YouTube description: Citheronia regalis is a giant silk moth...though these don't actually produce silk, which is why it's better to go by their family name saturniidae. Citheronia regalis actually... continue reading
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After suggesting that American-born congresswomen should "go back" to where they're from, Donald Trump gets a geography lesson from Wakko of the Animaniacs
posted by newtboy 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 846 views • 1:13YouTube description: Something about the Apollo missions always confused me, sure, the step off of the lunar lander’s 91 cm footpad was a small step, but the step just before that was actually enormous! ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 483 views • 14:48YouTube description: Making a faster plane takes more than building better engines and structures. To go supersonic, engineers had to solve hundreds of problems -- including ditching one of the biggest... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 537 views • 4:36YouTube description: If you want to drink a cup of tea at the Huashan Teahouse on Mount Hua, you’re going to have to put in the effort to get there. The journey starts with a 20-minute cable car ride.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 465 views • 2:39“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I... continue reading
posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 168 views • 20:41YouTube description: We normally build a dam to hold water back and store it for use in water supply, irrigation, hydropower, or flood control. But sometimes we have to let some water go. Whether we... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months ago • 1,036 views • 8:15An American explorer has descended nearly 11km (seven miles) to the deepest place in the ocean - the Mariana Trench in the Pacific. Victor Vescovo spent four hours exploring the bottom of the trench... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 1,322 views • 2:14A honest respectful conversation of different points of view. Populist Revolution - Will It Go Left Or Right? - Candace Owens & Russell Brand
posted by bobknight33 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 31 views • 1:56:54YouTube description: I kept getting asked about a sequence from the Apollo 11 documentary showing the ignition of a Saturn V upper Stage, known as the S-IVB, in space. After asking around I tracked... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months ago • 325 views • 11:08YouTube description: After being diagnosed with a rare, potentially fatal brain condition known as Moyamoya, Jennifer Lee was forced to face her own mortality and consider the things in life she held... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 590 views • 10:01YouTube description: There's an economic reason why everyone is going to Iceland lately. Gear I use https://goo.gl/qxMR2o Iz made a travel vlog from our trip too. It's good: https://youtu.be/01inM9Nc1bM ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 606 views • 6:40YouTube description: What do Skrillex, David Bowie, Salt-N-Pepa and basically every drum and bass track have in common? They've all used the Amen break, a four-bar drum solo that has become the most... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months ago • 427 views • 4:05Cutting down some leaning trees at a friends house. These cedar trees were healthy but too close for comfort and one was leaning. There are a lot of things that can go wrong with something like this, do... continue reading
posted by eric3579 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1,785 views • 7:59YouTube description: I didn't get much sleep the last two days, but it works! I'm going to keep working away on this project but in a different form factor. (H/T @eric3579)... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months ago • 312 views • 12:14YouTube description: Comparing modern concrete to that of the western Roman empire. In this video, I discuss a few modern techniques that help improve design life of concrete, including roller compacted... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months ago • 495 views • 9:34YouTube description: Less than 2 percent of the ocean floor has been explored by scientists. “Every time we go to the deep sea, we find new species of organisms,” explains geobiologist Victoria... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 129 views • 9:46In the 1830s, two French brothers, François and Joseph Blanc, pulled off the first telecoms scam in history. The optical telegraph, a line of semaphore towers stretching from hilltop to hilltop, was for... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 12 months ago • 527 views • 5:49YouTube 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) 6 years 1 month ago • 566 views • 7:10The White Horse, in Uffington, is one of the oldest surviving works of art in Britain: carved into a hillside in Oxfordshire 3,000 years ago. Every year, it's rechalked by volunteers co-ordinated through... continue reading
posted by nanrod 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 624 views • 2:50