Hmmmm, I wonder if it’s just like the tardis…or a bag of holding… bigger on the inside?

[Available @ the Neatoshop]

Roger Wood of Klockwerks made a killer little raygun.  The rest of the stuff on his website is definitely worth checking out, too.

via Boing Boing

Not very well, apparently:

The mosquitoes’ low mass and speed – and thus low inertia – means that the raindrops are largely unaffected by the collisions. Thus, the drops don’t splash on the bugs. “The most probable impact is one that rotates the mosquito instead of pushing it vertically downward,” Hu says.

Indeed, Hu and company’s video analysis shows that, after pushing past the mosquitoes, falling drops have lost very little speed. “Consider this analogy,” Hu says: “A falling boulder hits a slowly falling human. The human, unless hit square-on, will be pushed aside quickly, and continue falling at a speed similar to pre-impact. Should the same boulder hit the earth, the boulder will break into many pieces.”

via Newswise

Armed with the new, precise distance measurement, scientists using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer, the Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics, and visible-light observations made over more than two decades, calculated that the black hole in Cygnus X-1 is nearly 15 times more massive than our Sun and is spinning more than 800 times per second.

Read about the newly discovered history of the black hole over at Science Daily.