Accidentally filming triboluminescence by shooting two air cannons loaded with glass spheres directly at each other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboluminescence
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Proudly Presenting: "Corporate Ping Pong" This engineered mechanical sculpture is a representation of the hum and haw and constant, slow churn of the big corporate machine. Jumping through hoops, creating... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 months 1 week ago • 72 views • 6:35Tesla turbines are far more efficient than bladed turbines and take less maintenance.
posted by newtboy 7 months 2 weeks ago • 310 views • 1:00The 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
posted by eric3579 1 year 1 month 1 week ago • 83 views • 14:21Old school car air conditioning.
posted by newtboy 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago • 340 views • 58 secsEnter the world of an undertaker whose family for three generations has cared for both the living and the dead in a small Michigan town, as families navigate loss, grief and mortality. (Aired 2007) ... continue reading
posted by BSR 1 year 7 months ago • 52 views • 53:38The executive desk toy is alright for about 25 seconds. But what if it went a little bit faster? Nothing that a compressed air cannon can't solve while Gav and Dan film it 4000 times slower than you can see. ... continue reading
posted by BSR 2 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 135 views • 12:17The 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 • 4:26It's hard to know if she actually had a coherent point to make here--it sure didn't look like it. At the least, she was poorly served by her staff, which didn't educate her, didn't program her questions,... continue reading
posted by SFOGuy 2 years 9 months ago • 1,835 views • 2:12Some boaters were left stunned after witnessing an orca's extraordinary leap 15-feet out of the water during a dolphin hunt in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. (Credit: Miguel Cuevas) While battering their... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years ago • 839 views • 45 secsTrump found the silver lining in Covid early on. It means he no longer has to touch all those disgusting people at his rallies. In 2016 Olivia Troye, Vice President Pence's former Homeland Security... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 8 months ago • 477 views • 1:01"Take a look inside a hive as a wasp queen begins her reign; founding a colony, hunting to feed her brood and defending against intruders. As the sun rises, something royal stirs inside a pile of firewood.... continue reading
posted by ant 3 years 9 months ago • 16 views • 5:23YouTube description: Tejas Sidnal is an architect who believes people in his profession have a responsibility to rid the world of air pollution. Which is why he founded Carbon Craft Design, a startup... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 85 views • 2:25YouTube description: This video demonstrate how differently the air spreads when coughing. This visualizes the high importance of the World Health Organization's behavioral recommendations for protection... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 2 months ago • 427 views • 1:09From Youtube, "A brief overview of this ingenious method of compressing air using only the power of water. The way a trompe harnesses the power of water to generate compressed air with no moving parts... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,217 views • 8:50Wave 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 • 3:16What if a Passenger was the ONLY one left to land the plane? Could a passenger theoretically do it, without ANY previous knowledge or training? In todays Special video, I will go through the required... continue reading
posted by BSR 4 years 7 months ago • 25 views • 31:56YouTube description: The extraordinary story of a runaway Soviet Air Force MiG-23 that flew from Poland to Belgium in 1989, sparking a major security scare between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and ended... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months 1 week ago • 424 views • 4:46