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Your Worst Waking Nightmare: Remote-Controlled Flying Sharks

No, we’re not talking about something from Axe Cop. Or Dr. McNinja. This is an honest-to-god RC airplane that looks like a shark. We can just see a gaggle of them chasing Adam West across a theme park. Also in our nightmares.

We see them in our nightmares.

(via Neatorama.)

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World’s Largest Oil Skimmer Reaches Gulf of Mexico (Update: Tests “Inconclusive”)

UPDATE: As of Monday, “A Whale” is not ready to take on the Gulf oil spill after “inconclusive” testing, according to a statement from TMT Shipping.

The world’s largest oil skimmer has arrived in the Gulf of Mexico, and has been conducting a 48-hour test since yesterday to see how it fares in cleaning up the April 20 oil leak, which continues to spew millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf daily. Straightforwardly named “A Whale,” the Taiwanese vessel is a retrofitted oil tanker from TMT Shipping. And it – is – colossal.

According to its makers, the 10-story high and 3.5-football-fields long vessel is able to process up to 21 million gallons of oil-dirtied water a day. 500 skimming boats would take 2 months to collect the same amount.

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