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We're Stuck With Sean Duffy As The Secretary Of Transportation Because It Was The Only Job Left For Trump's Buddies
Who needs all that red tape anyway, right?
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The British Army's Great Panjandrum Was The Most Bonkers Vehicle Ever Dreamed Up
A "panjandrum" is a self-important person, but Britain's Great Panjandrum was an absurd military vehicle powered by an even crazier means of motion.
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Two Chicago Bridges Fail To Close In Extreme Heat Thanks To Aging Garbage Infrastructure
The unusually warm temperatures might be easier for humans to avoid, but not the structures exposed to the baking sun.
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The Dodge Brothers Share An Ornate Egyptian-Inspired Mausoleum As Their Resting Place
The ostentatious monument, filled with references to kingly protection and blessings from gods, speaks to how the brothers saw themselves: Titans of industry.
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U.S. Navy Spent $3.4 Billion On Idled Submarines, Could Spend Another $3.1 Billion Waiting To Decommission More
Over the last decade, the U.S. Navy has spent $3.4 billion on attack submarines waiting for maintenance, sometimes for years at a stretch.
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Man Mistakenly Loaded Into Garbage Truck Survives Being Compacted, Gets Rescued By Two Dozen Firefighters
It took over two hours for the San Francisco man to be extracted from the garbage truck.
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USS Abraham Lincoln Pulls Into Thailand A Rusty Mess After 286 Days At Sea
It's the ship equivalent of being bleary-eyed and unshaven, it's still perfectly capable of doing its job; it just looks like it needs a shower.
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Motorcyclist Switches To Public Transit Halfway Through His Ride
This guy crashed in the right place at the right time.
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Can You Jump Start A Dead Motorcycle With A Car Battery?
If your motorcycle's battery is dead, can you really use a car to jump-start it? Or will doing so cause untold damage to both vehicles' electrical systems?
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Trump Administration Is Working Hard To Make Cars Less Efficient During Historic High Gas Prices They Caused
It seems increasingly deranged and confusing things come out of the White House every day, but especially from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
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Airline Defends Low Flyover Through Stadium Smokeshow
The aerial display was admittedly cool as hell, especially with the second plane climbing through the smoke after clearing the playing surface.
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The Alaska Marine Highway Is (Probably) The Longest Ferry Ride Your Car Can Take
Set your cruise control to nautical miles. Take your car on the Alaska Marine Highway—where your vehicle gets a front-row seat to glaciers.
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For The Price Of A BMW 5 Series, You Could Buy A Whole Damn Train
This General Electric Genesis P32AC-DM locomotive, straight from the rails of the Metro-North Railroad, is just about the neatest thing I've seen on GovDeals.
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Why A Shipwreck On The Ocean Floor Added Millions To The Cost Of A Natural Gas Pipeline
A ship that had settled on the seafloor over 2½ centuries earlier suddenly came into view, and the consortium building a nearby pipeline was on the hook.
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Car Vs. Airplane Engines: Why They're Built Differently
The engine in your car and the one in a small plane have more in common than you might think, but there are plenty of differences between the two. Here's why.
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Airplanes Should Not Have Windows
I'm sure a bunch of you disagree, so prepare to hurl insults at me in the comments below. I don't care if this makes you boo, I've seen what makes you cheer.
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FAA Fires Two LaGuardia Controllers For Leaving Work Early Before Fatal Crash
Veteran controllers revealed that it was common for shift supervisors to let overworked controllers go home early as a reward.
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SpaceX To Build Second Spaceport In Louisiana That It Claims Could Launch Thousands Of Starship Rockets Per Year
Keep in mind that all this hinges on Starship eventually becoming a real boy!
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Google Bid $10 Million For Spirit Airlines' Corporate Data To Train AI
A bankruptcy court will decide whether or not to approve the sale to Google in early September.
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Boeing's Smallest 737 Max Variant Finally Achieves FAA Certification After A Decade Of Trying
It's yet another win for Boeing, which has been on a bit of a streak lately.
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Zohran Mamdani's Plan To Fix The Crumbling Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Is Bad, But It's The Best We Can Get
This is likely the best option that's politically and economically viable, and it solves an issue that costs the city hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
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NASA Can't Rescue The Satellite That Was Going To Rescue Another Satellite After All
The plan was for the Link satellite to fly over to Swift, grab onto it, and haul it back up into a stable orbit. Unfortunately, that's not what happened.
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Empty Tanker Pays $4.6 Million To Cut Panama Canal Line
Obviously, it would be a dream for shippers to avoid the auctions, the locks and Panama entirely.
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The Sherman Tank Calliope Strapped 60 Rocket Tubes To A WWII Medium Tank's Turret
The Sherman was already a formidable WWII tank, but one unusual modification turned its turret into a platform for an astonishing rocket barrage.
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Army Chief Chosen By Pete Hegseth Cancels Experimental Drone Battalion
The real culprit here appears to be internal politics at best, or personal grudges at worst.
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How Oil Spills In The Ocean Get Cleaned Up
Oil spills can create some devastating ecological damage. But a few different methods help to both contain and remove this oil from the ocean.
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Climate Change Presented China With A New Potential Shipping Route For These Stressful Economic Times: The Arctic
It's not a route for the faint of heart.
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