The Force is Strong With These Star Wars Light-Up Lightsaber Chopsticks

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For the Star Wars fan who has everything, these pairs of light-up lightsaber chopsticks might be the perfect gift for the holidays! Oh, and yes, they have replaceable batteries, they’re BPA free, and they will arrive before Christmas according to the product page on Amazon.

Be the life of the party with your friends and family by owning a pair of these uniquely designed utensils. compact and so you can carry them easily in your pocket. Only for Ages 12 and older. Care Instructions: Important! These do not have custom designed handles. They are thick plastic stickers that fold over to cover the battery compartment in place by a couple of screws. Please change the batteries with caution and do not wash the handle or get it wet. Only hand wash using dish soap on the section that touches food. Do not immerse in Water. This is why they are very inexpensive and affordable compared to other models out there. Please handle with care.

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An Honest Trailer for Galaxy Quest

The 1999 movie Galaxy Quest combined comedy, action, and science fiction. Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, and Alan Rickman are actors starring in a sci-fi TV show similar to Star Trek, fandom and all. But the aliens don’t realize that, and recruit the show’s cast into an actual intergalactic war. It’s a fun premise, and Galaxy Quest won several science fiction awards. Now Screen Junkies goes back twenty years to re-examine the movie for good and bad and meta. Mostly good.

Never give up, never surrender!

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This Full-Size LEGO Facehugger Looks Frighteningly Real [Pics]

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LEGO enthusiast Mordatre built this really cool and terrifying life-size Alien facehugger using Bionicle LEGO bricks, and I have to say, it’s one of the most realistic LEGO facehugger I’ve seen on the web! Master builders can really craft about anything with LEGO pieces these days! For those interested, I’ve included a few extra pictures below!

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[Source: Mordatre on Flickr | via Brothers Brick | Nerd Approved]

Astronomy Picture: N63A, Also Known as “The Firefox”

Here is a picture of N63A, also know as “The Firefox,” a supernova remnant of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of our galaxy’s close neighbor.

Explanation: What has this supernova left behind? As little as 2,000 years ago, light from a massive stellar explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) first reached planet Earth. The LMC is a close galactic neighbor of our Milky Way Galaxy and the rampaging explosion front is now seen moving out – destroying or displacing ambient gas clouds while leaving behind relatively dense knots of gas and dust. What remains is one of the largest supernova remnants in the LMC: N63A. Many of the surviving dense knots have been themselves compressed and may further contract to form new stars. Some of the resulting stars may then explode in a supernova, continuing the cycle. Featured here is a combined image of N63A in the X-ray from the Chandra Space Telescope and in visible light by Hubble. The prominent knot of gas and dust on the upper right — informally dubbed the Firefox — is very bright in visible light, while the larger supernova remnant shines most brightly in X-rays. N63A spans over 25 light years and lies about 150,000 light years away toward the southern constellation of Dorado.

[Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, Chandra ; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt | Via Neatorama]

2019 Illusion of the Year

The video above shows the top winner in the annual Illusion of the Year competition. It’s called the Dual Axis illusion by Frank Force. Is this shape spinning vertically or horizontally? You can’t tell, because it’s a 2D image, but your brain makes it seem one or the other, until visual cues help you change the orientation. Another of the finalists, Bodiject Fingers by Kenri Kodaka, shows us how seeing one’s fingers as disembodied from our hands makes them seem like separate foreign objects.

All it takes is a mirror, and some students to freak out. See all the top ten finalists here.

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