My Green Meadows

Boeing 737 stuck in Road Traffic Jam

clipped from www.gadling.com Boeing 737 Stuck on Busy Mumbai Road Just when you thought Mumbai couldn’t get any more hectic, someone comes along and leaves a Boeing 737 sitting in the middle of a busy road. BBC reports, “The decommissioned aircraft was being driven through the city at the weekend when the driver got lost and then abandoned the plane.” Is this for real? Seriously, how can you put one person in charge of transporting a 737? Never mind the fact that he didn’t know his way around the city very well. It’s no wonder Road Junky listed Bombay as one of the 10 worst cities to visit (even though I completely disagree, Bombay is great — even with the lost plane). Bizarre, but true.

The coolest Rickshaw

clipped from www.gadling.com Direct from India: Introducing the Helirickshaw Flickr user calamur was recently in Mumbai, India where he shot this amazing photo of the latest in autorickshaw technology: THE HELIRICKSHAW! Never mind those geeks at MIT and their Transition flying car , this is the future of transportation! No more traffic jams, no more choking exhaust fumes — just raw Italian power lifting you into the clouds. Alright, so the helicopter blades are probably for show, but this is still the coolest rickshaw I’ve ever seen. And if you’ve ever been to Mumbai — even for only a few hours — you’ve seen about 10 billion of them.

Hand-Pushing a Train By Passengers

clipped from www.gadling.com Indian Train Driver to Passengers: “Can You Please Push?” This week, a passenger riding a train in India pulled the vehicle’s emergency chain, causing the vehicle to stop in a “neutral zone” — a short length of track with no power in the overhead wires. Though a train’s momentum usually carries it through these short power-free zones, this time luck was not with the engineer. With only 12 feet to go until the train could reach sweet electricity, the driver did what he had to do: he asked his passengers to get out and push . It took more than 1� hours to move the stalled train the short distance. According to Deepak Kumar Jha, a spokesman for Indian Railways, “In so many years of service in the railways, I have never come across such a bizarre incident.” Hmmm…somehow I doubt that.

Huge Bird-Like Dinosaur Discovered

A gigantic bird-like dinosaur weighing as much as a car towered over its relatives about 70 million years ago, a new finding suggests.

Chinese scientists unearthed the skeletal remains of the dinosaur, now named Gigantoraptor erlianensis, in the Erlian Basin of Inner Mongolia, China.

The unearthed beaked dinosaur was not full-grown, yet it tipped the scals at more than 3,000 pounds. Paleontologists who discovered its remains estimate the behemoth was just 11 years old when it perished.

At up to 16 feet tall and 26 feet long, Gigantoraptor dwarfed its relatives, a group of small, feathered theropods called Oviraptorosaurs. The hefty dinosaur weighed 35 times more than other Oviraptorosaurs.
In addition to its size, Gigantoraptor sported several bird-like features, such as a longer arm and more avian-like leg, not present in its relatives. The scientists say this finding sheds light on theropod (two-legged carnivorous dinosaurs) evolution leading to the emergence of birds.