World’s Strangest

NASA’s latest and greatest Mars rover, known as Curiosity, will attempt to land on Mars early Monday morning (or late Sunday night, depending on where you are on Earth). The landing is scheduled for 05:31 (UTC), which is Monday morning at 1:31am Eastern in the US, or 10:31pm Pacific time Sunday night. Because [...]

In just three weeks, NASA’s Curiosity rover will land on Mars…except that the “landing” is more like controlled crashing. In this dramatic video, engineers explain how the landing is supposed to go. It involves a supersonic parachute, last-minute radar measurements, and rocket motors. You can bet that come August 5, we’ll be [...]

A nailbiting landing awaits the Curiosity Mars rover once it reaches its destination next year. Due to its large size and weight the car-sized Curiosi…

New images showing the Apollo landing sites taken from orbit have been released by NASA. The images show the final resting place of the lunar 12, 14 a…

Footage has surfaced showing a UFO landing in Siberia and its occupants emerging underneath it. Filmed in the remote Irkutsk region the footage shows …

(Video Link) Bush pilots in Alaska need to be able to land and take off in short distances. Many of them recently attended a competition focusing on this skill in the town of Knik River. Bobby Breeden, a student pilot, can do it in ten feet using a modified Piper Super Cub. Here’s how: The massive 35-inch [...]

(YouTube link) There is no amount of training that could enable even the greatest of athletes to slam dunk a basketball, followed by himself, through a hoop. It can, however, be done by total random accident. This member of the Phoenix Suns’ Sol Patrol pulls off the miraculous self-dunk maneuver with remarkable poise and grace, belying the horror [...]

Landing at World’s Most Dangerous Courchevel Airport is a French airport that serves Courchevel, one of the best ski resorts in Europe. This airport is one of the most dangerous and unusual airports in the world .The airport has a very short runway of only 525 metres(1722ft) with gradient of 18.5 %. There is no [...]

The US Airways Airbus 320 that landed in the Hudson River just a year ago is for sale. In the story known as “Miracle on the Hudson”, Captain Sully Sullenberger brought the plane down with no loss of life only 23 minutes into the flight when a flock of geese jammed the engines. Now the [...]

(YouTube Link) When he gets bored with doing double backflips on his bike, skydiving without a chute, or inventing new sports like the Hydrojump, Travis Pastrana takes life easy with a casual drive in Long Beach, CA. Watch him sail this rally car 269 feet with the precision landing of an experienced pilot. Don’t miss his [...]