Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Is there anyone in the world who doesn't want to be Spider-Man?

I saw this story on the BBC earlier about scientists who say they'll soon be able to create a Spider-Man costume that'll allow people to actually climb walls. This sounds really good until you realise that just having a suit with hooks on the fingers just means that you'll have to haul your fat arse up the building with your own muscle power. Sure, it's an interesting discovery but unless it comes with web slingers, superhuman strength and a nicely toned body that requires no exercise to maintain I'm really not interested. Oh and spider-sense, superhuman agility and some witty one-liners would also be useful. Get on it scientists!

Speaking of scientists, some brilliant people have just achieved what could be one of the greatest Lazy Science breakthroughs ever. They've succesfully found a big fat load of nothing.

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