Supergiants!

Whoa, check it out. This is what happens when you do your research AFTER posting:

"Supergiants are among the most massive stars. They typically have bolometric absolute magnitudes between -5 and -12. Supergiants can have masses from 10 to 70 solar masses and brightness from 30,000 up to hundreds of thousands times the solar (Earth's Sun) luminosity. They vary greatly in radii, usually from 30 to 500, or even in excess of 1000 solar radii."


Really fucking big stars. Cool.

..and they have the greatest name, ever. Except for the star classification that sits one step higher on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram - "Hypergiants" (pow!).



...Space.

Antonov AN-225 NATO Reporting Name: Cossack

The Russians build these sweet Aeroplanes to carry around their space shuttles (space shuttles are already pretty big). Speaking of space shuttles - how cool is the idea of the "space race"? way cool. The idea that the Americans REALLY wanted to beat the Russians into space, and then onto the moon (and vice versa), is incredible.

Despite the animosity between nations at the time - I still think having a scientific rivalry is amazingly badass. The other thing I love about the video below, is that there are "engineering enthusiasts" chattering about behind the camera - they're just normal dudes/nerds that really wanted to see this cool maiden flight of a sweet aeroplane.



What a fucking big plane. Would love for it to "fly over me" while I'm standing on the ground.