It’s not only blurry Mars images that get scrutinised by nerds in basement apartments. These dwellers of converted laundry rooms also pour over the latest Disney movies in hopes that they will spot some hidden Easter egg that would make them a conspiracy superstar.
Called the Hat, the 13-sided shape can be arranged in tile formation forever and it will never repeat a pattern.
The peeps over at Centives have burnt their scientific calculators to a crisp working out the approximate cost in 2012 US Dollars of building a life size, working replica of the iconic planet killing space station from Star Wars, the Death Star. Needless to say, we can’t afford it.
Last week, a 30 year old man from Preston in the north of England was jailed for life for the brutal murder of his Thai wife, Pornpilai Srisroy. Her only crime: she had the audacity to destroy his extensive collection of Star Wars memorabilia following a fight.
A 31-year-old Swedish man, known only as ‘Richard’, was attempting to build a nuclear reactor in his kitchen and was arrested and had his experiment shut down after he contacted the Swedish Radiation Authority (Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten) to ask whether or not his pet project was legal.