Rocket vs ice lake

posted by BSR 1 year 3 weeks ago • 313 views • 38 secs

Montana's Giant Springs State Park, and Lake Sumiainen in Finland, have very short rivers. Finding the shortest in the world, though: that could be trickier.

posted by newtboy 2 years 1 week ago • 231 views • 3:26

The US government deterrent to keep Asian Carp from getting to Lake Michigan from the Illinois river includes tazers and bubbles.

posted by eric3579 4 years 3 weeks ago • 128 views • 6:31

YouTube description: Tropical storms can be devastating but at least we usually know where they're going to appear. The exception being a very strange week in 1996, on Lake Huron.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 185 views • 3:42

YouTube description In 1800s, miners began working in exposed deposits of mud near the town of Messel, Germany. They were extracting oil from the rock and along with the oil, they found beautifully... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 521 views • 8:34

YouTube description: The type of sushi you’re probably most familiar with is haya-nare, a quick form of sushi made and consumed within a day using vinegared rice and raw fish. But there’s a second... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 562 views • 2:55

Johnny Knoxville breaks down all the injuries of his career. From pepper spray and taser guns, to breaking his ankle crossing the LA river, to getting shot by a rocket over a lake and getting landed on... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 9 months 1 week ago • 122 views • 10:04

The reason they need weevil greenhouses is that the Brazilian weevils don't like Texan winters, and tend to die off over winter. If they mentioned it in this video I missed it. YouTube description: ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 1 week ago • 976 views • 3:44

YouTube description: What do all those bodies of water really mean? In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards travels through the map to define bodies of water. Find Phil Edwards on Facebook... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,336 views • 5:15

From NYT: "...a really big drain called a spillway. And once you see it full of spiraling water, it is hard to take your eyes off it. For the first time in a decade, January and February have brought... continue reading

posted by chicchorea 8 years 2 weeks ago • 1,904 views • 1:31

YouTube: What could be cooler than a permanent lava lake surrounded by snow!?

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 1 month ago • 29 views • 4:37

Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, is the unofficial lightning capital of the world. There, lightning strikes occur, on average, 300 days a year. When dangerous storms approach, most people flee. But 21-year-old... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 8 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 80 views • 4:51

YouTube description: If you're sitting on a boat in Lake Constance, are you in three countries at once? Or just in one? Does it even matter? Because strangely, it turns out there are parts of the world... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 months 1 week ago • 556 views • 2:32

YouTube description: 1 tablespoon of olive oil destroys half an acre of waves on this lake. What The Physics?! (via digg, H/T @eric3579)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 618 views • 3:55

Today we have our rivalry on the football field, but two centuries ago that rivalry was almost on the battlefield, and it was all over, Toledo? Yes, this was the Toledo War, a series of skirmishes over... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 3 months 1 week ago • 14 views • 6:50

A "ballroom" hidden under a mansion lake built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial

posted by newtboy 9 years 1 week ago • 23 views • 3:21

YouTube: SciShow News explains the forces at work behind the earthquake in Nepal, introduces you to a new species of dinosaur, and reveals a discovery in Antarctica.

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 117 views • 4:31

"What do the martians call them?"

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 3 months 3 weeks ago • 870 views • 2:57