Posted by Naissur on May 18, 2010 12:27 15 Comments
Tags: celebrity hobbies, odd celebrity hobbies, unusual celebrity hobbies, weird celebrity hobbies
Categories: Miscellaneous

Cindy McCain – Drifting

Drift racing, or drifting, is a style of racing in which a driver intentionally skids the back of a car through turns. Americans may know it from the 2006 movie The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
Of all the people you would expect to be into drifting, Cindy McCain, wife of 2008 presidential candidate John McCain, seems the least likely. However, the soon to be 56-year-old mother of four has always been a fan of racing and she even went so far as to travel to Japan to take lessons from one of the world’s top drifting instructors.

"I love it," McCain told ESPN when asked about drifting. "I'm probably a little too cautious with it because it is abnormal from what you're taught when you're taught to drive."

Here’s a video from ESPN’s 2008 profile story.

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Posted by TheGeneral on December 28, 2009 15:18 18 Comments
Tags: cars, slippery slope, winter driving, blizzards
Categories: Miscellaneous

Talk about a winter wonderland. I'm not sure if these drivers were intentionally accelerating in the snow just for the fun of it. Reminds me of bumper cars ...

Posted by TheGeneral on November 25, 2009 14:48 24 Comments
Tags: nasa, space travel, space, asteroids, mars, mars mission, asteroid mission
Categories: Miscellaneous

We’ve seen the moon. And Mars is on the to-do list. But before that, we just might take a detour to an asteroid.

NASA is reportedly looking to send humans to a “Near Earth Object,” known to regular folks as an asteroid, sometime around the year 2020.

The New York Daily News reports that such a mission could be an important stepping stone for an eventual manned mission to Mars as toward the development of plans to defend Earth from collision with asteroids and other space debris.

Scientists pitched the idea, and a proposed mission plan developed by Lockheed Martin, last week at a meeting of the Small Bodies Assessment Group, a body established by NASA to study non-planetary space objects. The plans must be considered by the White House and others before a decision is made.

Read more about it here.