Thread Of Random Awesomeness, Funny Stuff, And Youtube

What's even crazier is that just a few more miles North, there's a collapsed bridge that is current closed until August.

So the people who are currently living in between have to take a massive detour to get out or supplies they can't normally get locally.

 

Holy crap the blue car's driver walked away from this unharmed. Indy 500 crash today. 1:34 in the video starts the slow motion sequence. One of the scariest crashes you've ever seen.

 

Any water sport and or boating fans here? Looks like some newer, lighter, different shaped hydrofoil design being used on a whole bunch of riding equipment options now and being much more stable than the older and heavier metal wedge shaped designs. LOL.... I'm sure it is harder than it looks but a great marketing video.

 

... and the big dogs seem to be digging it.

 

funny: .... am afraid to ask. Is that a ... ummm...errr.... eeesh .....big sore on her lower lip?

 

The Eyes of Eagles

An eagle's flight from the top of the world's tallest building to his handler below. An eagle was fitted with a camera and released from the top of the 2,715 foot Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai.
The eagle has no idea where the tiny speck of land was that his handler is standing on or what it looked like among all of the other islands and buildings and people. Somehow from that altitude, the eagle actually picks out and recognizes the trainer from all of the other objects, people, etc.
You can see him looking, looking, looking for the trainer, completely invisible to a human eye and the camera, then fold his/her wings and then drops like a bullet straight to that trainer... very cool.
What surprised the experts is not only how efficiently the eagle spots his trainer from that altitude, but how smooth its flight is with no camera shake whatsoever, even when it goes into a power dive.

Dubai World Record Eagle

https://www.youtube.com/embed/6g95E4VSfj0?rel=0