Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I've had a look at your lists and I understand that there is a distinction between the two ideas - and videos that would fall in one and not the other. However we still feel that the overlap is huge.

(If it was a Venn diagram, only a small crescent in each circle would be non-overlapped)

There is a bit of history here too. We originally called the geek channel "tech" but decided deliberately- about a month in to change it to Geek so it would be be more inclusive.

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
Afterthoughts:

I still think there is a distinct need of a tech channel. My aim is to have videos that discuss technology - old or new, not just show it. The problem isn't that most of the tech videos are geek, it's that people put them in geek - the geek channel is being misused in my opinion. If you will, please review these two lists I have compiled from the first 6 or 7 pages of the geek sifted list. The first is of videos that I feel don't really belong in the geek channel, but would feel more at home in a tech channel.

http://geek.videosift.com/video/BD-5-the-smallest-jet-plane-ever-made

http://geek.videosift.com/video/SR-71-Blackbird-low-fly-by-20-sec

http://geek.videosift.com/video/The-Next-Giant-Leap-For-Mankind

http://geek.videosift.com/video/1982-Behind-the-Scenes-in-the-making-of-TRON

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Modern-Marvels-Worlds-biggest-machines

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Intel-Debuts-Worlds-Smallest-Motherboard
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This second list is for those which I feel do NOT belong in the tech channel, though people might feel urged to place them there - OR - videos that I feel the geek channel was created for.
While they may showcase technology, they don't discuss/explain it.

http://geek.videosift.com/video/DD-first-level-magic-spells-generally-suck

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Dungeons-and-Dragons-through-time

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Stone-Golem-goes-on-a-rampage

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Optimus-Maximus-keyboard-the-most-awesome-geeky-Keyboard

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Speaker-made-from-Plasma

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Robot-playing-Flight-of-the-Bumblebee-on-Flute

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Cute-Robot-Controls-Living-Room-Devices-Then-You

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Remote-Controlled-Steam-Powered-Caterpillar

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Female-Robot


I do not wish to to be a stubborn prick about this issue, but it's just something that I feel strongly about. If you still don't want it, that's fine, but I was hoping we could put up another one of those polls you had a week ago. If not, I'll just go with "meme" like everyone wanted in Maatc's ST post.

Afterthoughts:

I still think there is a distinct need of a tech channel. My aim is to have videos that discuss technology - old or new, not just show it. The problem isn't that most of the tech videos are geek, it's that people put them in geek - the geek channel is being misused in my opinion. If you will, please review these two lists I have compiled from the first 6 or 7 pages of the geek sifted list. The first is of videos that I feel don't really belong in the geek channel, but would feel more at home in a tech channel.

http://geek.videosift.com/video/BD-5-the-smallest-jet-plane-ever-made

http://geek.videosift.com/video/SR-71-Blackbird-low-fly-by-20-sec

http://geek.videosift.com/video/The-Next-Giant-Leap-For-Mankind

http://geek.videosift.com/video/1982-Behind-the-Scenes-in-the-making-of-TRON

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Modern-Marvels-Worlds-biggest-machines

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Intel-Debuts-Worlds-Smallest-Motherboard
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This second list is for those which I feel do NOT belong in the tech channel, though people might feel urged to place them there - OR - videos that I feel the geek channel was created for.
While they may showcase technology, they don't discuss/explain it.

http://geek.videosift.com/video/DD-first-level-magic-spells-generally-suck

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Dungeons-and-Dragons-through-time

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Stone-Golem-goes-on-a-rampage

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Optimus-Maximus-keyboard-the-most-awesome-geeky-Keyboard

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Speaker-made-from-Plasma

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Robot-playing-Flight-of-the-Bumblebee-on-Flute

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Cute-Robot-Controls-Living-Room-Devices-Then-You

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Remote-Controlled-Steam-Powered-Caterpillar

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Female-Robot


I do not wish to to be a stubborn prick about this issue, but it's just something that I feel strongly about. If you still don't want it, that's fine, but I was hoping we could put up another one of those polls you had a week ago. If not, I'll just go with "meme" like everyone wanted in Maatc's ST post.

The Blackbird is a fascinating aircraft. It appears to be a complete failure when you look at its design goal vs the final product. It was designed to be highly stealth and have a minimal radar cross signature. In reality it has one of the largest signatures and can be detected at several hundred miles away. As honkeytonk says, the fuselage panels fit loosely until warmed up from friction by flying at high speed. The bird would take off and circle around at high speed, dumping fuel all the while, and then be refueled in the air once the panels had expanded.

Despite this, it was still an amazingly successful aircraft with an almost unheard of 33 years service (1966-1999). As their stealth design proved to be largely ineffective, they were fired upon frequently, but not one was ever shot down. Standard missile evasion was to crank the throttle up to top speed; the missile would either be unable to keep up or run out of fuel before it did.

I get what your saying the machine is a wonder even at sub-mach speeds. Still it's not a conversation it's a comment. He's allowed to say he didn't like the video.

In reply to this comment by vault_0:
>> ^jwray:
what's the point of a low-altitude flyby if it's not even supersonic?


What's the point of your post if it does not bring anything to the conversation?

>> ^vault_0:
>> ^jwray:
what's the point of a low-altitude flyby if it's not even supersonic?

What's the point of your post if it does not bring anything to the conversation?

What's the point of your FACE?!

>> ^jwray:
what's the point of a low-altitude flyby if it's not even supersonic?


What's the point of your post if it does not bring anything to the conversation?

>> ^Maze:
IT'S WHISPER QUIET.


WHAT?!

This one is WAY better than the blackbird one.

upvote for the blackbird.

How about some duelling Blackbirds Dag?
http://www.videosift.com/video/Blackbird-Sarah-McLachlan

agreed... the tomcat is seriously underappreciated... those hornets are sexy too... but my all time favorite jet would have to be the sr-71/a-12 blackbird.

(My last Nicholas Bros was a repost. D'oh! This is my second favorite Nicholas Brothers clip after http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=3588)

Shown here are Fayard and Harold Nicholas in Orchestra Wives (1942) backed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra to "(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo".

Who are the Nicholas Brothers?

The Nicolas Brothers opened at the Cotton Club in 1932 and astonished their white audiences just as much as the residents of Harlem, slipping into their series of spins, twists, flips, and tap dancing to the jazz tempos of "Bugle Call Rag". It was as if Fayard and his still younger brother had gone dance-crazy and acrobatic. Sometimes, for encores Harold would sing another song, while Fayard, still dancing would mockingly conduct the orchestra in a comic pantomime that was beautifully exaggerated. They performed at the Cotton Club for two years, working with the orchestras of Lucky Millinder, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Jimmy Lunceford. During this time they filmed their first movie short, "Pie Pie Blackbird" in 1932, with Hubie Blake and his orchestra. -- http://NicholasBrothers.com

A snippet from http://NicholasBrothers.com :

[...] the Nicolas Brothers opened at the Cotton Club in 1932 and astonished their white audiences just as much as the residents of Harlem, slipping into their series of spins, twists, flips, and tap dancing to the jazz tempos of "Bugle Call Rag". It was as if Fayard and his still younger brother had gone dance-crazy and acrobatic. Sometimes, for encores Harold would sing another song, while Fayard, still dancing would mockingly conduct the orchestra in a comic pantomime that was beautifully exaggerated. They performed at the Cotton Club for two years, working with the orchestras of Lucky Millinder, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Jimmy Lunceford. During this time they filmed their first movie short, "Pie Pie Blackbird" in 1932, with Hubie Blake and his orchestra.