A train from Baltimore to Philadelphia stalled on the tracks for ten hours last night. With doors locked and electricity waning, passengers cried and fought for emergency rations. A local news reporter happened to be on board, and tweeted it. More »
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While a pilot took a mid-flight bathroom break, his co-pilot decided to adjust his seat. In the process of that, he managed to hit the control column and send the plane into a terrifying plunge. Things almost didn’t end well. More »
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This is a real thing: fire combines with strong dry winds to create a fire tornado. One happened just yesterday in Aracatuba, Brazil. Here’s the footage, taken by someone much braver/crazier than I’ll ever be. More »
We here at Gizmodo are anything but fearmongering sensationalists. We’re analytical, skeptical, and rational at all costs. That being said, this robot train ran over some dude in Miami and everyone in south Florida should run for their lives. More »
The Big Picture has an album on cool real-world robots, but I only care about one type: Robots that scare me, terrifying metal monsters that can tear my guts apart. Here are the top five.
Here’s a crystal-clear video showing what happens when an aeroplane engine fan blade gets loose when you fire a chicken at 250 knots into a turbojet using a chicken gun. Result: (Contained) Boom. Update: Corrected.
If you have an RFID-lojacked passport but don’t keep it in a faraday cage wallet, this video of Chris Paget’s war-driving exploits—plucking information off them from afar—should make you think real hard about it.
If you have teenage daughters, you had better think twice about taking away their mobile phone—because you could end up hiding in a bedroom while she frantically stabs at the door with two kitchen knives.
Sending emails in your sleep—once thought impossible by neurologists, a case of sleep emailing by a woman has become the first reported example of “complex nonviolent cognitive behavior.”
