the boomer live

One of my favorite automotive programs on TV is Top Gear from the BBC. Apart from reviewing the latest and greatest cars the presenters get up to a bunch of unusual things.  This video of presenter James Mays flying in a U2  to the edge of space definitely takes the cake!  I love the bit [...]

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Some of this video is absolutely amazing, now if I was 30 years younger………….

wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

……… Nope, I still wouldn’t do it!!

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The photo was taken with a giant telescope at the European Southern Observatory, on a mountaintop in La Silla, Chile.
Nicknamed "The Eye of God" the  blue pupil and the white of the eye are circled by flesh-coloured eyelids. The object is actually a shell of gas and dust around 700 light-years away in the [...]

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Here is the first video I have seen of the Flight 1549 crash landing in the Hudson River .
The video is fro a from a US Coast Guard camera.  After 2 minutes the plane suddenly enters from the left of the screen.  At 2 minutes 30 seconds (30 secs elapsed since crash), the camera [...]

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Randy Pausch, a 46-year-old computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, has terminal cancer and expects to live for just a few more months.
His inspirational “Last Lecture” about life and following your dreams is well worth the time to view in its entirety.
More information is available at Randy Pausch website .

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