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NIGHT AT BLUE PLANET II

No, you can't really spend the night at a TV show. Instead, this special Airbnb listing will give one lucky winner and their guest a chance to spend three days and two nights aboard the Alucia, the oceanic research and exploration vessel used in the filming of Blue Planet II. You'll be joining an active research trip in the Bahamas, during which you'll get the chance to explore the deep in one of the ship's two submarines. You'll eat your meals with the crew, get the chance to observe their work, and perhaps gain a new appreciation for the ocean.

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Ant-Man And The Wasp Trailer Finally Puts Hope In The Middle Of The (Tiny) Action

The first trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp is here, and I couldn't be happier that Paul Rudd is sharing the spotlight with the Marvel Cinematic Universe's latest smaller-than-life hero, Evangeline Lilly's The Wasp.

Ant-Man and the Wasp, the sequel to Rudd's solo MCU debut, centres around Scott Lang teaming up with Hope van Dyne (Lilly) to rescue the partner of original Ant-Man Hank Pym (Michael Douglass), who also just happens to be Hope's mother Janet van Dyne. The previous Wasp, played by Michelle Pfeiffer, disappeared into the Quantum Realm, and the exploits of this new microscopic generation of heroes will lead to new revelations about the multiverse.

However, the best part of the trailer has to be finally seeing Lilly in action as the Wasp. That knife scene, damn. Ant-Man and the Wasp comes out July 5.

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Of Course There's A Limited Edition Scotch Whisky To Celebrate Final Fantasy's 30th Birthday

Spin my nipple nuts and send me to Alaska! The Ballindalloch-based Glenfarclas distillery has cranked out a special 30-year-old dram just for the folks at Square Enix and its long-lived RPG franchise. You'd think Square would have hit up Yamazaki, but I guess the company has a thing for Glenfarclas' Highland single malt.

Just 303 bottles will be made available, according to a story on Rocket News, with the 700mL of limited edition scotch going for ¥37,000 ($420).

I'm not entirely sure what difference there is between the Final Fantasy drop and Glenfarclas' regular 30-year, other than the fancy label on the front.

If you're wondering what it'll probably taste like, here's a description, courtesy of Dan Murphy's: This is the normal 30 yo at $750 because everything is stupid expensive here

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Dark amber-gold colour leads to the rich, intense combination of sherried fruit, Christmas spices, peat smoke and dark chocolate. The warm and rich flavours gradually melt into a lingering fruit and nut chocolate feel on the palate. The finish is long lasting and velvety smooth.

Sadly, while the bottles can be shipped internationally, Australia can't join in the fun, due to the "delivery license of DHL". That's what eBay's for, right?

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THE CAMPBELL BAR

Once the private office of railroad exec John Williams Campbell, The Campbell Bar is a grand old bar befitting its location. For years, it was known as The Campbell Apartment, tucked away in a second-floor corner of Grand Central Terminal. After a brief closure and ownership change, it has reopened in all its former glory, complete with the hand-painted ceiling, stone fireplace, and enormous leaded glass window.

The tree-flanked entrance is now home to a second, small bar called the Campbell Palm Court and a taxi stand outside has become the Campbell Terrace, but for all that's changed, you'll still find Paris DuRante behind the counter, a holdover from the bar's more obscure days who's as adept at conversation as he is at mixing up a Negroni, Old Fashioned, or Manhattan.

 

 

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SKAGEN FALSTER SMARTWATCH

Following a semi-mechanical hybrid effort, Skagen is going full touchscreen with the Falster Smartwatch. Powered by Android Wear 2.0, it has a solid if unsurprising feature set, including activity tracking, notifications, music control, Bluetooth, and a voice-powered digital assistant. Where it stands apart is in its clean Scandinavian design done in tasteful colorways with a symmetry broken only by the simple crown on the side. $275+

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ROOMS HOTEL KAZBEGI

Tucked away in the Caucasus Mountain Range of northern Georgia, the Rooms Hotel Kazbegi reimagines a former Soviet resort. The old Brutalist building has been restored with a mix of warm woods and steel to create an alpine retreat that is both rustic and industrial. Each of the 155 guestrooms follows the same aesthetic while offering expansive views of the surrounding mountains. Speaking of the views, the dramatic scenery is on display in nearly every space from the sun terrace to the indoor pool. Local fare is served in the on-site restaurant and for dessert, the lobby lounge offers a curated menu of hand-rolled cigars.

