NASA is monitoring a 330-foot-long asteroid called the 2024 YR4. The chances of a collision are low but NASA said there is a 2.3% chance that the asteroid will hit Earth in 2032 based on current data,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 month 1 week ago • 15 views • 4:01

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

posted by newtboy 1 year 1 month 1 week ago • 133 views • 17:05

A Trump supporter alleges her "red-pilled" transformation ignited when two Walmart stores mysteriously shut down, culminating in a fantastical narrative linking Trump to the heroic dismantling of a worldwide... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 6 months 2 weeks ago • 177 views • 6:43

Beau talks about America's waning military recruiting base and possible reasons why young Americans are deciding to not be all they can be.

posted by luxintenebris 2 years 8 months ago • 55 views • 9:32

Daffy Duck for President is a children's book, published by Warner Bros. and the United States Postal Service in 1997 to coincide with the release of the first Bugs Bunny U.S. postage stamp. The book... continue reading

posted by BSR 3 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 103 views • 4:32

Dorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 — two months... continue reading

posted by eric3579 3 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 83 views • 14:39

Instead of shipping food all around the world, imagine your own food coming from your farm in a shipping container, just outside your backdoor. That’s the vision of FarmPod, a St. Croix-based startup... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 18 views • 6:56

Assembling a 3D printed tourbillon clock 0:00 Preparation 1:50 Part 1: Bottom Base 5:40 Part 2: Upper Base 7:30 Part 3: Retrograde Mechanism 8:47 Part 4: Full Base 9:13 Part 5: Tri-Axial Tourbillon ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 138 views • 18:28

For over a century, one of the most important salmon runs in the U.S. has had to contend with historic dams in Oregon and California. These dams have been responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 11 months ago • 135 views • 3:07

From Youtube, "Let us explore the scientific mystery of what would happen to you if Earth suddenly turned into gold! The “Midaspocalypse”, based on the ancient tale of King Midas who was cursed so... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 2 weeks ago • 80 views • 9:17

An amazingly thorough deep dive into the acoustic engineering, materials science, and construction of a beautiful pair of speakers. "We construct a pair of large Voigt speakers. I explain the principles... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 4 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 385 views • 52:56

YouTube description: Insane Floating Tensegrity Chair If you have ropes and wood - you can build floating tensegrity chair based on tension! It was pretty difficult project, but result is amazing! ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,478 views • 4:40

Trump found the silver lining in Covid early on. It means he no longer has to touch all those disgusting people at his rallies. In 2016 Olivia Troye, Vice President Pence's former Homeland Security... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 6 months ago • 477 views • 1:01

For the first time in it's 175 year history Scientific American has endorsed a presidential candidate, Joe Biden. They recognize the importance of basing our actions on fact and science, and the disasters... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 6 months 1 week ago • 361 views • 3:42

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 3 weeks ago • 931 views • 7:59

Another Republican based anti-Trump group has started producing commercials. At this rate, the Democrats can just hold onto their campaign funds, the Republicans are doing better at selling Democrats... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 44 views • 1:11

Createk third-arm : Supernumerary robotic arm powered by magnetorheological clutches and an hydrostatic transmission. Fast enough to compensate for human motions while being safe for physical human-robot interaction. ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 124 views • 2:51

YouTube description: Kea, a type of parrot from New Zealand, have been surprising scientists with their smart predictions. Researchers set them a series of intelligence tests based around probabilities... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 weeks ago • 599 views • 4:21

YouTube description: The history of the Earth from its formation to present day, covering major events throughout its 4-billion-year history. Estimates of average temperature, atmospheric composition,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 809 views • 11:36