Adam Savage Built a Perfect Replica of The Fifth Element’s Zorg ZF-1 Blaster


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The Fifth Element is one of those movies you can’t help but watch all the way through whenever it’s on TV. There are just too many wonderful moments to miss, but clearly Adam Savage’s favorite was the reveal of the Zorg ZF-1 blaste. Why else would he spend over 10 years building a replica of his own?

Over the years Adam actually recreated a few versions of this blaster, estimating its size based on a few of the props parts he was able to find in real life. But eventually someone on The RPF forums was able to get their hands on one of the original blasters used in the movie and take measurements, allowing Adam to finally build a perfect replica.

Everything from an Estes model rocket, to a butane torch, to parts from a Star Trek: Voyager spaceship model were used in its creation. Adam’s version even lights up like the countless versions used in The Fifth Element did. The only thing it doesn’t do, however, is actually fire, which is probably a good thing given how devastating a weapon it seemed. Now will someone just find Adam’s stones?!

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Adam Savage Built a Perfect Replica of The Fifth Element’s Zorg ZF-1 Blaster

Create a Personalized Vegetable Gardening Cheat Sheet with This Tool

Vegetable growing charts and infographics are handy for both beginner and seasoned gardeners, but planting advice can also depend on where you live. This interactive tool creates a customized vegetable gardening chart based on your inputs.

The tool comes from Good to Be Home, which previously provided a similarly useful chart based in the UK. With their new tool, you choose your country (US, UK, or Australia), select what your area’s climate is like during growing season (e.g., arid and hot or hot and humid), and where you plan on growing your vegetables (greenhouse, patio garden, plot garden, and/or indoors). With those three answers, the tool generates two cheat sheets: one with growing instructions and another with a growing calendar. Handy! You can get printer-friendly PDFs emailed to you from the site as well.

Examples are below, but head to the site to generate your own.

Your Personalized Vegetable Growing Cheatsheet | Good to Be Home

Create a Personalized Vegetable Gardening Cheat Sheet with This Tool

Create a Personalized Vegetable Gardening Cheat Sheet with This Tool


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Create a Personalized Vegetable Gardening Cheat Sheet with This Tool

Photographs Of Superheros In Everyday Situations

If you are like me you know what superheroes are doing for the brief 120 minutes that they are on the silver screen, but surely they have a life after the movie, and they face the same situations as we all do, don’t they? Photographer Edy Hardjo decided to find out. In his photos our favorite […]

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Get 2GB Extra Google Drive Space Just By Checking Your Security Settings

Get 2GB Extra Google Drive Space Just By Checking Your Security Settings

Want 2 GB of extra space in your Google Drive account? Today, Google will give it to you for free, just for doing something you should be doing anyway: Reviewing your security.

Turning on things like two-step verification and having a strong password are great, but it’s not enough to just set it and forget it. If you don’t check in on things now and then, you might get yourself screwed.

Google’s Security Checkup—a promotion that’s running until Feb 17 as part of "Safer Internet Day"—runs you through your recovery settings, app access, recent logins, and other shit you should check periodically. And at the end, you’ll get 2 GB for your trouble (effective at the end of the month). Yeah sure, you should be doing this anyway, but it’s always nice to get a little reward for finishing your chores. [Google via The Next Web]

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Get 2GB Extra Google Drive Space Just By Checking Your Security Settings