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Minute Physics Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics?feature=watch

Why you should watch: It quickly explains a small element of physics without making you feel stupid.


What do you all have?

Wow, didn't even have time to blow a neural circuit. It was over so fast! Good video.

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, and every year, at 10:00 AM, Israel observes two minutes of complete silence. A siren, heard here outside of Tel Aviv, signals for people to stop whatever they are doing. Yes, even driving.
Watching as cars stop in the middle of the highway is one of the most forceful images of this annual remembrance.

http://jalopnik.com/5903482/watch-highw ... -holocaust

Incredible display of remembrance.

TUSpilot wrote:

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, and every year, at 10:00 AM, Israel observes two minutes of complete silence. A siren, heard here outside of Tel Aviv, signals for people to stop whatever they are doing. Yes, even driving.
Watching as cars stop in the middle of the highway is one of the most forceful images of this annual remembrance.

Incredible display of remembrance.

Now that is way cool . . . and that, by the way, was today. Holocaust Remembrance Day . . .


/On my 1/4 Israeli Blood Rant/

I saw a FB post recently where someone (and we know that person here) decided that we should have a NATIONAL HOLIDAY in the name of a professional baseball player . . .




If we NEED another National Holiday, it should be this. Baseball Players are a dime a dozen . . . the Holocaust, God forbid, shall happen but once.

/Off my 1/4 Israeli Blood Rant/

How the light saber sound came about.

Because seriously, everyone needs to see this-

GQfluffy wrote:Because seriously, everyone needs to see this

I am that much closer to having seen it all.

Thanks, GQ...

Good song...simple

Khan Academy, from math and finance to art history and civics.

http://www.khanacademy.org/finance-econ ... oeconomics

CBS primer: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7401696n&tag=api

Why? Because it's a flying speed hump MD-11 in all its cumbersome glory (you may want to watch on mute though).

The Police Tapes. It's a 1977 PBS documentary shot in the South Bronx with the 44th NYPD precinct. It shows the extremely gritty desolate view of urban life in the 70's and how officers have resigned themselves to the fact they are just trying to keep a lid on a cesspool.

Watching this should be mandatory for any hockey fan:

Freedom Seven from launch to splashdown

Nosedive wrote:Minute Physics Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics?feature=watch

Why you should watch: It quickly explains a small element of physics without making you feel stupid.

I like that.

Nosedive wrote:Freedom Seven from launch to splashdown

Actually watched this not too long ago. Space and back in 15 minutes, first of anyone in his hemisphere, and only the second human to do so. I'm surprised that Redstone had enough lift to get his balls off the ground.

Here's a must-watch for any mechanic, engineer, or otherwise, on the purpose & use of automotive differentials. It's old, but it's very intuitive because of its simplicity:

I've watched this round over and over.

Its a great round between Micky Ward (The Fighter) vs. Arturo Gatti

Gatti is one bad ass for taking those hits and staying up. Anyone else would have fallen after 20 seconds.

Fumanchewd wrote:I've watched this round over and over.

Its a great round between Micky Ward (The Fighter) vs. Arturo Gatti

Gatti is one bad ass for taking those hits and staying up. Anyone else would have fallen after 20 seconds.

The whole trilogy of fights between the two was ridiculous. I hosted an all-nighter where we all stayed up for the third fight, and our neighbours were not impressed!

I think the fights still available on DVD, with interviews from both fighters. Well worth looking out for.

JLAmber wrote:

Fumanchewd wrote:I've watched this round over and over.

Its a great round between Micky Ward (The Fighter) vs. Arturo Gatti

Gatti is one bad ass for taking those hits and staying up. Anyone else would have fallen after 20 seconds.

The whole trilogy of fights between the two was ridiculous. I hosted an all-nighter where we all stayed up for the third fight, and our neighbours were not impressed!

I think the fights still available on DVD, with interviews from both fighters. Well worth looking out for.

As of now they are on youtube (until they are removed)

here is the whole first fight



Its just great boxing that you don't see too often.

At the end of the third fight Gatti was coughing up blood. A battered and bruised Ward brought the man who had just beaten him into retirement a bottle of water

RIP Thunder

JLAmber wrote:At the end of the third fight Gatti was coughing up blood. A battered and bruised Ward brought the man who had just beaten him into retirement a bottle of water

RIP Thunder

That was classy boxing, something I would take over MMA anyday. Gatti had a long and great career.

Fight II


Part III

So this is going OT but I know you're quite the...boxer fan, JL...but did Manny Pacquiao get screwed or what?

GQfluffy wrote:So this is going OT but I know you're quite the...boxer fan, JL...but did Manny Pacquiao get screwed or what?

Yeah, he was screwed, the right result was 116-112 to Pacquiao. I watched the fight with a group containing two current pros and a couple of us who have also stepped in the ring in the past, and we all had it 117-112 to 115-113. Nobody saw a Bradley win or anything even close.

The Nevada State Athletics Commission have refused to investigate the scoring and there are now some calls for a criminal investigation into what many see as an influenced decision by two of the judges.

Back on topic... this dude just passed away. Trolls worldwide have adopted this as their anthem.

God bless Triumph.

Both the motorcycle company and the dog getting fisted.

B/c America is pretty f*cking awesome:

I don't know why this isn't that well-known here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Barham_(04)

It took four minutes from torpedo hits to sinking.