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Cute Mini Guns As Small As Matches Can Actually Shoot Bullets

These guns are all hand-made replicas of real guns…only they’re shrunken and miniaturised 4 to 4.5 times the regular size. Alexander Perfiliev, the master minigunmaker, has been building these beautiful guns for 30 years.

April 22, 2011
Science

This Extremely Complex Mega-Machine Does Nothing But Study Plasma

So what do you do when you want to analyse plasma, that wacky fourth form of matter that possibly powers your beloved HDTV? If you’re at the Novosibirsk Institute of Nuclear Physics, you use this awesomely huge “plasma trap.”

March 21, 2011
Science

The Tragic Story Of A Russian Cosmonaut Who Was Sent Into Space Knowing He Would Die

Vladimir Komarov, a cosmonaut, knew he was going to die when he left Earth for space on the Soyuz 1. His friend Yuri Gagarin, the first human to reach outer space, knew Komarov would too. But Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union, wanted to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Communist Revolution with a spectacle. So Komarov boarded the Soyuz 1, and just like he predicted, ended up dying. The picture above is Komarov’s remains.

December 30, 2010
Entertainment

Well, That’s One Way To Stop Your PC From Overheating

My new favourite blog, Misuse.su, is like a Russian Fail Blog for the repurposes (and misuse) of products. From using a laptop as a nutcracker, to a power-drill as a foosball table handle, it’s full of craziness. [Misuse via Core77]

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