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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.

As you may know, Dyson prides itself on makings some really serious vacuums. As such, its vacuums takes some really serious components and are made by some really serious engineers. Of course, you can't be making vacuums all the time, so Dyson's 650 U.K. engineers decided to have a little fun and use some spare vacuum parts to build mini DIY drag racers. The results were pretty impressive.

Conventional physics holds that in a perfect vacuum, a spinning object would never slow down since there is nothing else to act on it. But this may not be true, according to a new study by Alejandro Manjavacas and F. Javier García de Abajo and recently covered by The New Scientist. So, it starts out innocently enough with a statement like "it turns out that in a total vacuum objects will eventually slow down!" If all you want out of life is very simplistic understanding of modern science, then walk away now, because this discovery is about to board the crazy train called quantum mechanics.

At first I was skeptical about this seemingly unbelievable story because I heard about it in The Sun, but it's being widely reported upon by the French media: A group of thieves known as the "gang à l'aspirateur," or "vacuum gang," have figured out a devious way to rob French supermarkets -- specifically, Monoprix supermarkets -- using just a drill and a powerful vacuum cleaner. On Monday, they robbed one Monoprix near Paris to the tune of 70,000 Euros, bringing their total number of robberies up to fifteen since 2006.