Geek Weekly: She Blinded Me With Science

Skyscraper of the future? Don’t believe me? See the first bullet for the full-size image.

Happy Friday, fellow Geekadelphians! Did you beware Ides of March? Did you wear green, get rowdy and drink beer? Did you hide from people who were wearing green, getting rowdy and drinking beer? Here comes this week’s edition of Geek Weekly– get excited!

• Wired Science ran an awesome article about an awesome architectural entry submitted to eVolo Magazine’s futuristic skyscraper contest. “Designed by Sarly Adre bin Sarkum of Malaysia, the waterscraper would be about as tall as the Empire State Building, but with only a couple of stories exposed above the surface. The whole building would be a self-sufficient, floating, archeology.” And, as you can see from the sweet picture above, IT HAS TENTACLES!

• In what sounds eerily like the flashback sub-plot of V for Vendetta, a former Pfizer employee is suing the company for contracting an artificial virus created by a colleague.

• Apparently, people build their own jet-powered motorcycles. And atomic clocks… cool!

• Crazy architectural developments are now open for all walks of society, including felons! Check this article out about building a prison in the sky. SRSLY.

• What do The Terminator and an Earth-bound asteroids have in common? A new study is showing that we mere Earthlings aren’t as prepared for planetary collision as we thought. Blowing up something hurdling at us through space  will lessen impact, and likely be the only thing saving us from ending up like T-Rex & Co, right? Um, NOT ANYMORE! PopSci ran an article and said that “new research from Los Alamos National Lab and the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows that if the asteroid isn’t moving fast enough, or if the nuke isn’t big enough, the asteroid will pull itself back together, T-1000-style, within a matter of hours.” WHAT?! As if that’s not crazy enough, the projected solution get’s a little Superman (1978).

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