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 4 months 4 weeks ago • 45 views • 15:55Videos (166) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (814) |
Gricean Maxims are a vital part of how we understand each other: a set of... well, maybe "rules" is a bit strong. They're guidelines that we follow without realising it. And it's the reason that "asbestos-free... continue reading
posted by eric3579 4 years 6 months ago • 1,082 views • 5:33Ipley Cross, in the middle of the New Forest, is one of the most dangerous road junctions in Britain. Why? • Thanks to Bez, whoever you are: their definitive article on this junction is here: https://singletrackworld.c... continue reading
posted by eric3579 4 years 6 months 1 week ago • 622 views • 4:12Tom Scott explains why there's a few words that you just cannot use as file names or directories in Windows.
posted by w1ndex 4 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,123 views • 8:03Tom Scott talks about expletive infixation, which I think is absofuckinglutely infuckingcredible.
posted by w1ndex 4 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 931 views • 4:58YouTube description: 50 Years Ago Apollo 13 was preparing to launch on a mission that would become famous for the wrong reasons, 56 Hours into the mission an oxygen tank would explode, blowing the side... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 30 views • 12:18In Wichita Falls, Texas, the Newby-McMahon Building stands 480 inches tall. Not 480 feet: 480 inches. There's a story of a smooth-talking scammer that sounds almost too good to be true. But is it?
posted by bobknight33 4 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,019 views • 6:47YouTube description: It sounds ridiculous, but it's true. At the Cooper Union Foundation Building in New York, there's the world's first elevator shaft: constructed four years before the safety elevator... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 11 months 1 week ago • 731 views • 5:10YouTube description: It's an often told story about Apollo 12 getting struck by lightning, crippling the command module in flight and John Aaron in mission control figuring out the exact switch to flip... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 261 views • 13:55They keep asking me. I keep telling them I am notarobot, but they never seem to remember. At least not for very long.
posted by notarobot 5 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 388 views • 7:40YT: The International Phonetic Alphabet: one sound for each symbol, and one symbol for each sound. Except for the sounds we can't make. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet
posted by Fantomas 5 years 2 months ago • 883 views • 6:31YouTube 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
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 300 views • 6:32YT: Time to tell a story about idempotency, computer science, and the Night of the Multiple Orders.
posted by Fantomas 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 43 views • 8:26YouTube 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) 5 years 3 months 1 week ago • 942 views • 5:05YouTube 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) 5 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 338 views • 2:27