Nasa's take on a popular question, driven by the Discover supercomputer. There are multiple runthroughs, covering first the simple video then a full explanation, a deep dive into some of the details,... continue reading
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"Flashback to the holiday season of 2001. After years of filming, the first film in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, is due to hit theaters, and expectations... continue reading
posted by ant 1 year 3 months 1 week ago • 4 views • 24:24From https://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&boardid=1&threadid=254127.
posted by ant 1 year 6 months ago • 248 views • 39 secsA group of police recruits were hit be a car during a morning run. For some reason, a group of at least 40 recruits were running in the road instead of using sidewalks, without a permit, and were hit by a car. ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 6 months 1 week ago • 138 views • 2:07Original bandmembers of A Flock of Seagulls show how they perform their hit. Super clean presentation how YouTube vids should be done.
posted by oblio70 1 year 8 months 3 weeks ago • 72 views • 5:30From YouTube, "Our home is burning. Rapid climate change is destabilizing our world. It seems our emissions will not fall quickly enough to avoid runaway warming and we may soon hit tipping points that... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 1 month 1 week ago • 145 views • 16:11The world remains in a state of shock after spectacular satellite images of an undersea volcano erupting on the island of Tonga left a giant mushroom cloud in the Pacific region. With shocking visuals... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 4 months ago • 42 views • 4:26"Get into the spooky spirit with some of our favorite Count von Count moments, from classics like Batty Bat to new Halloween hits like The Cookie Monster Nosh, in this Best of The Count Compilation! ..."
posted by ant 2 years 7 months ago • 8 views • 42:40"Hit me... if you can..."
posted by ant 2 years 9 months 1 week ago • 41 views • 3:08From Youtube, "The night sky seems peaceful and orderly. But in reality, stars are careening through the galaxy at speeds of hundreds of thousands of kilometers per hour. Not bound by static formations... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 326 views • 9:46From Youtube, "The sun. Smooth and round and peaceful. Except when it suddenly vomits radiation and plasma in random directions. These solar flares and coronal mass ejections, or CMEs can hit earth and... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 135 views • 9:43Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things. To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 5 months 1 week ago • 877 views • 3:16Source: SmarterEveryDay
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 3 weeks ago • 1,355 views • 16:13Using foundational computer science theories, Colin Morris focuses on understanding trends in popular music. Borrowing from the areas of bioinformatics and compression algorithms, he shows that the lyrics... continue reading
posted by notarobot 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 140 views • 14:23YouTube description: How many tries does it take an average player to do what professional pool players do on the first try? Your Average Pool Player attempts Corey Deuel's famous 2004 US Open draw... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,732 views • 5:07YouTube description: Hi there! I'm (finally!) back with a new video explaining what is swing, a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s. The amazing... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 464 views • 2:01https://youtu.be/cECsj2Bznig The Global Vehicle Target is the new standard for testing autonomous driving and crash test systems. To cameras and radar, it looks like a car: but if you hit it, it'll... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 846 views • 4:33A game of swingball in a pubic space that teaches you how to say iambic Pentameter. A famous Shakespearian text is on the lamp-post, people say two words each, hitting the ball on the accent only.
posted by harriet 5 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 172 views • 1:09YouTube description: What happens when you fire a Civil War mortar at a caravan? We invited YouTuber Tom Scott to find out. The mortar used is a replica of Roaring Meg, which destroyed large parts... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months ago • 545 views • 7:11The White Horse, in Uffington, is one of the oldest surviving works of art in Britain: carved into a hillside in Oxfordshire 3,000 years ago. Every year, it's rechalked by volunteers co-ordinated through... continue reading
posted by nanrod 5 years 9 months 1 week ago • 624 views • 2:50