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Started by Sandra Craft, December 01, 2015, 06:26:52 AM

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Icarus


Icarus

This is  fun stuff by Veritasium. There are lots of other short vids there.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgrXd0NM2y8

joeactor

Aardman animation and William Shatner with the BBC on Mars:
(worth a watch)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04vjrh0

Arturo

In case anybody is alive and wants to see it

https://youtu.be/lZmqbL-hz7U

Spaces live stream of a rocket launching into space
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Icarus

Here is one that is in the same ballpark as the one Books showed us on the previous page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HboF1R-ILg

I'd not want to be a biology teacher in many places in the USA. They have to be ever so frustratingly careful if they want to keep their job.

Biggus Dickus

Stunning short film about the Apollo moon landing made from astronauts' photos



QuoteMotion designer Christian Stangl and composer Wolfgang Stangl created this gorgeous short film, titled LUNAR, from thousands of NASA photographs taken by astronauts.

This is a really cool video, watch here...do it. NOW. GO FULL SCREEN AND TURN UP THE VOLUME:
"Some people just need a high-five. In the face. With a chair."

Magdalena

^^^
Thank you, Father.
Very nice. I'm probably gonna watch that video many times.  :tellmemore:

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joeactor


Dave

Quote from: joeactor on May 20, 2017, 02:21:33 PM
Full cloud inversion at the Grand Canyon:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/laurageiser/watch-the-grand-canyon-get-swallowed-by-a-thick-fog?utm_term=.wl0WyRXgZK#.rbkWQZv9Nj

My question... How is this different from fog?

It isn't, sorf of,  but it is a superb piece of cinematography, or videography, and I don't care - so there!  :nanana:
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Sandra Craft

Quote from: joeactor on May 20, 2017, 02:21:33 PM
Full cloud inversion at the Grand Canyon:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/laurageiser/watch-the-grand-canyon-get-swallowed-by-a-thick-fog?utm_term=.wl0WyRXgZK#.rbkWQZv9Nj

My question... How is this different from fog?

I usually associate fog with the sea, but whatever this is it's incredibly beautiful and cool.
Sandy

  

"Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet."  Sarah Louise Delany

joeactor

Agreed Gloucester and BCE - it's very mesmerizing...

Dave

Why is it that "fog" seems to dank and dismal whereas "mist" is all mystical and ethereal?

"Head down he tramped his way, wearily, through the London mist . . ." just doesn't cook the cookie somehow.
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Dave

This is something I have to try!

Cheap, fun demo of vacuum power!

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Sandra Craft

Quote from: Gloucester on May 22, 2017, 02:47:45 PM
Why is it that "fog" seems to dank and dismal whereas "mist" is all mystical and ethereal?

"Head down he tramped his way, wearily, through the London mist . . ." just doesn't cook the cookie somehow.
:snicker:


Quote from: Gloucester on June 02, 2017, 03:40:32 PM
This is something I have to try!

Cheap, fun demo of vacuum power!



Question: what would this be used for?
Sandy

  

"Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet."  Sarah Louise Delany

Dave

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Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on June 02, 2017, 08:33:28 PM
Quote from: Gloucester on May 22, 2017, 02:47:45 PM
Why is it that "fog" seems to dank and dismal whereas "mist" is all mystical and ethereal?

"Head down he tramped his way, wearily, through the London mist . . ." just doesn't cook the cookie somehow.
:snicker:


Quote from: Gloucester on June 02, 2017, 03:40:32 PM
This is something I have to try!

Cheap, fun demo of vacuum power!



Question: what would this be used for?

Well, at the RAF experimental place there was a giant vacuum gun that was built to shoot frozen chickens, at Mach 2, at Concorde windscreens...SUPER-SPLATTT!!! Safer than pumping up a big pressure tank to 1000 pounds per square inch and letting rip with that.

There are basic principles to be taught about construction, vacuum, air pressure, material strength ... that this thing could be used to teach kids. Let's face it, most kids, boys especially, like shooting drinks cans off walls. The more fun, the more destruction, the more sticks.

My favourite back-yard demo was a flour bomb. Large biscuit tin with a small hole in the base for a small funnel, a night-light candle, some fine flour, a long plastic tube and a tyre pump (or a big puff). Stand tin on two bricks or something, funnel in hole with plastic tube attached, flour in funnel. Place and light candle, put lid on. Connect pump to tube.

Dramatic count down, hit pump. Flour gets blown out of funnel in finely dispersed cloud. Cloud hits candle flame and rapid flame front created - expanding air/gas blows tin lid off. Gets even more fun if you add magnesium powder to flour.

Dust explosions can be dangerous, I know, been in the middle of one...
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