YouTube description: People use boats for all kinds of reasons, and in the same way, there are all kinds, shapes, sizes, and ages of locks used for waterway navigation across the world. Freight is big... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 2 weeks ago • 248 views • 10:37Videos (79) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
YouTube description: Hi :) I’m a student in Network & Systems Engineering (Robots, networks and programming and stuff) and I built a dinosaur in my spare time. I got the idea in my head, thought... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,278 views • 2:37YouTube description: Robert Moehling has a passion for fruit. Weird tropical fruit. Ever tried canistel? How about mamey sapote or guanabana? Robert is happy to introduce these fresh delights to you.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 538 views • 2:23YouTube description: I got to see an Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) up close and personal at the Monterey Bay Aquarium recently and I fell in love. These things are the superlative of superlatives. They... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 1,838 views • 3:58If you irritate Godzilla by talking or texting while he's telling his stories, you get the Atomic Breath. Got it? That goes for you too, Minilla. This magnificent stop-motion masterpiece was created... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1,468 views • 1:48YouTube description: I kept getting asked about a sequence from the Apollo 11 documentary showing the ignition of a Saturn V upper Stage, known as the S-IVB, in space. After asking around I tracked... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month ago • 325 views • 11:08ASM = Anti-Ship Missile. An interesting look into missile design and behaviors across the globe. From YT: Russia has got them... so does Japan, India, Taiwan, and others. So why doesn't the US?
posted by admiralronton 5 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 491 views • 17:52As America becomes more and more multicultural, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less diverse. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA — and... continue reading
posted by Ashenkase 5 years 6 months ago • 582 views • 13:02That Time I Got in Touble With the Government
posted by nanrod 5 years 8 months ago • 442 views • 6:39YouTube description: Shemika Campbell hails from a long line of limbo. Both her mother and her grandmother were limbo dancers, carrying on the traditionally Trinidadian form of dance. Shemika is keeping... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,045 views • 2:44Mr. Samuel J. Seymour, the last living eyewitness to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. was the mystery guest on the February 8, 1956 episode of the I've... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 14 views • 7:18At the old hut site (the new one being temporarily cut off by flooding) I made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails by firing them in a kiln, slaking them in water, mixing them into lime putty.... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 406 views • 7:08I'd never heard of moiré effect beacons until I got an email asking me about them. It seemed like a really clever idea - but it was really hard to research. Or at least it was, until I stumbled upon one... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 1,223 views • 3:54In which Derek drives a replica of the first internal combustion engine car patented by Karl Benz in 1886 and talks about how cars have improved since then (claims about Nazi speed records on public roads... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months ago • 476 views • 9:14I built a natural draft furnace to test ideas about how hot a furnace could get without the use of bellows. Natural draft is the flow of air through a furnace due to rising hot air. The hot gasses in the... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 454 views • 5:46I made a brick mold that makes bricks 25 x 12.5 x 7.5 cm from wood. A log was split and mortise and tenon joints were carved using a stone chisel and sharp rocks. The mold was lashed together with cane... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 7 months ago • 1,024 views • 10:47Student loans are leaving millions of Americans with really bad hangovers.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 8 months ago • 1,327 views • 5:22This weekend we're welcoming back the show that has the monopoly on lurid violence, epic battles, and wholly unnecessary nudity: Game of Thrones. George R.R. Martin's ability to describe the crunching... continue reading
posted by Mekanikal 6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 108 views • 8:59I've filmed a paternoster lift; I've filmed the strange Genoa elevator that sort-of goes sideways. So when I got an email from Thyssenkrupp, an elevator company, saying "come and see our Multi elevator... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 10 months ago • 1,308 views • 4:21