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At 60 Frames Per Second, It Feels Like I'm Riding This Drone As It Races Down A Mountain

If there was ever a good reason to fullscreen a video on your computer, this is it. The third episode of Team Blacksheep's Long Term Paradise series, featuring some of the best drone pilots in the world, might have you experiencing vertigo if you're brave enough to watch this footage running at a full 60 frames per second.

If you deal with motion sickness, you're probably going to want to avoid this one. The nimble movements of a drone are amplified through a first-person view of its flight path, and when the footage is running at 60 frames per second, twice the speed of the TV shows you're used to watching, your eyes are more easily fooled into thinking you're actually riding along.

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Duncan Jones Makes An Exciting Return To Sci-Fi With Mute, And Here's The First Trailer

Filmmaker Duncan Jones has been teasing fans about his passion project, Mute, for years. Well today, right now in fact, you can finally watch its trailer.

The film stars Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd and Justin Theroux, and looks incredibly dark and awesome. It will debut on Netflix February 23. Check out the first trailer:

Jones, who directed Moon, Source Code and Warcraft, wrote Mute along with Michael Robert Johnson. And, as you can see in the trailer, it follows a mute bartender (Skarsgård) forced to go into the seedy underbelly of futuristic Berlin to find his girlfriend. Along the way he'll team up with Cactus Bill (Rudd) and Duck (Theroux), "a pair of irreverent US Army surgeons on a mission all their own".

Much like he did with Moon, Jones and his team have created a partially recognisable but nevertheless intriguing vision of the future. There are obvious Blade Runner influences, there's a little John Wick in there, some Dark Knight, a sprinkle of AI, and a unique strand of humour too. Plus, it somehow links to Moon, which is awesome. All in all, it looks like Jones could have another winner on his hands.

And the best part of it is, we get to see it all in less than a month. Mute premieres on Netflix February 23.

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$300,000 YAMAZAKI 50-YEAR SINGLE MALT WHISKY

For some people, distilled spirits aren’t just a drink to enjoy – they’re a way of life. And we are forced to assume that’s the case for the owner of this 50-year Yamizaki Single Malt Whisky, as they’ve just made it the most expensive single bottle of Japanese whisky ever.

A recent lot at a Sotheby’s wine and spirits auction in Hong Kong, this aged liquor was expected to go for somewhere between $90,000 to $140,000. Instead, it raked in a whopping final bid of $298,739 (give or take) – a fact that has set the whiskey world ablaze with speculation as to who the mystery bidder was. The rarity of this beverage does speak a bit to its value, however, as this bottle was one of only 50 ever made back in 2011. So, if you’re one of the lucky so-and-sos who happens to have one on hand, you may want to think about flipping it for a small fortune. Of course, you could always just imbibe the liquid gold, instead.

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Cowboy Ninja Viking Nabs Game Of Thrones Director Michelle MacLaren

Cowboy Ninja Viking, the long-awaited Chris Pratt comic book film about a covert agent with multiple personality disorder, has brought on Game of Thrones director Michelle MacLaren to helm the project. We're glad to see a genuinely talented director chosen for a movie that's had a lot of trouble getting off the ground.

MacLaren, who has an extensive TV resume - she's worked on Westworld and The Walking Dead, to name a few - replaces World War Z director Marc Foster, who left the project back in 2015. Some names were tossed around in between, like John Wick's directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski. While MacLaren's attached to another film at the moment (The Nightingale), The Hollywood Reporter notes that Cowboy Ninja Viking will likely wind up being her feature film debut. As such, it's also her first comic book movie, though she came close before. You may recall she was previously set to direct Wonder Woman before Patty Jenkins came aboard, but left the project due to creative differences.

