DC Universe

CoH was the first and last super hero MMO I played. It was an excellent game, and we still referrer to its ideas 6 years later. I played CoV, but it's really the same game. Also, you're a villain, not a super hero.

The same group put out Champions Online, which flickered due to <blog deleted, so I guess we'll never know>

Anyway, DC is putting out their own MMO, and this is the foundation story.




Pretty dark, huh? If they can keep that vibe in their gameplay, this should be an excellent game.

Shiny Suds!

I saw a scrubbing bubbles commercial the other day, and it reminded me of this brilliant ad for the labeling of cleaning products.



Remember to use the luffa.

Elevation Chart

This is a fun graphic from OurAmazingPlanet. There's lots of good info on it, but there are two bits that I want to draw your attention to.

1.) The depth of drilling by the Deepwater Horizon. 18,000 ft below sea level! Their drill is over 3 miles long. That's halfway through the Earth's crust.

2.) The Mariana Trench is the deepest point in the ocean at 36 thousand feet. On January 23, 1960, the Trieste submarine reached the ocean floor of the Trench. So in 1959 we put a probe on the moon, and 4 months later we dived to the deepest point in the ocean.

What have we done lately?

Nuclear Weapons in Spaaaace!

Man, when we get a new toy, we really want to play with it. Turns out in 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in outer space. Now space is a big place, so maybe this isn't a big deal.

But we wanted to SEE it blow up!

Those fools ignited 'The Bomb' only 250 miles up. In comparison, GPS satellites orbit at 12,000 miles. 250 miles up is basically the International Space Station, or half the distance to the Hubble.




Thanks NPR!