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hey guys my name is Stephen Peterman here's is happening this week on Fiat's crave the US Navy has a new drone and it looks exactly like a sharp now this is terrifying for me because I'm even scared of inflatable sharks and swimming pools the drone is called the ghost swimmer scary all one word and it is five feet long and weighs about a hundred pounds ghost swimmer was developed as part of the Navy silent Nemo project which sounds innocent because of the name Nemo but it's actually terrifying if you think about the reality the ghost swimmer drone shark can swim to depths of 300 feet and can be autonomous or piloted via laptop from 500 feet away the Navy plants use ghost swimmer for a variety of purposes including aiding and low visibility intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance missions as well as whole inspections of friendly ships but you can bet your bottom dollar that eventually that will be outfitted with lasers on their heads in honor of the release of the Hobbit movie this week Hollywood prop designer Tim Baker in a team of his colleagues built a Lord of the Rings cat litter box along with a tower of Sauron cat scratching post for superfan Misha and his kids what the project was featured on youtubes on me channel in an episode of super fan builds where they build cool stuff like weapons that are featured in popular movies well this cat litter box is an impressive work of Hollywood magic and fabrication worth taking a closer look at NASA scientists have announced that they have detected an increase in holiday lights that are visible from space images captured by Swami NPP a satellite that is a joint mission between NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show a seasonal increase in light coming from US cities according to NASA scientists and member of the Swami npp land disciplined team Miguel Roman it's a near ubiquitous signal despite being ethnically and religiously diverse we found that the u.s. experience is a holiday increase that is present across most urban communities these lighting patterns are tracking a national shared tradition roman notes that the trend begins around black friday continues through New Year's Day mars curiosity has found organic matter on the planet Mars now my conspiracy theory friend John would say that NASA's been withholding this information for years but this is finally some definitive proof a company with an official statement from NASA these organic molecules consisting primarily of carbon hydrogen and oxygen atoms are the building blocks of all life on Earth however it is important to note that these molecules may not have come from life-forms on Mars the team responsible for curiosity's sample analysis at Mars instrument suite have several hypotheses the first is of course a biological process others include chemical reactions in water at ancient Hot Springs on the red planet your arrival from off-planet via dust meteorites asteroids or comets some molecules were found in a drilled sample in the sheep bed mudstone of the Gale Crater the location of curiosities exploration the mudstone on the crater floor is consistent with the clay found on earth from dried up lakes formed from sediment on the lake floor creating optimum conditions for the preservation of organic matter alright guys that's the last episode of 2014 I appreciate you all watching the show this year as always you can find all these news stories to see that's great blog at craved on cnet com be sure you follow crave on Twitter at crave and check out this week's crave giveaway this week's crave giveaway is 12 cree LED light bulbs with incandescent style are you in the dark win this week's prize 12 the latest consumer LED light bulbs from cree go to the blog and enter to win