Based on Image's comic book, by writer A.J. Lieberman and artist Riley Rossmo, Cowboy Ninja Viking centres on a counter-intelligence unit made up of patients with Multiple Personality Disorder. With the help of a psychotherapist, who uses psychiatric treatment, drugs, and past life regression therapy, they're turned into agents known as Triplets - meaning they each have three different personalities inside their minds. Chris Pratt plays Duncan, a Triplet with the personalities and skills of a Cowboy, Ninja, and Viking. Other personality combos include Mohawk Indian-Playboy-Spartan, Amish-Demo Expert-Army Captain, and Sniper-Archer-Clothing Designer. After Duncan's fellow Triplets leave the fold and become assassins, he's tasked with hunting them down.

Cowboy Ninja Viking is a weird-enough concept, one that Disney was developing until it was deemed "too edgy," and I was worried it would end up a subpar Split knockoff that doesn't strive to portray multiple personality disorder (the more commonly accepted term is dissociative identity disorder, but the comic uses the other) fairly. But there are some signs it could be interesting. A 2014 report from Collider claims that all of Duncan's personalities would be played by different actors, which sounds promising; I think any attempt to turn Pratt into a ninja would fall into Parks and Recreation Johnny Karate territory.

However, it's hard to ignore that the film has been in and out of development hell over the course of eight years running. Disney bought the rights back in 2010, only to later drop it, as noted above, and Universal picked it up a few years later. Since then, it's bounced between directors and writers, but it's apparently set to come out June 28, 2019.

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The First Trailer For Stephen King's Castle Rock Almost Tells Us What It's About

Hulu just released the first trailer for its upcoming series, Castle Rock. The show is an original tale inspired by a blend of works from the mind of Stephen King, and with this trailer, we finally have a better idea of what that means.

OK, really, we don't know much. We know a man (André Holland) comes home to Castle Rock after getting a mysterious call from Shawshank Prison. The newspaper suggests this happens after the events of The Shawshank Redemption. And it seems as though the person who called him is played by Bill Skarsgård. Skarsgård plays Pennywise in the It movies. Which can't be a coincidence, can it?

Especially not when you look at the rest of this cast. Not only is the list impressive, they too share an interesting connection. There's Sissy Spacek, who was in the King film Carrie; Melanie Lynskey, who was in the King miniseries Rose Red; Terry O'Quinn, from Lost, but also the King movie Silver Bullet; and Scott Glenn... who actually hasn't been in a King property before Castle Rock. Holland (best known for Moonlight) hasn't been in a King project either, but it seems he and Glenn are related here. Maybe the fact they haven't been part of King's world before is exactly the point.

And so the mystery box begins.

Castle Rock is executive produced by J.J. Abrams and premieres on Hulu this winter. An Australian broadcaster has not yet been announced.

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We Owe A Lot To This Alchemist Who Tried To Transmute Pee Into Gold

Henning Brand's name might not immediately ring a bell, but we wouldn't have a number of life's simplest joys were it not for the 17th century alchemist's lifelong quest to transmute urine into solid gold.

Like any alchemist worth his salt, Brand was chiefly concerned with discovering the philosopher's stone - the fabled substance that could allow a person to convert base metals (such as mercury) into even more valuable substances such as gold. Much of Brand's work involved him experimenting with solutions of water and various other compounds in a number of different formulations, but it wasn't until he started messing around with urine - yes, urine - that he made his first major (and accidental) breakthrough.

Chemist and science writer John Emsley explained during the most recent episode of NPR's Planet Money that urine had become the object of fascination for many alchemists during the 17th century - partially because of its bright, golden colour, but mainly because of how abundant it was. Because everybody pees, alchemists such as Brand saw urine as a potential literal goldmine. If they could only figure out how to convert it into actual gold, they could become wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.

