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Farmer Enacts Perfect Revenge on People Who Wouldn’t Stop Parking on His Land

2/9/2016

Every Sunday vendors and visitors attend a flea market in Croatia. And every Sunday, farmer Pavao Bedekovic warns them against parking on his land, which is nearby.

This past week, many continued to ignore his warning, but this time, he taught them a lesson just by going about his business of preparing the land to plant corn.

Between two rows of parked cars, Bedekovic came through with his tractor and plowed the land.

Watch the footage:

Showing off and crossing the DoubleYellow Line! what can Go Wrong!??

2/8/2016

Guy on Quad Gets Clobbered by Car If you were under the impression that riding your quad through city streets and ripping off stunts was a good idea, this video might make you think twice. When this guy was trying to get some riding in, his world pretty much flipped upside down quite literally when he came head to head with a much bigger force. While pulling a wheelie, this poor dude ended up coming up a little bit short on his luck and being plowed into by a car that he couldn’t see coming until it was too late. Check out the video below that shows this dude getting dumped on the pavement in a painful sequence. Luckily, it looks like he was alright afterward.

Detonating the biggest firework ever launched in North America. HOLY COW!

2/8/2016

Watch as a crew sets and detonates a 1,175-pound firework in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. It was the largest ever detonated in North America and possibly the heaviest anywhere in the world.

This US soldier ‘found alive’ in Vietnam 44 years after being left behind

1/17/2016

A NEW DOCUMENTARY called Unclaimed claims to introduce the world to former Army Sergeant John Robertson, lost over Vietnam in 1968 and left behind for over four decades.

The Toronto Star reports Edmonton filmmaker Michael Jorgenson found Robertson, 76, living in a rural Vietnam village stooped with age, unable to speak English, remember his birthday, or names of the children he left behind in the U.S.

It’s a story difficult to understand considering the US military places such a priority on bringing every service member home, whenever possible.

Jorgenson told the Toronto Star that he was also skeptical when Vietnam vet Tom Faunce came to him and explained a man he’d found in Vietnam was a former “Army brother” listed as killed in action and forgotten. He says he became convinced only after going to Vietnam and meeting Robertson himself.

What he found was revealed to filmgoers in an invitation only screening of “Unclaimed” at a Toronto theatre earlier this month.

There is physical proof of Robertson’s birthplace, collected in dramatic fashion onscreen; a tearful meeting in Vietnam with a soldier who was trained by Robertson in 1960 and said he knew him on sight; and a heart-wrenching reunion with his only surviving sister — 80-year-old Jean Robertson-Holly — in Edmonton in December 2012 that left the audience at the Toronto screening wiping away tears.
Jorgenson encountered so much resistance from the US military making his film that he says he’s convinced one “high-placed government source” was telling the truth when he said, “It’s not that the Vietnamese won’t let him (Robertson) go; it’s that our government doesn’t want him.”

Wringing out the details and talking to Robertson’s American family seems to have been a gut-wrenching affair. The children whose names he couldn’t recall declined DNA testing at the last minute with no explanation.

None of that mattered to Roberston who says he fulfilled his wish of coming to America and seeing his kids one more time before he dies.

Robertson’s now back in Vietnam, with no desire to leave and Unclaimed opens in the USA on 12 May, at the G.I. Film Festival in Washington, DC.

David Bowie Dies: Rock And Fashion Icon Was 69

1/11/2016

David Bowie, the legendary rock singer-songwriter and fashion icon who also acted on the side, has died. He was 69. His official Facebook page posted the news tonight: “David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer. While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief.”

How the name hammer drill came about

1/3/2016

A pretty amazing machine especially coming from the time period it was created.

Tonight will not be the longest night in the history of Earth. It was in 1912.

12/21/2014

Correction: This article originally said that, due to the rotation of the Earth gradually slowing down over time, this winter solstice would feature the longest night ever.

I got this wrong. The Earth's rotation is gradually slowing on an extremely long timescale, but on a shorter year-to-year basis, geologic factors can alter the speed as well.

Data indicates that the rotation speed has actually sped up slightly over the past forty years, likely due to melting of ice at the poles and the resulting redistribution of the Earth's mass. So, as far as we know, the longest night in Earth's history likely occurred in 1912. I apologize for the error. Thanks to Steve Allen and Ryan Hardy for pointing it out.

Today, you might already know, is the winter solstice. That means for people living in the Northern Hemisphere, it's the longest night of the year.

However, as science blogger Colin Schultz points out, tonight will also be the longest nightever.

At any location in the Northern Hemisphere, in other words, tonight's period of darkness will beslightly longer than any other, ever — at least, since the planet started spinning right around the time it was first formed some 4.5 billion years ago.

Why this night will be the longest everThe reason is that the rotation of the Earth is slowing over time. Every year, scientists estimate, the length of a day increases by about 15 to 25 millionths of a second.

It may be a truly tiny amount (and it means that even in your entire lifetime, the length of a day will only expand by about two milliseconds), but it forces official timekeepers to add a leap second every few years.

The main reason Earth's rotation slowing down is the moon. Shortly after the formation of Earth, it was impacted by a planet-sized object. This enormous collision threw off the material that would eventually coalesce into the moon, and also sent Earth spinning quite rapidly.

In the four-plus billion years since, that spinning has slowed down pretty significantly (with an Earth day going from about six hours to 24 hours as a result) because of the moon's gravity.

(Andrew Buck)

The moon's gravity pulls ocean water slightly toward and away from it, causing tides. But because of the alignment of the two bodies, the resulting bulge of water is slightly ahead of the spot on Earth that's directly under the moon.

As a result, the Earth encounters just a bit of friction from this bulge of water as it rotates, slowing it down slightly.

The phenomenon — called tidal acceleration — also allows the moon to drift slightly farther away from Earth over time. (It's also what's led the same face of the moon to always faces Earth as it rotates around us, and eventually, if things went on long enough, the same face of Earth would always face the moon as well, a phenomenon called tidal locking.)

There are a few other things that contribute to Earth's slowing down, but their contributions are minor. One is that the moon's gravity similarly causes Earth's crust to flex, like its water, leading to some friction as well.

Why winter solstice is the longest night of the yearThis one is much simpler. The Earth orbits around the sun on a tilted axis, so sometimes, the Northern Hemisphere gets more exposure to sunlight over the course of a day, and sometimes, the Southern Hemisphere does. This is what accounts for the changing of the seasons.

(Tauʻolunga)

Every year, on December 21 or 22, this tilt means that locations in the Northern Hemisphere get the shortest duration of sunlight they'll get all year, so they experience the shortest day and longest night. On June 21 or 22, they get the longest days and shortest nights.

Meanwhile, everything is reversed for locations in the Southern Hemisphere — they have their longest days in December, and longest nights in June.