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    tetracycloide: "presumably in Washington, D.C." presumably? you've got a picture of the exact same building taken from the exact same corner later in the article cle... more »
    Klebert L. Hall: Um, there's nothing supernatural about spontaneous combustion... Happens all the time at wood-pulp plants, for example. I expect this happened in pape... more »
    B: It was caused by a Terminator who was sent back in time. more »
    Mount_Prion: Parasite Eventide? more »
    reekon: I think somebody just wanted to get rid of the adjacent building. And from the looks of the new pic, it seems they wanted a park. So maybe it's acutal... more »
    AngryEddy: "Retro Pyrokinesis" is a tag that needs much more content assigned to it. And I'm going with an engraver suddenly bursting into flames. In my imaginat... more »
    crashedpc - Haifisch: Nice tag... "retro pyrokinesis". Reminds me of the old-school game "Blood"... "It burns it burns it burns aaaaaaaaagh!" more »
    lightninglouie: I'm still holding out for Google Total Fucking Omniscience (TM), which will probably be out sooner than Chrome for OS X. more »
    Gann: It looks like Thailand gave Burma and Laos the herpes. more »
    Josh Wimmer: It could be fires. Or it could just be this dude I know who took the semester off to backpack around over there, 'cause, dude, he gets so fuckin' high. more »
  • #retropyrokinesis

    A Case of Spontaneous Combustion from 1916?

    This photograph from 1916 is of a fire at the Treasury Dept.'s "Bureau of Engraving and Printing," presumably in Washington, D.C. Mysteriously, however, whomever labeled it described the fire as "spontaneous combustion." More »
  • #disaster

    A World On Fire, As Seen From Space

    Over the past few days, hundreds of wildfires in Laos, Burma and Thailand have grown so large that their smoke can be seen from space. More »
  • #crimesofthefuture

    What To Do With Thermite On a Friday

    So the thought police are on their way to your underground control chamber, and you need to erase your hard drives fast. They can break the crypto on your secret docs, and even if you overwrite them with a bunch of junk data, they've got forensic techniques that could pull an erased file out of a shark's ass. What do you do? Take Hackaday's advice, and use a little thermite. More »
  • #disaster

    Hurricane Ike as Seen from the International Space Station

    Here is the outer edge of Hurricane Ike, as seen from the International Space Station. The hurricane hit Texas yesterday, and news stories are claiming a fairly low death toll compared to the disastrous Hurricane Katrina that hit New Orleans in 2005. There have been just over 100 deaths reported so far. We hope it stays that way. But just to remind you that not all great disasters come from water and wind, we've got an amazing vintage photo for you below that looks like the post-hurricane apocalypse but is actually the result of the 1904 Baltimore fire. More »
  • #madchemistry

    The Periodic Table of Elements, in Videos

  • #megageochemistry

    Underground Fires that Burn For Decades

    Sometimes a fire just won't go out. Uzbekistan is home to a place called Darvaz, nicknamed by locals "the door to hell." It's a semi-underground gas fire that's been burning nonstop for 35 years. Find out why, and see some close-up pictures of this hellmouth after the jump, plus another fire in Pennsylvania that has also been burning underground for over 30 years. More »
  • #robosaurus

    Buy Yourself A Truck-Eating Robocar

  • #conceptart

    Shiny, Badass Fire Fighting Machine for the Year 2025

    Now this is a fire engine that kids from 5 to 105 would like to see under the Christmas tree next year. How sleek and shiny does this thing look? Instead of the boxy fire fighting vehicles of the past, this baby looks streamlined enough to win a race or two as well as do some good. More »