Brand spent most of his time cooking pee down in different ways and hoping that something fantastical might happen. Quite randomly on one day in 1669, he was shocked to discover that at least one of his pee experiments resulted in a flammable, softly-glowing green substance. The astonished Brand believed that he'd discovered the philosopher's stone, but in actuality, he'd stumbled upon phosphorous, a chemical element that's required for all living things to survive.

Though Brand and a colleague didn't fully understand what it was that he'd discovered, that didn't stop them from touring all across Europe to show off the mysterious, glowing ball of pee. As gross as that may sound, the world's arguably a better place for it. In addition to keeping us alive, phosphorous is commonly used in a variety of applications we benefit from on a daily basis. Toothpastes, fertilisers, certain soft drinks - none of them would be possible without phosphorous and we might not have discovered it if Henning Brand hadn't been hellbent on experimenting with pee. Science!

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Grandma's A Bad Influence Even After Death In The Freaky Hereditary Trailer

It's an amazing time to be a horror fan, with Get Out up for multiple major Oscars, and a new strain of deeply creepy, artistically innovative, psychological/supernatural thrillers popping up in theatres. On the heels of films like mother! and The Killing of a Sacred Deer comes Hereditary, which earned raves at the recent Sundance Film Festival.

The first trailer for Ari Aster's debut feature film - which stars Toni Collette, who played another memorable horror-movie mum in The Sixth Sense - is cryptic yet horrifying. The mother of Collette's character, an apparently very hands-on grandma, has just passed away... but it's very clear that her spirit still lingers in some very malevolent ways.

Hereditary is due out June 8.

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MGM’s Stargate: Origins’ new trailer shows an Indiana Jones-style fight against Nazis

MGM has released a new trailer for its upcoming prequel show, Stargate: Origins, showing off an Indiana Jones-style adventure that pits its characters against Nazis in Egypt in 1939.

The trailer shows off a bit more of what to expect from the digital show, which will follow Catherine Langford (played by Ellie Gall), the daughter of the explorer who discovered the stargate device in Giza, Egypt in 1928. Langford has apparently been trying to figure out what the device does, but so has Nazi occultist Dr. Wilhelm Brücke. Langford comes across a diary with new symbols that seem to relate to the gate, and along with a small group of companions, she has to fight to keep the device out of Brücke’s hands.

This teaser shows a glimpse of the gate opening (hopefully, the CGI will be polished before the show begins streaming), which has left fans wondering how the show will avoid getting tangled in the franchise’s existing canon. The central premise of Roland Emmerich’s original 1994 franchise-launching film was that scientists, including Langford, weren’t sure how to activate the device. The first season of the 1997 spinoff show, Stargate SG-1, reveals that the gate was activated once, and Langford’s fiancé ended up stranded on another world for decades.

The film Stargate followed a special military unit that used an alien device to travel instantaneously to other worlds. The franchise grew to include two additional shows, Stargate: Atlantis (2004) and Stargate Universe (2009). The shows have been off the air since 2011. Last year, MGM announced it was bringing the franchise back with Origins, which will stream on a dedicated streaming service called Stargate Command. That service, which launched in September 2017, pulls most of the existing Stargate series content together in one place.

Stargate: Origins will begin streaming on Febrary 15th.

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Red Sparrow, Solo, Black Panther And More: Super Bowl 2018 Trailer's

Solo: A Star Wars Story (Teaser)

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

KRYPTON

Black Panther

Rise

Jurassic Word: Fallen Kingdom

A Quiet Place

Red Sparrow

SkyScraper

The Cloverfield Paradox

Mission Impossible 6: Fallout

Westworld: Season 2

Avengers: Infinity War

Pepsi

 

Coca-Cola

Doritos & Mountain Dew

Bud Light

Tourism Australia

Groupon

Jack in the Box

Stella Artois

Amazon

PETA

Wix

Budweiser

Pringles

Sprint

M&M's

Febreeze

Tide

Michelob Ultra

Avocados From Mexico

Toyota

Kia

I Like Beer

Universal Studios

Squarespace

Angry Birds 2

 

 

 

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Ancient Tomb Discovered In Egypt Believed To Be Over 4300 Years Old

To this day, Egyptian archaeologists continue to discover new tombs and relics, with the most recent being a 3500-year-old mummy just a couple of months ago. Now, the Egypt Antiquities Ministry has reveal another find -- the 4300-year-old tomb of a powerful woman by the name of "Hetpet".

