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Nathan Finneman : DOMINO'S NOT HAPPY WITH WHEELIE FAST DELIVERY

9/26/2016

A Domino’s Pizza delivery rider in London may be looking for a new job after his wheelie was caught on video.

The rider clearly shows he can get the front wheel up, even on a scooter. Maybe the weight of the pizzas on the back helps? Onlookers cheer — then laugh when the wheelie goes bad. The video was posted by Twitter user MYST and was retweeted thousands of times.

I’m betting some pizza toppings may have shifted in flight during that delivery.

Britain’s Sky News quoted a Domino’s spokeswoman as saying the behavior is “totally unacceptable” and the company will “take appropriate action.”

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Nathan Finneman : China Finally Confirms Their Space Station Is Crashing Towards Earth

9/21/2016

After months of suspicion, China has finally confirmed their first space station is heading for Earth and is potentially out of control.

A senior official of the Chinese space program revealed at a press conference last week that the Tiangong-1space station is likely to fall to Earth by 2017, Xinhua News Agency reports. They added it's currently intact and orbiting at a height of around 370 kilometers (230 miles).

"Based on our calculation and analysis, most parts of the space lab will burn up during falling," said Wu Ping, deputy director of China's manned space engineering office, during the press conference.

The officials said that the space agency will continue to follow the movement of Tiangong-1 and will release an update on its expected time of arrival if required.

The 10.3-meter-long (34-foot-long) Tiangong-1, which means “Heavenly Palace," was launched in 2011 as China’s first manned space station. It ended its mission in March this year. However, since then, numerous astronomers noted the space station appeared to be aimlessly drifting out of control and heading for Earth. The silence by the Chinese government only heightened uncertainties.

The officials did not comment on how much of the space station they still maintain. However, given the vague estimated landing time, it suggests very little.

China launched a new experimental space station, Tiangong-2, last week, and are planning to launch a fully fledged space station next decade.

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Texas Thieves Steal $250K in Wheels and Tires in Four Hours

9/1/2016

This past weekend, thieves broke into a car dealership in Texas and proceeded to steal the wheels and tires off 48 separate cars and trucks, leaving the vehicles on cinder blocks—and making off with roughly $250,000 in pilfered rubber and rims, according to local law enforcement.

According to the police department of Tyler, Texas, surveillance footage reveals the suspects entered through the fence at Peltier Chevrolet at approximately 1am on Sunday, August 21st, and proceeded to make off with the wheels and tires, local news station WFAA reports; the estimated total value of the stolen good is roughly a quarter-million dollars. While exact details were not available, a bit of elementary school math leads us at The Drive to infer that the crooks made off with 192 wheels and an equal number of tires. (The sad thing is, we actually punched "48 x 4" into the calculator to be sure.)

The Tyler-area theft is hardly the first time a group of nocturnal Texas-area crooks have made off with a bounty of wheels and tires. Dealerships across the state have been hit by this sort of act of mass rotational thievery, both in recent months and over the last few years; a Google search for "Texas wheel theft" reveals reports of similar mass thefts from dealerships dating back to 2011.

As a result of the rapid nature of the crimes and the string of related incidents, law enforcement in the state reportedly believes many of the crimes may be the work of professional wheel-jackers.

"By all the methods that they used, it usually indicates they're in a professional ring," Tyler P.D. officer Officer Don Martin said, according to WPXI. "They'll kind of hit [dealerships] randomly. They just came through Tyler and hit us."

If true, such a success streak suggests the Texas thieves are a bit better at their jobs then the Ohio man who was allegedly trying to steal the wheels off a GMC Yukon in a dealer lot last month when it apparently slipped off the jack and crushed him to death.

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Nathan Finneman: Ferrari crashes into wall on I-95 in Fort Lauderdale

8/31/2016

A white Ferrari crashed into a wall in the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 Tuesday morning in Fort Lauderdale.

Sky 10 was above the scene at 10 a.m. and saw the left back tire of the white 599 GTB hanging over the side of the overpass approaching Interstate 595.

The car was facing the opposite direction as traffic.

It did not appear that any other vehicles were involved and the Ferrari did not appear to sustain significant damage.

A Florida Highway Patrol representative said no one was injured.

The crash remains under investigation.

