The Lions Gate Bridge carries some 70,000 cars almost a mile across the entrance to Vancouver’s harbor every day. In a city polishing itself up for the 2010 Winter Olympics, the bridge is prime postcard fodder.
Haha, I think its funny that I had just written a comment about how UBC was left out of the other prank article.....
You guys are totaling omitting the pranks done by the engineering department at UBC! Their Golden Gate bridge prank, among others, is famous! These are all good, but my local pride compels me to point out that UBC should be included.
With The Dark Knight, the action-infused sequel to Batman Begins, dominating the box office in recent weeks, it’s clear that the revitalization of the new Batman franchise is no fantasy. In my opinion, The Dark Knight doesn’t quite come up to the level of its predecessor—its relentless action sequences left me a bit numb after a while, and the constant quick cutting in these scenes gives the audience too much to absorb all at once.
In reply to strange 009, you have obviously never ridden a motorcycle on the street. When you make a turn, you don't simply turn the handlebars like you do on a bicycle, what you actually do is push the bar in the opposite direction that you normally would. Even though the tire barely turns, the bike leans over and you turn. This is called counter-steering, and is how all turning is done pretty much over 10km/h. While that bat bike would certainly be hard to steer at low speeds, and that way he whips around before almost running the Joker down might be implausible, the steering he does while moving is perfectly normal. As for the semi flipping over, that is pretty unrealistic. For that to happen, there would have to be a force applied in the Y direction. With the cable pulling the way it was, it would only apply force in the negative x direction. Just adding the vectors, it is impossible. Also, the kind of torque that would be applied should the vectors have existed would be huge, and would likely just rip everything apart before turning that thing on end like that. The semi flipping over is completely impossible in that scenario, so lay off the author.
In our April issue, we feature a high-tech ocean-diving system that lets you stay underwater for hours at a time. What to do while youre down there? Try playing with the following four gadgets for the great deep sea.
While these fins sound great on paper, they are absolutely terrible to use. I have not met one person who has tried them and liked them.
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