The announcement was made yesterday by the Ministry, according to a story by LiveScience's Owen Jarus, with the tomb uncovered in a "cemetery on the Giza Plateau".

Judging by the artwork and hieroglyphs in the tomb, it's been determined that Hetpet was a "senior official in the royal palace":

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"The tomb has very distinguished wall paintings, in a very good conservation condition, depicting 'Hetpet' standing in different hunting and fishing scenes or sitting before a large offering table receiving offerings from her children," Egypt's antiquities ministry said in a statement.

Unfortunately, the tomb appears to have been burgled at some point; not only is Hetpet's statue missing, but her mummy as well.

The mission that found the tomb is one of a "dozen", according to the LiveScience story, so be prepared for similar discoveries over the next 12 months.

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A London Airport Is Getting An Upgraded Air Traffic Control Tower 130 Kilometres Away From All The Planes

London's cramped City Airport, located in the heart of the city, is undergoing a massive upgrade, including the addition of a fancy new air traffic control tower. But to maximise the airport's limited space, that tower is actually being built 129km away, and will rely on 14 high-def cameras to give remote ATC crews a virtual view of the far-off airport.

The idea of the airport's air traffic control team being located over an hour away from the comings and goings of all the actual planes sounds kind of terrifying. But as Tom Scott explains, this isn't the first time a virtual ATC tower has been created: countless smaller airports already employ them. And the virtual screens offer some unique advantages, like augmented overlays showing radar tags and call signs tagged to each plane as they move across the screens.

But it is the first time a virtual system like this is being used at a facility as busy as London's City Airport, which is why countless safety systems are being employed. The live feeds from the cameras are being sent through private, secure pipes, and have less than a second delay by the time they reach the virtual tower in a nearby town called Swanwick.

When one of the giant screens being monitored by air traffic control crews fails, the panoramic view of the airport is automatically reshuffled across the remaining screens until a new display can be installed in about ten minutes. And if one of the 14 cameras at the airport fails, additional pan and zoom cameras will immediately fill in the gap until repairs can be made. If the entire system fails, the ATC crew can fall back to radar and voice communications, which is what they already use when fog limits visibility.

 

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EERIE PHOTOS OF A SECRET UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR MISSILE SITE IN SOUTH DAKOTA

These eerie photos by Adam Reynolds recall an era when the world was on the brink of nuclear armageddon.

International tensions were high. Missiles stood at the ready. And South Dakota provided the most direct route for Russian-bound rockets, which, if launched, would make their way to Moscow by crossing over the North Pole.

To get these shots, Reynolds visited the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site which is now a national park. Back in its heyday, thousands of Air Force personnel cycled through the bunker.

The "minute men" would be stationed in teams of 8. They'd spend free time in the rec room playing Battleship (no joke) and microwaving TV dinners.

Of course, all the real excitement is underground. Below the living quarters lies the missile control room and further from the living quarters, a large, subterranean launch facility which takes up nearly one-half mile of space. This is where the Minuteman II missiles were kept.

These days, the Minute Man Missile Site isn't so secret. In fact, if you're willing to make the drive, you can book a tour just like Reynolds did. 

 

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The Ruins of a Massive Ancient City Have Been Discovered in Guatemala

The ruins of an enormous Maya ‘megalopolis’ have been discovered in Guatemala with the help of the remote sensing technique LiDAR, according to a bombshell exclusive from National Geographic on Thursday. This vast lost city envelops sites like Tikal, Holmul, and Witzna—known for their temples and pyramids—but shows that these famous heritage areas are the tip of the iceberg of this lost urban network.

