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onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com This is what a lightsaber fight looks like in total darkness

Filmmaker Corey Vidal made this short film about a Jedi fighting Darktroopers (a.k.a Stormtroopers whose armor is blank, not white) where the only light comes from the lasers fired and the Jedi's lightsaber, and it's awesome. Hey, Abrams, if you want to send this kid a check and use this in Episode VII, it's fine with us.

[Via Neatorama]

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Newly discovered titanosaur was one of the largest land animals ever onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com Newly discovered titanosaur was one of the largest land animals ever

Introducing Yongjinglong datangi, a titanosaur that lumbered across the fields of China during the Early Cretaceous period some 100 million years ago. The specimen discovered, a juvenile not yet fully grown, measured nearly 60 feet in length, making it one of the largest species to ever walk the Earth.

The image above illustrates an Alamosaurus, a titanosaur similar to Yongjinglong. I chose it because the researchers provided a depiction that, uh, leaves much to be desired:

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The team of palaeontologists, led by University of Pennsylvania researchers, didn't have much to go by — just three teeth, eight vertebrae, the animal's left shoulder blade, and the radius and ulna from its right leg. But that was enough to piece this bad boy together — and to conclude they were dealing with an entirely new species. It's considered one of the more advanced titanosaurs ever found.

One of the things that made it unique, aside from its tremendous size, was it's freakishly long shoulder blade. It was so long that it didn't fit in the body in a conventional way, but oriented at an angle of 50 degrees from the horizontal.

Read the entire study at PLoS.

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They're finally making a sequel to the weird cyberpunk porn epic I.K.U. onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com They're finally making a sequel to the weird cyberpunk porn epic I.K.U.

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I.K.U. is notorious as being one of the weirdest and most mind-fuck-filled science fiction porn movies of all time. And now at long last, director Shu Lea Chang is working on a sequel.

There's a hilarious look at a casting call for the new film, called FLUID, over at Vocativ. Including the Taiwanese director asking aspiring pornstars weird questions about their genital hygiene, and things like "Do you like to manipulate people?" In addition to directing the ultra-weird I.K.U., Chang was also the first artist commissioned to do a web-based piece for the permanent collection of New York's Guggenheim Museum.

So what's FLUID about? According to Vocativ:

The new movie is set in a post-AIDS future where the virus has mutated. Rather than passing on a potentially fatal condition, the new virus gives some carriers to transmit a sexual high through nothing more than skin contact. AIDS has, in effect, become a gender-agnostic one-touch orgasm generator....

At the casting call, Chang and her producer, Jürgen Brüning, are asking those present to act out a skin-contact orgasm or the part of a glitched super agent. Some of the people getting up to try out look like they've never been onstage. As a result, when they are caressing themselves as asked, there's a tension in the room akin to looking into someone's life.

In other words, it sounds like all our sexual anxieties and hangups, blown up to giant size and then distorted beyond recognition. Cannot wait! [Vocativ]

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The world's oldest known flamingo has died onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com The world's oldest known flamingo has died

The bird – who went by "Greater," on account of it being the last Greater Flamingo to reside in Australia – passed away Friday at Australia's Adelaide Zoo. The bird was eighty-three years old. EIGHTY-THREE.

Photo Credit: Nicole Miller / Adelaide Zoo via EPA

Greater, who – no joke – managed to live his/her entire life without anyone ever determining his/her sex, arrived at the zoo in 1933. The octogenarian last made headlines in 2008, when local youths attacked the senior-flamingo in an act of senseless violence.

Greater recovered, however, and appeared to be doing pretty well, all things considered, until April of last year, when it became clear the bird was struggling with arthritis. After nine months of anti-inflammatory treatment, Greater took a turn for the worst last week. "The difficult decision was made to humanely put the flamingo to sleep this morning," officials wrote on the zoo's blog earlier today, "as its quality of life had significantly deteriorated due to complications associated with old age."

[Adelaide Zoo via NBC via Jason Bittel]

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Frank Miller's Role in the Secret Origins of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com Frank Miller's Role in the Secret Origins of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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The Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles were created in 1984 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. But it turns out that the roots of the story about the four mutated-turtles, who assume the name of Renaissance-era artists and don masks to fight crime, could go much further back than that.

After getting a look at the face of the newest ninja turtles, a question came up: Why the masks?

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You know what has always bothered me about the Turtles? (I mean, among the great many things that bug me about everything)

Why do they wear masks? Are they afraid someone might recognize them?

