Kill the anvil!!

posted by bjornenlinda 1 year 10 months 2 weeks ago • 13 views • 6:42

NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft has discovered “layers” and “rifts” in the electrically charged part of the upper atmosphere (the ionosphere) of Mars. The phenomenon... continue reading

posted by eric3579 2 years 3 months 1 week ago • 335 views • 2:19

YouTube description: Until the mid 1950’s, small short-range airliners like the twin engined IL-14 were really the only type the Soviet Union produced. And that meant flying across the country’s... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 423 views • 10:05

This is the story of America's massive forging presses built during the cold war used to build America's most advanced machinery - the Heavy Press Program. Modern airplanes, missiles, helicopters, turbines... continue reading

posted by nanrod 3 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 527 views • 12:48

Youtube: Many people sent me this story: it covers my favourite topics of power grids and temporal anomalies. But when the mainstream press have already covered it, how could I add something more? The... continue reading

posted by nanrod 4 years 2 months ago • 492 views • 4:12

I built this pottery kiln and some pottery from termite mound clay to test an alternative clay source to my usual one from the creek bank. I started by making a large grate from ordinary clay. It was just... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 416 views • 11:27

YouTube description: As the world’s largest technology manufacturers increasingly move toward creating products that are designed to be difficult or impossible to repair, Motherboard has started looking... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 425 views • 9:15

So they crushed car spring today and result was awesome!

YouTube: All humans want to be comfy, but the first air conditioner wasn't built for us--it was for a printing press!

posted by PlayhousePals 5 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 23 views • 4:48

YouTube: Octopuses are smart! They play with toys, pull off daring escapes, and are masters of disguise. But they're also smart in a lot of ways that the human mind probably can't comprehend. For example,... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 5 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 167 views • 4:26

From YouTube: Do you want to go to space? Do you want to learn about bending computers and boxes that make clothes smell better and sky boats with turning wings? Then point your pointer here and press down.

posted by Zifnab 6 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,889 views • 2:58

"A ballpoint pen seems simple: press a button you can write, press again and put it in your pocket. Yet inside a clever mechanisms turns that simple push into all sorts of other motions. This video uses... continue reading

posted by ant 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 560 views • 4:44

YT-I built this tiled roof hut in the bush using only primitive tools and materials. The tools I used have been made in my previous videos. It should be pointed out that I do not live in the wild and that... continue reading

posted by newtboy 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 1,689 views • 14:09

With no special skill or expertise, Greg Packer has been quoted by media outlets nearly a thousand times. Since his name first appeared on newsprint, in 1995, he’s spoken to reporters on subjects ranging... continue reading

posted by randeepsamra 8 years 8 months 1 week ago • 284 views • 5:21

Please excuse any mistakes in the translation. Neither of the languages is my native one. :) "In China you don't have letters when writing. Instead you use characters, and each character is a word.... continue reading

posted by WaterDweller 8 years 10 months 1 week ago • 172 views • 2:00

In which Hank Green attempts to explain the revolution going on in Egypt (seemingly again). From YT: The situation in Egypt is extremely complicated and changing constantly. The arguments between... continue reading

posted by RFlagg 8 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,792 views • 7:42