Sorry Discovery Channel, glass is not a liquid at room temperature. The factoid about window glass 'flowing' is an oddly popular urban myth.

It's true that glass doesn't undergo a phase transformation from liquid to amorphous solid, but we can pick an arbitrary temperature and say that it's "solid enough" based on its properties. If you want to see glass flow you'll be waiting longer than the life of the universe.

Pitch, on the other hand, does flow very slowly. If you watch it for ten years you might see it move a hair.

I'll address a couple of questions at the same time. This video is actually a compilation of cuts taken from a Discovery Channel show (the name escapes me, but I just saw it recently), and the uploader simply put them together and added music. Because this came from a full-length TV show there's obviously a lot of information missing, including helpful narration. In the show they did explain what selective pressures brought about the evolution of these species and the time frame involved in these changes. Notice the time counter in the upper left hand counter rapidly zipping through millions of years as you watch the species change.

Even with missing information this is pretty cool, isn't it?

That's discovery channel HD quality. Good work ydj!!!

Damn discovery channel took my seek gadget! How Dare they not let me fast forward!

This will not go unnoticed!

there has also been a recent discovery that some black holes orbit each other .. i dont know where i know that from (i would like to say discovery channel) but not positive of my source

First I thought it was some made up TV program trying to get some ratings. But I see the Discovery channel mark at the corner.

My doubts went away immediately

Actually, there was a reinvestigation into the crash and while speed was still a factor, they also pointed out that due to the sunlight angles and direction of travel of both vehicles, there is the supposition that it might have been very difficult for James Dean to see the other car. Speed was still an issue, of course. I can't remember the name of the show, but it was on the Discovery channel.

"He can't help but be extreme. He was a Navy SEAL for 10 years and has 25+ years of training in several of the more brutal martial arts (muay thai, Jeet Kune Do, aikido, jujitsu, savate, arnis).

That's over 35 years of programming/brainwashing. You'd be pretty extreme too."

That's not an excuse, if anything most people with that kind of experience have the opposite kind of mentality. Actually, I didn't think the host was that bad compared to others, but he's playing up a bit of the "XTREME KOMBAT" angle up because the Discovery Channel producers think their military shows will be more successful if they go over the top and pander to the lowest common denominator, and damn them, they're right. Oh, and aikido is not a brutal martial art in any sense of the phrase.

Is this from the Discovery Channel special?

Ok.. so some clarification.. I mean Discovery Channel's crab fishing show could have clips deemed snuff.. and what about the blurry infrared military pr0n showing missle impacts? Technically this is showing death, but...

I believe it is the shocking upclose murder kind of videos.

I'm not sure a NASCAR crash, that someone died en route to the hospital should count as snuff. Now a motorcyle stunt video where the guy comes down, crashes and goes limp and is dead on impact, might be considered snuff. soo... I guess that is what *blog is for.

Uh.. "snuff" and "people dying" are NOT the same thing. This is from the Discovery Channel and it's clearly a news/documentary style report. It's a little sensationalized, yes, but not graphic or overly focused on the death. In fact, if you watched it, you'd notice the bulk of the report focuses on the survivor's story and past, and the deceased is mentioned respectfully.

"is a video of an animal being killed acceptable?"

Why not? Ever watch Discovery Channel's PLANET EARTH series? Or any nature documentary for that matter? Life is a terminal condition. Anything and everything that is alive will die. You included. It's nothing to be ashamed or afraid of. The conditions and circumstances surrounding and including death can be interesting, dare I say amusing. Many things can be sad and amusing at the same time.

It's sad that Cheney shot his friend in the face, but it's funny as hell. Call me insensitive if you like.

This video was tagged appropriately, if you read the tags you'd know what to expect.

thanks for putting this up, thats me in the red hat....to bad they cut me out of the whole thing on the discovery channel

Man vs Wild is an amazing series on Discovery channel. This guy has some serious balls going out to the most remote places on earth and forcing himself to find his way back to civilization armed only with shit like a knife. when he jumped into the that frozen lake on purpose, stayed in there for like a minute, got out and shed all his clothes in the freezing wind and sat naked by the fire, all to fight off hypothermia, this guy just made the list in my head for the ranking "most balls on earth"


SERIOUS props to Bear Grylls

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_vs_wild

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according to wikipedia:

In fact, superheating of plain tap water, for instance in the microwave, is just as great a danger as when heating distilled water. In the popular Discovery Channel show Mythbusters, an experiment was conducted where distilled water was placed in a microwave oven for several minutes long enough to boil, but no convection (boiling bubbles) took place.[citation needed] When a contaminant (a sugar cube) was added to the superheated water, it had an explosive effect. However, this effect also occurs with normal tap water, as microscopic impurities (especially those which carry air bubbles) are needed for boiling to start.The dissolved impurities in tap water are not enough to inhibit the superheating.