I ran across this cool video about the death of the French Monorail. As a train it looked badass and fast. Realistically it looked like a waste of resources. It was so small and could carry so few.
L'aerotrainUploaded by SebMollier
If you’re a fan of Pirates or even the “Pirates of the Caribbean” Movie, then you’ve heard pirates singing about 15 men on dead men’s chest… and perhaps wondered what they meant. Well wonder no longer:
Why 15 men sat on a Dead Man’s Chest
The mystery of the pirates’ song, “Fifteen men on [...]
I’ve read many stories of people who have lived from gunshot woulds. And even a few cases a few cases where bullets had been left in the body. But this bellow case is unusual.
The death of Daniel Restrepo on Nov. 30 in Royal Palm Beach was a murder that began 12 years ago [...]
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If you look carefully at the NASA photo below, you will see a little white dot. This minute speck is Earth seen from the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it exits the solar system, nearly 4 billion miles away. The photo was taken back in 1990. If you ever want to feel how insignificant you [...]
I hadn’t realized this group had been around this long. Lets see how soon before you realize who it is.
An Icon, one of which I grew up with… a reason I started riding motorcycles… a reason I was told to live each day as tomorrow may be my last. A hero to many and a stunt man beyond compare died after a long life… later then many thought, and sooner then he should [...]
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I blaim the fact that NBC actually has good shows on Mondays like Chuck, Heroes and Journeyman… I have run across a few interesting things (nothing earth shattering) but I think I’ll only leave you tonight with the computer of the future/past.
This is the A-12, a supersonic spy plane that was the precursor of the SR-71 —and according to the CIA, even while they look similar, in some ways it was more advanced than the famous Blackbird. It’s one of the ten 10 survived the 15-plane OXCART program, one of which is in the USS Intrepid [...]
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In wandering today I ran across a great resource of old maps that have been scanned and put up. They aren’t the normal old maps I’ve seen here and there. But there are some real gems among them.
[Hipkiss' scans of old maps]
What are Ooparts? That stands for Out of Place Artifacts. Things that show up where they shouldn’t, a piece of gold chain found in a coal seam, what appears to be a sparkplug embedded in rock that is thousands of years old and what appears to be a bullet hole in the skull of a [...]
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