YouTube description: In the last 20 years it's been surprisingly common for space probes to end missions early because reaction wheels have failed, moreover there's been a large number of failures associated... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 1 week ago • 565 views • 7:10Videos (165) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
"Brexit Britain is fed up with experts. These days we only listen to the bloke down the pub. So in this controlled experiment, we put three experts in a pub and recorded the results for your viewing pleasure. ... continue reading
posted by radx 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 72 views • 58:34YouTube description: For the past 30 years, Paul Francis has been crafting the perfect sound, honing his skills at a company that has been in the business of making cymbals for 400 years. Making cymbals... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 831 views • 2:41Rick Beato breaks down the System of a Down song Chop Suey from the album Toxicity. (Thanks to spawnflagger for the heads up on my stoned self posting the wrong song name)
posted by w1ndex 5 years 9 months 1 week ago • 97 views • 12:30Everyone holds in their pee every now and then. And that's okay! Just don't do it too often, or it could lead to some serious problems down the road.
posted by BSR 5 years 10 months ago • 70 views • 3:05Johnny Knoxville breaks down all the injuries of his career. From pepper spray and taser guns, to breaking his ankle crossing the LA river, to getting shot by a rocket over a lake and getting landed on... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 121 views • 10:04Sir Patrick Stewart was an integral part of Fox’s X-Men franchise for 17 years as Professor Charles Xavier, but he announced earlier this year he’d be stepping down from the role, after deeming Logan... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 11 months ago • 465 views • 4:09Rue Canusa (or Canusa Avenue) is a street that's split in two by a border: the northern part is in Stanstead, Canada, and the southern part is in Derby Line, USA — and border crossings here aren't as... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 11 months ago • 1,382 views • 2:55At the old hut site (the new one being temporarily cut off by flooding) I made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails by firing them in a kiln, slaking them in water, mixing them into lime putty.... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 406 views • 7:08YouTube description: In Göttingen, Germany, there's a four-tonne steel ball that can be raised up a 14-metre tower -- and then dropped in less than two seconds, crashing back to earth. It makes tiny,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months 1 week ago • 724 views • 3:34YT - Everyday Astronaut Published on Jan 24, 2018 It’s ALIVE!!!!! For the very first time, the Falcon Heavy has successfully lit all 27 of its mighty Merlin engines in preparation for its maiden launch.... continue reading
posted by Buck 6 years 3 months ago • 175 views • 8:38YT: I built an A frame hut as a large work space for projects. First I made a celt hatchet to cut timber for the hut. The axe head was made of amphibolite and the handle was made of a species of wattle.... continue reading
posted by nanrod 6 years 3 months ago • 524 views • 9:05YouTube description: There's a link from a 13th century legend, to a 16th century insult book, to a 19th century writer, to a 20th century comic book hero. And it starts in a small village near Nottingham,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 511 views • 2:46From YT: 2014Footage of the rare event when the Space Station crosses the face of the Moon. The station flies at a speed of 30000km/h, meaning it takes about half a second to traverse the Lunar face.... continue reading
posted by Nephelimdream 6 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 734 views • 1:12YouTube description: Epicurious challenged cheese expert and noted author Liz Thorpe to guess which one of two cheeses was more expensive. Liz breaks down cheap vs expensive parmesan cheese, goat cheese,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months ago • 1,451 views • 11:20I built a natural draft furnace to test ideas about how hot a furnace could get without the use of bellows. Natural draft is the flow of air through a furnace due to rising hot air. The hot gasses in the... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 454 views • 5:46Sit down. Take off your coat. Put on this and spend an hour of bliss hanging out with Tom. IMDB: Using rare archive, audio recordings and interviews viewers are taken on a trip through the surreal,... continue reading
posted by Zawash 6 years 6 months 1 week ago • 63 views • 58:23On this episode of How'd They Do That, we take a look at how a top fuel dragster makes all its power and barrels down the 1,000-ft race track.
posted by bobknight33 6 years 6 months 1 week ago • 197 views • 13:49