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4chan announced on Twitter this morning that it had just passed 1 billion total posts. Yay! It has been a really weird journey so far, 4chan, and we cautiously look forward to what your next billion posts will bring us.

It looks like someone tore a baby apart and wrapped it around an assault rifle. The blood bag could mean it is still alive. The leash could mean it tried to escape. We have so many questions, but no one seems to have the answers.

Prop maker and hobbyist Mike Senna has been working on a remote-controlled, life-size replica of Disney-Pixar's WALL-E since 2010. Now, his work is complete, and we get to see WALL-E roam the Earth he never knew. Directive: Make children happy.

Last year, the Madeira River in Rondonia, Brazil was drained for a hydroelectric dam. At the very bottom, were six of these creatures, writhing about looking like penises, except that they're all about 30 inches long. Now, biologists have confirmed that they are Atretochoana eiselti, an extremely rare species of caecilian with no known living population.

Is there anything that hasn't been mapped by Google? Google Maps has teamed up with NASA to bring the Kennedy Space Center to the Internet. Now we can walk the path of astronauts and people who take humanity to its farthest. See what they see, what's behind our loftiest achievements, and dream of slipping our surly bonds.

The 2045 Initiative is bringing together the world's leading scientists in its bid to attain a means to cybernetic immortality by 2045. Now it's reaching out to Forbes' billionaires for funding, promising them their own personal immortality care package in return. That means you need to keep yourself alive for 33 more years, so no more parasailing off your speedboat clutching a bottle of bubbly.

On Monday, August 6th at 1:31 AM EDT, Curiosity, NASA's most advanced planetary rover, will come to the end of its 8-month journey through space to land on the red surface of Mars. And we get to watch it, not alone at home with echoes, but with a whole bunch of fellow space-heads, right in the middle of Times Square. A whole bunch of us, standing still on the streets of New York, witnessing mankind's curiosity.

Because nothing says "love" better than curling naked in your lover's arms in a little plastic bag as an old vacuum cleaner sucks the air from around you, the plastic closing in on you, compressing the life (and love, don't forget love) out of the body that used to be you. If you come out alive, you get to see photos. Photos of your love at its very height. Right before you were going to die.

A flexible electronic sensor mimics the structure of a beetle's wing, locking two sheets of tiny polymer fibres together to create a surface that can detect pressures as low as 5 Pa and, for the first time, distinguish between pressure, shear, and torsion. Considering how important it is for an android to be able to distinguish between someone shaking their hand and someone trying to rip their arm out, I'd say this is some important stuff indeed.

Here's the first trailer for Michael J. Bassett's  Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, which will be based on Silent Hill 3. It features Pyramid Head, a score by Akira Yamaoka, Ned Stark, and Jon Snow. So get ready.

The Lyons' Feline Genetics Laboratory at the University of California at Davis has developed Cat Ancestry, a simple test that lets snobby cat owners find out for sure if their precious kitty is truly a Persian or something. What, you're gonna throw out a bunch of kittens if their parents don't match?

The one and only croquet competition ever held in the Olympic Games took place during the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. Apparently, only one man came to watch the games, so maybe they iced it because no one was paying to see it.

This guy clearly knows the importance of a good breakfast. Look at his unflappable concentration. His practiced chewing. His remarkable grip on his spoon. What makes this funnier is knowing that the motto for the London Olympics is "Inspire the world."

This isn't exactly breaking news, but since the London 2012 Summer Olympics begins tomorrow, we thought we'd impart some knowledge in case it hasn't yet been imparted. Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the International Olympic Committee, was awarded a gold medal in 1912 Summer Olympics for his poem Ode Au Sport. Yes, they used to give out medals for poems, and yes, the guy who revived the Games won one. And yes, that's his facial hair.

Apparently, we were supposed to be spineless invertebrates like this lancelet, but a couple of mistakes happened some 500 million years ago, so we ended up humans instead.