The Weekly Weird - 2018-12-07

Skorgu

Apologies for the impromptu hiatus, back to regularly scheduled weirdness.

First off, I cannot pick a pull quote from this bonkers article: Four Days Trapped at Sea With Cryptos Nouveau Riche.
Using your fingerprint to unlock things is neat but, it turns out, there's not as much entropy there as you might have thought.
I love these little bits of history exposed by geography: Hess' Triangle.
Not everyone is convinced that water cooling is the only way to keep up with the increasing march of TDP: just add more metal.
A plane with no moving parts: ion engines.
I've shared some of Deviant Ollam's videos before but here's This Key Is Your Key, This Key Is My Key.
I guess it's a bit semantics but did you know that energy is not conserved?
Remember when LED flashlights were new and shiny? No? Just me? Well. Now they're boring but there's a new wallet-draining technology: fricking lasers.
Nasal Demons are the best possible case for undefined behavior.
From the unusually-good-looks-at-rockets department: Soyuz going up and Falcon coming down with the spins.
A real self-driving truck in a limestone quarry.
"Diary of a Space Zucchini".
"Scientists keep finding Hawaiian monk seals with eels stuck in their noses".