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Nathan Finneman: Watch an off-road truck jump over an entire village

8/31/2016

Truck world records are falling thick and fast at the moment. Just days after Volvo’s Iron Knight becamethe fastest machine of its kind in history, Bryce Menzies’ 888bhp Pro2 off-roader has set a new benchmark for the biggest truck jump ever.

Bryce, a 29-year-old off-road racer from Las Vegas, landed an astonishing distance of 115 metres (379.4ft) from a purpose-built ramp in the middle of a ghost town in New Mexico, surpassing the previous record of 101 metres set by Tanner Foust in 2011.

An adjudicator from Guinness World Records was on site to verify the attempt, although they are yet to officially confirm the exact record that has been set by Menzies and his team.

The stunt is the result of six months of dedication, in which time the crew performed several trial runs at a secret location in San Diego. These test led to suspension modifications as well as time in a wind tunnel to help make the vehicle more aerodynamic.

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Nathan Finneman: The time in 1919 a WWI German U boat washed ashore on a British Beach and ruined “seaside day” for everyone

8/30/2016

SM U-118 was a type UE II minelaying submarine of the Imperial German Navy and one of 329 submarines serving with that navy during World War I. U-118 was engaged in naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic.The SM U-118 was commissioned on the 8th of May 1918, following her construction at the AG Vulcan Stettin shipyard in Hamburg. She was commanded by Herbert Stohwasser and joined the I Flotilla operating in the eastern Atlantic. After four months without sinking any ships, on the 16th September 1918, the SM U-118 scored her first hit. Some 175 miles north-west of Cape Villano, the U-118 torpedoed and sank the British steamer,Wellington. The following month, on the 2nd October 1918, she sank her second and last ship, the British tanker Arca at about 40 miles north-west of Tory Island. The ending of hostilities on the 11th November 1918 led to the subsequent surrender of the Imperial German Navy. The SM U-118 was transferred to France on the 23rd February 1919.

U-118 was to be broken up for scrap. In the early hours of 15th April 1919, however, while she was being towed through the English Channel towards Scapa Flow, the dragging hawser broke off in a storm. The submarine ran aground on the beach at Hastings in Sussex at approximately 00:45, directly in front of the Queens Hotel.Initially, there were attempts to displace the stricken vessel. Three tractors tried to refloat the submarine, and a French destroyer attempted to break the ship apart using her guns. All were unsuccessful, and the closeness of the submarine to the public beach and the Queens Hotel prevented the use of explosives.

The stranded submarine became a popular tourist attraction, and thousands visited Hastings that Easter to see her. She was under the authority of the local coast guard station, and the Admiralty allowed the Town Clerk of Hastings to charge a small fee for visitors to climb on the deck. This went on for two weeks, during which the town gained almost £300 (UK£ 13,200 in 2016) to help fund a welcome for the town’s soldiers returning from the war.

Two members of the coast guard, chief boatman William Heard and chief officer W. Moore, showed important visitors around the interior of the submarine. The visits were curtailed in late April when both coast guard men became severely ill. Rotting food on board was thought to be the cause, however, the men’s condition continued and got worse. Moore died in December 1919, followed by Heard in February 1920. An inquest decided that a noxious gas, possibly chlorine released from the submarine’s damaged batteries, had caused abscesses on the men’s lungs and brain.

Although visits inside the submarine had stopped, tourists still came to take be photographed alongside or on the U-boat’s deck. Finally, between October and December 1919, the U-118 was broken up and sold for scrap.The deck gun was left behind but was removed in 1921. Some of the ship’s keel may yet remain buried in the beach sand.

Nathan Finneman: Example of What NOT To Do In HUGE Surf!

8/30/2016

In Tahiti, there is a little village called Teahupo’o (a name that translates roughly to “head chopper”) that is famous for it’s huge surf break. This break not only draws tons of surfers, but also it a place boats congregate and take passenger for wild rides. It has sadly taken the lives of many surfers, and these folks were lucky to escape a similar fate! They may have been having fun, right up until THIS happened!
The moral of THIS story is twofold; never set sail with a captain you don’t trust (ask the crew of the Maersk about that one!), and ALWAYS WEAR YOUR LIFE JACKET! We understand than when you are relaxing, you might not need a vest, but is there any logic in not wearing one in THESE waves?!? Some statistics suggest that at least 80% of recreational boating fatalities are people who are not wearing one, and it doesn’t take a big leap of faith to figure out the likelihood of drawing is far higher without one.