Hidden under the dense jungle canopies of the Maya Biosphere Reserve, more than 60,000 human-made features—homes, canals, quarries, highways, and more—have been identified in aerial imagery collected by an international collaboration of researchers headed by the PACUNAM Foundation, a Maya cultural and natural heritage organization.

Tikal has some of the widest causeways measuring up to 80 m in width

Low-profile stone walls related to intensive agriculture in the residential zone of Xmakabatun

 

These ancient peoples obviously established a robust and imaginative culture based on their known relics, but the new research has revealed that the scale of this lost society is far beyond what experts had imagined. The findings will be explored in an hour-long documentary called "Lost Treasures of the Maya Snake Kings," premiering Tuesday, February 6 on the National Geographic Channel.

A new pyramid found south of Tikal’s Mundo Perdido. 

This breakthrough was possible thanks to LiDAR (Light Imaging, Detection, And Ranging) sensors, which can survey landscapes in 3D by bouncing laser pulses off the ground from drones and other aerial vehicles. LiDAR is exceptionally useful for detecting archeological sites, as it penetrates through jungle cover and other features that hinder exploration on the ground.

Jungle image versus LiDar image. 

The technique has been the catalyst of many discoveries in recent years, including major finds at Angkor, Cambodia and Caracol, Belize. Given that the newly announced Maya “megalopolis” is the result of the first phase of PACUNAM’s LiDAR Initiative, which began in 2014, there are likely to be many more revelations about the mysterious people who built this massive urban network. The ultimate goal is to survey 5,000 square miles (14,000 square kilometers) of Guatemala’s lowlands with LiDAR sensors.

View from the southeast of the Preclassic city of El Tintal. A moat enclosed the core area and causeways radiated out to major pyramid complexes. A causeway cross the round wetland connecting two sections of the city.

“There are entire cities we didn’t know about now showing up in the survey data,” Francisco Estrada-Belli, a National Geographic Explorer and one of the lead archeologists on the project, says in NatGeo’s forthcoming documentary.

“There are 20,000 square kilometres more to be explored and there are going to be hundreds of cities in there that we don’t know about,” he added. “I guarantee you.”

 

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BALCONES TEXAS RYE WHISKEY

To celebrate their 10th Anniversary, Balcones Distilling is releasing ten new spirits in 2018. The first of these is their Texas Rye, made with 100% rye, including raw elbon grain from north and northwest Texas, and crystal, chocolate, and roasted rye varieties. Aged under two years in new American oak and diluted to 100 proof with Hill Country spring water, Texas Rye kicks off the anniversary festivities for one of the best craft distillers in the country.

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THE PORSCHE EFFECT

Few auto companies have had a bigger impact, both in technology and culture, than Porsche. The Porsche Effect is a new exhibit at LA's Petersen Automotive Museum that celebrates this legacy, via 50 of the most notable Porsches of all time. Highlights include one of just three 1939 Type 64 60K10s built — widely considered to be the start of their signature aesthetic — Steve McQueen's black 356 Speedster, an Arova-Porsche 212 Skibob from the early '70s, and the modern gas-hybrid 918, all accompanied by various artifacts and documents. The exhibit opens this weekend and will be on display through next January 29.

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The Falcon Heavy's Boosters' Landings Made Twin Triple Sonic Booms And They're Loud As Hell

While there may now be a car in space, and the core of the Falcon Heavy rocket that launched it may be a bit worse for the wear, the twin Falcon 9-based boosters that helped make it all happen are safe and sound back on Earth. And not only did they look good, they made two big bangs doing it.

