While I love the rediscovery of secrets long thought lost... That last photo, of the helmet, gives me an awful chill.

I don't see that as Ultron being FROM outer space, but more that Ultron was someone's pet project in an office in New York, and Tony found a USB drive in the wreckage while he was helping with the cleanup.

Deadman switches. If you fall over (letting go of the handle) the lift stops. Usually they would step onto the lift, grab a handle, state the destination, and go.

Maybe...

Old terminator is not a reprogrammed assassin. It was sent back way WAY back with instructions to kill as many of John Connor's ancestors as possible. Due to history books not exactly being the most reliable of things, it likely had it's learning module left switched on.

The original action prop lightsabers from the original trilogy were heavy, unwieldy and vibrated so much they were practically lethal even as props. Lucas mentioned however that he LIKED this because it meant the actors treated the things as if they were real weapons that normal mortals couldn't easily use - yes a…

Up for auction next week, some cobbles from the very spot where the murder happened! Also a brick from a building demolished in the 1960's that stood near the spot!

Augh. AUGH. AAAAUUUUGGGGGHHHH!!!!

Classic and beloved. However, the opening flyby for the NeoBSG just, even now gives me a spinal shiver. Maybe it's the drums.

Trailers spoilered the FUCK out of this episode, so the second i saw skeletons just sitting in mysterious tanks I knew, Cybermen. I thought maybe they were acid bathing people to remove flesh or something to make it easier to bolt them into the suits, but I knew there would be cybermen, and there were skeletons in a…

The Old Testament makes _A LOT_ more sense if you replace many of the instances of 'God' with 'A crazy old hobo'.

So, if an alien visited Earth, would they be able, with no prior knowledge, to distinguish between English and say, Mandarin, two Earth languages in wide use that bear little to no resemblence and are linked only by a few shared phonemes dating back to the palaeolithic?

Hundreds of precision parts, what looks like thousands of bearings, all coated in muck, grit, boulders and general slag, having new precision parts and bearings added on while still manky...

Rotten eggs contain methane gas, which forces them to float when placed in a glass of water. Healthy eggs sink.

Its coming true, it's all happening. Pretty soon, the ground will break on the first Vaults...

Dude has total Rimmer nostrils.

One of the things that makes unexploded munitions so dangerous is that they can and do still 'start ticking' even now. I've been watching some youtube videos of people dismantling the fuzes, and the internals can still be in perfect factory condition under the right circumstances. Scary stuff.

I did some research after seeing the article, and yeah, most of them are indeed fuzes, set by varying the length of a channel of gunpowder through the fuze mechanism by rotating sections to present shorter or longer maze-like structures within the assembly, activated by various things, most common seeming to be a…

I could do without an explosive shell, but man, those timing mechanisms must be works of art to still remain functional after nearly a century in the ground! Shame they were used for something so unpleasant.

Monitors in the old days refreshed at around 48hz, or about twice the speed that cameras record at, hence the flicker. It's less noticible/doesn't happen with LCD monitors because they refresh around 61hz