Nathan Finneman: Airlander 10, the world's largest aircraft, crash lands after 2nd test flight

8/24/2016

Airlander 10, the butt-shaped airship that just flew for the first time last week, crashed earlier this morning on its second test flight, damaging the cockpit.

Nicknamed "The Flying Bum," the helium-filled aircraft took off from its central-England airfield last week to begin its initial testing, and was flying this morning for a second round of test flights. The aircraft completed its tasks for the day during its hour and a half flight before coming in for a landing.

Video posted to YouTube from witnesses on the ground show the aircraft’s slow descent, nose first.

Photos published by the BBC show that the crash damaged the cockpit. According to a tweet from Hybrid Air Vehicles, there were no injuries in the crash, but the company denied that it had been damaged in a collision with a telegraph pole, as had beenreported earlier by eyewitnesses:

Ford is building cars without steering wheels, gas or brake pedals

8/24/2016

Last week, Ford announced it will launch a fleet of autonomous taxis in at least one city in 2021. But, unlike other automakers, Ford’s self-driving cars won't have a steering wheel, gas or brake pedals.

Most major automakers have said that they are planning to roll out a self-driving car sometime during the next five years, but the levels of autonomy vary. Many car companies have committed to semi-autonomous systems that enable the car to be completely autonomous in certain driving situations, but that still have a steering wheels so that the driver can take back control of the vehicle when needed.

However, Ford wants to make its cars fully autonomous because it sees these semi-autonomous systems as a possible liability. This is because people begin to trust the systems too much and fail to re-engage control of the vehicle when needed.

“We are not in a race to be first, but we are in a race to do the right thing, which is why we are building on more than ten years of experience on how to responsibly deliver a ride service that is fully autonomous that does not require a driver to re-engage,” Ken Washington, vice president of advanced research and engineering, told Business Insider.

“Our research has led us to understand that it [re-engagement] is very difficult to do and we don’t know how to enable that, so that is what led us to pursuing a full level four autonomous vehicle and this re-engagement issue goes away,” Washington said.

Ford, of course, is not the only company developing self-driving cars that has run into this problem of customers trusting self-driving systems too much.

For example, when Tesla first rolled out Autopilot, there were numerous YouTube videos that showed drivers testing the limits of Autopilot by taking their hands completely off the wheel while driving at fast speeds down a highway. One driver even sat in the back seat while the car drove itself down a freeway.

Now, Tesla and other car makers implementing these advanced drive assistance systems (ADAS) have always maintained that drivers are still required to monitor the driving situation and keep their hands on the wheel. But the fact of the matter is, once people get use to the technology, they will find ways to abuse it.

Ford wants to avoid this problem all together, which is why the company is ramping up its efforts to get its vehicles to level four autonomy.

However, at least in the beginning, Ford’s self-driving cars will still have some limitations.

For example, the cars will only be able to operate in geofenced areas within an urban area, meaning the company will set defined physical parameters that have previously been mapped by the company’s driverless test fleet.

Ford will also only provide the self-driving service in an area where the sensors on its driverless cars can “operate at their optimum performance,” meaning that it will not operate in certain weather conditions or in geographical locations that might interfere with how sensors collect data.

Bone Chilling Footage Of A B-17 Going Down

8/11/2016

The Intercom Dialogue Really Puts You There!B-17 Flying Fortresses, the most iconic bomber planes according to many, were sent to some of the most dangerous enemy territories during World War II. Designed to travel long distances and drop up to 8,000 lbs. of bombs, they were used extensively in the European Theater. Their missions typically involved destroying strategic targets such as bridges, factories, airfields and oil refineries. With such high value targets, one can imagine that the Axis would protect their assets at all costs and did so through intercepting fighters and heavy flak.

This Fortress is hurt…drifting into the flak alone and helpless. In a minute Nazi fighters will swarm in like buzzards for the kill. You can watch, but you can’t go down to help.

As you’ll see in this historical footage, a B-17 squadron gets attacked by Nazi fighters. Though tough to watch, the audio from the intercom will really show you to horrors these brave crews faced every time they flew out on missions. They see one of their B-17 hit, with an engine catching fire. It then begins to plummet towards the earth, while you hear the other crews hoping for them to bail out. They see five parachutes deploy, however, B-17 crews typically consisted of 10 men.

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