Mortal Kombat Armageddon To Feature Every “Kombatant” Ever

Joystiq reports that

According to Game Informer, Midway plans to exit the current generation stage on a high note. Mortal Kombat Armageddon will feature “all the characters from Mortal Kombat fighting history,” with the possible exception of Motaro.

TRMK has some scans from the article that showcase all of the characters, most of which I don’t recognize.

I remember playing the first Mortal Kombat on the Sega Genesis with my roommates in college, but I don’t remember playing the sequels that much. Although I was never all that into fighting games, I will always fondly remember Mortal Kombat…

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Scientists Finally Figure Out How Bees Fly

Live Science reports that scientists have finally figured out how bees fly. “Using a combination of high-speed digital photography and a robotic model of a bee wing, the researchers figured out the flight mechanisms of honeybees,” which were apparently much more complex and exotic than was anticipated.

One thing I hadn’t realized was that proponents of “Intelligent Design” had for some time used scientists’ inability to explain bees’ flight mechanisms as ammunition towards their cause. On that topic Doug Altshuler, one of the researchers at the California Institute of Technology, commented that “We were finally able to put this one to rest. We do have the tools to understand bee flight and we can use science to understand the world around us.”

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