Japan Plans To Have A Space Elevator By 2050 
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Giz Explains: How Earthquake And Tsunami Warning Systems Work You don’t have to be a doctor to know that eating hundreds of strips of bacon at a time can’t possibly be good for your health. A reporter for Japan’s Rocket News 24 obviously didn’t get that memo; he ordered a burger from Burger King with 1050 slices on top.
The Tokyo Institute of Technology, largely considered Japan’s most prestigious university, has unveiled on its campus an impressive new building that is almost self-sustaining in its power use. The Environment and Energy Innovation Building in Meguro Ward features solar panels all along its exterior facade and on its roo — 4500 panels in all, with a total capacity of 650 kilowatts, plus another 100 kilowatts of fuel cells!
The “ultrabook” doesn’t exactly have people going nuts at the moment. They’re great, skinny, fast laptops — but they’re not cultural smash. The solution? Create a crazy Japanese acid binge TV commercial? Maybe? Add more acid.
When we told you yesterday that America was gonna give that derelict tsunami boat a nautical spanking, it was no joke: here’s photographic proof of the brutal attack on the poor, unarmed shrimping vessel. Kaboom. The seas are safe again.
Japanese problem: an abandoned shrimping boat is found adrift near Canada, displaced by last year’s tsunami disaster. US solution: let’s sink that motherf**ker.
Japan. We need to talk. Your food is awesome, your electronics are solid, your people are sweet — you have enough good things already. You do not need to hoard Kirin’s new frozen foam for beer — which looks like tasty beer soft serve and keeps your adult beverage cold for half an hour — to yourselves. SHARE IT WITH US.
Ah, Japan, you crazy country you. As if your advertising wasn’t surreal enough already, the advent of posters that react to being kissed has taken things into a whole new league.
The Firefly Squid (Watasenia scintillans) inhabits the Western Pacific and is famously found in Toyama Bay, Japan. The 7.6cm long creatures employ bioluminescent glands in each tentacle to attract and hunt prey. Surprisingly, this is the only species of of cephalopod that is suspected of having colour vision.
