SKELETONS

Please show Poky!

how they made it!

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british accents

I can't get enough of this.  I wish it lasted 85 minutes rather than 85 seconds.

giant magellan telescope

I'm wondering how they deal with all the atmospheric effects...I assume they have some incredible software to remove those effects, but those effects also must be (I would think) much bigger than some of the actual signals they're trying to detect!

what Hong Kong looks like

The author's description: "One of the slowest things in Hong Kong... So I decided to speed it up... the full 2 hour route - East to West - condensed to under 4½ minutes..."

Paying it forward

If you place an order at the Chick-fil-A drive-through off Highway 46 in New Braunfels, Tex., it’s not unusual for the driver of the car in front of you to pay for your meal in the time it took you to holler into the intercom and pull around for pickup.
 “The people ahead of you paid it forward,” the cashier will chirp as she passes your food through the window.
Confused, you look ahead at the car — it could be a mud-splashed monster truck, Mercedes or minivan — which at this point is turning onto the highway. The cashier giggles, you take your food and unless your heart is irreparably rotted from cynicism and snark, you feel touched.
You could chalk it up to Southern hospitality or small town charm. But it’s just as likely the preceding car will pick up your tab at a Dunkin’ Donuts drive-through in Detroit or a McDonald’s drive-through in Fargo, N.D. Drive-through generosity is happening across America and parts of Canada, sometimes resulting in unbroken chains of hundreds of cars paying in turn for the person behind them.

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