28 Photos Of New York City In The 1980s

BuzzFeed published 28 photos of New York City from the 1980s by photograher Frank Horvat.

The photos on BuzzFeed

The photographer’s site HERE

 

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Cooked With That Special Ingredient! [comic]

original source

 

SR-71 Pilot Interview

Spencer Hall interviews former SR-71 Blackbird pilot Rick McCrary about what it’s like to fly the world’s fastest plane. Spoiler: It’s terrifying.

The Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” is the fastest jet ever built, a machine so far ahead of its time even its own pilots thought it looked more like a spaceship than an airplane. It is an engineering marvel, powered by innovative engines that operated most efficiently at Mach 3.2, its typical cruising speed. From 1966 to 1998, it operated in secrecy, flown only by a handful of the Air Force’s most elite pilots. Rick McCrary was one of them.

The interview is HERE.

 

So You Just Had Your Wisdom Teeth Removed [video]

Panama Canal Expanding With Larger Channel

According to Gizmodo –

The expansion plan calls for not only digging out the third channel begun by the Americans in 1939 but abandoned at the outset of WWII in 1942, but deepening and widening the two existing channels and Raise the maximum operating level of Gatun Lake as well. See the existing channels can only support current Panmax vessels less than 115 feet wide and 1,050 feet long with a draft of 41 feet or less. However the new locks will be 1,400 ft long, 180 ft wide, and 60 ft deep, allowing naval engineers to design larger “New Panmax” supply ships.

Continue reading HERE.

 

 

Pharmacist Prepares Anti-Monster Spray For 6-Year-Old

Gizmodo reports –

While at the local Barrett Pharmacy & Variety, a little girl approached Dodds with a not-entirely-medical condition; all those monsters under her bed were keeping her up at night. And being the resourceful pharmacist that he is, Dodds decided to whip up a cure of his own concoction, ultimately producing the holy grail of frightened children everywhere—100% pharmacist-certified anti-monster spray.

Continue reading HERE.

Make Your Own Clothes Tazer-Proof

HackaDay posted the simple instructions below. They seem  to be a lot more complicated in practice than in theory.

Make a cut at the bottom of the lining of your jacket or any clothes. Put a strip of iron-on no-sew hem tape, top with a strip of carbon tape. Press with an iron. Convenient to operate if cut small pieces of carbon tape and spread it inside his jacket, like a mosaic. Place the strips of carbon tape as close as possible to each other, to avoid gaps. Step by step, fill the entire area of your jacket with the carbon tape.

HackaDay’s post HERE