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Bear Fight On Cliff Turns Deadly
ButtleThis one has a happy ending
*related=https://videosift.com/video/Rock-Climbing-Bears
How an 18th Century Sailing Battleship Works
ButtleUpvoted, but totally horizontal planar decks are just distracting. Nothing on a wooden ship is square or planar.
The history and virtues of eating pigeon meat
ButtleI can confirm that squabs are very tasty stuffed and roasted.
newtboy
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Buttlethanks. I think this is one of the best on youtube.
I got hooked on this series about 6 months ago and binge watched it from the beginning. It's a great introduction to ship building, and one hell of a project.
It's not exactly right to call it a restoration, there's hardly any of the original wood left in it. I think in the end there's going to be the transom and lead keel left, everything else being replaced including the dozens of huge iron, now polished brass, castings and thousands of custom copper rivets.
*promote a *quality series
The Missing Link in Renewables | Real Engineering
ButtleGood presentation of the big problem with wind and solar for electricity -- they're not predictable over time. For anything close to 100% renewables this has to be addressed. They're right in saying Li-ion is not going to cut it for a number of reasons. Will the solution proposed actually do the job? No idea here.
Is Success Luck or Hard Work? | Veritasium
ButtleLuck, shmuck. I have an issue with the snatoms; how do you make a double or triple bond? It was simple with the old fashioned ball and spring things.
newtboy
(Member Profile)
Buttlethanks,
Time for everyone on the Miss Stacy to buy lottery tickets, this is definitely their lucky day.
*quality save
Easy Way To Thread A Needle
ButtleHeavy wool darning thread did not work at all.
I tried this and it does work, but results seem to vary widely depending on the type of thread being used. Some are easy, some are much harder.
Easy Way To Thread A Needle
ButtleUpvoted without even trying it. I may regret that.
How the Ancient Greeks knew Earth was round
ButtleEratosthenes actually knew from local lore that the sun shone directly down a well at modern day Aswan, in Egypt, on the summer solstice. On the same day at noon he measured the sun's angle using a vertical stick at Alexandria.
Well explained here: https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/big-history-project/solar-system-and-earth/knowing-solar-system-earth/a/eratosthenes-of-cyrene
The Most Important Filmmaker You Haven't Heard Of
ButtleI think that was Sally Menke. Dede Allen was the one on Bonnie and Clyde. Both sadly no longer with us.
Seems 50% of my admiration for Tarantino needs to be shared with Dede Allen.
lucky760
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ButtleThanks
Man, that's good.
*doublepromote
Primitive Technology: Lime
ButtleGrow some corn and you can make tortillas. That's progress for sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization
The Oldest Fast Food Restaurant in the East End
ButtleLooks delicious. Eels are one of those foods like oysters, that used to be dirt cheap but, due to overfishing and pollution, are pretty expensive now.
Watch Bed Bugs Get Stopped in Their Tracks | Deep Look
Buttle*related=https://videosift.com/video/Bedbug-Love