Yesterday around 9:40PM local time, a group of idiots destroyed the largest Lego helicopter in the world, the 100,000-piece Erickson Air-Crane. Built by Ryan McNaught over the course of six weeks, the pieces alone are valued at $25,000.
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Me and a few other Australian friends intend on visiting America most likely L.A or N.Y, we're interested to know when the longest holidays are and how long they actually go for related to high school/college students.
Movies give us the impression that spring break lasts 3 months but...
ALMA has arrived, and she is enormous. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, was officially opened today in the high desert of the Chilean Andes. Guests including the president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, gathered to celebrate the the largest ground-based astronomical...
You probably don't have the balls to go ski jumping. If you do, congratulations; I hope you're reading this in flight. For the rest of us, this video is a great (read: less scary) way to get just the smallest slice of that action. A piece you can safely chew and swallow. More »
Nine months on from the Wall Street Journal spotting a massive Google privacy issue—namely, that it was circumventing cookie privacy settings in Safari—the search giant's fate is now sealed. A judge has approved the FTC's largest ever fine, in the process rejecting appeals from a consumer-rights...
Researchers from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester are leading the largest ever study of the genetics relating to lung disease. The project will investigate what determines an individual's lung health and why smoking harms the lungs of some people more than others and will use health...
Genetically, culturally and ethically the Khoe-San have something special to add to this world. The importance of this study is to put the Khoe and San heritage in the right place in history and this research will provide a genetic backdrop for future studies - Mattias Jakobsson. The largest...
On January 8, 2005, a huge cyclone as strong as a Category 1 hurricane hit Sweden and Denmark. Its name was Gudrun and it blew at sustained speeds of 78.3mph (126km/h) with wind gusts of 102.5mph (165km/h). It killed 22 people and struck down 75 million cubic meters of trees. More »
The world's largest McDonald's is set to open in London, "mere meters" from where Olympic athletes will be competing in the 2012 Summer Games. This is admittedly less disturbing than the count of fast food joints nourishing our country's hospital patients, but still: Does anyone else feel like...
Whats the largest tires I can put on my toyota pick 2wd 1993 stock height, rims will be 15 or 14. And i prefer it doesnt rub the wheel well or inner plastic.
I could not have believed it, had I not seen the name of Reuters; world's famous news agency.
The image of India's politicians took another beating on Wednesday after two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs were accused of watching pornography in the Gujarat assembly, just weeks after three...
Hi Everyone, I have just ordered an Umarex G36KV from Hong Kong and expect it to take from 2 -3 weeks to arrive. This leaves me a little bit of time to find the perfect battery.
Unfortunately I am a total noob when it comes to Lipo but know they are a little smaller than their Nickel cousins...
Buckminster Fuller only designed about a dozen of domed structures to begin with, and many have either been torn down in lieu of new construction or simply left to rot. But not the dome at Materials Park in Ohio, it just received a $7 million facelift and is now listed on the National Register...
Seems the AFL has quietly put a huge emphasis on broadening the traditional male dominated player & supporter bases, transitioning those bases to a more Family Friendly base through an accent on both male and female participation at all levels from Auskick & School comps up plus Ladies &...
Sixteen feet. That's taller than Yao Ming standing on Shaq's shoulders, more than an average-sized giraffe, and yet slightly less than the diagonal measurement of this gargantuan display. The days of Back to the Future II-style 3D advertising are nearly upon us! More »
The Republic of the Marshall Islands is now home to the world's largest shark sanctuary. The Nitijela, the Marshallese parliament, unanimously passed legislation this week that ends commercial fishing of sharks in all 1,990,530 square kilometers (768,547 square miles) of the central Pacific...
Well folks, just when you thought you'd seen everything, we bring you the following video from the Oktoberfest Zinzinnati event held on Saturday.
That's where our old pal Joe Morgan — you know, the Cincinnati Reds legend, the baseball Hall of Famer, the long-time Sunday Night Baseball color...