I Built An Emordnilap Machine

posted by BSR 1 week 3 days ago • 207 views • 2:24

The Secret Architecture of America’s $1BN Fortress This is how the US built its most hi-tech and controversial embassy.

posted by BSR 1 year 1 week ago • 119 views • 12:33

Magnetohydrodynamic thrust uses no moving parts in order to accelerate water. It has been known for half a century, but it may be possible that we're only now beginning to explore it for use in Marine... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 2 months 1 week ago • 278 views • 12:11

YouTube description: In 2015, what we knew about Iron Age shields all changed. And it changed in a field in Leicester... Iron Age Curator Sophia Adams explains the construction of the first organic... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 5 months 4 weeks ago • 145 views • 15:29

YouTube description: During his visit to Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Adam not only learned about how Fraggle Rock's Doozers are built, he spoke directly with Architect and Cotterpin Doozer about how... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 6 months ago • 159 views • 25:55

The F-15 was born from the difficult lessons learned during the Vietnam War. In the late 1950s, Air Force planners were confident that the advent of powerful new radars and long-range air-to-air missiles... continue reading

posted by eric3579 1 year 8 months 1 week ago • 83 views • 14:21

In 2011, The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia, which house the Museum's renowned collection of Islamic... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 11 months 1 week ago • 60 views • 17:44

It's hard to know if she actually had a coherent point to make here--it sure didn't look like it. At the least, she was poorly served by her staff, which didn't educate her, didn't program her questions,... continue reading

posted by SFOGuy 3 years 4 months ago • 1,836 views • 2:12

Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened.⁠ ⁠ It sounded like a pitch for a Hollywood... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 560 views • 10:12

YouTube description: The Roadmachines Mono-Rail may have been the only truly useful, fit-for-purpose monorail in the world. Of the hundreds that were built, most were never meant for passengers. But... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 443 views • 3:24

From Youtube, "What started as a simple desire for a better arc lighter got carried away and I ended up making the scariest device I've ever built. In this video I tested a plasma lighter and attempted... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 59 views • 26:02

From Youtube, "The launch of SpaceX's DM-2 mission taking NASA astronauts to the Space Station was the culmination of years of development, and more importantly years of political and management decisions... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 45 views • 15:55

NASA's current fleet of spacesuits was built in 1974, and each was reported to cost between $15 million and $22 million. Today, that would be about $150 million. Having not built any new mission-ready... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 100 views • 10:41

YouTube description: There’s no telling what you can do when you put your mind to it. Take Richard Hull, he built a small-scale fusion reactor—in a shed, in his backyard. A retired electronics engineer,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,462 views • 3:32

From Youtube, "In nearly every corner of the Earth, ants wage war against each other. Their weapons are what nature gave them. Some have strong armour, deadly stingers or sharp mandibles. And then there... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 522 views • 9:23

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) 5 years 3 months ago • 1,278 views • 2:37

YouTube description: A quick overview of how we build underwater structures.

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months ago • 427 views • 8:18

YouTube description: Built from the discarded fuel tanks of WWII fighter planes, "belly tankers" are miniature speed demons and a major part of hot rod culture. For more, check out: https://www.petersen.org/1952-... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months ago • 623 views • 3:48

This successful test of the upgraded and now human rated Dragon capsule is the first step towards the USA being able to send astronauts to the ISS without hitching a lift on Russian Soyuz spacecraft. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 516 views • 4:57