have been of interest to Bohr.


7/22

Created in 1968. Brought

life back into a dying

brand.

They are made from 6

individual parts of ABS.

Started with a cop, a

fireman, a nurse, and

astronauts.

The most expensive oneever was made of gold,

and was a model of C3P0

Globally, 3.9 are sold per

second-answer-The Lego

minifigs, or Lego men.lego man Pharyngula stage, almost all animal embryos look the same

Samuel

Morse, inventor of the

Morse Code!

Meccano, or erector sets. Pic

is from the original patent

disclosure by Frank Hornby.

FERMIAC - an Analog

computer invented by Enrico Fermi!

frank hornbyrussian space vehicle to carry

the dogs into orbit

Gyricon Electric

Paper - the first "electronic ink" mechanism, developed by

Xerox PARC!

Kevan Atteberry, the

creator of Clippy.

clippit XKCD

743 "infrastructures" - the world's smallest open source

violin


8/22

Drafting or Slipstreaming,

where people/birds use

formations like followingsomeone closely or

forming a V to attain

aerodynamic advantages.

The Silver Snoopy award -

NASA gives it out for

excellence in safety on

manned flights.

Cobalt. It is named after the mischievous creature o

German folklore called a Kobold. Miners named it Cobalt

because the typical cobalt they mined was fused with

Arsenic, and often caused them a lot of trouble, and they

blamed it on the Kobolds!

PassWindow - adelightfully simple

method to generate very

complex keyswho got this ???-Expedition

25 Commander Douglas H.

Wheelock became the first

human to check-in on

Foursquare from space.

Kar

Jansky. He built a home-made radio telescope that detectedthe first radio emissions from the Milky Way. This ubernerd

almost single-handedly founded what we call Radio

Astronomy today.

otto hahn Apparently, you will see a

doodle like this on your

birthday! But, only you can

see it when you are logged it.

coilgun-

by kristian birkeland

The "official" unit to

measure the length of

the Harvard Bridge in

Boston is the Smoot. 1

Smoot = Height of Oliver

Smoot, who, measured

the length of the Harvard

bridge using his body as a

fraternity pledgejules vernes-father of sci-fi

An artist called

Richard Box created this installation, simply called FIELD. It's

just a grid of tubelights planted in the ground under some

high-tension powerlines. The tubes pick up ambien

electricity and start glowing, creating this eerie effect.


9/22

oliver smoot

This is a guide to building

logic gates, and other similarconstructs, in MineCraft! This

pastime is becoming quite

serious of late, with people

even going so far as to

attempt building complete

computers in MineCraft.

magellan gps

magellan penguin mmagellan

couds------ all named after sapnish exp-FERDINAND

MAGELLAN

will wheaton-no of

twitter followers unit

named after him

WHEATON

andre geim-levitated a live

frog magnettically

View of Commemorative plaque lef

on moon at Hadley-Apennine landing site. A close-up view of a

commemorative plaque left on the Moon at the Hadley-Apennine

landing site in memory of 14 NASA astronauts and USSR cosmonauts,

now deceased.

The plaque was stuck in the lunar soil by Astronauts David R. Scott and

James B. Irwin during their Apollo 15 lunar surface extravehicular activity

The tiny, man-like object represents the figure of a fallenastronaut/cosmonaut.

Solar Equation

Artificial Sun simulation

by Rafael Lozano-

Hemmer

rafaelhemmer

artist depiction of what??

The so-called interplanetary transport network. The pipe

depict gravitational pathways that take very little energy totravel along. The tubes get constricted at 'Lagrange points' .


10/22

google strret view

reached antarctica

name and tech it uses???

Name-iCub

Tech-ARCHER Augmented

Reward Chained Regression

lagrange pts-are the five

positions in an orbital configuration where a small object

affected only by gravity can theoretically be stationary

relative to two larger objects

Snowbird, the first

human-powered"ornithopter",ala DaVinci,

toachievesustained flight.

honeywell 316 kitchen

computer

eBay's Whitman campus, at San Jose, CA, USA. Buildings are

named after divisions of eBay.

