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posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months ago • 2,009 views • 8:50Videos (67) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
YouTube description: Joe Barnard left his background in videography and music production to launch his life of amateur rocketry, and he shares his DIY adventures in building rockets on his YouTube channel... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 915 views • 9:36"Like what does it mean? (For real though?) ..."
posted by ant 5 years 5 months ago • 364 views • 8:55YouTube description: It's an all-out brawl for prime beach real estate! These Caribbean crabs will tear each other limb from limb to get the best burrow. Luckily, they molt and regrow lost legs in a... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 1,053 views • 4:59Back in the 1920s, wingwalking claimed lives. Daredevils would move around on the top of a plane's wings, in mid-flight, often without any harness or any safety line. Maybe they'd be able to clip onto... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 7 months ago • 74 views • 4:09YouTube description: Watch a time-lapse video of the installation and deinstallation (rotation) of large carpets and mounted textiles in The Met's galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 337 views • 1:21YouTube description: The Japanese Car Company is a corporate behemoth - but it's done much more than just give us Corollas or Land Cruisers. It's changed the way the world makes products. Here's how. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months ago • 1,729 views • 4:52n Porthcurno, Cornwall, there's an old telegraph cable landing station. It's how Britain talked to the Empire -- and it's now a museum. But the technology here isn't quite as obsolete as you might think.
posted by nanrod 5 years 8 months 1 week ago • 329 views • 3:57Johnny 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 • 10:04At 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: If you're landing a rocket then waiting to the last minute slamming on the brakes actually saves fuel over slower, more considered approaches to landing.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months ago • 627 views • 8:50The landscape of Iceland has changed a lot in a thousand years. When the Vikings first arrived in the ninth century, the land was covered in 25 to 40 percent forest. Within a few centuries, almost all... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 3 months 1 week ago • 801 views • 5:22Let's say you're traveling at 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 km/h) in low earth orbit, your main engines are out of fuel, and it's your job to guide the spaceship through a fiery re-entry without burning... continue reading
posted by Ashenkase 6 years 9 months 1 week ago • 114 views • 17:49YouTube: This video is about why it's harder to successfully land spacecraft and landers and rovers on Mars than on Earth, or Venus, or the Moon, or Titan, or asteroids. It all comes down to atmospheric... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 9 months 1 week ago • 582 views • 2:02"In this episode of GREEN PORNO, Isabella Rossellini explores the reproductive miracles of starfish. Subscribe to SundanceTV: http://goo.gl/GTzxOZ Isabella Rossellini's critically acclaimed and provocative... continue reading
posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 67 views • 2:34"Isabella Rossellini explores the special reproductive talents of the barnacle in this episode of GREEN PORNO. Subscribe to SundanceTV: http://goo.gl/GTzxOZ Isabella Rossellini's critically acclaimed... continue reading
posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 205 views • 3:04"In this episode of GREEN PORNO, Isabella Rossellini explores the sexy and dangerous life of the shrimp. Subscribe to SundanceTV: http://goo.gl/GTzxOZ Isabella Rossellini's critically acclaimed and... continue reading
posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 231 views • 4:21This is probably the biggest loophole in German gun law: Because this arrow shooting airgun does not shoot a projetile THROUGH a barrel but OVER a barrel, the BKA (highest German authority on gun assessments)... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 333 views • 5:31