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Alien V Predator : Requiem

So, I was standing outside the cinema last night, and I noticed that there is a film out now of Aliens (as in ‘Alien’) fighting the predators (as in ‘Predator’). In fact, it’s the second film of these bizarrely mixed franchises.

Now, between that and the host of sequel films, formulaic comedies and remakes (St. Trinians!?, I am Legend), it seems that Hollywood has run out of new ideas. Maybe it’s the screenwriter’s strike thing. Anyway, I thought to myself ‘What would the natural follow up Aliens vs Predator 2′ be? Well, I’ve got it…

Aliens vs Predator vs Godzilla

Now, naturally Godzilla would struggle a bit with tiny invisible predators - I mean, Lego men are easy enough to loose, let alone invisible Lego men (I’m thinking relatively here), but I’m thinking that Godzilla could cause enough damage to inflict a fair bit of damage. And Godzilla’d be immune to the Alien face-hugger things - after all, he’s 300ft high, and breaths fire - kinda hard to get down that throat.

And then…

Aliens vs Predator vs Godzilla vs The A-Team

I haven’t yet figured this one out yet, but there must be some way of getting the A-Team trapped somewhere which happens to contain a lot of steel, an cutting torch, and every snap-on tool known to man. They can make themselves a powered exoskeleton to fight the Aliens (we know they don’t like that), while BA rips off his shirt to go man0-a-mano with one of the Predators. I pity the fool who touches his gold!

Screenwriters. Bah! Who needs ‘em?

Measure the speed of light with a chocolate bar

Okay, so this experiment appeals to the home scientist in me.

Lexar Media Press Release on Amazon

Hilarious! - or the comments are, anyway.

Human Caused Earthquakes…

Some earthquakes are caused by humans

Random but cool

The Office Supplies Trebuchet

A real piece of computing history…

Although Britain takes too much credit for Engima (the Poles figured out how to break it, although they didn’t ‘industrialise’ it), the Turing Bombes are incredible, and it’s great to see one built.

Lock picking… …well, bumping

Interesting and slightly worrying way of Opening a lock by ‘bumping’ it

Swimbots.com

It’s a bit of a toy, but Swimbots is a quite fun A-life programme.

Morbid

Yet strangely fascinating. How safe is your house from Nuclear attack. London is ‘ -0.13, 51.5 ‘. And that’s ‘Nu-clear’ for any Americans, not ‘Nuke-u-lar’…

Cool special effect

I can’t think of a single use for this, but it looks cool

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