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Amateur Chinese Inventor Builds Awesome Apocalypse Capsules

Inspired by Roland Emmerich’s science fiction drama ’2012,’ and just in time for the end of the Mayan calendar, amateur inventor Liu Qiyuan developed an...

A Visual History of the Jet Pack

Humankind gets one step closer to realizing the flightful invention of 1920s science fiction

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