Zero-G environments are totally a part of our physical universe, and an overwhelmingly dominating part at that. This means ye olde. In zero gravity, surface tension has no forces keeping it down; the water just maintains its cohesiveness and doesn't budge unless you specifically shake it off. That is, if you. Hey, why can't I vote on comments? Cracked only offers comment voting to subscribing members. Subscribers also have access to loads of hidden content.

That's right. Both were decorated WWII pilots who racked up impressive records after crash landing their legs right the hell off. Dataradio Integra Tr Software Engineering.

It's not just a bizarre coincidence. Maresyev could probably have frowned an enemy pilot to death. The explanation lies with Hodgkinson, our third Ace of WWII, who lost his legs while practicing an aerial exercise blindfolded. Or more specifically, the answer lies with the follow-up question that story is likely to elicit: WHY WOULD THEY ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO FLY A MILLION DOLLAR PIECE OF EQUIPMENT WHILE FREAKING BLINDFOLDED? THIS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA.

Read Next Unlike the Cracked Summer Intern Post-It Eating Contest, pilots didn't fly 'blind' because their superiors needed something hilarious to gamble on. Being able to fly without actually seeing anything was a part of a fighter pilots job thanks to a little something called G-force. As pilots and roller coaster enthusiasts will tell you, G-force is fine in moderation. But ramp up the G's and that delightful tingle you get in your man pouch at the top of the first hill of a roller coaster can drain all the blood from your head, leaving you temporarily blind or, less temporarily, dead.

The fighter planes of the Second World War were capable of all kinds of airborne acrobatics that found pilots' bodies moving in the opposite direction of their blood. Dogfights were a constant balance between out-maneuvering the guy trying to turn you into confetti, and trying not to steer the sight out of your eyes. One hairpin turn and you'd find yourself with all the blood your brain needs for seeing down in your feet. Or at least, that was a problem for people who had legs for their blood to drain into. Bader, sitting on his awesome secret weapons: Nothing. Having no legs,, allowing them to pull tighter turns inside their fighters and thereby kick more ass than your average, full-bodied pilot. And ass they did kick.

Throughout his legless career, Bader took out more than 22 German planes in less than two years. Maresyev completed over 86 combat missions, shot down 11 enemy aircraft (three in a single dogfight) and won the Golden Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union. While Hodgkinson had less time in the air without legs, he managed two kills during the war, the second of which saved the life of Percy 'Laddie' Lucas's life, who went on to be the hero of the Siege of Malta, one of the most strategically important battles in all of WWII. Cracked ranks it as the fourth best battle to watch while totally baked. The greatest archer in the world for a spell, Eiffel breaking records left and right but mostly in the center because. Archery puns are always on target.

The Condition: Love is a crazy thing. You never know when it's going to sneak up on you or who you might fall for. One minute you're enjoying the single life and WHAM! You're standing on top of the Eiffel Tower, one of the most romantic locations in the world, ass over tea kettle in love! You're completely alone. You see Erika has objectum sexuality (OS) a rare disorder in which women are attracted to objects. She 'married' the Eiffel Tower in 2007 and.

Her other love affairs include the Golden Gate Bridge and the Berlin Wall. While we should all be so lucky to find a partner so solid, grounded and extremely well endowed.

Eiffel's affliction is both medically recognized, and the 20th century equivalent of being gay in the Old West. You're unlikely to win many friends in high school after explaining that, no, you like reeeeally love that bridge two towns over (Erika's first crush). Erika spent her first 30 years hiding her true feelings from the world 'for the sake of self preservation,' settling for easy to hide and transport inanimate objects such as How It's An Advantage: One of the first inanimate objects Erika slummed it with was a bow she named 'Lance.' While holding inanimate objects close enough to smell is raises a few eyebrows in most settings, Erika found solace in the world of archery. In fact, she believes that if she hadn't been in love with Lance, Her feelings for objects didn't stop with Lance.

Another one of her obsessions is with a katana (samurai sword) which lead her to win. Still not badass enough? Well you're in luck because she has also fallen for an F-15 fighter jet! Her flying skills improved so greatly during the course of that relationship that she. Erika, on her way to the home of that kid who spread the rumor about her and a bed post in high school.

The Condition.Dustin's story has also been told all over the country and the world as proof that anything is possible with a little hard work. Why is some high school wrestler getting all of this attention? When he was five-years old, he contracted a rare blood disease that claimed all four of his limbs. As the homeless Vets rolling through New York City's subway system will be glad to tell you, life without legs is hard enough.

Losing both his legs, and half of each arm was no less challenging for Dustin, who grew up depressed and a straight 'F' student. How It's An Advantage.

