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Gadgets
Lois Is Just Too Slow for Superman
8:40AM Mark Wilson | ‘Microwaves Are Just Too Slow’ is a new t-shirt over at Threadless this week. Capturing the futility of technology in the face of superheroics, Superman doesn’t have time to waste while Lois messes around with the microwave. What the picture does not show, however, is the less charming, more grotesque result of the morning that Lois “took too long” shaving her legs. Needless to say, she’s a pants-wearer now and Superman will be heating dinner for one for many years to come. [Threadless] More »
Science
Spiderweb Solar-Wind Sail Proves Jor-El Was Right
12:15AM Wilson Rothman | Laugh all you want at the sea-urchiny ship Jor-El used to send Kal-El to earth, but it looks a lot like the new kind of solar-sail array developed by the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki. Instead of the standard solar panels, the Finnish scientists propose long thin strands, just microns in diameter, that stretch out from the spaceship, and use a positive charge to repel heavy positive ions in the solar wind that move at hundreds of kilometers per second. More »
Random Stuff
Can a Lightsaber Cut Through Superman?
7:45AM Jason Chen | Can a gadget defeat a superhero? Here’s a question io9 posed: can a lightsaber cut through Superman? We put both our nerdy gadget knowledge and our nerdy superhero knowledge to the test and came up with reasons why it could and reasons why it couldn’t. More »
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