RC aircraft enthusiast aaron_gx sends his SkyFun Jet to play chicken with wind turbines.
We have a lot of their wind turbines in Cornwall and Im sure the landscape looks very familiar!
Playing Chicken with a Wind Turbine from aaron_gx on Vimeo.
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On August 3, 2010, Blizzard announced that StarCraft II sold more than one million units worldwide within one day of its release. After two days, when Blizzard began selling the game as a digital download on its website, approximately 500,000 additional units of the game were sold, bringing the total up to 1.5 million worldwide and making it the fastest-selling strategy game of all time. In its first month on sale, StarCraft II sold a total of three million copies worldwide. As of February 2011, the game has sold nearly 4.5 million units. The game was also heavily pirated, reportedly being downloaded over 2.3 million times, and setting a record for most data transferred by a single torrent in only three months.
Ok, so to keep the numbers safe and simple lets assume my average population of my army is 100, minus about 20 for SCV’s, minus another 20 for marauders and the like, that gives us 60 Marines. According to the numbers above 6.8 million copies of the game are in circulation, we’ll divide that by three to give us room to assume that all three races get used equally. Deciding that we do in fact have 60 marines per player per game, and that each player has 50 matches a month, each player is responsable for killing 21,000 marines over the seven months that the game has been out so far. Times that by a third of the games sold in total world wide and get 5,670,000,000,000 Marines KIA so far. That nearly 300 thousand times the population of New York!
Its my first attempt at making a cheeky picture like this so go easy……
PETA wont be happy with this picture! However, I am a really big fan of Pokemon!
With recently announced titles like The Walking Dead and Fables, Telltale Games is carving itself a future at the moment and seems to be proving that marketing on this modern interwebs gizmo that everyone is talking about isn’t that hard after all. I hope your listening Blockbuster. That’s why we thought it worth pointing out that you can get the first episode of the studio’s Back to the Future adventure for free from the official Telltale Games online store.
Just follow this link for your free copy of the game. Those who have been following Telltale closely may already know that Back to the Future: Episode I was made available for free when using the special coupon codeword “121GIGAWATTS.” It seems that the codeword is now preloaded for those interested in also pre-ordering the full seasons of Jurassic Park: The Game and Back to the Future. Just make sure you uncheck those collections from the order form if you don’t want them before checking out.
The Ocean Dome is an amazing man made indoor beach complex in Japan. Every hour, the volcano erupts and the hi-tech wave machines start up, starting a few minutes of sanitized surfing.
Entrance cost is US $50 per person, which seems especially expensive given that there is a free, natural beach only 300 meters away.
Guinness World Records has released the results of its online poll asking gamers to decide who the all-time greatest game characters are. More than 13,000 people participated in the vote on Guinness’s official website and it looks like nostalgia stole the show, with only two post-2000 characters making the top 10. Halo’s Master Chief, who originally debuted in 2001, took the number three spot, while Kratos from God of War, first seen in 2005, placed ninth.
Eight of the chosen characters are humans or human-like creatures, one is a hedgehog, and one is a yellow circle with a mouth. Nintendo was the only publisher to have created two of the characters on the list, with Link placing second, just below his Italian plumber colleague, who, of course, took first. Its interesting to think weather or not that they considered the different era’s of the character’s included, you wouldn’t enter sonic cira 2005 now would you…..
1. Mario (Donkey Kong, Nintendo, 1981)
2. Link (The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo, 1986)
3. Master Chief (Halo: Combat Evolved, Microsoft, 2001)
4. Solid Snake (Metal Gear, Konami, 1987)
5. Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy VII, Square, 1997)
6. Pac-Man (Pac-Man, Namco, 1980)
7. Lara Croft (Tomb Raider, Eidos 1996)
8. Gordon Freeman (Half-Life, Valve, 1998)
9. Kratos (God of War, Sony, 2005)
10. Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega, 1990)
As the Dissidia sequel releases in Japan in a couple weeks, there isn’t much more time for new surprise character announcements. Nevertheless, details have just surfaced on the appearance of the ominous enemy Gilgamesh from the Final Fantasy Series
The news was broken via a promotional poster that Square Enix sent out to Japanese retailers. However, some eagle-eyed players had already spotted the creature in a recent trailer, so it’s not a complete surprise.
According to some new hot dish in Shonen Jump magazine, timed to correspond with the posters, Gilgamesh’s weapon will constantly change each time it is used. No further information was disclosed.
Less than a year after it was first suggested, the world’s first antilaser is here. A team of physicists have built a contraption that, instead of flashing bright beams, utterly extinguishes specific wavelengths of light.
Conventional lasers create intense beams of light by stimulating atoms to spit out a coherent beam of light in which all the light waves march in lockstep. The crests of one wave match the crests of all the others, and troughs match up with troughs.
The antilaser does the reverse: Two perfect beams of laser light go in, and are completely absorbed.
“There will be nothing coming out again,” said experimental physicist Hui Cao of Yale University, whose research group built the new device.
To build the antilaser, which Cao and colleagues call a Coherent Perfect Absorber, ( whats wrong with bringer of darkness, or something cool like that?) the researchers split a beam from a titanium-sapphire laser in two. The laser emitted light in the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum, with longer wavelengths than the human eye can see.
Some of the light continued forward through the beam splitter, and the rest was forced into a sharp right turn. The physicists guided the light beams into a cavity containing a silicon wafer one micrometer thick. One beam entered from the left and one from the right. The distance each beam travels determined the way the crests and troughs of the light waves aligned when they met in the wafer.
Theoretically, 99.999 percent of the light can be extinguished. Because of the physical limitations of the laser and the silicon wafer, the antilaser only absorbed 99.4 percent of the light.
Mosa’ab Elshamy — a photographer and pharmacy student who attended the Tahir Square rallies in Egypt — describes the volunteer-run kindergartens that spontaneously popped up in the square to care for the children who came with their families for the rallies:
“It’s difficult to estimate numbers, but I think not less than 10 percent of those present in Tahrir were families. They added a special spirit to what we started calling Republic of Tahrir. Some of the kids would do their own marches around the square, with people applauding and smiling at them. They were quite an integral part of the place and everyone took care of them. When Tahrir would get crowded and a kid got lost from his parents for a while, we would quickly mention their name in the large microphones set in the square and the parents would easily find them.
I wouldn’t say the kindergarten idea was set up by specialists. But there were people of all professions in Tahrir which obviously included teachers. But many of those working on the kindergarten were ordinary mothers who would take care of the kids and look over them while they were painting or reading. It was usually set in the safest area of the square, just in case anything would happen, and the kids were being kept at a distance from any possible tension. But obviously it wasn’t professionally set up. I mean, it didn’t have working hours or a fixed schedule, because the place was quickly developing and changes were taking place from day to day. Still, the main core was maintained and any kid could join, play with others for some time, and indulge in children’s activities for a while. It was quite heartening to say the least”.
Philadelphia teenager Kendall Anderson confessed in court to murdering his sleeping mother after she confiscated his PlayStation. And if you don’t like crime-related video games stories with terrible, sickening endings, don’t go any further. This one is perhaps the worst.
Anderson’s confession, read in court by Philadelphia police homicide detective Thorsten Lucke, admits to attacking his mother, Rashida, with a claw hammer, attempting to cremate her in the kitchen oven and ultimately beating her to death with a chair leg. He reported her missing to police the next day, then confessed to Philadelphia police.
Kendall Anderson added to his confession: “If I could, I would not do it again. I really miss my mom . . . she was the only person who cared for me,” reports Philadelphia’s Inquirer.