Drake Anthony, AKA Styropyro, is a young man who enjoys making lasers. He recently built a 3000mW laser made from the diode of an old DLP projector that can blow out a beam so hot that it burns paper, plastic, and electric tape in seconds.
Considering the most powerful handheld laser you can buy clocks in at 1,400mW, Anthony’s laser is pretty powerful. He has an entire YouTube channel dedicated to his potentially-damaging efforts.
(WARNING: some might find this video objectionable)
The British government’s emergency committee convened after two people hacked a soldier to death on a London street. Prime Minister David Cameron says there are strong indications it was an act of terrorism. He called it “an appalling murder.”
Cameron adds his top advisers will examine the potential security implications of yesterday’s attack. The alleged attackers waited at the scene until police arrived.
One of the men talked to an ITN news crew yesterday as his victim lay motionless on the ground in the middle of the street. He said, “We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. The only reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day.”
Former Congressman Anthony Weiner has launched an effort to resurrect his political career after a scandal. Weiner, whose career imploded in a rash of raunchy tweets two years ago, says in this YouTube video announcement that he’s in the New York City mayoral race. He says he’s learned some lessons from the scandal.
CBS News footage shows entire neighborhoods destroyed, school children huddled in the streets, and citizens picking through the rubble of the town of Moore, Oklahoma, just south of Oklahoma City.
A massive tornado ripped through the suburb just one day after a series of twisters killed two people.
An Associated Press photographer saw several children being pulled out of what was left of the Plaza Towers Elementary School.
Rescue workers lifted children from the rubble before they were passed down a human chain and taken to a triage center set up in the school’s parking lot.
The school is southwest of Oklahoma City. Its roof appears mangled and the walls had fallen in or had collapsed.
The National Weather Service said the tornado’s preliminary classification was an EF-4, with winds up to 200 mph.
On the heels of a deadly weekend of tornado activity in Oklahoma, a much larger tornado touched down there on Monday.
A twister struck just south of Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, ripping apart homes and other buildings in populated areas.
A mix of volunteers and first responders are combing through debris in an Oklahoma City suburb looking for survivors.
The city of Moore, Okla., was hit by a tornado that was estimated to be two miles wide at one point.
People wearing neon-green vests were joined by residents in the search through rubble. Neighborhoods are flattened and homes blown apart.
This tornado is being compared to the devastating May 3, 1999 tornado that ravaged the same area. Neighborhoods, trailer parks, schools, businesses and other structures in the area are gone.
Shards of wood and pieces of insulation were strewn everywhere. Television footage also showed first responders picking through rubble and twisted metal.
Storms on Sunday killed two people near Shawnee, about 35 miles southeast of Oklahoma City. Gov. Mary Fallin earlier Monday took a tour of the areas hardest hit. She expressed concern that, with power out, Oklahomans might not receive warnings about the new round of storms.
More than two dozen tornadoes spun up over the Midwest over the weekend, including this one in western Kansas Saturday.
One person was killed in Oklahoma, when a twister hit a mobile home park east of Oklahoma City.
Dozens of injuries and widespread power outages were reported.
Some are saying one of us will pay for this idiot’s behavior. In the meantime, “it’s to laugh.”
It’s being called the first music video made in space.
In an online video, astronaut Chris Hadfield sings the David Bowie song “Space Oddity” while floating around in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station.
The video features shots of a floating guitar that would look like a Hollywood special effect anywhere else. It also shows arresting images of the space station orbiting over Earth.
Hadfield and astronaut Thomas Marshburn are scheduled to return to Earth on Monday.
A camel at a zoo in Springfield gets up close and personal with a Kansas toddler.
Some unsolicited advice: don’t run out of snacks.
Clouds in the Midland Empire prevented most of us from seeing it, but a meteor shower is underway, and if the skies clear, we could get quite a show.
We found this video on You Tube.
The Lyrid meteor shower recurs in mid-April each year when the Earth passes through a trail of dusty debris from the Comet Thatcher. Humans have been watching Thatcher’s wake for at thousands of years.
