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It’s a battle for the ages, worthy of being immortalized in a SyFy original movie:  Jaguar Versus Caiman.  Of course, to make it SyFy worthy, it needs to be something like Ultra Jaguar Versus Radioactive Caiman, but still, it’d be a cool battle on screen and it’s an even cooler battle in real life.  In […]

If you watched Sunday night’s NFL slugfest between the Baltimore Ravens and the Pittsburgh Steelers, you witnessed a pretty good football game.  It was tough; incredibly tough, even.  When the quarterback comes out looking like he’s gone 12 rounds with young George Foreman, then you know it was a brutal game.  Witness Ben Roethlisberger’s horribly […]

Good news, everyone!  If you’ve been worried about the rapture and the second coming of Jesus Christ, you don’t have to worry anymore.  A date has been set for Jesus’s return, so you have more than enough time to get your affairs in order and get right with the church of your choice.  According to […]

Volkswagen AG, the parent company of luxury car brand Porsche, has some big plans.  Namely, they want to pass Toyota and GM to become the world’s largest automaker.  They can’t do that with holes in their lineup, so to compete in the luxury crossover SUV market (an emerging car market), they’ve finally officially announced the […]

Bobby Haas was photographing flamingos in Mexico, and everything was going well.  He’d spent 30 minutes photographing the flock from the air via a rented helicopter, and he was about to head back when he saw something unusual.  The flock of flamingos he was photographing had shifted to stand in a flamingo-shaped cluster.  That’s not […]

When it was attached to the International Space Station in February, it was meant to serve as a control deck for robots working in space outside of the ISS.  However, the domed Cupola observation deck attached to the underbelly of the space station has proven to be just as popular for astronauts off the clock […]

The so-called naked body scanners used by airports and courts to prevent weapons from entering are supposed to be safe and secure.  The argument is that the images captured will only be viewed once by a trained security official, then discarded.  Unfortunately, the Gen 2 wave scanner used by the Federal Court in Orlando, Florida, […]

Bryan Ammeson and Scott Stoney were fishing for steelhead on the St. Joseph River when the pair landed an unusual catch and saw one of the most insane things anyone could ever see.  A few feet from their boat, the pair of fishermen watched two giant bucks drown in the river while still locked in […]

Off the coast of Los Angeles, California, a weird contrail was seen that had people freaked out.  Contrails, the little white lines seen trailing behind airplanes, missiles, and the like as they travel along in the sky, generally are seen stretching at an angle, but this contrail shot straight up like a missile launch.  The […]

I’m not even sure I can put into words just how remarkable an achievement this is, but I’ll try.  NASA’s Deep Impact space probe, now called EPOXI, successfully passed within 434 miles of the 103P/Hartley 2 Comet, capturing some incredible images of the surface of one of the strangest comets ever discovered by astronomers.  Hartley […]

Dr. John VandenBrooks doesn’t seem like a mad scientist.  Yes, he’s got a weird last name, and he’s got a secret laboratory in Arizona where he conducts horrible crimes against nature under the guise of science, but other than that, Dr. VandenBrooks is perfectly normal.  Well, kind of normal; Dr. VandenBrooks has created a race […]

It’s a project years in development.  However, the world’s first commercial spaceport, Spaceport America outside of Las Cruces, New Mexico, is finally open for business.  Yesterday, Richard Branson and a host of dignitaries opened the spaceport’s landing strip, a 61 metres wide by 3048 metres long ribbon of asphalt designed to support every aircraft in […]

Usually, you only have to worry about being Rickrolled on the Internet.  However, you’re never completely safe from a Rickroll as increasingly, the Rickroll is spreading into the physical world.  We’re not talking about Rickrolls at sporting events, either, we’re talking more subversive Rickrolls.  A Reddit user and college student who goes by the handle […]

The long search is over, and unfortunately, it’s not a trap.  Admiral Akbar, everyone’s favorite choice for the new mascot for the Ole Miss Rebels, didn’t make the final cut.  Instead, the three choices were the Rebel Black Bear, the Hotty Toddy (whatever that is), and the Land Shark.  Of course, the coolest of those […]

Talk about your unusual hotel suites.  The Park Hotel in Ottensheim, Austria, is a pretty nice hotel, but it’s also the pits.  Specifically, sewer pits.  While guests don’t stay in the sewer, the Park Hotel does have rooms that are available in converted sewer pipes that customers are raving over.  It’s quite possibly the weirdest, […]