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Entries Tagged as 'science'
Storm chaser on Mars
March 26th, 2012 · No Comments · amazing, science, video
Martian orbiter captures a giant dust devil on the Martian surface allowing the boys back home to manipulate the data and render it in 3D.
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Animal misconceptions
March 21st, 2012 · No Comments · humor, science, video
Myths about daddy longlegs, bats, goldfish and more are debunked in this quick-talking video. If you can’t keep up, stay out of the kitchen.
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Steel drum crush
March 15th, 2012 · Comments Off · amazing, science, video
A 55-gallon steel drum is crushed (imploded) using a small amount of water/steam and an ice bath. Here, it happens to a rail tanker.
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Acetone and styrofoam
February 27th, 2012 · 1 Comment · odd, science, video
We all knew this but we’ve never seen it in action before.
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Tornado on the sun
February 21st, 2012 · Comments Off · amazing, science, video
For a 30 hour spell (Feb 7-8, 2012) the Solar Dynamics Observatory captured plasma caught in a magnetic dance across the Sun’s surface. The results closely resemble extreme tornadic activity on Earth.
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Signal to noise
February 2nd, 2012 · Comments Off · amazing, science, video
Time-lapse footage taken at the Very Large Array in Socorro, New Mexico, one of the largest Radio Astronomy Observatories in the world.
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RC bird
January 31st, 2012 · Comments Off · amazing, clever, science, video
An ornithopter modeled after DaVinci’s drawings takes to the sky.
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Controlled quantum levitation
January 5th, 2012 · Comments Off · amazing, clever, science, video
Special cars on a special Wipe’Out race track use liquid nitrogen as fuel/magic potion.
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Aurora Borealis
January 4th, 2012 · Comments Off · amazing, science, video
Video of beautiful Northern Lights shot in Finnish Lapland in the winter of 2011.
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Comet Lovejoy
December 30th, 2011 · Comments Off · amazing, news, science, video
Astrophotographer Stephané Guisard gave Comet Lovejoy the time lapse treatment, using four different sequences of photos he shot near Santiago, Chile on the morning of December 23rd, as the comet rose above the Andes. (Source)
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Pyro board
December 28th, 2011 · Comments Off · amazing, science, video
Sound waves are transmitted through a flammable gas creating alternating high and low pressure zones. This creates the flame pattern.
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