We’re pretty obsessed with the idea of a death ray. After all, we see these weapons of annihilation in movies, read about them in books, and run from them in nightmares – so why haven’t we invented one yet?
Jody Lynn Bennett, 37, of Mentcle, Pa. was apparently in need of a Game Boy on Wednesday. So he popped by the local funeral home and allegedly picked a couple up—from the open casket of a dead 17-year-old.
After refusing a direct order, 16 year old Chen Shi was beaten to death at a boot camp for troubled youth in China. And it’s not the first time this has happened to teenage internet addicts.
Find a way to guarantee that in ten thousand years your fossilized bones will be prodded at by lab-coat-wearing beings who are taller and have better teeth and prehensile tails.
It’s not hard to see why, for some, cryonics is an attractive postmortem option; it offers a chance to defy one’s very mortality. But for the spouses of the to-be frozen, it can be something else entirely: abandonment and betrayal.
Noted astrophysicist and all-around likeable nerd Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson explains in this video the effects of a black hole on the human body. Spoiler: You would die a horrible death, but the cause is hilariously named.
