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Our Weird and Wonderful Future

A compendium of information, news, opinion, speculation, resources, tools, and silly stuff about the edge of our reality, the technology "spike", and the weird and wonderful future hurtling towards us.

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Name: David Atkinson
Location: Tokyo, Japan

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8.22.2006

Things you can't find on Earth: Carbon Dioxide Sand Geyers!



Solar heating vaporizes the frozen carbon dioxide at the the south pole of Mars. The geyers may shoot hundreds of feet into the air.

More information:
Ice Geysers Discovered on Mars

Disposable Camera = Homemade Taser

Another example of "the street finds its own use for technology" (Wm. Gibson, Neuromancer