A flight attendant obviously wanted to liven things up a bit for the crew and passengers. picked by 2manyusernames 11 months ago

A New Zealand woman on an oxygen machine died shortly after a power company cut the electricity supply to her home over an unpaid bill. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

This guy launches a paper airplane off the 30th floor of a building in the financial district of New York City. The flight it goes on without crashing is pretty amazing. picked by misswinkle 9 months ago

A scientist has emerged from an underwater capsule after spending almost two weeks generating his own oxygen and electricity. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Did you ever wonder about your own "fight or flight" response? Here's is a young man discovering that his response is most definitely "fight." How would your primitive brain respond? picked by ogri2003 1 year ago

Claims that a woman died because the American plane had empty O2 bottles and a malfunctioning defribrillator are not true, according to AA.

Follow-up to Dolly's earlier post. picked by tomphoolry 8 months ago

300,000 views on YouTube before Delta even starts using it on flights! How long before she gets an offer from some certain magazine(s)? Direct link to the video here picked by moe 7 months ago

Flight Simulator geeks are flying around the world in the 2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race. The race pits teams from AVSim, FlightSim and Sim-Outhouse against each other in a race around the world with special rules, conditions and bonuses. All teams were given the rules 24 hours in advance of the start of the race (10a EST on Friday). The rules include route requirements (such as two a... read full post picked by dfelteau 2 years ago

Before that full flight, the crew put on pink feather boas and sang for its couple hundreds passengers, she said. "Even the pilot was wearing fairy wings and got into it," Williams said. picked by misswinkle 1 year ago

Woman said she was lighting matches to hide the smell of her passing gas. picked by tomphoolry 2 years ago

A Pearl Harbor-based sailor was arrested on suspicion of molesting a 13-year-old girl on a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Hawaii to Arizona. picked by muppet 9 months ago

This Chandra X-ray Observatory image shows the debris of a massive star explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy about 160,000 light years from Earth. The supernova remnant (SNR) shown here, N132D, is the brightest in the Magellanic clouds, and belongs to a rare class of oxygen-rich remnants. Most of the oxygen that we breathe on Earth is thought to have come from explosions similar... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

This time lapse image shows air traffic flight patterns over N. America from space.

(I'm not sure of its authenticity since the popular "power grid" photo turned out to be a fake). picked by ogri2003 1 year ago

Amazing flight demo! I hope I live long enough to do something like this. Richard Branson (Virgin) is just the guy to do it too.

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(BBC news coverage posted by mrnelson) picked by ogri2003 1 year ago

A woman got into a tiff with a flight attendant and decided to grab his butt. picked by musicgirldani 2 years ago

"The umpire said I couldn't play because of my tank, because of my oxygen,” Garcia told KGW.

The umpire who ejected Garcia said the oxygen is not approved equipment. picked by muppet 5 months ago

A startling discovery by scientists at the Carnegie Institution puts a new twist on photosynthesis, arguably the most important biological process on Earth. But two studies suggest that certain marine microorganisms have evolved a way to break the rules--they get a significant proportion of their energy without a net release of oxygen or uptake of carbon dioxide. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

According to Biochemist Graham Logan it did. In brief, containing digestion bi-products in parcels of poop meant that there was less for the bacteria to chew on. This led to less bacteria, and it was the bacteria who were burning up all the oxygen. Which meant there was more oxygen around to play with and the Cambrian Explosion ensued picked by pocksucket 10 months ago

Scientists at the University of Bonn have discovered a new rare type of haemoglobin. The new haemoglobin type appears optically to be transporting little oxygen. Measurements of the blood oxygen level therefore present a similar picture to patients suffering from an inherited cardiac defect. After examining two patients, the scientists now understand that the new type of haemoglobin distorts the l... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

A mineral that acts like a sponge beneath Earth's surface stores more oxygen than expected, keeping our planet from becoming dry and inhospitable like Mars. The key to the abundant oxygen storage is the mineral majorite, which exists deep below Earth's surface in the mantle. Without the oxygen stockpile, Earth would probably be a barren planet hostile to life. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago