Interesting Science Video Thread

[kramwest1]

Not a video but didn't want to start a new thread for this.

Want to see the Earth and Moon from 114 million miles away?
MESSENGER: MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging

Cool! That's not something you see every day.

 

[AEON]

Physics can be interesting but unfortunately you need a particle smasher the size of the galaxy to test string theory.

...and a dose of Plato.

 

[Jive Turkey]

I'm not sure why they made this robot. Seems like all he does is work out and break shit. A bit of a hooligan if you ask me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rdRxV-qn3w&feature=player_embedded

 

[Venusfreedom]

Technology and Emergent Society

Yeah, A robot that that breaks shit seems a bit useless but technology is emergent in nature the knowledge base of robots just increases, a guy on youtube points this out-- 15 years ago I was building robotic mining equipment that used P1 based PLCs and ladder logic--
Today they use processors I don't recognize, do floating point math and use language I don't understand.
Speed / performace WOW
I worry We can all say hello, hello--to a place called technological unemployment---as automation increases, fewer and fewer jobs for people is the place we will be in.

So why not follow the natural course and let machines do the monotonous and boring and dangerous jobs instead of people--the economic system we live is in the opposite direction that technology is taking us to--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWsMdN7HMuA


A more sustainable design for society that is up to date with present knowledge could look something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJfKXbvA5T8&feature=related

 

[Inner El Guapo]

Hooligan Robots...that would be an awesome band name.

more cool pictures...new from Mars.
Exotic New Mars Images From Orbiting Telephoto Studio | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

Love this idea for a thread, unfortunately haven't had a chance to go through this thread and check some of this stuff out. Will do that soon. In the meantime, something new to add in that I just saw online-check this out:

How The Universe Works: Big Stars - Bing Videos

That's just crazy. And cool. And I love that one of the things is named Betelgeuse .

Angela

 

[dazzledbylight]

woooah tw1 !
look at that front move in!!!
course i have to look at more of those similar vids lined up at the bottom!


Way back for me while it was "only" the front of one ginormous Thunderhead.... i was looking westward from way upper Manhattan across the Hudson River over to the Palisades - a natural sheer cliff drop-off (forgot either glacier, or volcanic lava flow over).
Above was begining edge of the cloud, then it curves "inward" to the main towering up mass- which you couldn't see- the next thing you saw above (leading edge) was a double (NEVER Seen THAT before) on top of each other partial curve of the (icing up) anvil.

NO cmaera with me so I sat there and made a quick sketch which I re-did later. Then walked 1/2 mile home, drew pretty similar sight over the small comercial block it was sonme what closer.
It was moving pretty slowly. It took about another half hour before it actaully came over enough to rain!

I wonder how longit took ( the one you high-lighted) to start raining.

IEG
wow that Earth/Moon photo wow
inner chill-thrills!
and the new Mars photos! SO beautiful! So intriging!

I've never forgotten the first time i got to see part of the Moon upclose at a college friend's summer get together. He had a nice telelscope.
Oh My to see the moon's diffeerent sized craters up close, sharp, AND the shadows cast from them by The Sun - really making it REAL!

*has wondered for a long time whether The Edge has been able to buy time at one of the great Visible Light Mirror Telescopes*

You def have to see more of this stuff Moonlit! I've seen about half of it...def must catch up more myself!

thanks people!

 

[kramwest1]

l'Hydroptere--world's fastest sailboat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFGS7YCDk3Y

It sails at over 50 knots per hour (~57 MPH/93 KPH).

 

[Diemen]

Heh. Does it come with glowsticks and a hit of ecstasy, too?

 

[AEON]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtdE662eY_M

 

[AliEnvy]

^

Today's news...

A surprise from the LHC already! | Jon Butterworth | Science | guardian.co.uk

From another article:

A study of "high multiplicity" collisions, where a hundred or more charged particles are produced, has revealed indications that some particles are somehow "correlated" or associated together when they were created at the point of collision.

