Japan is probably the only country in the world where you could pull something like this off.
http://ethnorotica.com/article/129/500-person-japanese-orgy
Go Japan!
Daily Archives: June 25, 2006
Beijing to shoot down rain
Using an arsenal of rockets, artillery and aircraft, China will try to blast the clouds out of the sky, a meteorologist told a Beijing magazine, through a technique which falls under the umbrella of “cloud seeding.”
“We can turn a cloudy day into a dry and sunny one by shooting the clouds less intensively than when we make rain,” head meteorologist Mian Donglian for the Beijing municipal weather bureau told Time Out.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/06/05/china.rain/index.html
Giant crossbow to shoot man 20 miles into the air
Brian Walker, mad scientist and all around crazy person, plans to shoot himself 20 miles into the air in a homemade rocket launched from the world’s biggest crossbow. The rocket, which has a jet turbine with 1,350 pounds of thrust, will shoot off the track of the giant crossbow shown above, which is equipped with a 24-foot carbon-fiber bowstring. At the peak of his flight he’ll be traveling at a comfortable 10 Gs, and he’ll be wearing a $15,000 surplus Russian space suit to stay safe, because everyone knows the Russians will sell anything for a price.
http://www.uberreview.com/2006/06/worlds-largest-crossbow.htm/
SSTAR – small, sealed, transportable, autonomous reactor
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6344
The aim is to create a sealed reactor that can be delivered to a site, left to generate power for up to 30 years, and retrieved when its fuel is spent. The developers claim that no one would be able to remove the fissile material from the reactor because its core would be inside a tamper-proof cask protected by a thicket of alarms
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6344
The 100 megawatt version is expected to be 15 meters high by 3 meters wide, and weigh 500 tonnes. A 10 megawatt version is expected to weigh less than 200 tonnes. To obtain the desired 30 year life span, the design calls for a moveable neutron reflector to be placed over a column of fuel. The reflector’s slow downward travel over the column would cause the fuel to be burned from the top of the column to the bottom. Because the unit will be sealed, it is expected that a breeder reaction will be used to further extend the life of the fuel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSTAR
Read up on your ‘small nuclear power reactors’ : see “Liquid Metal cooled Fast Reactors”
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf33.htm
F88 Wrist Watch Mobile Phone
CEC Corp in China specially made this wrist watch phone to one of the China’s most famous ping pong player, the GSM F88 Watch. It is available to the market at the price of 8,888Yuan which is about USD1,111. F88 is a watch with built-in mobile phone capabilities which have 26K colors CSTN display. It boasts a built-in microphone, speakerphone for conferencing, voice dialing, 4 minutes of voice recording, IrDA connectivity and organization tools such as schedule, alarm clock and reminder note. You can even play the pre-install world cup games on the phone. The keypad number is located on the strap. Video conferencing could be done by the watch because it has a built-in 3 megapixel 180-degree rotating camera
http://www.mobilewhack.com/reviews/f88_wrist_watch_mobile_phone.html
Futurama will be back
Comedy Central has resurrected the former Fox animated SF series Futurama, ordering 13 episodes to debut in 2008, Variety reported. The deal builds on the cable network’s acquisition of the 72-episode library last fall.
Discussions about a revival of the half-hour show began in earnest earlier this year between Futurama producer 20th Century Fox Television and series creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen. A sticking point, which has been resolved, had been bringing back the cast, who hadn’t worked on new episodes for the show since it left the air in August 2003.
Voice actors Billy West, Katey Sagal and John DiMaggio are on board for the new episodes, which will continue the story of Fry (West), a pizza delivery boy who was accidentally frozen for 1,000 years and who wakes up in the future.