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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What's a "seal" anyway? You know, it's really unclear. Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 0:48 What Are Seals? 1:38 Where Can We Find Them? 2:05 Species of Seals 3:09 The Three Families 3:22 Odobenidae ... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 6 months 1 week ago • 345 views • 25:39Some 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 2 years 12 months ago • 839 views • 45 secs"Grover tires himself out while demonstrating the difference between near and far in this classic Sesame Street clip! ..." From http://www.savagechickens.com/2020/11/the-competition.html#comment-1198190.
posted by ant 3 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 98 views • 2:45One for the ages - Samuel L Jackson revisits an old classic with an important message - and reads "Stay the F*** at Home". YT: While Jimmy is in quarantine, he checks in with the great Samuel L. Jackson... continue reading
posted by Zawash 4 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 281 views • 8:35Plain old soap and water absolutely annihilate coronavirus. Read more about the coronavirus pandemic at http://vox.com/coronavirus You've been told a thousand times: wash your hands to stop the spread... continue reading
posted by eric3579 4 years 2 months ago • 379 views • 3:45For three centuries, farmers living in the remote mountains of northern Turkey have communicated great distances by whistling. It’s a language called kuş dili that is still used to this day, though... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 4 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 100 views • 2:41YouTube description: Researchers out of the Camera Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab have developed a novel imaging system that can gauge the distance of objects shrouded by fog so thick that human... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 1,189 views • 2:59This is probably the biggest loophole in German gun law: Because this arrow shooting airgun does not shoot a projetile THROUGH a barrel but OVER a barrel, the BKA (highest German authority on gun assessments)... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months 1 week ago • 333 views • 5:31The Voyager 1 space probe is the furthest man-made object from Earth, and the fastest. But right now, it's moving towards us. Relatively speaking. At Mission Control for the Deep Space Network, inside... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 weeks ago • 656 views • 3:26YouTube: In which John Green considers the historical distance between Rome's Pantheon, the cave paintings at Lascaux, a different community's cave paintings at Chauvet, and the current day. Too often,... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 4 months ago • 518 views • 3:42Compression of time during travel near the speed of light has some interesting and significant consequences.
posted by messenger 1 decade 1 year 2 months 1 week ago • 446 views • 8:37YouTube Description: What would you see if you were drifting through space, looking back at the sun? Well its light intensity would decrease as the inverse square of distance from the sun. And you would... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago • 569 views • 3:06This clip from the BBC’s Edwardian Farm documentary series shows how rope was made back before industrial factories spun threads together. It involved pulling and suspending fibers across long distances... continue reading
posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 1 decade 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,236 views • 2:50YouTube Description: When sunlight shines through a small hole, it casts an image of the sun on a wall some distance away. Therefore the size and shape of the hole have little effect on the size and... continue reading
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