Interesting to watch the progression of alerts on each station, with fairly specific maps. It takes a couple minutes, but even the fishing show eventually switches over. Combined with their automated internet and text message alerts, the Japanese have a pretty responsive earthquake alert system - far better than in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_Early_Warning_(Japan)

Not bad video.. but why did my Facebook profile say I "liked" this video when I never clicked that button??
Videosift - fix this bug! Don't become a facebook spam-site!

Thanks to VideoSift users over the years, that video tag "Richard Feynman" brings up dozens of examples of Feynman's stories and interviews. I had not heard his 'hungry philosophers' one before.. :-)

The video was shot from the lunar rover camera and transmitted from the lunar rover's antenna. With the time delay in sending commands to the Moon, everything had to be carefully planned in advance and the tracking had to be done blind. I have attached some quotes from a website below. (Sorry for the long post..)
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The only photograph of the lunar liftoff was taken from Earth and had expectedly poor resolution. "Gene tried to persuade me to stay outside and take a really good picture of liftoff, but I politely declined," Schmitt joked.

As the third outing drew to a close, Schmitt clambered up the ladder of the Apollo 17 lander. Alone on the moon's surface, Cernan steered their battery-powered automobile a mile from the spacecraft and parked the rover so a video camera could record their Dec. 14 liftoff. As he climbed from the vehicle, Cernan bent down and traced the initials of his 9-year-old daughter, Tracy, in the soil. Then he literally hopped and skipped in the moon's low gravity back to the lander.

For Apollo 16 and 17, however, flight controllers did track the ascent stage. With the punch button command arrangement and a 3 to 4 second time delay, their command sequence had to be totally preplanned. I had worked with Ed Fendell for the Apollo 17 liftoff to get it exactly right for a long tracking shot. At liftoff, the action was perfect, but soon the image of the ascending capsule drifted out at the top of the frame. Ed was furious that, after all the calculations, we missed the mark. It was discovered later that the crew had parked the Rover buggy closer to the Lunar Module than was prescribed by mission plan, and the vertical tilting of the camera was too slow.
Whenever I see a clip of that liftoff I note, as the stage nears the top of frame, a cut to a film shot of the stage ready to dock with the command module. And I still think, "Darn, we could have followed that final liftoff 'til it was but a dot of light winking out as it headed for the mother ship."

http://www.ehartwell.com/afj/Apollo_17_quotes

Wow. I am very interested in gravity theory, but I could not watch this more than a third of the way through..

To me, this comes across like an argument about evolution between Creation Scientists and Intelligent Design advocates.. Most of this video is just different ways of misunderstanding gravity theory. As has been mentioned before, the concept of a black hole does not depend on the physics of a singularity.

I cannot find the video of the observed orbits of stars near the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, but this site has an animation of their orbits. This direct "dynamical evidence" goes along with the 30+ years of other evidence from radio, X-ray, gamma-ray, IR, etc.
http://www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/GC/index.php

The scene as it comes out in the film..
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Usual-Suspects-Classic-Scene

Richard Feynman has many wonderful explanations and stories. I recommend:

"Classic Feynman" (a combined and expanded version of "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?")
http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Feynman-Adventures-Curious-Character/dp/0393061329/

For the real physicists out there, there is the book "Genius" which combines biographical info with descriptions of his theories and nobel prize winning work.
http://www.amazon.com/Genius-Life-Science-Richard-Feynman/dp/0679747044/

At Cole Field House, University of Maryland!
28-Apr-1973, according to fan sites.. a little before my time.

Nice story. Here's a toast to hardworking musicians everywhere..

>> ^Edgeman2112:
Where the hell is he? Are you watching the sorts of people that walk in the background?


Congressman Frank is outside the House Financial Services Committee hearing room at 2128 Rayburn House Office Building. These are public hearings, which is just what we need.

Pretty impressive how that young woman calmly walks into the club, in between the axe attack and the firebombing. (They always let in those cute girls!)

The audio is a representation of radio frequency signals measured at Saturn. The RF signals are described as 'kilometric' - which means wavelengths around a kilometer. This means they have a frequency around 300 kHz (on the lower side of AM radio) - since the speed of light is 300,000 km/s - i.e. a 1 km wave goes by at a frequency of 300,000 times per second. To let us hear the patterns in the signal, they shifted these RF signals down by a factor of 30 or so, and converted them to sound - around 10 kHz.

These RF signals are due to the motions of charged particles (electrons and protons) trapped in the magnetic field of Saturn. As the particles cycle back and forth along the magnetic fields, they move at different speeds and spread out, with different frequencies coming at different times. Converted to sound, it becomes these eerie tones.

The giant planets have very large magnetic fields. The charged particles come from the Sun, and also interact with the moons and rings. Jupiter has an even more powerful magnetic field, and radio bursts indicate that lightning bolts jump the space between Jupiter and the inner moons.

Here is a video that shows a model of Saturn's magnetic field.
The video must be correct, since the narrator has a british accent.
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/23337-saturn-composition-and-magnetic-fields-video.htm

Actually I am pretty impressed with the quality of predictions in the video. Broadband cable to the home, video links, etc. Not bad if you didn't expect a Moore's law increase in digital processing capability. (That 'network computer option 20 = home purchase calculation' is pretty funny.)

In contrast, I saved an 'information technology technology forecast' report produced for the U.S. government in the late 1970's.

The 1970's prediction for the year 2000? "ULTRA-high-speed punched card readers."