C.A.R.Hore-inv.of

quicksort

The telectroscope, an artinstallation that allows

people to "see" from London

to NY. This one had a

videophone inside it...

"BPM 37093, named Lucy after the Beatles song inspired by

the painting"

J. C. R. Licklider, and the

"Intergalactic Computer

Network". Supposed

origin of the word

internet

googles tribute to dr.suess

"NASA held an

online contest to name one of the nodes in the ISS, in which

Colbert came out top. But they didnt name the node as

Colbert instead named a treadmill following a compromise

with Stephen Colbert the comedian."


11/22

Marty McFly wears a self

lacing shoe in "Back to

the future part 2" which

was recently patented byNike. They will probably

bring it to production

soon.

lego of what???--Ascending

and Descending by M.C.

Escher

Ralph

Baer created the TVG#1 or TV Game Unit #1 as an initia

step in development of the Brown Box , which would

eventually become the Magnavox Odyssey.

The stickers are evidence stickers from various paten

lawsuits over the years.

Barbara and David

Mikkelson of

Snopes.com.

Donkey.bas: Bill Gates's game

for the IBM/PC. It was the

first game for the IBM/PC

platform. Dalvik, Android's implementation of the JAVA virtua

machine is the main reason Oracle is suing Google.

Dalvik is named after a fishing town in Iceland.

who first??-Steve Mann,

who claims to be the first"cyborg". He is arguably

the first person to wear

computers.The USS Yorktown (1) had

some systems running Win

NT. Some app on the ship

crashed because someone

entered a 'zero' somewhere,

and some app tried a divide

by zero, paralyzing the entire

system. The fault was blamed

on WinNT.

Krishna Bharat

created Google News to keep himself up to date with the

news in the aftermath of 9/11. It was one of the firs

products Google launched apart from search.

the co

founders of yelp

fold.it -- a protein folding

game

windows

wall paper bliss


12/22

Tru

Iwatani's original design

sketches for Pac-Man!

Charles Francis

Richter American

seismologist and physicist.

Richter is most famous as the

creator of the Richter

magnitude scale

which,quantified the size of

earthquakes.

Pic 1: Madam curie Theory of radioactivity death due to

aplastic anemia, as a result of exposure to radiation

Pic 2: Franz Reichelt The Overcoat Parachute parachute

failed to deploy when he jumped from eiffel tower

Pic 3: William Bullock Rotary Printing Press died during

an operation to amputate his foot, which got stuck in the

contraption.

Original formula thats

used to calculate the

magnitude of the

earthquake

paul ceglia who claimed 84%

of fbad campaign of?--IBM computers -

specifically the IBM 604 electronic calculator.

francis

galton who started field

of eugenics

Andy

Warhol painting Deborah

Harry using a Commodore

Amiga.

Terraforming (literally, "Earth-forming") of a

planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process o

deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature

surface topography or ecology to be similar to those o

Earth to make it habitable by terran organisms. Eg oterraforming


13/22

The comic Dignifying

Science. Protagonist, of

course, is Rosalind

Franklin.

Daguerre's diorama.

Jack

WIlliamson, in this issue of Astounding - was the first to use

the word Terraforming. I'll accept Contraterrene matte

also.

Louis-

Jacques-Mand Daguerre "Antenna-aid" -- What

started off as a joke to solve

iPhone 4's antenna issues

became an actual project

recently. JAXA's IKAROS

the world's first ever solar sail spacecraft.

Amazon's buy in "One-

Click" patent.

pascaline by blaise pascalWas

earlier famous for being compared to a Death Star, owing

to the similarity arising from the Herschel Crater.

