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Title: Interesting and clever stuff Post by: kinboshi on February 22, 2013, 02:12:09 PM Couldn't really think of an appropriate thread to post this:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp89tTDxXuI Juggling quadrocopters! Title: Re: Clever stuff Post by: bobAlike on February 22, 2013, 02:19:53 PM Now this I do like.
Great thread Dewi Title: Re: Clever stuff Post by: kinboshi on February 22, 2013, 03:20:35 PM More clever stuff:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_W-IXqoxHA Title: Re: Clever stuff Post by: Mohican on February 22, 2013, 03:29:20 PM More clever stuff: Cue loads of blondes gurning at their screensYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_W-IXqoxHA Title: Re: Clever stuff Post by: kinboshi on February 22, 2013, 03:31:02 PM More clever stuff: Cue loads of blondes gurning at their screensYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_W-IXqoxHA My missus was just laughing at me. Until I told her what I was doing, then she joined in. Title: Re: Interesting and clever stuff Post by: pokerfan on February 22, 2013, 04:57:55 PM The Foals' new video is pretty good; 3d dot to dot.
http://www.amusement.net/2013/02/18/motion-capture-creates-an-amazing-3d-connect-the-dots-in-foals-new-video/ Title: Re: Interesting and clever stuff Post by: Tal on February 22, 2013, 05:01:31 PM Thread title changed..?
Writing a cheque still cashable, I hasten to add. Title: Re: Interesting and clever stuff Post by: bobAlike on February 22, 2013, 05:20:07 PM Does this qualify?
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=717vb7kLKKk Title: Re: Interesting and clever stuff Post by: sharky_uk on February 22, 2013, 05:58:43 PM Does this qualify? YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=717vb7kLKKk Fake but very funny! Title: Re: Interesting and clever stuff Post by: kinboshi on April 09, 2013, 08:30:07 PM http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22079592
Scientists at Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel. The scientists behind it claim it is the lightest material ever manufactured. (http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c17/JCtheMessiah/_66823900_graphene-cntultraflyweightaerogel-gaoc-figure1b.jpg) Title: Re: Interesting and clever stuff Post by: kinboshi on April 10, 2013, 03:44:39 PM RIP Professor Sir Robert Edwards
The IVF pioneer whose work led to the world's first "test tube baby" has died at the age of 87. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-22091873 Title: Re: Interesting and clever stuff Post by: mulhuzz on April 10, 2013, 04:00:33 PM pretty sure this qualifies.....
http://www.livescience.com/28562-human-rat-brains-linked.html?cmpid=514627 Title: Re: Interesting and clever stuff Post by: kinboshi on April 10, 2013, 05:17:36 PM pretty sure this qualifies..... http://www.livescience.com/28562-human-rat-brains-linked.html?cmpid=514627 Bloody hell yeah! Using brains to control bionic limbs is clever enough, this is taking that a step further (and two to the side)! Title: Re: Interesting and clever stuff Post by: kinboshi on April 11, 2013, 10:43:39 PM http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/
The most amazing material. Most conductive, strongest, and thinnest material known to man. Crazy stuff! A sheet a metre square, at just one atom thick could hold a cat! But it's so thin it'd look like the cat is floating in the air! (Got this from a documentary on BBC2 this evening, a Horizon special) Title: Re: Interesting and clever stuff Post by: Cf on April 12, 2013, 02:42:54 AM http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/ The most amazing material. Most conductive, strongest, and thinnest material known to man. Crazy stuff! A sheet a metre square, at just one atom thick could hold a cat! But it's so thin it'd look like the cat is floating in the air! (Got this from a documentary on BBC2 this evening, a Horizon special) My old housemate got his PhD researching this stuff. Title: Re: Interesting and clever stuff Post by: mulhuzz on April 16, 2013, 10:19:12 AM feels like this is a clever (and real) way to resign...
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BH9MToQCQAAXLiv.jpg) Title: Re: Interesting and clever stuff Post by: kinboshi on April 26, 2013, 11:09:48 PM http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment
The centre of the earth is a thousand degrees hotter than previously thought, which makes it as hot as the surface of the sun. The pressure at the core is about a million times that at sea-level. That's a lot. Title: Re: Interesting and clever stuff Post by: Tal on April 27, 2013, 01:20:26 AM http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment The centre of the earth is a thousand degrees hotter than previously thought, which makes it as hot as the surface of the sun. The pressure at the core is about a million times that at sea-level. That's a lot. It is a lot. Unsurprisingly at that pressure, the core is crystalline. Title: Re: Clever stuff Post by: Dewi_cool on April 27, 2013, 01:31:44 AM Now this I do like. Great thread Dewi I try & deliver :-) Title: Re: Interesting and clever stuff Post by: kinboshi on April 27, 2013, 06:04:17 AM http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment The centre of the earth is a thousand degrees hotter than previously thought, which makes it as hot as the surface of the sun. The pressure at the core is about a million times that at sea-level. That's a lot. It is a lot. Unsurprisingly at that pressure, the core is crystalline. It's the structure of the core at that pressure and temperature that the scientists think is responsible for the magnetic field that protects us from the solar winds, without which we wouldn't exist and any life on earth (if there was any) would be very different. Title: Re: Interesting and clever stuff Post by: Tal on April 27, 2013, 08:37:52 AM http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment The centre of the earth is a thousand degrees hotter than previously thought, which makes it as hot as the surface of the sun. The pressure at the core is about a million times that at sea-level. That's a lot. It is a lot. Unsurprisingly at that pressure, the core is crystalline. It's the structure of the core at that pressure and temperature that the scientists think is responsible for the magnetic field that protects us from the solar winds, without which we wouldn't exist and any life on earth (if there was any) would be very different. Absolutely. And that is why we get sights like this... (http://www.lovethesepics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Colorful-Aurora-Borealis-in-Finland.jpg) ...because, from above... (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Aurora_australis_20050911.jpg/220px-Aurora_australis_20050911.jpg) Title: Re: Interesting and clever stuff Post by: kinboshi on May 03, 2013, 12:53:11 PM World's smallest flying robot:
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