They use the induced coil method that SocrPlyr mentioned, there's a coil of wired in the base of the toothbrush and another in the plastic base which has an alternating current through it. Since they're right next to each other you can get enough power to charge it while not having a huge...
No way would a nuke blast a hurricane apart, what you do get when a nuke goes off is a huge amount of pressure, which may be enough to deflect it or even cause a hurricane to disperse. You could probably simulate it with a super computer, but I doubt that's gonna happen anytime soon since it...
It's more likely to be the other way round, lightning generally travels from the ground up into the clouds. I think it has been captured before, although they'd be hard to do since they're so unpredictable.
What makes it even more unbelievable is that they 'combined it with a form of fusion'. Errm, aint fusion an infinite, renewable, energy source in the first place?
On the other hand it aint a film for the scifi enthusiast, it's meant to be a fast action film, which it's very good at.
There's a few different ideas of where they should go for alternative technologies including:
Diamonds - potential for being very small and heat resistant
Carbon Nanotubes - extremely small pathways and can operate with very little heat being produced, also very fast
DNA Computing - not much...
King of the Hill.
And that one about the bumble bees have been explained, the actual question was flawed in the first place, the calculations made to work out how much lift a bumble bee provides was based on the assumption that it flew like a bird, but of course it doesn't. A quick google might...
I remember hearing about how they measured the speed of gravity, by comparing the gravitational effect of Jupiter with it's actual position. The managed to confirm that gravity travelled at least 95% the speed of light (don't remember the exact value, it was somewhere in that region though).
Anyone remember the research done on 'stopping' light? From what I remember they fired a burst of photons carrying information through an odd gas, that was opaque normally, but turned transparent when a second laser was fired at it. Anyway, the photons travelled into the gas by shining the laser...
OMG! We're all dooomed! :P
That is interesting though, wouldn't that imply that the larger a galaxy is, the less stable it is (thinking about the theory that there's a black hole at the centre of each galaxy)? Hmm...
I've seen heatsinks with the fans mounted at 45 degrees, I suppose it's pretty much the same as mounting it on the side. I'm actually quite suprised that this kind of fan mounting isn't used more often, is it just that 'dead spots' arent as problematic as some people seem to think?
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