Video: Guy Films Space Shuttle Launch From Airliner

Pretty astonishing, this guy films a NASA space shuttle launch while riding on a passing Air Canada commercial airliner. [PointNiner]

Video: The US Successfully Shoots Down A Dead Spy Satellite

The United States successfully shoots down disabled spy satellite full of highly toxic Hydrazine fuel. The rocket blew up the satellite shattering it into thousands of pieces no bigger then a toaster oven. The wreckage is to set to burn up in the atmosphere above Canada in the next few days.

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Rechargeable Lithium Battery Powered Street Car

A streetcar that recharges itself during breaking, eliminates the overhead wires commonly found on modern streetcars. This technology could improve and eliminate some barriers from streetcar’s in modern city public transportation.

The Railway Technical Research Institute in Kokubunji, Tokyo, has developed a streetcar powered by a lithium battery that can recharge in under …

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Mentos + Diet Coke = Soda Explosion

The perfect mindless experiment for when you are board. Drop a pack of mentos in a diet two liter bottle. Instant fun! There are many videos of this freakish experiment all over the web. The highest i have seen is 18ft.

Mozilla: No major revisions to Firefox 2, wait until Firefox 3!

According to the Mozilla Wiki, major changes to the way Firefox works will not be until Firefox 3 in 2007 in a bid to make it Firefox 2 more compatible.

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Windows Xp running on Intel based Macs

A contest to get Windows XP running on a Mac has been won. Colin Nederkoorn contest coordinator announced today that hackers “narf2006” and “blanka” have successfully duel booted Windows XP and OSX. The announcement has came days after speculation that the contest was successfully won. Colin Nederkoorn created the contest which has raised …

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