The Enterprise -D, Jean-Luc Picard’s trusty starship in Star Trek: The Next Generation , is one hulking vessel. It’s over 2,100 feet long and 1,500 feet wide, making it far larger than today’s biggest Earthly vehicles. Now, one man wants to recreate it — digitally.

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One man’s 1:1 digital replica of the Enterprise, interiors included

If you haven’t heard already, Las Vegas is a dangerous place. And not just because you can lose your life savings and contract something from a prosty in the same weekend, but that shit happened to a couple of my friends and now I won’t drink after them. Except alcohol . That stuff kills everything. Most importantly, the pain . A totally unforeseen and unpredictable consequence of building a 57-foot curved mirror in the desert, the Vdara Death Ray is the affectionate nickname given to a phenomenon that’s been plaguing poolside loungers staying at the hotel / spa. Among the victims is one Bill Pintas, whose tale of woe was recently printed in the Las Vegas Review-Journal: [A]fter a brief dip in the hotel pool, he was sunning on a recliner. He was on his stomach, relaxed, eyes closed. But suddenly, the lawyer became so uncomfortably hot that he leaped up to move. He tried to put on his flip-flop sandals but, inexplicably, they were too hot to touch. So he ran barefoot to the shade. “I was effectively being cooked,” Pintas said. “I started running as fast as I could without looking like a lunatic.” Then he smelled an odor, and realized it was coming from his head, where a bit of hair had been scorched. Hoho, looks like money isn’t the only thing burning in Vegas! Get it? Because goofus there scorched his domepiece. Now, here’s what you do: put the hotel on casters so you can spin it around and burn all nearby hotels to the ground. BOOM — monopoly. Which is exactly why the second Death Star was built. The Empire was tired of those Ewoks stealing all their tourist dollars! Hit the jump for a diagram of the hotel explaining the deathray phenomenon in case you’re better with pictures than words (aren’t we all).

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Hotel’s Curvature Causes ‘Deathray’ Effect

The Radio Flyer is a classic, a red wagon used by countless kids of many generations. So naturally, an old couple really wanted to make a gigantic version that they could drive around.

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Say hello to the Radio Flyer truck

I know it looks Photoshopped to high hell, but this is an actual photograph of a plane trying its damnedest to eclipse the moon. It reminds me of the scene in the original Batman when the Batwing eclipses the moon, except less badass because that one formed the Bat-signal and this one formed clipart. Photographer Chris Thomas in South East Queensland, Australia used a moon tracker in a place where there was a decent amount of airplane traffic to capture the photo, using an exposure time of 1/250th of a second. Good looking, Chris. It just goes to show that, with enough time, patience and equipment, anybody can take a picture nobody else will ever believe is real. ADMIT IT CHRIS — ADMIT IT’S SHOPPED! Stunning photo of plane crossing in front of the moon [dvice] Thanks to The Podiatrist, who claims the sight of too many bunions and ingrown toenails has ruined his fetish. Your fetish and my lunch both, buddy.

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Allegedly Genuine Photo Of Planar Eclipse

Movie-branded computer peripherals normally aren’t all that interesting. However, given Tron’s unique aesthetic, we’ll always take a peek. Tell us it acts like a Light Cycle, and all the sudden we’re all kinds of interested.

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Tron mouse leaves a trail like a Light Cycle

Are you always curious about what exactly a substance in your posession is? Do you always mix up your anthrax , cocaine and baking soda and need an easy way to determine which is which? Well, say hello to the Thermo Scientific FirstDefender RMX!

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$32,000 chemical analyzer can detect pretty much anything

Carved leaf art is exactly what it sounds like: actual leaves carved into art. Or — OR — actual art carved into leaves . Either way, my hands are far too shaky to ever attempt anything like this. And that’s not just my drinking problem talking, although of course it is because that f***er never shuts up. “BEER ME! Wait, wait — take a shot first. ” Natural leaf carving is actual manual cutting and removal of a leaf’s surface to produce an art work on a leaf. The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully remove the surface without cutting or removing the veins. The veins add detail into the subject matter of the carving. The material or most common leaf used in leaf carving is the leaf of a Chinar tree. The Chinar tree is native to India, Pakistan and China. Chinar leaves have a close resemblance to maple leaves. Chinar trees, huh? Are those anything like Americar trees? No? Russiar trees? Because I heard in Russia (you already saw this coming from a mile away, didn’t you?) trees cut you down. But Zangief already has low self-esteem! Hit the jump for five more of the holy shit that’s some hand/eye coordination.

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Shaming The Caterpillars: Carved Leaf Art

Google’s Street View is a great way to check out places from afar on a street level, from restaurants and shops to homes and offices. But now, Google’s expanded the service to every continent on the globe, including, improbably, Antarctica.

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Google Street View now covers all the continents, including Antarctica

Forget those quickie tourist shots into space , a Russian company is planning to build a space hotel, where both scientists and just regular (but very rich) folks can go to kick back for a while.

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Space hotel will offer real get away from it all vacations

Note: Higher-res shot HERE . What do you do if you grew up during the Great Depression and were always too poor to own a Radio Flyer ? Wait till you’re like a hundred and then build one out of a truck! But does it always have to be towed? Fred Keller and Judy Foster worked on the car for 11 months, and finished in August of this year, and their ride has been turning heads. The base of the wagon is a 1976 Mazda pickup truck that Foster inherited form her dad. The vehicle turns heads everywhere they go. “I think the words I hear the most often is ‘awesome’ or ‘cool’ or people go by and give us a ‘hi’ sign,” Foster said. The wheels are made from hub caps and detergent bottles, and the steering wheel is the actual wheel from a wagon. The handle rises eight feet high. First of all, I don’t see any safety belts and you two are already knock knock knockin’ on heaven’s door. Secondly, if you come to a quick stop does the wagon handle fall and smash the shit out of the car in front of you? Because I’d like to imagine yes. I’d also like to imagine that driver was being an @$$hole. Shake your fist at him too! Hit the jump for a bunch more shots of the build process.

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Truck Turned Into Giant Driveable Radio Flyer