A cable car ride

Take a ride on a San Francisco cable car in 1906! This 7 minute video is a super long shot for the day, with a lovely soundtrack of Air. It's so funny how people just wander the roads. A time before strict motor laws...

George Washington, P.I.M.P

Very amusing video about just how awesome GW was.

They did it!

They just had the opening ceremonies for the Burj Dubai, now called the Burj Khalifa. They had fireworks like crazy. Watch this video from Reuters of the ceremonies (remember that this building is 2 times the size of the empire state building. Like nearly 160 floors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al5iNnOo5MA

The Vortex in Lake Peigneur

In the 1980s, a gulf oil drilling company was drilling a hole in a lake in Louisiana and just happened to drill into a big salt mine that was underneath. This basically opened a vortex that caused the lake to entirely empty into the mine, sucked in a large area of land around the lake, and make the gulf flow north onto land for two days in a giant 150 ft waterfall (the photo above). That would be a thing to see.

Read about it here: Damn Interesting
Or watch about it here: Youtube

The Maya! (Shout out to Kiri!!)

Nova did a great special about how they managed to decipher the mayan language. CRAZY. About an hour. A good watch.

On HULU

PEPCON EXPLOSION

Amazing explosion caught on film. In 1988 a facility holding a lot of jet fuel exploded and was caught on film. Read about it here:

Damn Interesting

and watch the explosion here:

YouTube

Of course no explosion will ever be as big as the Tsar Bomb which happened here and more can be read here.

Old Ironsides

So. Some things last for a long time. Some of these things played major roles in history. One such thing is the USS Constitution, a boat built in 1797, which still sails around the US as like a living museum. This ship was critical in the war of 1812. Amazing that it's still going. Think of all the people who have been on board this boat. Read lots more here: USS Constitution