Officer: Do you think you could describe them?

Citizen: Uh, they kinda looked like turtles, you know? Round shell. Bald. Kinda green. Spots. No real nose.

Officer: Could you pick them out of a lineup?

Citizen: I doubt it. They were wearing masks.

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They were created as a parody of Frank Miller's ninja characters from the early eighties, so they wore the trappings of "comic book ninjas." Now it's just part of the look. Originally, the masks were all black, but they added color for the cartoon. Even the later comics had them all be red masks.

Eastman also backs up the tale of Miller's (along with some additional artists') influence, in this account in Heavy Metal, where he is the publisher:

Okay—the real story—late one night I did this drawing of a Turtle, mask and weapons in place, posed for battle (below)—all to make Pete laugh . . . Anyway, so Pete and I kicked around this idea of a bunch of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (stolen from "Cerebus," "Ronin," "New Mutants," and "Daredevil") wrote a story to tell how they came to be, (all on our very own!) and decided to sell it through the direct market Phil Seuling created, borrow a bunch of money from my uncle, and see what happened.

Image: tanya-buka

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onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com The Biggest WTF Moments from Three Years of American Horror Story

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This week, the third season of the most fucked up show on cable TV ended. And while there's still plenty more American Horror Story to come, we couldn't help but take stock of all the horrors this series has wrought. And then rank them. Here is our collection of the most WTF moments from three seasons of American Horror Story.

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Now these are REAL WTF moments, not "oh no, the realtor got his penis bitten off," or "yikes, those gators are alive!" We all saw those coming. These are ranked in order, from huh, to HOLY SHIT. Some of these are truly terrible and I can't believe they got away with them, and some are just generally fantastic.

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Robot Spider - AHS: Asylum

Let's start off light. The most benign — but still batshit — WTF moment in all of AHS would probably be the robot spider that was cut out of the Asylum inmate Kyle's neck. Because there was a robot in his neck. This was never really explained, but it meant aliens. Like most things on this series, don't overthink it.

Adult Breastfeeding - AHS: Murder House

A super subtle attempt on the part of AHS to point out that the serial killer Bloody Face has Mommy issues.

Patrick's Poker Death - AHS: Murder House

Zachary Quinto and his angel-faced lover Patrick are both brutally murdered by The Rubber Man, but Patrick really gets the worst of it. For no discernible reason (other than shock) The Rubber Man rams a poker up his rectum while Patrick is dying on the floor.

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Murder Santa - AHS: Asylum

Ian McShane joined the cast of Asylum as serial killer and Santa impersonator Leigh Emerson. When he wasn't tying up families with their own Christmas decorations, biting off faces and raping, he was spouting out the most ridiculous dialogue ever assigned to a mentally deranged Santa Claus. Here is a good example, "You know the difference between that Santa Claus and me? He only comes once a year." It's so insane we had to collect the entire insanity in one video.

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Dr. Adren's Experiments/ Shelly - AHS: Asylum

It's revealed (fairly early on) that the resident physician Dr. Arden has a couple side projects underway at Briarcliff Manor. Which appear to be some sort of zombie people that feed human remains. But when he turns his attention onto nymphomaniac Shelly (played by Chloë Sevigny) that's when the real horror is unleashed. First he amputates her legs, then he starts injecting her with god knows what, mutating her into this. But she is eventually put out of her misery thanks to the super kind boss, the Monsignor (Joseph Fiennes), who strangles her with his rosary. Oof.

Severed Head Singing -AHS: Coven

And now an Academy Award winning actress' severed head will sing "Dixieland" to avoid being exposed to the television series Roots.

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The Devil Goes After The Monsignor - AHS: Asylum

The previously sweet and (exceptionally naive) Sister Mary Eunice is possessed by a demon — but that's not the shocking part. The real holy cow is when the Sister holds down The Monsignor with her mind powers and rapes him. Stops raping him. And makes him beg for her to keep going. He does.

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Anne Frank Cameo - AHS: Asylum

A new Asylum patient claims that she is Anne Frank (played by Franka Potente). While in the institution, she outs Dr. Arden for being a Nazi doctor and performing terrible experiments on his prisoners. To prevent himself from being outed, Dr. Arden lobotomizes this alleged Anne and sends her back home, happy, to her husband. So maybe it wasn't Anne Frank? Either way what a ridiculous clever way to skirt around the horribly insensitive idea of casting Anne Frank in your show. You got us, AHS!

