Patrick Havens on June 23rd, 2008

If these where all the same car I’d assume that this was a car commercial.  But they seem to be of a couple makes… AND this video is way too long. But sit back, be amazed and prepare to feel pwnd.
This defiantly is in the tradition of the 1980’s-90’s Euro and Asian car commercials.

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Patrick Havens on June 19th, 2008

Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!
[Twitter / MarsPhoenix]
Well that’s one question answered, and it means they have a place to build a habitat.

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Patrick Havens on June 16th, 2008

Encarta prides itself on being a good one stop source of knowledge for families. And as one of the Microsoft products it has been used quite a bit, but never really caught on. As such, I never really used it and when doing searches I can’t think of a time that the answer [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 9th, 2008

Just a couple days ago I mentioned the tiny blue dot. The picture from Gallelio that showed Earth alone as a little blue dot. Well here is a great, and humbling, picture of The earth and Moon as seen from telescope on Mars Orbit.
Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars
The High Resolution Imaging [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 8th, 2008

This lady shows a video on how a squirrel quickly figured out a complicated maze to get its prize… and then showed the video that gave her the idea.

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Patrick Havens on June 7th, 2008

Blender Org… a Open Source team who has been developing the free and Open Source 3d Animation software Blender has come out with a new and very nicely done animated short movie called Big Buck Bunny in which a Big bunny deals with some mischievous pests.  Besides animating the entire film, and providing free to [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 25th, 2008

Phoenix Lands at Martian Arctic Site
NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars today to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander’s robotic arm.
[NASA]
Just in time the new Mars lander has landed on Mars increasing the intelligence abilities of [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 4th, 2008

Here was a cool video that aguy shot while parachuting and reaching over 900 miles an hour and the speed of sound.  The whole time unprotected… but for his suit.  And amazing video about something I sorta heard about but didn’t fully understand.

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Patrick Havens on April 22nd, 2008

Ok… in the world today there are many hot spots and problems that sometimes doesn’t really reach the news. Sometimes they are full on gun battles, and in this situation that PointNiner pointed out, its a “what us?” moment…
In this video a Russian MiG-29 fighter aircraft shows up, squeezes off an little air-to-air missle [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 21st, 2008

Playing video games for a few years now I have played with a large variety of people from kids in their teens too grandparents in their 50’s and 60’s. The main constant is the relationships that are created in playing multiplayer games. I can count on one hand the number of anti-social people [...]

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