The F-15 was born from the difficult lessons learned during the Vietnam War. In the late 1950s, Air Force planners were confident that the advent of powerful new radars and long-range air-to-air missiles... continue reading
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From YouTube, "Our home is burning. Rapid climate change is destabilizing our world. It seems our emissions will not fall quickly enough to avoid runaway warming and we may soon hit tipping points that... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 3 weeks ago • 145 views • 16:11It's hard to know if she actually had a coherent point to make here--it sure didn't look like it. At the least, she was poorly served by her staff, which didn't educate her, didn't program her questions,... continue reading
posted by SFOGuy 2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 1,835 views • 2:12Red sprites, secondary jets and newly discovered green afterglow called "ghosts" triggered by red sprites. A dozen vibrant red sprites were recorded on this evening and only two events had the green afterglow.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 9 months 1 week ago • 984 views • 2:32In this episode of Forgotten Failures, I take a look back at the long forgotten TV spinoff of "Blazing Saddles". This sitcom tried to capture the humor and success of the film that inspired it but would... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 10 months ago • 941 views • 7:36YouTube description: Hips don’t lie. But a hip x-ray in the Soviet Union of the 1950s might not have been what it appeared to be. In fact, if it was round, it was likely a record. Let us explain.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 361 views • 2:30YouTube description: Hi :) I’m a student in Network & Systems Engineering (Robots, networks and programming and stuff) and I built a dinosaur in my spare time. I got the idea in my head, thought... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 1,278 views • 2:37YouTube description: Follow along as Julian Baumgartner of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration in Chicago works to conserve and restore this icon of Ave Maria. This piece was likely created in a workshop... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 417 views • 11:31I'd never heard of moiré effect beacons until I got an email asking me about them. It seemed like a really clever idea - but it was really hard to research. Or at least it was, until I stumbled upon one... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 1,223 views • 3:54Frequently, watching a Meryl Streep movie means you're watching it for Meryl Streep, and not much else. But in the case of Julie & Julia, a host of stunning food porn accompanies Streep's charming turn... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years ago • 137 views • 3:45This reputed business genius appears to know nothing about business This anti tax, anti government genius just gave away $7 million of tax dollars (per year?) to Carrier with no guarantee of anything... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 901 views • 5:12YT: As the world switches to renewable energy - and we are switching - there's a problem you might not expect: balancing the grid. Rotational mass and system inertia are the things that keep your lights... continue reading
posted by Fantomas 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 828 views • 4:06YouTube description: Approaching the Unknown, Mark Elijah Rosenberg's film about an astronaut whose Mars journey does not go according to plan, combines old school non-CGI special effect techniques... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months ago • 1,234 views • 5:40Have you ever wondered why mirrors appear to flip things horizontally but not vertically? Me either.
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