The F-15 was born from the difficult lessons learned during the Vietnam War. In the late 1950s, Air Force planners were confident that the advent of powerful new radars and long-range air-to-air missiles... continue reading
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From YouTube, "Here in the Kurzgesagt labs, we test very important ideas to see what happens when you blow things up or play with black holes. Many of you suggested that we look into an idea that sounds... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 1 year 6 months 1 week ago • 89 views • 10:55Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years ago • 225 views • 9:55From 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 • 16:11Physicist Professor Brian Cox breaks down what would ACTUALLY happen if a gigantic comet really was hurtling towards planet Earth.
posted by eric3579 2 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 281 views • 14:23An inside look at how a hydroelectric dam turbine is started up.
posted by w1ndex 3 years 2 weeks ago • 509 views • 6:48"What different clouds mean, explained for kids. Welcome to our first-ever week of programming for kids! If you’re standing outside and you look up, you’ll likely see something familiar above... continue reading
posted by ant 3 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 67 views • 8:03From Youtube, "The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 211 views • 11:41In this episode of Forgotten Failures, I take a look back at the long forgotten TV spinoff of "Blazing Saddles". This sitcom tried to capture the humor and success of the film that inspired it but would... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 941 views • 7:36From Youtube, "Well... this took longer than expected. I am sorry you had to wait so long for me to finish this video, I had some reading to do, then write the video, record the audio, and then the... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 1 week ago • 19 views • 1:09:23From Youtube, "Well, looks like it's that time of year again. When Ben Shapiro (or anyone else) argues that rap and hip hop aren't technically considered music, they're flying in the face of basically... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 21 views • 13:55YouTube description: Something about the Apollo missions always confused me, sure, the step off of the lunar lander’s 91 cm footpad was a small step, but the step just before that was actually enormous! ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months ago • 483 views • 14:48YouTube description: I got to see an Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) up close and personal at the Monterey Bay Aquarium recently and I fell in love. These things are the superlative of superlatives. They... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,838 views • 3:58"... The eyes are often the first thing we see when we look at someone. And when you look at them up close, everyone’s eye color is a kaleidoscope of shapes and hues. How does eye color work? The answer... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years ago • 543 views • 6:21The Lamborghini Miura is regarded by many to be the world’s first supercar. It set the car world on fire with its groundbreaking mid-engine layout, monster performance, and looks that could kill. Join... continue reading
posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 5 years 9 months ago • 94 views • 12:42YouTube description: A simple demonstration of the learning ability of a monitor lizard. If you're curious about how they get back into the enclosure, when they need to bask to warm up again they... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months ago • 294 views • 6:27YouTube description: This is how we go from single cells to people. EVO-DEVO Huxley B. Mac. Oh Carroll, Carroll Gould, Stephen Jay yeah D-D-D-D-Davidson and Peter See One cell divide and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 923 views • 4:46Believe it or not, off-roading is actually illegal in Iceland - they'll lock you up. There is an exception, though, in the form of the outrageous Icelandic Formula Offroad Championship. Strapped into home-built... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 249 views • 7:24Ewww Ewww EWWW!!! YouTube: When predators attack, daddy longlegs deliberately release their limbs to escape. They can drop up to three and still get by just fine.
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 9 months ago • 884 views • 4:05There's an MRI scanner in Cardiff that can look at how the brain's wired up: your connectome. It's nowhere close to science fiction singularity brain-uploading, but it might well be part of unlocking new... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 10 months ago • 312 views • 3:29