 

[kramwest1]

^

Today's news...

A surprise from the LHC already! | Jon Butterworth | Science | guardian.co.uk

From another article:

Thanks. ^That article is actually comprehensible.

 

[VintagePunk]

This is really cool, about music and memory:

Daniel Levitin is a musician/producer who turned neuroscientist and now investigates how and why humans make, like and consume music. If you haven’t, you really should read his book This is Your Brain on Music.

Check out this recent presentation.

YouTube - Why Do We Remember Old Pop Songs But Forget Where Our Keys Are?

 

[kramwest1]

YouTube - Solar Death Ray: Power of 5000 suns!

...but solar power couldn't possibly power all of the U.S.

 

[Jive Turkey]

YouTube - Mimic Octopus

 

[dazzledbylight]

i'll break out a jumbo bag of marshmallows for the solar collector !!

actually with very first static shot of the colllector i couldn't tell the scale! I thot it like ??/ 25 ft in diameter. boy was i suprized to see the actual size!

mimic octipus facinating. will have google more one them!

 

[purpleoscar]

YouTube - How cats lap up milk

 

[Jive Turkey]

It's funny you posted that. I was having a conversation about it (well, a very short conversation) just yesterday

 

[purpleoscar]

I always thought they scooped it. You learn something new everyday.

 

[Jive Turkey]

Apparently everyone thought they just scooped it until very recently. It's a fairly new finding

 

[kramwest1]

I like the cats that drink from their paws.

 

[purpleoscar]

I like cats who face drink

YouTube - Sicily the cat drinking from the bathroom faucet.

 

[yolland]

Dogs curl their tongue under to form a ladle:

YouTube - Time Warp - Dog Drinking

On the same (Discovery) show that clip is from, they made one of the cameramen lap water, for comic contrast, and replayed it in slow motion. It was pretty funny: our tongues are relatively rigid and slow, so the best we can do is 'flick' the water foreward and (inadequately) upward, in big messy heaves--kinda like using a spade--with the result that most of it winds up in the nose rather than the mouth.

 

[Jive Turkey]

YouTube - Richard Dawkins Answers Reddit Questions

If you watch the whole thing, he reads some of his hate mail around the 11:30 mark

 

[deep]

YouTube - Leaking Siberian Ice Prompts Methane Warning

 

[kramwest1]

YouTube - Leaking Siberian Ice Prompts Methane Warning

Oh shit.
I didn't think that was supposed to happen for many more years.
I hope this freaks people the fuck out more about climate change, although it's probably irreversible at this point.

 

[kramwest1]

Here's a happier video you can do at home:

YouTube - Scientific Tuesdays - Awesome milk trick!

 

[purpleoscar]

Scientists capture antimatter atoms in particle breakthrough - CNN

Scientists have captured antimatter atoms for the first time, a breakthrough that could eventually help us to understand the nature and origins of the universe.

Researchers at CERN, the Geneva-based particle physics laboratory, have managed to confine single antihydrogen atoms in a magnetic trap.

This will allow them to conduct a more detailed study of antihydrogen, which will in turn allow scientists to compare matter and antimatter.

Understanding antimatter is one of the biggest challenges facing science -- most theoretical physicists and cosmologists believe that at the Big Bang, when the universe was created, matter and antimatter were produced in equal amounts.

 

[kramwest1]

NASA press conference tomorrow:
NASA Astrobiology Press Conference: Have They Made Breakthrough In Search For Extraterrestrial Life?

Has NASA made a breakthrough in the search extraterrestrial life? That's what some are speculating after NASA sent out a curious press release announcing a news conference on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an "astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life."

Live here tomorrow:
NASA - NASA TV


(Not that the agency has ever been politicized but timing an interesting discovery certainly would help them when it comes to the inevitable budget slashing that is at hand in the government.)

 

[deep]

is this it?

Arsenic-tolerant microbe raises possibility of new types of life on Earth, or elsewhere - latimes.com