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Cry Masturbation - AHS: Murder House

What better way to kick off your series' pilot than with your main character aggressively jerking off while weeping, and being secretly observed by creepy burning man Denis O'Hare? Welcome to American Horror Story, everybody!

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Aliens! - AHS: Asylum

Because Aliens!

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Surprise Attic Brother - AHS: Murder House

If there's one thing these series need, it's MORE CHARACTERS. And just imagine our shock when we discover that Constance (the lady next door played by Jessica Lange) had a secret son hidden in the attic. Which we didn't find until the seventh episode — although his red ball was spotted earlier on in the series, it was still wildly out of left field.

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Blood Facials - AHS: Coven

Both Marie Laveau and Delphine LaLaurie were guilty of using fresh pancreatic blood from their victims to spread on their faces for beauty treatment. However you could argue that Laveau was justified in using the blood from Lalauie as penance.

YA DEAD VIOLET - AHS: Murder House

Violent, the petulant teenager of the Murder House (which who can blame her for being a brat her parents had garbage hearts) commits suicide. Cut to Tate, the ghost boy who lives in the house that she's dating forcing her to throw up her suicide pills in the tub. Making the audience believe that everything is OK. BUT IT WAS NOT OK. Because in reality Violet died and Tate hid her body in the basement. Which we then got to see. It was gross.

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Coat Hanger Abortion - AHS: Asylum

After being raped by the serial killer Bloody Face reporter Lana Winters is hospitalized again and forced to take her pregnancy into her own hands. This was impossible to watch. Side note, the title of this episode was actually "The Coat Hanger" — classy!

Dr. Arden Cremates Himself - AHS: Asylum

This, however, we could watch all damn day. Upon learning that his precious Sister Mary Eunice has died, he cremates himself with her body. Whilst still alive. It. Was. Hilarious. WEEE!

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Incest - AHS: Coven

A completely unnecessary character moment, Kyle is killed, and brought back to life by cobbling the bits of his frat brothers into "one perfect boyfriend." His new witch girlfriend Zoe then takes Kyle back to his mother. Upon his return, Kyle's mother proceeds to have sex with him. But she knows it's not him because "she knows his body," *hack hack dry heaves hack ack* In return, Kyle flips out and kills her. Fun fact about Kyle!

Bleach Enema - AHS: Coven

In a brilliant bit of stunt casting, Patti LuPone shows up and screams, "Wait I'm not the most famous person here?" In retaliation she gives her super-Christian son a "cleansing" bleach enema.

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Rape/Murder Basement - AHS: Asylum

Dear God, this one is so terrible. After subjecting the imprisoned journalist Lana Winters to horrible "aversion therapy" (to cure her of her gayness), Dr. Thredson (Zachary Quinto) pretends to spring Lana from Briarcliff Manor only to re-imprison her in his basement of horror. Because surprise! He's the first Bloody Face. There, in this basement of terror, is the body of Lana's dead girlfriend whom he has been having sex with (so we can add Necrophilia to this list). Thredson then handcuffs Lana to a bed and rapes her countless times. It's just so fucking terrible. And this is how she gets pregnant with his child.

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DANCE BREAK - AHS: Asylum

Thankfully not all American Horror Story WTFs involve terrible horrible rape scenarios. After Sister Jude goes insane from shock therapy after being imprisoned in her own Asylum, she pauses for a dance break. And everyone joins in.

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Mossy Bank - AHS: Asylum

In which the farmer from Babe brings a prostitute over to his house, and upon discovering that she has found his vile collection of torture porn photographs (from his work as a Nazi) orders her to reveal her "mossy bank." That episode changed all of us.

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Tate's Reveal - AHS: Murder House

After spending time with very TUMBLR-able teen Tate, you slowly start to realize that he's got some issues. Even for a ghost. But we never, not ever suspected that his death story would reveal that he was actually a school shooter. Shocking to say the absolute very least, thank Heaven for writer Tim Minear who managed to turn the whole idea around on the audience. Allowing them to relate to this character but also forcefully attempting to make this character deal with this consequences by surrounding him with the ghosts of his victims. We still get chills when the student who is forced to live and eternity with a shotgun blasted jaw, unable to communicate tries to yell at his murderer. Absolutely thrown.

