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adaptation of Adam Warlock ’s cocoon have seem in both Guardians of the Galaxy films and every time I ’ve seen them , my skin has crawled , even though the pod are only on the covert for the briefest of moments . envisage my horror , then , as I stare upon the high - definition concept art for the monstrosities . Over the weekend , freelance artist Ian Joyner posted a 3D example of his take on Adam ’s Cocoon to hisArtStation page , and while his work is perfectly phenomenal , it ’s also kind of revolting to seem at ....

Today ’s dispatch from the Annals of Wacky Conservation Schemes is a doozy . The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ( USFWS ) plans to use drone [ PDF ] to scatter hundreds of thousands of peanut butter treats across the Montana prairie in fiat to save an adorable endangered Mustela nigripes . Similar to previous plans involvingpoisonous toad frog sausagesand Styrofoam - stuffeddead turtles , this plan only seems silly until you study the backstory ....

The 4.19 million iPads Apple sell in the third fourth part is a huge number , surpassing record Mac sales of 3.9 million — up 27 % over last class . Even hugerer : 14.1 million iPhones in those three months alone . That ’s nearly double what they sold in the fourth quarter of 2009 . That $ 20 billion tax revenue was a record for the company , as was the astonishing $ 4....

Digital artist Victor Hugo ( as far as I can enjoin , his genuine name ) create this marvelous 3D image of Tony Stark hanging out in his lab . Now that Disney has its white - gloved fingers in both Marvel and Pixar , we have to enquire : How is n’t this already a movie ? Be sure to check out thefull - sized imageat Hugo ’s site , so you’re able to see all the inside information he put into this image — including the label on Tony ’s beer bottle ....

The ever - present flower onmy desksits in a skinny vase that does n’t exactly scream I’m - kinda - geeky - but - hey - it’s - all right - because - I - make - cool - affair . Time to start using a noisome DIY plantation owner or mini terrarium made of repurposedlight bulb . peradventure the what - a - bright - idea puns will be a incentive ....

On first glance , Fujitsu ’s Super Frontech Vision LD is pretty awesome . It ’s a 231 - in TV , after all , and as we all make love , the openhanded the TV , the less empty you ’ll palpate inside . The job is , the affair has a firmness of purpose of 512×288 . Yeah , that ’s not a typo , 512×288 . That mean you ’d plausibly have to stand 30 foot back for it to look anything other than a braggart blurry piece of garbage ....

If you were n’t already convinced that Obama isthe candidate of choice for geeks , there ’s now an entire web site commit to preaching his technical school merits to nerds everywhere . Yeah , essentiallyTech for Obamais a gang of techie speak heads — the CEOs of Craigslist and Real Networks , Googlers , former Wired editors , among others — explaining whyyou should vote Obama . ( Whichwe already did ....

Fragments of an tremendous pyramid construct by ancient Aztecs have been uncovered right in the heart and soul of Mexico City . The determination suggest Aztecs moved into the area nearly a thousand years ago , and make Mexico City into one seriously ancient urban development . The Pyramids of Egypt is about 35 feet high , and its ruins admit a statue of an Aztec god , as well as several rooms full of skulls ....

We ’re look frontwards to see what Nokia ’s got coming for Windows Phone next week . But in the meantime , here ’s the first looking at at a WP8 earpiece — one made by Samsung!—from Microsoft ’s blog . At first glance , we guess the phonelooked like a Galaxy S III , but after looking at these shots from the MS blog , this looks like something else ....

When you purchase through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission , in cooperation with American Honda Motor Co. , of Torrance , Calif. , announced a voluntary recall of about 6,150 Honda and Mantis Mini Tillers today . Hazard : A rubber grummet that is part of the railway locomotive ’s fuel armoured combat vehicle may check and wetting fuel , stick a fervor jeopardy ....

Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Joseph Priestly discovered oxygen, but not together. Scheele(a Swedish Pomeranian and German pharmaceutical pharmacist ) discovered the atomic number 8 ( independently ) butJoseph Priestleygot the acknowledgment in 1774 because Scheele ’s work was not published . But today , both Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Joseph Priestley share the credit for the find of oxygen . Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen. Priestley discover oxygen by experimenting with colorless flatulency by heat red mercurous oxide ....

proton sit in the nuclei of all atoms , but they are not fundamental particles : They are made of three quarks held together by thestrong nuclear force . The strength of this fundamental interaction is actually more intense than electromagnetic force and vastly more intense than the gravitative pulling between particle . A new subject area has mapped this intensity , revealing just how strong these strength can get – the forces within the proton can reach up to 500,000 Newtons ( 112,400 pound - force ) ....

A vast new telescope array in South Africa has just repay its sensational first look-alike , give us a glimpse into the remote creation . CalledMeerKAT , this radio scope regalia currently has 16 dishes spread out in the Northern Cape . Eventually , this will be upgraded to 64 dishes . But this is all just a precursor to the much larger Square Kilometre Array ( SKA ) , which will finally use an incredible 2,000 saucer across 3,000 kilometers ( 1,870 miles ) in Southern Africa by 2030 , and a further half a million antennas in Australia , to peer into the cosmos ....