YouTube description: Aerosparx are a British aerobatics team that perform displays with fireworks attached to their wings. This is how they do it. More about Aerosparx: http://www.aerosparx.com/ ... continue reading
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YouTube description: A decade ago, engineers found the Humber Bridge had the same problem as many of the world's suspension bridges: unexpectedly fast corrosion. Here's how they fixed it, and how they're... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months ago • 941 views • 5:05"... After seeing his picture on World Book Day we invited 'Mini Mark' to Guinness World Records HQ. He underwent intensive training with Mark 'Big Mark' McKinley, to become Guinness World Record's Unofficial... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 10 views • 4:30YouTube description: Thanks to all the Dunedin Railways team! You can find out more about them here: https://www.dunedinrailways.co.nz/ Edited by Michelle Martin (@mrsmmartin) I'm at http://tomscott.com ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months 1 week ago • 338 views • 2:27YouTube description: The Multi Axis Trainer, or MAT, is an icon of space exploration and astronaut training. But other than spinning round kids at Space Camp: what's it actually used for? Thanks... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,017 views • 3:13YouTube description: Live long and prosper? Nichelle Nichols sure has. At the height of the American civil rights movement, she played “Star Trek’s” Lieutenant Uhura—then one of television’s... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 350 views • 2:58https://youtu.be/cECsj2Bznig The Global Vehicle Target is the new standard for testing autonomous driving and crash test systems. To cameras and radar, it looks like a car: but if you hit it, it'll... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 846 views • 4:33YouTube description: In Göttingen, Germany, there's a four-tonne steel ball that can be raised up a 14-metre tower -- and then dropped in less than two seconds, crashing back to earth. It makes tiny,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months ago • 724 views • 3:34YouTube description: I'm visiting the University of Iowa's National Advanced Driving Simulator, to answer a question: how unsafe is it for me to vlog while driving? Is vlogging while driving dangerous?... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months ago • 805 views • 4:27YouTube description: Near Slab City, California, a man painted a hill. It was outsider art: Leonard Knight had no training and no great masters to imitate. But somehow, he created something that resonates... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 551 views • 4:25This 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 1 week ago • 108 views • 8:59YouTube description: At the University of Manchester's High Voltage Laboratory, we see what happens when a DJI Phantom 3 drone gets hit with an electrical impulse of 1.4MV - basically, a lightning strike.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 week ago • 339 views • 5:31YouTube description: In Bremen, Germany, there's a tower more than a hundred metres high: it's called the Fallturm, or the Drop Tower. If you want a cost-effective way to test an experiment in microgravity... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months ago • 299 views • 4:02YouTube description: I thought about saying "secret patterns" or "mysterious patterns" in the title, but that'd be a lie: they're just mostly unknown! So let's talk about tactile paving, about design,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 1 week ago • 1,726 views • 3:13YouTube description: John Reber had a plan: to dam the San Francisco Bay. He convinced some politicians - and it took the US Army Corps of Engineers, and the Bay Model they built in Sausalito, to prove... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 1,416 views • 4:34In a cemetery in Huelva, in Spain, is the grave of Major William Martin, of the British Royal Marines. Or rather, it's the grave of a man called Glyndwr Michael, who served his country during World War... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 484 views • 3:17"Game of Thrones is one of the great stories of our time. But with the recent ending of Season 6, a question comes to mind. How will it end? We reveal how George R.R. Martin is likely to finish this epic... continue reading
posted by ant 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 22 views • 13:20Not only can the SR-71's engines push it to speeds above mach 3, but it can sustain those speeds for extended periods of time, at high efficiency. This is how it does it.
posted by Sylvester_Ink 9 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 2,405 views • 5:56YouTube Description: Sport Relief and the Sainsbury's Sport Relief Games: http://goo.gl/UAKUr2 Sport Relief interactive video: [See YouTube Description] Ruis Martins animation: [See YouTube Description] ... continue reading
posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade 3 months 1 week ago • 269 views • 10:22Schoolteacher Jane Elliott quickly gets her students to discriminate and start hating each other based on the most meaningless of factors. She started doing this in 1968 after Martin Luther King Jr.'s... continue reading
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