This is a video documenting NYU track star Jon Diáz attempting to exit the New York City 2-3 subway train at Chambers Street and beat it to its next stop at Park Place. Can he do it? SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER: Yes, returning to the train (after trying to get on
Because bad ideas sometimes sound enough like good ideas to carry you too far to look back and reconsider, this is a video of motorcycle enthusiasts Zack Courts and Ari Henning recreating the mini bike roadtrip scene from Dumb & Dumber in real life, traveling 382 numbing miles in costume
Because some railcars have had it with Thomas The Tank Engine’s bullshit, this is a short video of a lone hopper car that went rogue in Minnesota and is finally stopped by a railroad bumper (aka buffer stop). Or was that just a pile of rocks? My point is this:
This is a video of a US Air Force Boeing/Bell CV-22B Osprey 10-0053 vertical takeoff transport blowing away the rubber helipad at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, England due to rotor wash while it’s taking off during a medical-transfer training operation. Obviously, I hope the medical dummy faired better than this
This is a video of Youtuber Scotty Cranmer and friends testing out the pogo bike (poke? bigo? pogke? bikgo?) they built. It works remarkably better than I expected, which, due to my innate pessimism, I expected to not work at all. I suppose some people’s homebrew projects turn out a
This is a video highlighting a turnaround built into a mountain highway in China’s Guizhou Province. The ‘high-speed’ (actual speed limit 40km/hour, ~25MPH) turnaround allows motorists who realize they’re going to wrong way to rectify the situation without having to wait until the next exit to get off and get
This is a short video of what appears to be an Omni Hoverboard rider (previously) casually zipping down a street in Los Angeles. Is this legal? Probably not, but since when has that stopped anybody from doing anything in Los Angeles? Also, I like how the poster’s comment on Twitter
This is a timelapse video from Youtuber Ivan Cehic, who mounted a GoPro on a cargo ship to film its passage through the Suez Canal. Thankfully, this particular ship managed to pass without incident, unlike some other ships in recent history. Now I’m not going to name any names, but