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ANSWER Cartons of punched cards stored in a United States National Archives Records Service facility in 1959. Each carton could hold 2000 cards. A punched card is a (now obsolete) recording medium consisting of a piece of stiff paper that contains information represented by the presence or...

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ANSWER An unexpected side-effect of the 2010 flooding in parts of Sindh, Pakistan, was that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters; because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water took so long to recede, many trees became cocooned in...

Image 26 Yes, that thing in the foreground is a medium sized human child carrying a large bucket. But what has it done to those trees?

ANSWER Using "drawing robots" that respond to sound, this is artist Peter Foucault's drawing based on Philip Glass's soundtrack to The Hours. The little drawing robot was of course shopped out to cultivate an Air of Mystery and keep in tune with this thread...

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High time someone created a Survarium thread. For those not in the know, Survarium is a free to play online shooter from the guys formerly working on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. The game is set to be released in 2013. Developer site: http://vostokgames.com/en FAQ...

Answer Mars' South Polar Cap, its stratified layers evidence of long periods of sublimation. Apologies for the absence. Due to some unforseen circumcisions, I was unable to attend this thread last night. But we're all happy now. Bag goes to foozball3000. Hope it's your kind of thing...

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We might have a problem. It has evolved: Changes in colour and shape are indicative of a potentially dangerous substance. We have alerted the relevant agencies, who have instructed us that the substance should not be approached. So please don't touch it. Anymore. And wash all your...

IMAGE 023 (H) In my capacity as a part-time cloud density- and car width measurement standards inspector, one of my universally enviable duties is to identify anomalous substances found on the exterior walls of large, publicly accessible buildings. Please help me in this effort by identifying...

ANSWER Huntsville, Texas. Notes on the time it took for convicted murdered Michael Perry to be executed via lethal injection. Malice is the clear winner. Wrong, but win. Enjoy the bag:

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Oh my, how'd I miss this? Only after reading a short article on procedural worlds in the new EDGE magazine, did I manage to find this thread tucked away on this here forum. Phrases like 'Tweed-loving British science fiction', 'British indie S.T.A.L.K.E.R.', 'Lo-fi indie open-world shooter' and...

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Actor: Heath Ledger Role: Dan Film: Candy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjfSLUhIFB8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkZ7ve9P7R8&feature=related Actor: Christian Bale Role: Dick "Dicky" Eklund Film: The Fighter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiYS93Rl-E0...

Some actors have the ability to convince an audience that he/she was completely oblivious to the close proximity of a team of movie makers while 'acting' out a scene. The following are performances I considerer to be remarkable (please be aware that some of the movie clips will contain...