Fred and Greg's thread (11 Viewers)

[GregR]

Tennis. Sound on.

 

[GregR]

Government in action. Sound on.

 

[heckmanm]

When you're not sure why you're getting such poor gas mileage

One of them is getting GREAT gas mileage

 

[GregR]

"They are good dogs, Bront!"

 

[GregR]

Gigantic jet atmosphere lightning, above the Himalayas in the distance

 

[GregR]

Things you're glad you got on tape. Sound on.

 

[GregR]

OSHA called

 

[GregR]

Yeah, no.

 

[GregR]

F.D. Chester Willard, physicist

 

[MTskibum]

F.D. Chester Willard, physicist

I found the original article if anyone wants to read it.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.35.1442

 

[El Floppo]

F.D. Chester Willard, physicist

But did Chester win an IgNobel Prize like this guy?

https://www.ted.com/talks/marc_antoine_fardin_les_chats_sont_ils_liquides?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

 

[GregR]

Admit it, you kind of want one to happen. Just a little.

 

[GregR]

You do someone a favor and...

 

[GregR]

He's that good of a shooter

 

[GregR]

That face

 

[GregR]

I just can't relate to someone who wants to do this

 

[GregR]

That's no moon!

 

[El Floppo]

I just can't relate to someone who wants to do this

And split second away from getting run over, on top of whatever damage he just did to himself.

 

[Cowboysfan8]

I just can't relate to someone who wants to do this

That’s the dumbest thing I’ve seen in quite awhile

 

[GregR]

This makes my back hurt to see. But looks cool.

 

[El Floppo]

This makes my back hurt to see. But looks cool.

Would

 

[GregR]

They really thought that would work.

 

[GregR]

Boom

 

[El Floppo]

Boom

We camped as a family twice at its base at a place called Spirit Lake... A valley that had been closed by a previous eruption and flooded, with fully mature tall trees viisble standing below the surface. Picked wild strawberries on St Helens peak, and blueberries in the valleys. Magical place.

And that video is pretty astonishing

 

[GregR]

Immersive LED screen rooms

 

[GregR]

Boom

We camped as a family twice at its base at a place called Spirit Lake... A valley that had been closed by a previous eruption and flooded, with fully mature tall trees viisble standing below the surface. Picked wild strawberries on St Helens peak, and blueberries in the valleys. Magical place.

And that video is pretty astonishing

I went to grad school for geophysics, and was TA for a class of Geology for Engineers.

One of my favorite units we did amounted to "In time people will want to visit Mount St Helens again. Design a visitors center taking into account the geology of the mountain and mitigating as many potential risks as possible."

So a lot of looking at the geology after the eruption to find the more stable areas that are less likely to be impacted by a future event, evacuation routes that are similarly less likely to be impacted, etc.

A lot of good labs in that class. Everything from judging earthquake impacts on structures based on the underlying geology, to how to gauge historical flood levels of dry riverbeds or waterways nearby.

 

[Mister CIA]

Some next level eat-off skills on display here.

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[El Floppo]

Some next level eat-off skills on display here.

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Somebody needs to PM @shuke
Or maybe @General Malaise

 

[heckmanm]

Boom

I think I'm most stunned at the complete lack of profanity

 

[GregR]

That went... actually about how expected

 

[GregR]

Black holes and the jets
Part 2

 

[GregR]

Avalanche on K2

 

[GregR]

Lots of interesting maps

 

[GregR]

Surprised this doesn't happen more

 

[GregR]

Sometimes you just gotta

 

[GregR]

Sound on

 

[GregR]

He had to be exhausted

 

[GregR]

Wavy

 

[GregR]

Don't remember if I posted this recently, but worth resharing if so

 

[GregR]

This one hit my funny bone. Sound on.

 

[belljr]

Wavy

Pretty sure that's Nazare Portugal and people actually surf them

 

[El Floppo]

Wavy

Pretty sure that's Nazare Portugal and people actually surf them

It is nazare and there are people literally surfing the last wave in the video.

 

[El Floppo]

Theres that doc series.. in search of the 100 foot wave(?) that goes into the original of surfing there. Cool doc.

 

[belljr]

Wavy

Pretty sure that's Nazare Portugal and people actually surf them

It is nazare and there are people literally surfing the last wave in the video.

Ah didn't notice on my phone

And Yes - that series is awesome and crazy

 

[GregR]

Google. Sound on.

 

[GregR]

Brownout.

 

[GregR]

That's a good one

 

[GregR]

This movie writes itself

 

[GregR]

I laughed.

And then cried a little.

 

[GregR]

Brownout.

And yes, that was a sewer line explosion, incidentally.