Scientists working with NASAs Cassini orbiter released the

highest resolution heat map to date of daytime

temperatures on the icy moon. The map unexpectedly

revealed a pattern thats the spitting image of the Pac-Man

icon.


14/22

HK drives of the right side

of the road, like India.China drives on left like

the US. This bridge is

from HK to mainland

China, flips traffic from

right to left and vice

versa Pancake Batfish

Halieutichthys intermedius

It has been recently

discovered in the Gulf of

Mexico in 2010, around the

region affected by the

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Bevshots graphic representations of beers, wines and

cocktails, a microscopic snapshot of the crystalline versionof the drink. Artform. Pioneered by this chap called Michae

W. Davidson from the Optical Microscopy Division of the

National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, of The Florida

State University.

Picture of "the entire

universe" taken by ESA's

Planck telescope. TOPIO -- Ping Pong playing

robot

'Sonification' of data collected at the LHC

# Gabriel Lam - who

derived the generalized

equation fora super

ellipse

Danish scientist (dilettante?)

Piet Hein, who popularized

the super-ellipse(1) described a board game called Phutball (Philosophers

Football). (2) is a Monty Python sketch of the same name.


15/22

# Hein designed thesuperellipse-shaped

fountain in Sergels torg,

Stockholm

The Farnsworth-hirsch Fusor

Jakob Bernoulli, of the

Bernoulli Spiral fame. Sadly enough they ended up putting

an Archimedean spiral on his epitaph.

edwin armstrong-1st

recepeint of IEEE medal

of honour inv.

Frequency modulation

THE IEEE MEDAL OF

HONOUR

Luciferase/Luciferin, the

substances that fireflies and glow worms and other

bioluminiscent creatures use to generate light.

The Fallturm Bremendrop shaft, located at the

Center of AppliedSpace

Technology and

Microgravity in Bremen,

Germany.

Used to study the

behavior of Bosons and

other such tiny particles

in microgravity.

stamp commemorating

what??

The Kola Superdeep Borehole

or *Well to Hell*.

William

Moulton Marston. He invented the systolic test as a way to

guess if people were lying or not. This, in turn, helped in the

invention of the Polygraph.


16/22

Bill Gates bought Codex

Leicester authored by

Leonardo Da Vinci for 30Million USD and made

screensavers and

wallpapers for Windows.

If you have even tried to

change themes on Win

98, you will see

"Leonardo Da Vinci" as a

theme. Most stuff on that

is from the Codex

Leicester.

4 things used in the

definitions of what?

SETI @ HOME- a distributed

computing project in which

volunteers donate idle

computer power to analyze

radio signals for signs of

extraterrestrial intelligence

A new system

being developed by Oblong Industries harnessesgesture technology that uses special surfaces anddisplays that can track hand movements, providing the

operator is wearing the special conducting gloves. Thesystem works with images and videos, and has been

dubbed the G-Speak spatial operating environment(SOE).

Edsger W. Dijkstra--

Reverse polish notation,

Train shunting problem

as popularized by him

and Semaphores were

invented by him

Tennis for Two -- Arguably,

the first ever video game.

--

pippette and brutte coined by joseph louis gay lussac

Newton's cradle, named after Sir Isaac Newton, is a

device that demonstrates conservation of momentum

and energy via a series of swinging spheres. When one on

the end is lifted and released, the resulting force travels

through the line and pushes the last one upward.

Sir. JJThomson and the discovery of isotopes.


17/22

The monolith from Arther

C. Clarke's 2001: A SpaceOdyssey

A

replica of the Hoverboardfrom Back to the Future, by

a certain Nils Guadagnin.

This thing actually kinda

hovers, long as you don't

stand on it.

Anamorphic Art

it was released as a tie in

with who?The Wu-tang

clan controller

Voynich

manuscript

Booting/bootstrapping - The term has it's origins from the

book (1) The Surprising Adventures of Baron

Munchausen,in which the Baron is said to have pulled

himself out of a swamp by his own bootstraps. Pic 2 is a

photo of boots with the bootstraps circled.

