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Baby Wakes Up, Smiles, And Falls Back Asleep Over And Over

ambivalens says...

That's pretty cute. I think what we're seeing is the baby reaching it's stimulus barrier and that's why it's falling a sleep. It's mechanism of the infants nervous system that make sure the baby shuts down if it's getting more stimuli than it can handle. That's why babies often fall asleep in noisy rooms.

Crazy Person Calls Machine Shop Leaves Very Weird Message

Then I See His Penis Out!

ambivalens says...

Good thing he was caught. I was a lecture once where I was told that about 60% of flashers progress to a sexual assault of a more serious nature after some time. People should take it seriously to report flashers.

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Amazing Wingsuit Flying

ambivalens says...

I forgot to explain how they can do it

The wingsuit is constructed by having panels underneath the arms and between the legs that fill up with air. When the wingsuit is inflated it performs not too differently from a wing. The pilot can manipulate how the "wing" flies by adjusting his bodyposition. Needless to mention, these guys have bodycontrol that just blows your mind.

You should also pay attention to when they do their exit from the cliff - apart from the summersaults for dramatic effect you can see that they go into pretty much a straight vertical dive. By doing this they build up an amazing amount of speed that they can use to fly flaster. They can use the extra surplus of kinetic energy to quickly adjust their trajectory if needed and thus fly over any obstacles. Greater speed = greater control.

You can find another VKB video right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG6NFCIneTc
This video has been a huge hit in the skydiving/basejumping communities, but somehow it's not as popular with the general population.

Amazing Wingsuit Flying

ambivalens says...

This video is recorded in the north-western part of Norway.

The french basejumper is Jean-Loic Albert, who is arguably the very best wingsuit pilot in the world. This video made when he and a group of american base jumpers visited the norwegian basejumping group VKB (Verdal'n Karsk & Base) to learn about proximity wingsuitflying. The guy in yellow, Espen, is a norwegian from VKB. In that last scene he's flying about a meter and an half over the ground.

Kids having some fun with dads car

ambivalens says...

It says "There's many small engineers. We're looking forward to when they grow up". Hydro is a norwegian oil-company, and is evidently trying to recruit engineers in a currently superheated jobmarket. Great commercial

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First person video of speed gliding on the Eiger.

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