This is a Muonionalusta meteorite. The unique Widmanstätten pattern makes this one of the most beautiful meteorites. Showing this ring to new people really is amazing. Some people freak out completely... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 798 views • 11:12Videos (83) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
YouTube description: On August 8th, 1918, Allied forces in France launched the Hundred Days Offensive, one of the first combined arms operations of the war that included hundreds of tanks, airplanes,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 397 views • 3:15YouTube description: Inventor Manu Prakash thinks you can’t understand Earth’s big problems without looking at the (really) tiny things. So he created Foldscope: an origami microscope that brings... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 138 views • 2:56YouTube description: Less than 2 percent of the ocean floor has been explored by scientists. “Every time we go to the deep sea, we find new species of organisms,” explains geobiologist Victoria... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 129 views • 9:46YouTube description: In 1966 an SR-71 "Blackbird" disintegrated at 78,000 feet. The pilot's first thought was "No one could live through what just happened. Therefore, I must be dead."... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,634 views • 14:09Bunkers! Albania's most visible uniqueness. A negative that's so definitive of the nation that it has almost become a positive.
posted by nanrod 5 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 623 views • 10:42The White Horse, in Uffington, is one of the oldest surviving works of art in Britain: carved into a hillside in Oxfordshire 3,000 years ago. Every year, it's rechalked by volunteers co-ordinated through... continue reading
posted by nanrod 5 years 9 months ago • 624 views • 2:50Destin catches a small bird in his house and decides to film it taking of in slow motion.
posted by Fantomas 5 years 9 months 1 week ago • 479 views • 4:22More then 10,000 recordings
posted by eric3579 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 560 views • 9:59This is such a 'guy' video
posted by PlayhousePals 5 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 157 views • 10:27YouTube description: Giant Mine sits near Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Once it was a productive gold mine, but after the gold ran out, the mining company went bankrupt and left... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 470 views • 4:34(H/T @eric3579)
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 853 views • 5:00YouTube description: This is Barsha Pump, it's a new water pump created by aQysta. "Barsha" means rain in Nepalese and the pumps are being made available across Nepal, Indonesia, Zambia and 9 other countries. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months 1 week ago • 739 views • 3:19YouTube description: When the small Japanese seaside town of Susami needed a tourism boost, an unlikely resident came to the rescue: the town’s postmaster. Together with the local diving community,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 450 views • 2:55YouTube description: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria kill 23,000 people every year in the United States, and the United Nations estimates that by 2050, more people will die from antibiotic-resistant infections... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 397 views • 14:33There’s a saying in the sea, 'If it’s a cone, leave it alone'. Although they look pretty harmless cone nails are pretty deadly. They're a chemical making factory that travels around an a giant sticky... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 790 views • 3:48On this episode of How'd They Do That, we take a look at how a top fuel dragster makes all its power and barrels down the 1,000-ft race track.
posted by bobknight33 6 years 7 months ago • 197 views • 13:49See Through Suppressor in Super Slow Motion (110,000 fps) - Smarter Every Day 177
posted by bobknight33 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 906 views • 9:44"Protection from deportation and the chance to work have been life-changing for DACA recipients. But if Congress and the White House can’t agree on a bill to protect them within a six-month timeframe,... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 219 views • 5:28I'm at the top of Mount Evans, more than 14,000 feet - 4.3km - above sea level. This is definitely a mountain: but why doesn't the smaller summit next to it also count? Let's talk about prominence. (Just... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 9 months ago • 152 views • 2:46