Guy Builds Portable "Tesla Gun"

Published on May 13, 2012 by Rob Flickenger

A battery powered Tesla coil, in the shape of a rifle. Build details here:http://hackerfriendly.com/the-tesla-gun/

Sparks are quite tricky to film. There is a beautiful purple-blue corona field that can barely be seen in the vid, even with this camera (a Nikon D7000).

The maximum arc draw on this run was about 12" or so.

Briton arrested with roasted human foetuses for use in kumon tong black magic ritual

A British man has been arrested in Thailand after being found with six foetuses that had been roasted and covered in gold leaf as part of a black magic spirit ritual.

The corpses of the unborn baby boys were found packed in a suitcase in his hotel room in Bangkok’s Chinatown district.

Chow Hok Kuen, 28, who holds a British passport but is of Taiwanese origin, confessed to police that he had bought the foetuses several days earlier for almost £4,000. The source of the foetuses is unclear.

He said he intended to smuggle them to Taiwan where they would be sold for as much as six times what he paid on the internet to people who believe that their possession would bring wealth and good luck.

The man told police that that he was hired by another Taiwanese man, named Kun Yichen, who regularly travelled to Thailand to collect the ritualistic foetuses.

Worship of the foetuses — observed by some on the Chinese community — is a Buddhist-animist practice known as Kuman Thong that is described in ancient Thai manuscripts.

UFO at Reagan National AIRPORT! May 16, 2012 (video)

"Watched this for several minutes trying to see if it was a plane or helicopter. I was totally cool calling it a plane or something until I saw the giant ion plasma canon when zoomed in."

Mom diagnosed with flesh-eating bacteria days after giving birth (necrotizing fasciitis)

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GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. — An Upstate, S.C. mom is in critical, but stable condition after her husband said she was diagnosed with a flesh-eating bacteria days after giving birth to twins. Lana Kuykendall was discharged Thursday evening from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, and was admitted into Greenville Memorial Hospital about 13 hours after coming home to the Upstate, friends said.

Friend Kayla Moon said Kuykendall was having a lot of pain and noticed a spot on her leg. Moon said that spot grew quickly.

"(Kuykendall) just kept getting worse in front of your eyes. She would just get worse and worse and worse. Every minute it was like she was going down," said Moon. "She was never really able to hold (her babies) and enjoy it."

UFO Summoner Robert Bingham Predicts May 19, 2012 Sighting in LA

UFO hunter Robert Bingham, who seems to summon up sightings at will, is calling for a rally to witness the next event in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 19, 2012. Will he succeed?

Bingham, who claims the unidentified flying objects being spotted and filmed with more frequency worldwide are actually Angels protecting humanity, is predicting a mass sighting in downtown LA on Saturday.

It all sounds crazy until it's learned that he's done this before.

Dalai Lama reveals warning of Chinese plot to kill him

The Dalai Lama has revealed his fears after being warned that Chinese agents have hatched a plot to kill him.

In an exclusive interview with this week's Sunday Telegraph, the 76-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, revealed he had been passed reports from inside Tibet warning that Chinese agents had trained Tibetan women for a mission to poison him while posing as devotees seeking his blessings.

The Tibetan Buddhist leader said he lives within a high security cordon in his temple palace grounds in Dharamsala, in the Himalayan foothills, on the advice of Indian security officials.

Despite being one of the world's most widely revered spiritual leaders he has enemies in China and among some Buddhist sects.

Hyper-slow sea microbes give hope for life on Mars

Eighty-six million years under impenetrable mud failed to wipe out colonies of bacteria in the Pacific Ocean. With no light and hardly any food and oxygen, they still lived. The example shows that relict microbes may still survive on other planets.

The microbial community was discovered by a team of scientists including Hans Røy, a microbiologist at Aarhus University in Denmark, who published their study online in the Science Magazine.

They studied the seabed in a region some 1,000 kilometers north of Hawaii, which is notable for being almost uninhabited by sea life. In such an environment, sediments accumulate very slowly, at a rate of about 1 millimeter every thousand years.

The scientists used a large metal pipe to extract a 30-meter column of mud from the seabed, representing 30 million years of sediment growth. Then they used a probe to measure concentration of oxygen at different depths.

NASA estimates 4,700 'potentially hazardous' asteroids

(CNN) -- About 4,700 asteroids are close enough and big enough to pose a risk to Earth, NASA estimated Wednesday after studying data beamed back from an orbiting telescope.

The figure -- give or take 1,500 -- is how many space rocks bigger than 100 meters (330 feet) across are believed to come within 5 million miles (8 million km) of Earth, or about 20 times farther away than the moon.

"It's not something that people should panic about," said Amy Mainzer, an astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. "However, we are paying attention to the issue."

NASA defines a potentially hazardous asteroid as one large enough to survive the intense heat generated by entry into the atmosphere and cause damage on a regional scale or worse. The figure released Wednesday is lower than a previous rough estimate had projected, but more are now thought to be in orbits inclined like Earth's, making them more likely to cross its path.