A video looking at the tragic fate of the only people to ever perish in the vacuum of space. “Soyuz 11 (Russian: Союз 11, Union 11) was the only crewed mission to board the world’s first space station, Salyut 1 (Soyuz 10 had soft-docked but had not been able to […]
What’s it like to see through the eyes of a man looking at death? “David John Shaw (20 July 1954 – 8 January 2005) was an Australian scuba diver, technical diver, and airline pilot for Cathay Pacific, flying the Lockheed L-1011 Tristar, then the 747-400, and then the A330-300, A340-300, […]
I have a cold today 🙁 BUT here are some of my favorite North American Football pics just in time for the up-coming BIG GAME! *** LINKS *** Master Chief Saints: http://www.geekologie.com/2008/10/master_chief_loves_football_ne.php Confused face .gif: http://www.gifflix.com/files/dfa7fefe6ad7.gif Baseball players using football masks: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5282/5258512250_90b4b62f6e_o.png Fat player: http://jockandballs.com/2009/07/06/the-10-fattest-guys-in-the-nfl/ ref punch: http://refstripes.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/referee_punch_20090808_1854473421.jpg Face kick: […]
A dark day in American history. But was the tragedy beyond control, or a result of Federal mishandling? Today we look at the 1993 Waco Siege. “The Waco siege was the siege of a compound which belonged to the religious sect Branch Davidians. It was carried out by American federal […]
What happens when a big ol’ train runs rampant with no one to operate it? How do you stop it? And how the hell did this happen in the first place? Qxir answers all in this episode of ‘Tales From the Bottle’! “The CSX 8888 incident, also known as the […]
The show didn’t want to pay him, but with a flaw like that, how did this not happen sooner? “Paul Michael Larson (May 10, 1949 – February 16, 1999) was an American contestant on the television game show Press Your Luck in 1984. Larson is notable for winning $110,237 (equivalent […]
The bodies on the frozen slopes are spread out in disarray, but what caused the panic? Some succumbed to the cold, but others have inexplicable injuries… “The Dyatlov Pass incident (Russian: Гибель тургруппы Дятлова) was an event in which nine Russian hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains between 1 […]
If you’ve ever played GTA you’ll know that getting a tank is pretty much the ultimate thing you can do. Well it turns out, getting one in real life plays out pretty similarly… “Shawn Timothy Nelson (August 21, 1959 – May 17, 1995) was an American plumber and U.S. Army […]
For this video we’re taking a trip down under the sea. And staying there… “The nuclear-powered Oscar-class submarine Kursk (Russian: Project 949A Антей Atomnaya Podvodnaya Lodka “Kursk” (APL “Kursk”)) sank in an accident on 12 August 2000 in the Barents Sea, during the first major Russian naval exercise in more […]
Can you really steal an aircraft and fly it straight to the White House? No, but back in the seventies you could! They were better times… “On February 17, 1974, U.S. Army Private Robert K. Preston took off in a stolen Bell UH-1B Iroquois “Huey” helicopter from Tipton Field, Maryland, […]
