It's not much—in fact, it might feel like the shortest 88 seconds of your life—but the first trailer for director J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens is finally here, and they weren't kidding when they called it a "teaser."
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Let’s talk about this new lightsaber. About a minute into the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer, a cloaked figure is tromping through a snowy forest and ignites a weird-looking lightsaber: it’s big, sort of flickery, and it has a crossbar.
How do you test a new method for CPR in space without actually going into space? You take flight in a microgravity plane, obviously. For the last 20 years, NASA's Reduced Gravity Office has opened up its zero-g planes to college students from around the country, who get the once in a lifetime opportunity to test physical experiments in a weightless environment. Yes, they get to play with fire in zero g. Lucky...
Need some ideas for a physics-based gift? Here are some suggestions.
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Effectively maintaining a nation's borders requires manpower, and lots of it—especially when that nation is on bad terms with its neighbor. But rather than put its military personnel in undue danger, both Israel and South Korea have begun using this autonomous ground vehicle to secure their borders.
A Sicilian designer named Daniele Pelligra has released renderings of the upcoming LaFerrari XX. The hardcore, track-only supercar looks positively gorgeous, and is expected to debut at the Ferrari Finali Mondiali event in December.
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The first episode of Telltale's Game of Thrones series will be available for download next week. Iron From Ice will be available for OS X on Tuesday, December 2. The iOS release follows on December 4.
Iron From Ice is the beginning of the tale of House Forrester. The six-episode series of games will take place in the continuity of the Game of Thrones television series on HBO, sitting between the third and upcoming fifth seasons of the show. It features a number of actors from the TV series in the game, including Peter Dinklage, Lena Heady, and Natalie Dormer.
Source: Telltalge Games on Twitter
