This month’s daring (to say the least!) grass-buzzing Argentine flyover was pretty great. He didn’t crash! But sometimes aerial hotdogging isn’t so clean – as was the case with this other Argentine pilot. More »
On June 4, southern Chile’s Puyehue volcano erupted for the first time in 50 years. It’s been spewing giant ash clouds ever since. Enough ash, it seems, to make the Nahuel Huapi Lake in neighbouring Argentina an unrecognizable, soot-covered abyss, as you’ll see in the above video of one diver’s attempt to sift through it all. [via The Telegraph]
Back in the October 1955 edition of Mechanix Illustrated, readers got a glimpse of their automotive future that never was. The Argentine Aerocar eschewed the normal automotive design for GIANT PROPELLER BLADE technology.
Being the world’s largest beef producer with 55 million cows, Argentinian scientists tested claims about bovines being one of the worst polluters on the planet thanks to the methane they produce. To do this, they used big pink tanks on top of the cows, connected to their intestines with a tube inserted into their rear end (what scientist technically refer to as “That Cow’s Ass”).
