Some of the wildest designs in engineering are born from a simple need. In the case of the Floating Instrument Platform, or FLIP, that need was for a research station that could sit dead still in the ...

A Redditor posted a photo of a massive yacht, wondering who it belonged to, and was met with some commenters who were quite critical of the vessel.

The "Star Trek" universe is filled with interstellar menaces prowling the spaceways: there's the cloaked Klingon Birds of Prey; that awesome Reman battlecruiser, the Scimitar; a weaponized Romulan ...