Cool things I found on YouTube or other videos...

[modeltrains]

Did I hear the guy correctly, 3 and 1/2 years to make the engine?

 

[Sooner Boomer]

Comments in the video:

"No injuries or deaths were reported."

"12 km from the center of Seville, in southwestern Spain."

"When the flames flashed over the equipment it was hot enough to ignite the fluid coming straight out of the pressure point. That’s why it suddenly tore the building up. It went from just high pressure liquid to essentially a rocket engine."

Reminds me of the time the flow solder machine jammed and circuit boards full of electrolytic capacitors fell into the solder. Poppin' fun time!

 

[Cape Byron]

Unfortunately a little sedate. More like a display run...

 

[Cape Byron]

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[Cape Byron]

Safer on the track does mean safer on the road.

 

[Cape Byron]

 

[tomsteve]

Did I hear the guy correctly, 3 and 1/2 years to make the engine?

i believe so. some serious engineering involved

 

[Cape Byron]

Someone posted a pic of this in another thread, and led by the nose, as I am frequently, I went down that particular rabbit hole.

 

[Funkworks]

Someone posted a pic of this in another thread, and led by the nose, as I am frequently, I went down that particular rabbit hole.

Saw that go by but have yet to find 25 min to watch - looking forward to it!

In the meantime, a hydrogen powered plane:

 

[K'Tesh]

Rubber band gun vs rubber (ok... ok... vinyl) facehugger...

 

[K'Tesh]

Saw that go by but have yet to find 25 min to watch - looking forward to it!

In the meantime, a hydrogen powered plane:

I see your hydrogen powered plane, and raise you one that's powered by the largest nuclear reactor in the solar system...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/the-impossible-flight/

 

[Funkworks]

I see your hydrogen powered plane, and raise you one that's powered by the largest nuclear reactor in the solar system...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/the-impossible-flight/

Yeah. Chemical vs nukular. Not quite the same ball park, but both are very interesting. I did get a glimpse of the Solar Impulse in person years ago.

 

[Funkworks]

Someone posted this somewhere else but it also needs to be here.

 

[SpaceX76]

Opposite of rocketry but still cool.


(extremely excited scientists, keep volume low)

 

[Cape Byron]

I love steam. Do you love steam?

 

[modeltrains]

I love steam. Do you love steam?

When it is contained and functional, yes, but just running around my house freely, no.

 

[Tech 68]

The sound may need to be turned up

 

[Cape Byron]

Mads Ostberg. Realtime, real speed video...

 

[Funkworks]

Randomly looked up the very first “daily dose of internet” video ever and it’s about a very odd rocket.

 

[kuririn]

Randomly looked up the very first “daily dose of internet” video ever and it’s about a very odd rocket.

It's a type of rocket called a girandola.
There is an annual rocket festival in Thailand where villages compete by building their finest girandolas.
Awesome sauce.

 

[Funkworks]

Parachuting aircraft. Pilot slightly injured but there's nothing graphic in this video.
I can't help but wonder why he didn't glide it down instead. Unconscious maybe.



https://www.aviation24.be/miscellan...light-aircraft-crash-lands-in-bruges-belgium/

 

[modeltrains]

I can't help but wonder why he didn't glide it down instead.

I'd guess it was a matter of altitude and rate of descent versus what the landscape was in an arc in front of him.

 

[Funkworks]

I'd guess it was a matter of altitude and rate of descent versus what the landscape was in an arc in front of him.

I guess that's what investigations are for.

Update on fusion.

 

[Cape Byron]

 

[Cape Byron]

 

[Sooner Boomer]

 

[Mugs914]

"Hey Dimitri, there is a school for the deaf off the end of the runway and they just called to complain about the noise!"

They must be gunning for the Tu-95's World's Loudest Airplane title...

 

[Mugs914]

It is a cool airplane, though. There is something about a swept-wing propeller plane that is automatically cool. Add a whole bunch of contra-rotating props and just goes full Gerry Anderson!

 

[Sooner Boomer]

It is a cool airplane, though. There is something about a swept-wing propeller plane that is automatically cool. Add a whole bunch of contra-rotating props and just goes full Gerry Anderson!

The fact that something like that can STOL is *amazing*. I don't care how much noise it makes!