People: “We’ll have flying cars and jetpacks in the future!”
Scientists in the future: “Hey look, we made this goldfish drive a car!!”
Tag: science
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“Giant goldfish are breeding in Lake Tahoe”
Seriously, if the pet you released into the wild isn’t going to be dinner for the local wildlife, it will upset the ecosystem (and by that, I mean eat the prey that was meant for other predators, slowly wiping them out, etc).
(Heck, there’s a lot of controversy over letting domestic cats run free range outside.)
(In somewhat related news, I was reading a message board thread on betta euthanasia techniques, and flushing a live fish down the toilet is considered an unacceptable method of euthanasia, since the fish doesn’t actually die right away, and is laying in human waste, waiting for death. And heck, there’s plenty of water down there to keep them alive, despite the human waste part.)
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“Portal 2’s space core is headed to space, courtesy of anonymous NASA engineer”
Other than the fact that it looks more like Wheatley than the space core, this makes me happy inside. :3
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“I may not be a planet, but check out my fifth moon, fools!”
Currently, the moon is going by the catchy name S/2012 (134340) 1. It joins Charon, Nix, and Hydra, along with the recently discovered P4 (all but Charon were spotted by Hubble). The new moon was spotted in multiple images, making it clear that it was gravitationally bound to Pluto. It’s oddly shaped, varying between 10 and 25 km across.
Ars TechnicaHow did I not know about Moons #2, 3 and 4, Pluto? ;o;