Hi-C Ecto Cooler Returns this Summer

Back in the day when Ghostbusters first hit the screen it was one of the first movies that I remember having lots of product tie-ins. There were toys, cartoons, even foods and drinks that went along with the film. The one that I remember most was Hi-C Ecto Cooler, which always reminded me of Tang. My brother was seriously bent on that stuff and took it to school in his lunch every day.

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I can distinctly remember him getting beside himself pissed off if I drank one of his Hi-C boxes after school. The drink was so popular that it stayed on the market for years after introduction, even once the films had aged.

After a 15-year hiatus, Coca-Cola has announced that Hi-C Ecto Cooler will return in those little rectangle cardboard boxes and in cans. Naturally, this is a promotion for the Ghostbusters reboot due in theaters this Summer. A contest will be held starting on May 30 to win some of the drink before it is available to purchase. I having some serious nostalgia right now and I’m going to have the Ghostbusters theme song in my head all day. I ain’t ‘fraid of no ghost… I ain’t ‘fraid of no ghost.

Visualized: Telescope aboard suborbital NASA rocket takes clearest ever images of sun (video)

DNP Visualized Telescope aboard NASA sounding rocket quickly takes clearest ever images of sun

NASA has shown just what it can do with the short window of science allowed by its "sounding" or sensor-equipped suborbital rockets -- having taken the sharpest pictures ever of the sun's corona. A 460-pound telescope called the High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) was lofted for about 10 minutes into space, ample time for its mirrors to capture over 150 images of the solar fringe at 16-megapixels each, before parachuting back to earth. The scope shot exclusively in a sun-friendly high ultraviolet range and used innovative new optics consisting of an array of mirrors, allowing it to resolve the sun down to 135 miles. That bested the previous champ, NASA's own Solar Dynamics Observatory, with almost five times the magnification. For maximum effect, the space agency took advantage of an unusually high amount of solar activity to focus on a large, active sunspot. To see the results in glorious multihued HD, check the video after the break.

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