Sam Harris speaks with Matt Ridley and Alina Chan about the origins of the COVID pandemic. They discuss the evidence of a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, media and academic censorship of... continue reading
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Marv Adams, deputy administrator for defense programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration explained what happened in the successful fusion experiment with a prop.
posted by newtboy 1 year 4 months 3 weeks ago • 299 views • 1:42It'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 • 2:12Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened. It sounded like a pitch for a Hollywood... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 9 months 1 week ago • 560 views • 10:12Zefrank's True Facts about Wild Hogs From Youtube, "...Terra Mater has created a wide array of amazing full-length documentaries and they have a YouTube channel which you should check out and subscribe to! ... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 386 views • 8:32One year ago, Spot graduated from its early adopter program and began shipping out to workplaces around the world. From construction sites and power plants to mines and universities, today Spot is up-and-running... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 10 months ago • 117 views • 1:18S&H Green Stamps was one of the first customer reward programs handed out by various retailers. They were collected with great excitement by American families from the 1930s through the 1980s.
posted by bobknight33 3 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 25 views • 8:07"What different clouds mean, explained for kids. Welcome to our first-ever week of programming for kids! If you’re standing outside and you look up, you’ll likely see something familiar above... continue reading
posted by ant 3 years 8 months ago • 67 views • 8:03YouTube 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 • 2:37Ice lost in Greenland means higher sea levels around the world. "Oceans Melting Greenland," a NASA program in its fourth year, is studying the melt. So far, measurements indicate a rate of melt exceeding... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 325 views • 3:27YouTube description: After landing on the Moon, what ever happened to the Lunar Ascent Modules? Turns out they were crashed onto the moon for Science! Here are all the known crash sites of the LM... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 273 views • 12:58YouTube description: To prepare him for landing the lunar module, Neil Armstrong practiced on a training vehicle, right here on Earth. It was designed to replicate flying within a gravitational pull... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 462 views • 2:14YouTube 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) 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 483 views • 14:48This successful test of the upgraded and now human rated Dragon capsule is the first step towards the USA being able to send astronauts to the ISS without hitching a lift on Russian Soyuz spacecraft. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 516 views • 4:57YouTube description: The Multi Axis Trainer, or MAT, is an icon of space exploration and astronaut training. But other than spinning round kids at Space Camp: what's it actually used for? Thanks... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months ago • 1,017 views • 3:13This 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 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 528 views • 12:48No one signed up to read to Sting, so the library put out a call for 4-8 year olds. Now he's booked solid, so I gotta ask, Sting....why the long face?
posted by newtboy 6 years 2 months 1 week ago • 278 views • 1:41YouTube 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 1 week ago • 627 views • 8:50YouTube description: The village of Kamikatsu in Japan has taken their commitment to sustainability to a new level. While the rest of the country has a recycling rate of around 20 percent, Kamikatsu... continue reading
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