Yes, that fact that all 5 survived is pretty incredible. Lucky they were close to shore.

Consensus on Reddit among (self-identified) helicopter pilots is that it wasn’t VRS, but instead a drivetrain failure. Watch the video and you’ll see how little rotor speed there is when it crashes, and you can hear the tail rotor RPM climbing.

I’m not a pilot either. However, it appears as if the real culprit of the hard impact is gravity. If the earth had less mass the impact wouldn’t have been as severe.

Ok Lifehacker. Time for a “Picasa Replacement Top 5" article!

*cough* Bullshit *cough*

Every single “nice” thing someone said about him, as quoted in this article, is pretty much textbook damning with faint praise. It’s pretty beautiful to witness.

I like this book more for what it guides you *NOT* to do:

Think about those who lived through WWI or WWII.

I was standing out in my back yard in North Texas that day 13 years ago and watched Columbia come in and break up. I’ve seen it a few times before and knew something was wrong. I ran back into the house and pulled up NASA-TV on the computer just in time to hear the seemingly endless “Columbia, comm check” over and…

Well, that is definitely a unique pic, at least for me. Twelve operational F-22s lined up wingtip to wingtip. The most I have ever seen in a single photograph. Great post, Tyler.

According to the linked article, there were only about six kids in the group. I cannot even FATHOM how she “suggested one was not” a virgin. Did she, like, point to one of them and go “this slut right here is CLEARLY catching dick left and right, but what about the rest of you?”

yeah coordinated, F-117s tomorrow : )

Pretty much remove everything before flight.

Maybe there's a whale version of Nickleback they could play.

A boy-heir taking over his dad’s empire...no wonder he’s a fan of the Kims.

The solution to disproportionate responses by the government to persons of color is not to call for disproportionate responses by the government to white people. It’s to stop disproportionate responses against persons of color.

Listen, the very notion that they’re genuinely “doing” anything is flattering to them. If they were serious about some sort of insurrection against government, they could—would—have picked virtually any other building in North America to start it. They don’t want a fight. They want to get interviewed on Fox News.