The new administration fired the FAA director, froze hiring of new controllers, disbanded the aviation safety advisory board, fired the head of the Coast Guard, and the head of the TSA (both on air safety... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 month 1 week ago • 71 views • 16 secs

A huge Mayan city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico. Archaeologists found pyramids, sports fields, causeways connecting districts and amphitheatres in... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 months 2 weeks ago • 73 views • 2:29

Police in Franklington La tried to falsify accident reports to cover for a fellow officer that was drunk and had driven into oncoming lanes. The cops truck was found on the wrong side of the road surrounded... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 10 months 1 week ago • 62 views • 4:49

Never underestimate the lies of Communism and their talking heads

posted by bobknight33 2 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 72 views • 13:48

The multiverse hypothesis or theory holds that a group of multiple universes (possibly infinite universes) comprise everything that exists: The entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and... continue reading

posted by BSR 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 143 views • 10:03

Ipley Cross, in the middle of the New Forest, is one of the most dangerous road junctions in Britain. Why? • Thanks to Bez, whoever you are: their definitive article on this junction is here: https://singletrackworld.c... continue reading

posted by eric3579 4 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 622 views • 4:12

Devil's Tears is a popular spot in Bali for tourists to take selfies, but visitors would do well to watch a few fail videos before getting too close to the edge. Lucky for these people, they only suffered... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,004 views • 50 secs

The History Guy remembers the 1955 Le Mans Disaster in France, the deadliest accident in motorsport history.

posted by bobknight33 6 years 1 month ago • 670 views • 12:35

YouTube description: As a little girl, Basma Hameed suffered a painful accident that left half of her face obscured by third-degree burns. She endured hundreds of surgeries and laser treatments to repair... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 477 views • 3:32

YouTube description: The tourist guides promote it as Georgia's Little Grand Canyon: but this is a scar on the Earth, caused by humans either not understanding or not caring about geology. Is it natural?... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,489 views • 2:53

In Crawfordsville, Indiana, there's a rotary jail: an invention that, with hindsight, should probably never have been built. But it was, here and in other towns across the United States. It might have... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 759 views • 3:17

Uhoh YouTube: Most systems and machines people design break from time to time. That also applies to the United States' nuclear weapons. This video was originally published in June 2015.

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 924 views • 3:50

The best technical description of what happened. Many small human errors combined to create the conditions for this tragic accident.

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 4 months ago • 1,750 views • 11:23

YouTube description: The song “American Woman” by The Guess Who wasn't ever supposed to happen. It wasn't planned, staged or pre-meditated. Yet you all know the iconic riff. Sometimes all it takes... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 7 months ago • 1,835 views • 3:02

"... compared to alcohol the stuff is hard to classify as 'dangerous'."

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 3 weeks ago • 311 views • 3:48

YouTube: A Colorado man made history at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) this summer when he became the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear and simultaneously control... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 2 months 3 weeks ago • 675 views • 4:33