Attic of Horrors - AHS: Coven

Delphine LaLaurie's terrible horrible attack, where she tortured slaves and liked it. She stitched lips shut with fecal matter in their mouths, ripped off skin and made a real-life minotaur. Vile.

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Dead Baby Made Up of Other Dead Babies - AHS: Murder House

And possibly the most WHAT THE FUCK of all the What the Fucks. Little did we know when we started watching the first season of this show, that the "murder house" was home to an illegal abortion clinic. Unfortunately, Dr. Charles Montgomery was not great at his job, but he did love ether.

A pissed-off client seeks revenge, by kidnapping the family's son Thaddeus, dismembering him, and returning him (via police evidence box) to the Montgomery home in jars. Dr. Montgomery reacts by combining the human remains with other human remains from his office, creating a new version of Thaddeus. Who still lives in the basement in modern times. It's terrible, we know.

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Doctor Mew returns, with War Cat and Capaldi Cat onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com Doctor Mew returns, with War Cat and Capaldi Cat

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Artist Jenny Parks has graced us all with an updated version of Doctor Mew, initiating John Hurt and Peter Capaldi into her kitty take on Doctor Who. It's glorious.

You can see all the cats in this previous post, and view her work at Jenny Parks website. BRAVO!

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The long-awaited space romance Passengers is coming. onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

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The long-awaited space romance Passengers is coming. The film abouta man on a cryo-ship who wakes up early, starring Keanu Reeves and Amy Adams, is getting made by Germany's Studio BabelsbergStudio Babelsberg, with filming beginning soon near Berlin.

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The Most Dangerous Modern Ruins for Thrillseekers and Urban Explorers onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com The Most Dangerous Modern Ruins for Thrillseekers and Urban Explorers

You see the hauntingly beautiful pictures of the fallen grandeur of abandoned buildings, and you think, "I want to see those for myself." But watch out. Some of the world's most fascinating modern ruins are also the most hazardous. Here are some abandoned sites that you could risk life and limb to visit.

The near-ghost town Centralia, Pennsylvania

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The population of the city started to dwindle after mining operations ended in the 1960s: in 2010 it had only ten inhabitants.

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An underground mine fire started here in 1962, which is still burning and producing toxic gases and smoke, causing the abandonment of the neighboring town named Byrnesville, too. Only a few buildings are standing now.

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(via Proper Pictures)

Dallol, Ethiopia, the place that holds the record for the highest average temperature for an inhabited location, with buildings made of salt blocks.

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Dallol was a salt, slyvite and potash mining community, abandoned in the late 1960s. There aren't any roads, only camel caravans and armed Afar tribesmen, because the place is close to the Eritrean border.

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Ağdam, Azerbaijan, once a town with more than 150,000 inhabitants, empty since the Nagorno-Karabakh war.

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Pripyat, Ukraine, evacuated after the Chernobyl disaster in April 1986.

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Some parts of the city could be discovered, because the radiation level is relatively small, but the visitors must stay on roads and should enter to only a few buildings with the tour leader. Lots of buildings are dangerous to explore and the areas covered with vegetation has much higher radiation levels.

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(via IAEA Imagebank and Wikimedia Commons)

Hashima Island, one of the 505 uninhabited islands in Nagasaki Prefecture, commonly called Gunkanjima (means Battleship Island).

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The coal mine of the island was operated from 1890 to 1974. In 1959 the island had 5,259 inhabitants, living in some concrete blocks built from 1916.

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Hashima was closed between 1974 and 2009, but now a small portion is open to visitors. Many urban explorers wants to visit the closed area, although some of its buildings have already collapsed.

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(via KNTRTY, Jordy Meow 1 – 2 – 3, Σ64, Hisagi and Mitsuhiro)

Varosha, Cyprus, a thriving tourist destination until the 1970s, before the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus started in 1974 and the whole place was fenced off.

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Now it's one of the most surreal places in the world: the cars are parked in the streets, dishes are still on tables and everything looks like it was abandoned only hours ago. The problem is that you will be shot if you're caught.

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(via Tony Woods, Michael Kirian, Sergej Fomin and Kriisi)

Port Mulgrave mine, North Yorkshire, UK

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The ironstone mine was opened in 1857, later it was connected to a nearby railway with a narrow gauge railway. The line was closed in 1934. The tunnel is in bad condition, some parts are collapsed, so any exploring might be really dangerous.

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(Photos taken by Phill.d/Flickr)

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