This is some footage (that leaves something to be desired, namely a better view and an ultra-highspeed camera) of the US Air Force testing a rocket sled traveling at 6,400ft/sec. For reference, a mile is 5,280-feet, so this thing is doing 6,599MPH! That’s Mach 8.6. Holy shit! You know it’s
This is a video of turtle owner Kenny James giving his turtle Sergio a little Hot Wheels car to sit on so he can zoom around the house at breakneck speeds. “Dammit, where was one of those little cars when I needed it?” I imagine Tortoise wondering after his race
Presumably explaining why Memorial Day weekend hotdog prices were through the roof (or the back of a trailer), a recent 18-wheeler crash on I-70 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania spilled some 15,000 pounds of hot dog filling on the side of the road. Just look at it — so many @ssholes
Because what’s that sound?, this is a video from the UK of a Volkswagen Sharan driver casually cruising around on a bare rear rim. Well not completely bare, there does appear to be a little strip of broken rubber there. “Just enough,” I imagine the driver thinking to themselves. I
This is some footage (including first person POV) of the latest iteration of the Jetson ONE eVTOL (electric vertical take off and landing) vehicle cruising around the countryside of Tuscany, Italy. Pretty cool, but it’s still just a giant quadrocopter capable of lifting a person. The sound of operating one
This is a video of Gravity company founder Richard Browning ascending Helvellyn, a 3,100 foot English mountain in less than four minutes to demonstrate the jetpack’s capabilities in search-and-rescue applications. Pretty impressive. Granted, we’re still way behind schedule on having affordable jetpacks available to everyone, which is a shame because
Note: Video is not for the easily motion sick. This is a first person POV video from a projectile launched by SpinLaunch, an upstart company that aims (for the heavens!) to shoot small satellites and other space-bound equipment into the atmosphere using a giant centrifuge (aka suborbital mass accelerator). The
This is a video of the infamous 11Foot8 Bridge (Now 11Foot8+8 but still claiming victims) in Durham, North Carolina stripping the equipment off of the top of an RV. “Maybe if I just go really slow it’ll work out,” I imagine the driver thinking before having their camping trip ruined.