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Watch this jet-powered school bus fly down the drag strip

                                                                       💙😊😀 While some companies such as First Priority GreenFleet and Blue Bird have been launching green-friendly electric alternatives to the traditional big yellow school bus, a man named Gerd Habermann and his racing team have been doing the extreme opposite. With the purpose of simply going fast rather than safely transporting dozens of little humans to their place of educational development, the Jet School Bus is a dragster fitted with a turbine jet engine that's topped off with an afterburner. The jet bus showed off its massive power at the Flame and Thunder 2018 event at Santa Pod Raceway in England. According to VeeDubRacing (via YouTube ), the bus uses a Westinghouse J-34 turbine engine. Originally built in the '...

An entire town in New Zealand is for sale

An entire town in New Zealand is for sale !! Some people buy houses. Some people buy apartments. Some people, perhaps, buy an entire abandoned town in New Zealand. Lake Waitaki Village, located on the South Island about 180 km (112 miles) north of Dunedin , is up for sale for a cool $2.8 million. The town, which was built in the 1930s as housing for men working on a nearby dam construction project and their families, has been sitting empty since the late 1980s when the dam was automated and no longer needed people there every day.  That also coincided with more and more New Zealanders opting to settle in cities instead of pursuing a rural life. But don't expect a creepy "Westworld"-style ghost town. Lake Waitaki Village is still in remarkably good shape, consisting of eight houses, a restaurant, a main lodge with a billiard room and full commercial kitchen, multi-car garages and more. Kelli Milmine, a New Zealand-based real estate ...