I Found this cool physics simulation on Digg. From what I can tell it's rings of 20 barrels stacked 1250 high. It kind of puts the gulf oil spill into perspective….if as much as this is possibly being dumped into the ocean every day
According to the National Weather Service, the incidents depicted here:
"THE TORNADO THEN MOVED ACROSS THE CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD WHERE IT BLEW 12 RAILROAD FREIGHT CARS OFF THE TRACK. THE TRAIN WAS MOVING AT THE TIME THE TORNADO HIT IT…SO AS THE MAIN ENGINE STOPPED…THE REMAINING CARS ON THE TRACK CONTINUED ALONG IT AND SLAMMED INTO THE FRONT PART OF THE TRAIN. THIS CAUSED A FEW MORE CARS TO DERAIL…INCLUDING ONE CONTAINING HAZARDOUS MATERIALS THAT CAUSED THE EVACUATION OF THE TOWN OF LAWRENCE."
More info and pictures and stuff here
Perhaps there was something to the "Big Bad Wolf’s" "huffing and puffing" and house blowing down after all
The Universe is a pretty big place 
Source: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/08/hell_yeah_hubble.php
"Maybe I should shut the window" (or just have it blown out due to pressure change, check the youtube page for more info)
This post was inspired by a successful start to STS-127 
(Notice how long the rotations of the boosters stay synchronized; props to NASA’s engineers)