I need to rephrase a little here. Technically they didn't make "two" big bangs, they made six bangs, because each booster assembly breaks the sound barrier when it's coming back to Earth in triplicate. You can hear it as a "boom-ba-BOOM" a little ways after you can see the boosters themselves re-ignite for landing, as the crowds recording have to stand far away enough that if something goes wrong they're not incinerated or crushed. While the boosters themselves may be falling back to Earth quickly enough to break the sound barrier, the noise itself still has to follow the usual physics of sound in a medium:

The roar you hear immediately after the sonic booms is from the rocket engines themselves, which fire up to slow the boosters down enough for a relatively soft landing so that they're available for re-use.

The Space Shuttle was famous for making a loud double BANG as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, but back in 2016 Space Flight Insider learned why the Falcon 9 makes a triple boom:

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"[The] first boom is from the aft end (engines)," said John Taylor, SpaceX's Communications Director. "[The] second boom is from the landing legs at the widest point going up the side of the rocket. [The] third boom is from the fins near the forward end."

Just don't stand too close.

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New Deadpool 2 Trailer Teases The Ultimate Showdown Between Cable And Sheriff Wadey

"Reach for the sky" - with your badarse robot arm.

The new trailer is out for Deadpool 2, which brings Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) face-to-face with his ferocious nemesis, Cable (Josh Brolin). Except, it isn't quite working out the way Deadpool wanted because the special effects department forgot to add his robot arm (dammit, Dale!). So it's up to Wade to fill in the gaps with an adorable recreation.

That said, once the actual effects are in place (thanks, Dale!), it looks pretty damn impressive. I am curious how Cable is actually going to be in the movie, since the trailer is mostly about turning him into a clichéd haunted villain stereotype that Deadpool gets to make fun of. If that's the case, I'm for it. But I am hoping Brolin gets to enjoy some moments where he isn't the butt of the joke.

Deadpool 2 comes out May 17.

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The World's Oldest Man Drank a Glass of Red Wine Every Single Day

Francisco Núñez Olivera, the oldest man on the planet and so-called "grandfather of the world," passed away last week at the venerable age of 113. He was the kind of man who loved a quiet life, spending all his many years in Bienvenida, the same picturesque Spanish town he was born in in 1904. As he once said three years before his death, "I still don't feel old. I am old, but I am not old." His is definitely a lifestyle worth copying.

Olivera drank a glass of red wine a day, according to the Local Spain. He ate vegetables he grew in his own garden and took walks every day around his house before heading to bed around 8 p.m. every night—although some evenings he wanted to chat more than he wanted to sleep, his 81-year-old daughter told El Mundo in 2015. He hadn't had teeth since the '70s, but he still chowed down on milk and nutty sponge cake for breakfast—with Actimel, a fermented milk drink—fish or stew for lunch, yogurt for a snack, and hot cereal for dinner.

Olivera's daughter said he had "a gentle routine in a quiet village—being his own boss, not arguing with the family, and enjoying the good life—that revolved around the field, his house, and the village bar." Olivera himself once said his trick to longevity was “to work hard. To not be weak and stay in the house."

Besides having really excellent genes—he is survived by his 95-year-old brother and 93-year-old sister—Olivera was an active and healthy man. His diet most interestingly was filled with probiotics from the Actimel and yogurt. Besides keeping your gut firing on all cylinders, probiotics have been found to boost your immune system, which may have helped Olivera fight off cold and flu in his older age. And red wine, the most appealing part of Olivera's diet, is chock full of antioxidants, which can ward off heart disease—and only one glass a day is pretty moderate.

So let's raise a glass of Tempranillo to Francisco Núñez Olivera, a man who managed to make it to 113 years of age with a damn healthy outlook on life, a family who loved him, and plenty of trips down to the local bar.

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LAGUNITAS WILLETTIZED COFFEE STOUT

Each year Lagunitas brews their imperial coffee stout and hunts down the right barrels to take the beer up a notch. For the latest release, the brewery was able to snag some sought-after barrels from Willett Distillery that once held their rye whiskey. After some time mingling in the wood, "Willettized" is bottled at 12.6% with tasting notes that include chocolate, coffee, oak, and a dash of sweetness from the wood influence. Available in six packs, it might be the best value for a barrel-aged stout you'll ever find.