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 11 months ago • 84 views • 14:21

Konstantin Kisin | This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far - 7/8 | Oxford Union

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From Youtube, "John Oliver discusses the mechanics of union busting, why the companies who do it face so few consequences, and what it really means when your manager wants to talk to you about “your... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 3 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 127 views • 23:37

https://www.iter.org/ In southern France, 35 nations* are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a... continue reading

posted by eric3579 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 931 views • 7:59

YouTube description: Hips don’t lie. But a hip x-ray in the Soviet Union of the 1950s might not have been what it appeared to be. In fact, if it was round, it was likely a record. Let us explain.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 361 views • 2:30

YouTube 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) 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 731 views • 5:10

The history of the term Redneck

posted by geo321 5 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 290 views • 15:15

YouTube description: Until the mid 1950’s, small short-range airliners like the twin engined IL-14 were really the only type the Soviet Union produced. And that meant flying across the country’s... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 428 views • 10:05

In the far north of Canada sit the DEW Line stations: "Distant Early Warning". Built in the 1950s, these were the sites that would have sounded the alarm if the Soviet Union ever attacked North America.... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 22 views • 2:59

YouTube description: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria kill 23,000 people every year in the United States, and the United Nations estimates that by 2050, more people will die from antibiotic-resistant infections... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months ago • 398 views • 14:33

I did not know that! Thanks @eric3579 YouTube: There's a reason that a lot of planets in American science fiction look the same: they're all filmed in the same places. But why those particular locations?... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,694 views • 2:08

YouTube description: Should we double down or give up and go our separate ways? This video will probably not make everybody happy. Probably for completely opposite reasons. Some people want less... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months ago • 458 views • 7:42

Published on Oct 17, 2016 In this explosive new video from Project Veritas Action, a Democratic dirty tricks operative unwittingly provides a dark money trail to the DNC and Clinton campaign. The video... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 8 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 45 views • 16:27

YouTube description: It’s probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century. Although the USA won... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 812 views • 14:23

Since it is Labor Day in a good part of the world, here is a video about the incidents at Haymarket Square following the call for workers to strike on May 1st. It picks up on May 3rd. The events would... continue reading

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,238 views • 5:15