R'lyeh, the burial place of

Cthulhu from the Cthulhu

mythos.

The point is pt nem farthest

oceanic place from nearest

landmass

Fraunhofer invented the

spectroscope, and

discovered 574 dark lines

appearing in the solar

spectrum. These were later

shown to be atomic

absorption lines, as

explained by Kirchhoff and

Bunsen in 1859. These lines

are still called Fraunhofer

lines in his honour.

Joseph Lister was one of the

early proponents of sterilized

surgery.


18/22

Crafford W long pioneer in

anasthesia

Abraham Gesner -

discoverer of Kerosene (or

rather inventor of the

refining process for it).

CubeStormer - a Lego

mindstormsbased Rubik's cube

solving robot.

The Leidenfrost Effect.

bezier curves

billy joy created vi-family

of screen oriented text

editors

savannah cat

grola

r

bear liger


19/22

wholphinzebroid

Paul Buchheit

creator of GMail, co-founder of

Friendfeed coined Google's supe

famous "Don't be evil" motto.

Konrad Lorenz - discovered

the process of imprinting.

He's being followed by

geese - the geese in the pic

imprinted on him (or rather

his boots) after they were

born and now they think

he's their mother.

edwin hubble-after whom

hubble is named

james

webb and the james webb space

telescope to replace hubble

telescope------former name next

gen.space telescope

Paul Ginsparg - creator of

ArXiv Jonathan Geller, who used

to be called "Boy genius"

until his blog "Boy Genius

Report" was bought out by

Mail.com

Dr Harold "Andy" Hildebrand - creator of Autotune.


20/22

recent version of ehat???--

---- Leonardo da Vincisglider

what is being tried to

selloff???---- LASER DISC

HORACETUTTLE-----discovered

leonid meteor shower

ms instaload

This is a still from Fritz

Lang's Metropolis. The

answer I was looking for

was Metric time (notice the

10hr clock), a concept that

never quite picked up.

Atmos clocks - they can practicallyrun forever since they get thei

"energy" from minor variations in

atmospheric pressure and

temperature.

The "Furby" toy. Shady

thing could listen to

humans and pretended to

"learn" English. They got

banned because they

contained mics that the

spooks at NSA thought

could be used to spy

Reson model TC4014hydrophone.

This is

an aurora shot by an officer ( Don

Pettit) from ISS. Nasa expedition 6.


21/22

Tyler and Cameron

Winklevoss who claim that

Zuckerberg stole their idea

and made Facebook

A sculpture titled "Game

Over", by Kordian KordianLewandowski. He carved

Princess Peach and Mario

in the style of La Pieta, out

of Polystyrene foam.

This is a digital model showing how

molybdenite can be integrated into

a transistor.

Joseph Priestley discovered

nitrous oxide gas

Felix

Hoffmann was a German

chemist, who is given credit

for the first synthesized

medically useful forms of

heroin and aspirin, though

some sources maintain that

Arthur Eichengrun was the

real creator.

Jack

Dorsey's Square -- iPhone(o

Android) payment system

In

Martin "jet-pack"

Although one can sell a few

organs and get this thing,aviation rules all over the

world disallow flying them

in public airspaces.

funeral of IE6

artificia

pacemaker and arne larsson the

first personn to use the pacemaker


22/22

wiggle stereoscopy-The

technique gives an illusion

of 3D by showing twoimages in rapid alternation:

one from a left eye, and

one from a right-eye

perspective. Essentially it is

separating the two pictures

in time instead of space as

is normally the case. You

dont need to wear special

glasses to see the effect,

and the illusion of

dimensionality can be quite

striking.

Gglebot. This chap is a Roomba

with modifications. It runs aroundyour house taking pics of things

and OCRs the text to make a

searchable database of where

everything is. Essentially, you can

Google your house :P

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