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You know you are a both a redneck and a geek when you see a story like this and think HOW COOL IS THAT! I can use duct tape to help explain how the universe works! AKA How to use your cellphone, duct tape, and an app to detect cosmic rays. Next I want to turn my smart phone into a proton pistol to deal with those pesky freeway frustrations.

I love me some redneck science.

Duct Tape is like the Force, it has a light side and a dark side and holds the Universe together......

Cool idea, but I'm more than a little hesitant to put duct tape over the camera lens; I'm not sure you'll ever get all the sticky off.

There's actually a paper on the ArXiv today (ie the internet digest on physics/astro papers daily) that is all about using smartphones around the world as a network to detect the most rare cosmic rays that only happen once a square kilometer a century. Might become an interesting direction for citizen science!