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Poison?

—devadutta @ December 3, 2010

Sitter. Recent discovery. What is special about these microbes?

Cracked by: Kaustubh, jowens, Anjul, v.chandrashekar, Pawankumar Hegde, Logik, stinky94, Dibyo, apar, shrik, Bharath, Goyal, Shwetha Maiya, Vijay, Rogi, shrey, Piyush, aditthya, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Thejas V R, krudebox, Martin Antony, Aparna, SS, duriel, dineshk, Raghuvansh, rohit, Mikey and Ananth

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NASA Researchers in Mono Lake, California, have discovered a microorganism (pictured) that uses arsenic instead of phosphorous to thrive and reproduce. This shatters a lot of our current beliefs about what environments can support life.


Trace

—devadutta @ December 2, 2010

Real life replica of which fictional bike?

Cracked by: Pawankumar Hegde, Raghuvansh, Jean Valjean, krudebox, Moju21, stinky94, Inglourious, Manish Achuth, shrey, Dibyo, Logik, shrik, Bharath, dineshk, apar, SS, jowens, SV, v.chandrashekar, Goyal, Rogi, username, Piyush, aditthya, Prasad, Martin Antony and duriel

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Awesome street-legal replica of Tron Light Cycle! see this http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/01/tron-light-cycle-street-legal-replica-available-for-55k/#continued


See, Guess, You'll be right

—devadutta @ November 30, 2010

If she was younger you would have identified her immediately. Who is this woman?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Rogi, apar, Pawankumar Hegde, dineshk, Anjul, jowens, Vijay, shrik, Thejas V R, username, Manish Achuth, Shwetha Maiya, Moju21, ragwho, v.chandrashekar, mankuTimma, Dibyo, Atul Mathew, Ananth, Rohit, Rahulk, krudebox, aditthya, Piyush, pavan, tete80, Rahul Rajeev, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, Bharath, duriel, udupendra, Sridhar C, Jean Valjean and Inglourious

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Lena Söderberg, of the “Lenna” image used extensively to test imaging algorithms and in run of the mill quizzes.


Best Vacation Ever!

—devadutta @ November 29, 2010

Inspired by a question sent in by Thejas V R. He gets the shiny %gqh% nevertheless :)

If 1 was first, who was second? 2 was third and 3 was fourth.

Apologies for the delay folks, this question will be open longer.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, udupendra, Shwetha Maiya, Dibyo, Goyal, Rogi, shrik, username, Thejas V R, Moju21, aditthya, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, apar, Bharath, jowens, Manu Sathian, shrey, dineshk, Anjul, mankuTimma, v.chandrashekar, Ananth, Atul Mathew, Rahulk, krudebox, Vijay, tete80, Rahul Rajeev, Aditya Prabhu, Pawankumar Hegde, Logik, duriel and Piyush

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Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu was the second self-funded space tourist. Dennis Tito being first, Dr. Gregory Olsen being third and Anousheh Ansari fourth.


chaaarrrrrrrr

—devadutta @ November 28, 2010

As seen thru a scanning electron microscope. What?

Cracked by: stinky94, apar, jowens, Rogi, Anjul, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, username, raklodramA, Goyal, krudebox, Rahulk, Pawankumar Hegde, dineshk, rohit, shrik, Piyush, v.chandrashekar, Moju21, aditthya, Sandhip, Arjun, Akshay Lal, Vijay, shrey, Ananth, Bharath, Rishi, Thejas V R, udupendra, x, Logik, panrod, Shwetha Maiya and Rohit

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Velcro!


Google is a hint

—devadutta @ November 27, 2010

Connect

P.S: List is not exhaustive. There cannot possibly be an exhaustive list.

Cracked by: krudebox, jowens, Pawankumar Hegde, Ananth, Rogi, Manish Achuth, shrik, v.chandrashekar, mankuTimma, Dibyo, Shwetha Maiya, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, apar, dineshk, Sud, SS, username, Rahulk, bluegem4 and udupendra

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Logarithmic spiral. They all are log spirals.


Don't mess with the Libyans.

—srikanth @ November 26, 2010

** + ** = ?

Cracked by: dineshk, Dibyo, jowens, Ananth, Manish Achuth, krudebox, shrik, Rogi, v.chandrashekar, Raghuvansh, Thejas V R, mankuTimma, Sumanth Patlolla, apar, Shwetha Maiya and Rahulk

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Dr Emmett “Doc” Brown, from Back to the Future, was inspired by Leopold Stokowski (left) and Albert Einstein.


Original sin?

—srikanth @ November 25, 2010

What’s the blacked out word? And what’s the story?

PS: Is this what you call irony? Not sure. I always get confused. I’d call it satire. I’d probably be wrong. Oh well.

Cracked by: Ananth, Raghuvansh, Rogi, jowens, apar, Logik, Pawankumar Hegde, Thejas V R, shrik, v.chandrashekar, Dibyo, dineshk, Manish Achuth, krudebox, Bharath, username, Shwetha Maiya and mankuTimma

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“Hackers”. The website for the movie hackers was, um, hacked by “real” hackers. http://www.ibiblio.org/team/history/hack/doodle.html


Seemingly impossible.

—srikanth @ November 24, 2010

Very borderline geeky…

This picture was taken during the opening of the institute of physics at the University of Lund in Sweden in 1951. What are these two people looking at?

Cracked by: jowens, v.chandrashekar, amarendra, Ananth, shrey, Pawankumar Hegde, Logik, Rogi, Bharath, Dibyo, apar, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, username, Sumanth Patlolla, Thejas V R, Shwetha Maiya, mankuTimma, dineshk, krudebox, raklodramA, shrik, Manish Achuth, Siddarth Pai, Anonymous, Arjun, umang, Vijay, SS, Piyush and Mo

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Wolfgang Pauli and Neils Bohr, deeply inspecting a Tippe Top. The toy is know to have been of interest to Bohr.


Game overture.

—srikanth @ November 23, 2010

Connect -

Cracked by: Logik, Pawankumar Hegde, Ananth, Rogi, apar, jowens, Raghuvansh, dineshk, Bharath, krudebox, Thejas V R, shrik, Dibyo, raklodramA, Rahulk, username, mankuTimma, Shwetha Maiya, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, SS and Piyush

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Sid Meier(2) created an orchestra composer game called “CPU bach” (1), a play on CPE Bach (3).