I've often read that if you jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, you will accelerate to the point where hitting the water will be like hitting concrete. But my little brain keeps saying, "Yeah, but it's WATER!" Could you jump off a bridge like the Golden Gate and contort your body in such a way that you'd survive? picked by super 2 years ago

Who you gonna call?

Ghostbusters!

The Senior Manager of the newly built Derby city hospital has reportedly told staff than an exorcist has been request to come rid the building of a shadowy black figure. picked by pocksucket 10 months ago

A couple who will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary next year have spent 20 years building a model of the area where they met. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

Foreign military bases have both political and practical difficulties. “Seabasing” may offer a solution. ... America, still the world’s only superpower and thus the one with most need for foreign bases, is investigating the idea of building military bases on the ocean. picked by rambler 7 months ago

And here I thought my friends were geeks for building the miniatures... picked by muppet 2 years ago

Last week a couple of guys jumped (illegaly) from the Crystal Tower (the highest building of Madrid, Spain, still in construction). Now a newspaper got the video they filmed!

Here's a translation of the page.

The building picked by countach 2 years ago

Pictures inside this building where Detroit's public school system once stored its supplies, and then one day apparently walked away from it all, allowing everything to go to waste. picked by wildminou 2 years ago

The best part was when the building fell down...

Footage of the Indianapolis Colts' Stadium being demolished. picked by pocksucket 11 months ago

Thrown from the 31st floor of a Manhattan building, the camera closely follows as the paper airplane seems to take on a life of its own. picked by equinox 9 months ago

McAfee was taken in by a well crafted video hoax purportedly showing two hackers taking over control of an office building lighting system and using it to play Space Invaders. Even when the jig was revealed McAfee refused to bend saying “Fake or not, the video confirms that hackers and cybercriminals have got their eyes on SCADA networks.” picked by equinox 6 months ago

Barry Shell of Brampton, Ontario could call it his lucky day -or his unlucky day. He won $4.4 million dollars in the Canadian Lotto drawing July 18th. Monday, he went to pick up his winnings at the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, and was photographed with the check.

Then Shell strolled out of the building and into the hands of Peel Regional Police officers. picked by Bingo 4 months ago

A shareholder in the paper has announced a 25 million ruble ($930 000) reward for information leading to the arrest of the journalist's killer. picked by dollyllama 3 years ago

This guy has waaaaay too much time on his hands. picked by hypnotode 3 years ago

A new indoor climate control system is able to make 'smart decisions' according to changing conditions in an office or building. The technology is based upon interaction with people present in the office. picked by maxriter 2 years ago

A section of the Yerba Buena Island Viaduct slots smoothly and quickly into place. picked by pocksucket 2 years ago

We all accept that movies stretch the truth in the interest of building drama. The following ten flicks, however, treat the truth like it was Silly Putty -- pulling and twisting it until it's unrecognizable. picked by FastTurtle 2 years ago

NEW YORK - A 12-year-old girl fell into a chimney on the roof of her apartment building, plummeted 14 stories down the flue and landed almost unscathed in a pile of furnace soot. picked by lpoindexter 1 year ago

The world's largest crossword has been built on the side of a tower block in Ukraine. The puzzle is more than 100ft high and fills the entire external wall of the residential building in the city of Lvov. Clues to the crossword are scattered around the city's major landmarks and attractions including parks, fountains, and theatres. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

A new report by the Government Accountability Office inadvertently discredits a claim often made by 9/11 truth debunkers – that bombs could not have been smuggled into the twin towers or Building 7 without being noticed by security. picked by nateebiinature 5 months ago

The building of the new Navy warship, the USS New York, has finally been completed and the ship is leaving the Louisiana shipyard for the Big Apple today. The 684 feet long and 105 feet wide ship, constructed by Northrup Grumman, was built with 7.5 tons of steel from WTC wreckage. picked by suebe 2 months ago