Category: Record breakers
Project Green Hands.
Foundation that will attempt to plant 700,000 trees next Tuesday.
Post date: Thursday, October 12th, 2006.
To boldly go.
Two men are trying to travel from Alaska to Miami by personal watercraft. (via)
Post date: Monday, June 19th, 2006.
Baker.
Supercomputer being designed to have up to 400 terabytes of working memory and 11 petabytes of storage.
Post date: Monday, June 19th, 2006.
Lithium monoboride compound.
Binary alloy that is theorized to be a record-breaking superconductive structure when synthesized. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, May 9th, 2006.
Severn Bore.
British surfer breaks world record by riding a wave for seven miles. (via)
Post date: Thursday, April 13th, 2006.
RunBot.
Researchers have created the fastest walking robot on two legs. (via)
Post date: Thursday, April 6th, 2006.
Tornado-propelled human flight.
Man is whisked 1300 feet away from his home by a tornado and lives. (via)
Post date: Monday, March 20th, 2006.
Z Machine.
Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin.
Post date: Wednesday, March 8th, 2006.
Fore!
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station to drive a golf ball into space. (via)
Post date: Thursday, March 2nd, 2006.
Hoth battle scene.
Brooklyn to be possible site of world’s largest snowball fight. (via)
Post date: Friday, December 16th, 2005.
Against the grain.
Woman to try and break record for sailing around the world against the wind.
Post date: Friday, October 21st, 2005.
Slow poke.
British man sets the record for the slowest crossing of the Atlantic ever.
Post date: Friday, September 30th, 2005.
Ice man.
Brazilian man breaks his own record of being buried up to his neck in ice.
Post date: Tuesday, September 27th, 2005.
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