This car goes from 0-62 miles per hour (100kph) in 0.956 of a second. This is the classic acceleration test, one that we all grew up using to compare cars. A Formula 1 car will do it in about two and... continue reading
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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 6 months 2 weeks ago • 275 views • 12:11The 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 1 week ago • 83 views • 14:21From Youtube, "Humans are proud of a lot of things, from particle accelerators, to poetry to pokemon. All of them made possible because of something humans value extremely highly: intelligence."
posted by w1ndex 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 72 views • 9:45The frozen continent of Antarctica contains the vast majority of all freshwater on Earth. Now that ice is melting at an accelerating rate, in part because of climate change. What does this transformation... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 1 week ago • 36 views • 10:16With the large hadron collider running out of places to look for clues to a deeper theory of physics, we need a bigger particle accelerator. We have one - the galaxy.
posted by w1ndex 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 147 views • 16:26This video is about using particle accelerators as part of the solar panel silicon wafer manufacturing process. The accelerators embed protons into the wafer crystals, allowing them to break and separate... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 7 months 1 week ago • 568 views • 3:42It takes less acceleration to get to other stars than our own sun. Crazy, huh?
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,865 views • 3:13See also this article on making the episode - http://bbc.in/1VYzLYk YouTube description: Programme website: http://bbc.in/1SMdeuR This bird's incredible acceleration and agility enable it to to sneak... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 7 months ago • 880 views • 2:52Too bad there are so many who can't get their heads around the facts. YouTube: Bill Nye boils down the basic facts surrounding climate change, and why the rate at which our planet is changing is so important
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 6 months 1 week ago • 738 views • 1:06Say what? YouTube: How can just two rules of Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity lead to seemingly paradoxical changes in the perception of time?
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 3 weeks ago • 607 views • 5:46In a multi-part series with the popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill explores a variety of topics, including the nature of an expanding, accelerating universe (and how it might end), the difference... continue reading
posted by radx 1 decade 3 months 2 weeks ago • 926 views • 26:47With a flexible spine and feet like tire treads, the cheetah is built not only for speed - but for unrivaled acceleration. -yt
posted by eric3579 1 decade 11 months 1 week ago • 3,438 views • 3:03From YT: Studying supernovae and the accelerating universe - and a bet over a bottle of whisky. It's our take on the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, won by Saul Perlmutter, Brian P Schmidt and Adam G Riess.
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