How Does Kodak Make Film Light Sensitive? (How Film is Made, Part 2) I had no idea Kodak uses LAMINAR FLOW to make film. Imagine my surprise when I walked in and saw this beautiful waterfall and realized... continue reading

posted by BSR 1 year 9 months 1 week ago • 32 views • 59:57

February 2017 saw one of the most serious dam-related engineering incidents in history with the failure of the service spillway at Oroville Dam. Whether they realized it or not, the people living and working... continue reading

posted by eric3579 2 years 11 months 1 week ago • 465 views • 18:27

The stereotypical modern playground — with its bright colors and rubberized flooring — is designed to be clean, safe, and lawsuit-proof. But that isn't necessarily the best design for kids. US playground... continue reading

posted by BSR 3 years 11 months 1 week ago • 112 views • 5:44

YouTube description: The story of Apollo 13 goes beyond a tale of survival. The mission also successfully completed a science investigation that is still helping to inform our understanding of the Moon... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 2 weeks ago • 69 views • 2:46

After fourteen years of pretty much uncontested domination, Goodyear saw their reign challenged by a small band of Indiana tire makers named Hoosier Racing Tires. What ensued was one of the bloodiest conflicts... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 4 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 74 views • 18:28

President Donald Trump is spreading another grotesque abortion claim —no surprise it’s 100% false. Trump said the following at the same Trump rally that saw a BBC cameraman attacked by a Trump supporter: ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 12 months ago • 36 views • 1:48

YouTube description: Technical details about what we're doing: We're working on a time-series problem called a Sequence Classification. Recurrent Neural Networks called Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 566 views • 10:41

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

A low-tech tank with fragile armour, a tank that never saw the enemy, and the tank used to teach how not to build tanks.

posted by Mordhaus 5 years 9 months 1 week ago • 74 views • 8:50

Stumpy Brown is a Wangkujanka woman who lives at Christmas Creek in the Kimberley. Stumpy has seen many changes throughout her lifetime but nothing so dramatic, when as a teenager, she saw a white man... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 795 views • 5:21

YouTube description: Fritz Lang directed an extremely innovated film in 1929 called Woman in the Moon. (Frau Im Mond in German). He hired rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth to be his technical director,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 339 views • 3:13

"... Ever since Macauley Culkin smashed his hands against his face and screamed, audiences have loved the film HOME ALONE. It has become a Christmas classic; played along side other holiday pictures that... continue reading

posted by ant 6 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 24 views • 14:01

Sometimes, it seems hard to go outside and face the day. But what would happen if you never saw sunlight?

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 30 views • 3:32

We love wood here at The Slingshot Channel. It is our most important raw material by a great margin. When we found this 20" piece of European Dogwood (Cornus Sanguinea) while cleaning up the shed, we immediately... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 month ago • 203 views • 13:07

In this video I build a garden to grow Cassava and yams, two staple food crops. Cassava is a shrub that develops large edible roots. Yams are a climbing vine that produce large, edible underground bulbs... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 months ago • 99 views • 6:27

YouTube description: It’s probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century. Although the USA won... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months ago • 811 views • 14:23

YouTube description: Ken Spitulski from KenCraft Company Inc. shows the real power of a tablesaw. (via digg)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 2,152 views • 1:38

Ewww-ahhh! YouTube: Seen up close, the anatomy of a mosquito bite is terrifying. The most dangerous animal in the world uses six needle-like mouthparts to saw into our skin, tap a blood vessel and sometimes... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 220 views • 3:18

This is a recent construction from old schematics, in Holland Massachusetts. It took two years to build. The same type of saw could also be powered by water (in Norway they'd call it oppgangs sag). ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,011 views • 8:59

This video was taken in Papua, Indonesia. We saw it happen five or six times before we finally managed to capture it on video. The horsehair worms infect the prey and modify the brain chemistry in such... continue reading

posted by newtboy 8 years 3 weeks ago • 1,000 views • 4:04