I want those three minutes of my life back. Damn.

I remember having one of these when I was a kid. I think it only came with three balls and I lost them in like ten minutes. Not much fun with out the Nerf balls, sadly.

I know this may sound a little off, but wikipedia has always made me feel we're that much closer to a Star Trek style world. Where people help people because they are people, and that makes me feel good.
I've been an avid user for years and I donate monthly. It's a great cause and tool that is well worth any kind of support you're able to give it.

It's not easy to tell, but they are combining sodium and chlorine to make sodium chloride (NaCl) table salt. You can read the full article here.

What part of that was funny?

There are other videos at WillItBlend.com, they are great too.

In the original BSG the vipers shot lasers.

He was wearing hard body armor, thus why he was able to get back up after being show with an AK-47 (7.62x39). Hard body armor means no bruise, with hard body armor the round is stoped whereas soft body armor aka a "bulit proof" vest just 'catches' the round still leaving your body to absorb the momentum of the round.
Think of hard body armor as a brick wall, throw an egg at it, the egg with break and lose it's momentum that way. Think of soft body armor as an air bag, throw an egg at it and the bag will have to deform to absorb the momentum of the egg.

Sounds like the first day of class. My guess would be that it was a set up to scare other students, still kind of funny though.