From Turkey comes this awesome footage of a flour factory, built in 1928, being imploded. Or it was supposed to implode anyway. Instead the support on one side of the base was destroyed, causing the entire building to tumble over “like a toy house”.
Watch it below folks. This simply must be seen to be believed…
Look on the bright side: those wacky Turks have brought a whole new unprecedented scale to the old game of dominoes! š...
Check this out: Toyota’s new robot that briskly runs at 7 kilometers an hour:
The biggest problem so far is that it can only run on level terrain. Give it a little time though, and these ‘bots will be jogging all over the place....
A seven-year old lad in Plain City, Utah decided that it was too hot to go to church earlier this week.
So the kid sped off on a joyride in his dad’s car.
911 calls soon flooded the Weber County Sheriff’s Office about the pint-sized motorist. A dash-mounted video camera caught the following footage of the boy, who came to a stop and then dashed off (perhaps to find his mommy)…
Hey, that kid is driving better at 7 than I ever was at 16 š...
The big fish in the photo is a nearly 9-foot long catfish weighing 193 pounds.
And that grinning lil’ girl holding it is Jessica Wanstall, 11 years old, 4-feet 10-inches tall and weighing 83 pounds. She’s the young lady who caught the fish on the River Ebro in Spain.
Bet ya it won’t be no ordinary fish tale Jessica tells her mates when she comes back from holiday…
Click here to reel-in the story of Jessica and her record catch!...
Demetrius Jones, just turned all of three years old, was on a camping trip with his family in the British Columbian wilderness when he went out for a lil’ spin on his battery-powered miniature Chevrolet Silverado.
And then young master Demetrius chose to attempt to turn his Chevy into an amphibious vehicle.
Demetrius drove his toy truck into the nearby river and was swept away by the current. His frantic family and Royal Canadian Mounted Police launched an intensive search for the tyke, expecting the worse…
…but three hours later Demetrius Jones was found alive and laughing and 13 kilometers (a little over 8 miles) away by a group of fishermen. Demetrius had clung to the truck – what he called his “boat” – for the entire crazy ride. After being treated for mild hypothermia at the hospital, he was soon released.
Incidentally the toy truck was pulled from ...
They work with a medium found at any typical Toys R Us… but their vision is as grand as Cecil B. DeMille’s.
Anthony and Jessica Rondina are a talented brother/sister pair out of Huntersville, North Carolina that got into animation with a high school project. A few more films under their belt and now their feature Jericho: The Promise Fulfilled is sweeping up film festival prizes and earning the duo widespread acclaim! Christian-Movie.com interviews the Rondinas about their Gideon Production Group, how they animate with LEGO minifigures, their future projects and how they dedicate it all to God. And if you wanna see more of the Rondina pair’s awesome work, mash down here for their official website!...
In one of the more impressive examples of video game-inspired costuming, some folks in Seattle have put together a full set of Brotherhood of Steel power armor from Fallout 3. Looks hella sweet, especially the helmet and that laser Gatling gun!
Now we just need an entire regiment of these guys to walk into Washington D.C. and free the land from the tyranny of the Enclave š...
I’d already thought that 3D printing is one of the neatest new technologies to have come along in recent years.
But look at what Jorge Lopes, a design student and doctoral candidate of the Royal College of Art, has done with it…
Marrying ultrasound imaging and MRI data to the rapid prototyping process, Lopes has engineered a way to create a life-sized exact model of a human fetus while it’s within its mother’s womb!
Whoa.
Lopes foresees the technology being used in the near future to give expectant parents a model of their forthcoming new arrival, as well as becoming useful in treating birth defects.
Absolutely, unbelievably mind-boggling stuff. Jorge Lopes is a genius!
Click here for the rest of the story and more amazing photos!...
Carlos Owens is a mechanic in the United States Army living in Wasilla, Alaska. Five years ago and working without any blueprints, he started laboring on a real-life mechanical exoskeleton much like what we’ve seen in Aliens, BattleTech and a lot of other science fiction. Four years and $25,000 later, you can see his finished product on the right. It can raise its arms, move its lets and even do a sit-up. Owens is working on two more prototypes and hopes to soon see the day when real mecha will go at it against each other like demolition derby.
Mash down here for more of Carlos Owens and his awesome mecha at the Popular Science website....
A few days ago this blog wrote about the fairly nearby star Betelgeuse and how it might be approaching supernova. Want to know how honkin’ powerful that blast could become?
On the right is a recent photo of the galaxy UGC 12682. It’s 70 million light years away from the Earth. And prominently labeled (as if it even needed it) is the newly-found supernova SN 2008ha.
It was found by 14-year old Caroline Moore of Warwick, New York and a member of the Puckett Observatory Supernova Search team. Despite its vast distance, Supernova SN 2008ha is still 25 million times brighter than our own Sun.
So try to imagine something that bright, only a mere 600 light years away. And it’s thought that the progenitor star of SN 2008ha wasn’t even all that massive to begin with: many astronomers are saying that dear Miss Moore has discovered one of ...