Category: Misc.

Have you ever heard of Ed Debevic’s in Chicago?  It sounds like my kind of joint.  Maybe yours too.  Check out the two videos below and see what you think.

From the video description:

Wingsuit pilot, Sebastian Alvarez, proving his precision flight skills in his squirrel suit, blasting through the Chilean flag placed on top of an extinct volcano, cerro manquehue, in his home country, Santiago de Chile.

What amazes me is the real-time speed Alvarez is traveling when he busts through the flag!

Ok, faithful readers, what would you like to see?

“A man lifted thousands of feet into the air by balloons while sitting in a lawnchair!”

As you wish…

So what would you like to see today?

“A guy riding a motorcycle on a rollercoaster track!”

Your wish is my command…

It has been a while since we took a quiz so I thought Would You Have Survived Titanic?  could be fun.

According to the quiz I would have survived.  Doesn’t get much more fun than that.

This is just one of 23 Totally Mind-Shattering Optical Illusions posted at Buzzfeed.

Go ahead and click over.  They won’t really shatter your mind.

Sometimes illusions of death aren’t illusions.

Alexander Koblikov is the best juggler that I have ever seen.  Check out his video below.  He might be the best you’ve ever seen!

Source: Mark Evanier.

The photo above looks like a scene from a disaster movie, doesn’t it?

It’s not.

The picture is actually just one of the 18 Hardest to Forget Disaster Photographs posted by KULfoto.

The letter above written by a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, is just one of the many rare and unseen photos and letters from the Titanic.

In honor of the release of Gravity, Popular Mechanics posted 10 of the Most Dangerous Space Walks Ever Done.  Here are just a three of tidbits…

#10. Hubble Repair: …Had anything gone wrong, the astronauts would have had no refuge or hope of rescue…

#9.  Gonna Need a Bigger Door:  In the early days of the space race, no one knew for sure what was required for space walks beyond a spacesuit. One thing that’s nice to have: a hatch that’s big enough to accommodate a suit that expands when no longer being squeezed by outside air pressure. In 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov almost paid for that oversight with his life when he couldn’t get back inside his Voskhod spacecraft after his historic first space walk…

#7: Sasha, I Don’t Think…: Decompression is a space station astronaut’s worst nightmare. The nightmare came true in 1997 when an out-of-control Progress cargo ship slammed into space station Mir, punching a hole in the module it struck. With alarms blaring, cosmonauts Michael Foale and Sasha Lazutkin had to use the only tool they had at hand—a kitchen knife…

I thought this was interesting and fun.  Hope you do as well.

According to particle physicist Brian Cox time travel is possible, but only to the future.  

“Can you build a time machine?” said Professor Cox. “The answer is yes.”

There’s just one, tiny problem, Professor Cox says – if you can build a machine capable of time-travel, you can only travel into the future. You can’t come back.

Professor Cox explains how building a time machine to travel to the future is possible here and here.

Thanks to Brian Michael Bendis for the original link.