Heck, because of the carnage that took place at Le Mans, Mercedes-Benz officially withdrew from all sanctioned forms of racing until the late 1970s. In the U.S. there was a similar uproar against the lack of safety in racing, so much in fact that the Big Three made a gentlemen’s agreement...
It all started back in April 2013, with a Lamborghini Aventador. This was the obvious choice if you were in the market for a maximum wow factor "mainstream" supercar back then, so it came natural. Subsequently, the officials announced that they would also add a Ferrari and it...
The project is undoubtedly NASA’s most ambitious endeavor ever, even if other projects, like the Mars rover missions or SpaceX's repeated successes get all the media attention. So important that from the 2019 NASA budget request of nearly $20 billion, almost more than half that is to go...
Car commercials are a dime a dozen. They are the main tool used by automakers to let the world know about their newest products, to present that certain je-ne-sais-quoi that makes buyers pick their pockets and go to the nearest dealer to buy one car as opposed to another. But what if you knew the...
Not many people are aware that space stations, satellites, supply capsules and every conceivable piece of technology that was once in space is remotely stored somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles away from any land mass in any direction. The reason for putting so much hardware to...
The name has been chose in honor of Emil Jellinek, Mercedes-Benz’s first customer, it’s first racing team owner, member of the board, investor and, most importantly, the man behind a name that has come over the years to be associated with premium cars. Born in Leipzig, Germany, in...
As with any racing series, unwanted events such as accidents are a given. Ever since its inception in the 1920s as the European Grand Prix and its subsequent rebranding as Formula One in 1946, the racing series has had its share of tragedies. In its history, a total of fifty-one drivers have died...
The two are Elon Musk and Richard Branson. Their companies, SpaceX and Hyperloop One. Their history: separate, yet intertwined. HOW IT CAME TO BEThe whole modern hyperloop idea belongs to one guy: Elon Musk. Having toyed with the thought of the Hyperloop system for quite some time, he shares his...
All the car premieres for the show will get unveiled in the press days, meaning tons of information and official photos for some of the most anticipated cars of the year. Officially called the 88th Geneva International Motor Show, the event will be this year host to 180 exhibitors, which will...
This is why fighter jets are not allowed to go supersonic above populated areas.The first supersonic flight of a human being took place on October 14, 1947, when U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager achieved Mach 1.06 in the Bell X-1 plane. The sonic boom he created was heard from 30 miles away (48...
Currently, NASA is working on other projects, whose results we probably won't live to see: it plans more robots for Mars, it's working on the James Webb Space Telescope, will try and touch the Sun with the Parker Solar Probe and, a time long from now, will send humans out into the Solar...
Of course, you all know the story of how kids come into this world, so we won’t get into that right now. We will, however, get into a school bus – metaphorically – and travel through history to have a quick look at how school buses came to be. School buses are used to transport...
The thing is, some marketing professionals get it wrong. A case in point is the Mitsubishi Starion. The Japanese carmaker is adamant that Starion stands for the Star of Orion. But then again, legend has it the Japanese find it hard to pronounce stallion. A TV commercial for the Starion from the...
The year was 1888, and the car a Benz Patent-Motorwagen Model III. The trip in itself became historic as the first adventure of its kind, in effect meaning that Bertha Benz, a woman, became the world’s first driver. The trip in itself is spectacular for several reasons. First, due to its...
After the horrors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings slipped into oblivion and the destructive arsenal we’re still sitting on forgotten, humans began looking at ways to use nuclear power for various applications. The first nuclear reactor, named Chicago Pile-1, achieved critical mass...
