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Amazing > Sunday, June-03-2007

Crazy dump truck chase


A deranged fugitive, driving a dump truck, slides through traffic on the streets of Phoenix. It was obvious that as that guy was driving it wasn't going to end quietly. Quite a spectacular ending!


Amazing > Saturday, June-02-2007

This 3year old is smarter than you


This little Chinese 3yr old, can solve the Rubik's Cube in 114 seconds. That would be a performance for anyone, let alone for a small child. Quite amazing!


Amazing > Tuesday, May-22-2007

African brawl


An amazing fight between lions, buffaloes and crocodiles. It all starts when the lions catch a baby buffalo. The next thing they know, their fighting over it with crocodiles. An to top it all off, even after winning the baby, the herd of buffaloes comes back to reclaim its lost son, chasing and hitting the lions. Watch nature in action!


Amazing > Saturday, May-19-2007

Stray dog on FIA GT race track

A stray dog managed to get on the race circuit in Bucharest, Romania. Approximately 20 minutes until the end of the race, a stray dog managed to get through the VIP section and on to the race track. Scared by the tremendous noise of the cars, the dog ran for the pit lane. There it was scared again by people trying to catch him. In the meantime the yellow flag appeared on the track. The dog could not be caught, and went yet again on the track. Only luck saved the poor dog, who had a very near miss with a FIA GT3 super car.
Lastly, the dog left the race track by its own power, the way he came in, accompanied by the applause of the spectators.


Amazing > Friday, May-18-2007

Russian helicopter flies without turning its main rotor

This Russian Mi-24 HIND helicopter can fly without rotating its main rotor. It can achieve this by pitching the rotor's propellers against the direction of movement, thus effectively working like an airplane's wings. Also the pilot can vector downwards the turbine's engines, giving it partial lift. Quite an amazing feat of engineering! Enjoy these two videos!



Amazing > Friday, May-18-2007

Gauss Gun (Coil Gun) demo

A gauss gun, works by sequentially accelerating a projectile to a desired speed by using either magnets or coils.
Simplified coilgun diagram with three coils, a barrel and ferromagnetic projectile. Each of the coils is connected to a fast discharge energy storage source (capacitor bank) and activated in sequence by a timing device thus producing a strong magnetic field causing the rapid acceleration of the projectile.
The first video is a small demonstration of the principle behind the whole thing, by using magnets. The following videos are weapons which were homemade, and as you can see work remarkably well. So well in fact, that the US Navy will implement such weapons on its ships by 2020, after they succesfully tested an 8 Megajoule prototype.




Amazing > Thursday, May-17-2007

Incredibly real sidewalk 3D drawings

A compilation video of pictures showing incredibly real sidewalk 3D drawings. Some of them are so good, that you literally don't know which one is real and which is a drawing. Incredible.!


Amazing > Sunday, May-13-2007

Why you're not allowed to use your phone near gas stations

I've got to tell you, that I didn't believe in this myth. The energy from the mobile phone is so little that, you aren't able to get a spark. Things change if the energy is "stored" in the crumpled aluminum foil, and making lots of calls. The only realistic scenario I can come up with is that your car or some other piece of metal is already statically charged and your phone is the water drop that fills the glass. Anyway, it's very unlikely!


Amazing > Friday, May-11-2007

Chimp playing Ms. Pac Man

Although it isn't the best at it, and that it may have some concentration problems, it's clear that the chimp understants to some degree the goal and rules of the game. It's quite amazing!


Amazing > Thursday, May-10-2007

Incredible tiger attack

A tiger comes out of nowhere, and jumps to attack some men on elephants, protecting their fields from tigers. This kind of thing seems to happen more and more often in India as people and tigers leave closer together than ever.


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