Having dropped all the weight he needed to when he lost his arms and legs, Dustin's 103 pounds put him easily into However, compared to his opponents, who had to jog around in trash bags before lugging their pain in the ass arms and legs with them, Dustin was proportionally much stronger. Speaking of arms and legs, the part of wrestling that doesn't involve weighing yourself like you're being exchanged in a drug deal revolves around getting people's limbs in various, uncomfortable holds.

Dustin was a tough matchup for the same reason that lefty pitchers are coveted in baseball: They're not what people are used to. How good you are as a wrestler is all about how good you are at getting someone in an arm bar, or bending their leg behind their head. For Dustin's opponent's it was just unorthodox, it must have been like stepping into the batter's box against a pitcher who could throw an 80 MPH knuckler with his toes. This made him unorthodox enough to get by people, even though his lack of limbs made the whole tossing them around like a rag doll thing pretty much impossi- Will Smith says: 'Oh HELLLL, naw.'

One of the first black men to ever appear on the Ed Sullivan Show. The Condition: At the age of 12, Bates was working in a cotton gin mill when his left leg got caught and munched in a conveyor belt. The amputation that followed occurred right on his own dinner table, leaving him without a left leg for the rest of his life, and presumably 'just not that hungry' whenever mom put supper on the table. On the bright side, his uncle carved him up a wooden peg leg.

Made from a tree branch struck by lightning and presumably blessed by leprechauns. How It Was An Advantage: Bates had started dancing at the age of five.

Because he's better at life than you, losing a whole leg and replacing it with a tree branch did nothing but encourage him to get better. Hating the pity that came his way, he resolved to become the best goddamn tap dancer the world had ever seen. He relearned the steps, incorporating the deep wooden tone of his peg to contrast with the high-pitch of a metal tap shoe on his other foot. It wasn't just a novelty. Tap dancing is half dancing and half percussion, and Bates's wooden leg gave him a bass drum while everyone else was dancing around on two snares. This enabled him to completely reinvent the popular dances of his time. 'It's just not fair!'

-Everyone trying to compete with this guy. He also used the peg to perform high flying acrobatics and balancing moves during performances that make us embarrassed to even walk on two legs.

If you can't watch the video, let us assure you: Everything on two legs gets served at 1:20 and again at around 1:40. After beginning his professional career at the age of 15--less than three years after the kitchen table incident--he continued dancing to great acclaim well into his 60s. As mentioned above, he was the first black dancer to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show, at a time when it was controversial to confirm that black people existed in the media. But it wasn't controversial after he did his thing: He went on to appear on the show 21 freaking times. He was also the first black performer to tour the Tivoli circuit in Australia. He then became a hit on Broadway, toured Europe seven times and opened up his own hugely successful country club-resort in the 1960s. All of that success enabled him to rack up a fortune, and purchase more than a dozen peg legs.

None of which needed a gun to own our sorry asses. 1Mordecai 'Three-Finger' Brown Who? An early 20th Century pitcher. The Condition: While using a feed chopper on his farm, Brown slipped, inadvertently shoving his hand into the blades. His index finger was pretty much chopped clean off, and the rest weren't much better. Fortunately, a competent doctor managed to repair and save every finger but the index. Unfortunately, during the healing process, Brown accidentally fell and broke the bones in his hand some more.

Even worse, he didn't tell anyone about it, either because he was embarrassed by his clumsiness, or because the pain hardly seemed notable when compared with the feed chopper incident. Regardless, the bones didn't set correctly. 'GAAAHHH, OH GOD MAKE IT STOP! I.I mean, yes, I do take this man to be my husband.'

How It's An Advantage: As a boy, Brown had spent the part of his childhood that didn't involve horrific mind blanking pain throwing stones at holes in his barn. Over time, he got pretty good at it. With his hand beyond destroyed, he took up the hobby again, this time probably out of anger at the entire institution of farming, and found that he was no longer good at it. Sky High 2 Full Movie In Hindi Free Download. He was amazing. By an insane stroke of luck or possibly--because he was a Jedi and this had been the plan all along--when he threw a baseball with his mangled hand it came off with a bizarre spin, which, if you're not a baseball fan, is kind of useful. His curve ball, for example, was rated 'most devastating' by Ty Cobb, a man who still holds the record for highest career batting average and who just might be the greatest baseball player to have ever lived.

Also, he once with missing fingers, so you know. He wasn't just being nice.

By the end of his career, 239 games had been won, 1375 batters had been struck out and an ERA of 2.06 had been achieved, making 'Three-Finger' the third best pitcher in the history of baseball. Oh, and he was a pretty decent batter, which is also incredibly rare for awesome pitchers. The Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Brown in 1949, a year after his death, adding one final honor to cap off an amazing life and proving that farm related accidents are a lottery you can win.

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