#2 It is great fun. I would advise you to get some padlocks or old cylinders from a locksmith to practice on, before you try to pick locks in your house.

Depending on the quality of the lock the manufacturers might have put in some nasty features like spools and serrated pins, that need special treatment.

If you want to know more about the specifics this is a good starting spot

https://lock-lab.com/locklab-university

Good luck! I promise you the first final click will be hugely satisfying

I could not believe it until i tried it myself. This site is giving away FREE MONEY!!!
https://goo.gl/tV3YaR

#5 #6 Well,cops from Saxony can be savages. Some units from there are notorious neonazi-sympathizers who love a good fight. I experienced Police brutality from a Saxon Squad first hand. Only crime I committed was to own a skateboard.

#3 are you ok? I am worried sick!

Spot a guy with the same phone model you've got a broken one of. Show him some slight of hand with his phone and switch the two. Let your cameraman put the phone into the cup and let him ask a spectator to hold the cup while he is shooting. And off you go.

I bet that plane has no interior installed and just the minimum amount of fuel in the tank.
At least that is the way they did these test and demonstration flights at Airbus on a daily basis just outside of my office window

#1 They are. They get stretched to a tiny tube and any closed ends get clipped and ground off.

It obviously is a lightweight mannequin in that hammock.
The drone looks like a yuneec typhon or a comparable model, which has a lift capacity of about 3 kg.

Aparrently it was a publicity stunt by a local business.

#10 You must at least have watched "Trainspotting" and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" if You want to call yourself a cultivated person

#6 "Der Spiegel" basically is a tabloid in disguise that generates income with exiting news-stories. There are however news outlets like "Die Zeit" or "FAZ" who have a loyal peer group of subscribers who value quality journalism over action news. These publications where quick to point out the misleading interpretation of the word "bad" by "Der Spiegel".
The problem is less "the media" but rather the consuming behavior of the audience. What good is rigorous journalism if people prefer to share emotional bullshit-articles on social media instead?

No, the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer does not act as a human nose at all. That's just an absurd analogy.

#13 You are over-complicating things.

Fist of all: 2*V=D/(0.5*T) and 2*V = 2*D/T is exactly the same thing (1/0,5=2)

The question asks for the average speed for one or two laps repectively, with each lap run with a constant speed as calculated by (total distance)/(total time).

It is really unambiguously worded.

after one lap that average speed is D/T1 and after the second it's 2D/(T1+T2)

That leaves you with the problem

2D/T1 = 2D/(T1+T2)

solve that for T2 and you realize that you're screwed


Lets follow your logic:
V2 = 3*V1

D/T2=3D/T1

that means
T2=1/3*T1

And the average speed becomes
Va= 2D/(T1+T1/3)= 2D/(4/3*T1) = 3/2*(D/T1)

but we are looking for Va=2V1=2D/T1

#10 not quite a Professor, no
I did work in the Physics-Department of an University in Europe, though. Nice guess.
Currently I am developing industrial CT-scanners as a computational engineer. Got to know your physics for that...

Don't worry to underststand this substitute wheel stuff I dreamt up, if mechanics is unknown territory for you. Not sure if my explanation even made it harder to understand Some graphics would help a lot.

My explanation of the track riddle is basic 8th grade maths. Don't be scared of some algebra. Come on Thunders, you can figure it out

#8 It gets easier to understand if you imagine the pedals to be another wheel that is fixed on the same axis as the back wheel of the bike. Forget about the chain and the gears for a moment. You could just as well change the diameter of the "pedal wheel"to alter the transmission ratio. Change the lever length - change the torque. Simple mechanics.
In a very low gear the Pedal wheel would be bigger than the real wheel, which conveniently leaves with the model of the train problem. You pull the pedal backwards, the bike rolls forwards.
If this pedal wheel has a smaller diameter the direction of motion is the same for the pedal and the wheel. therefore pulling it backwards makes the whole system slide backwards.

The Track Riddle can solved analytically:

With the track length s and the time t the average speed for the first lap is
v1=s/t1

twice that speed would be
2*s / t1

The average time for two laps is
(s+s) / (t1+t2) = 2*s / (t1+t2)

you can write that as
2*v1 = 2*s / t1 =2*s / (t1+t2)

that means
t1=t1+t2

solve that for t2:
t2 = t1-t1 =0

You have no time left to complete lap nr.2

1. Difficult: My guess is some goo, or sand. Something with an nonlinear flowing behavior.

2. Ambiguous: depends on the gear ratio. In high gear it goes backwards, but in low gear it might just move forwards. Hard to tell without knowing the numbers and doing the math. These kind of problems often pop up in kinematics.

3. Tricky: To double your average speed, you would have to run twice the distance in the time it took you to run one lap. Unfortunately that time has already passed, so you would have to run the second lap infinitely fast.

4. Easy: The outer rim of the wheel that is below the point of contact with the rail. Or me looking for a toilet.

Those are fun!

A cape would have made this even cooler!

#3 Applying Bayesian heuristics to lottery chances does not make too much sense. We can determine the probabilities a priory analytically. We could however use Bayesian methods to determine if a lottery apparatus is biased, but the number of samples we'd need to come to meaningful conclusions would make that pretty impractical.

#17 I like the fact, that Austin makes an effort to bring arguments with some substance to the discussion and elaborates his positions.

#4 Yeah, isn't Trump just a smart and overall likable person? His mere presence makes everyone in the same room as him feel warm inside...

I hate it, when street magicians use stooges and excessive editing and camera tricks...

#5 Apparently quite a lot more. According to statements by the operators of the site, they accidentally kill about 1000 birds anually, one for every 140 households it powers. Environmentalists name much higher figures.
Would be interesting to compare that to the number of victims from oil spills.

#2 It is definetely accelerated by the peoples weight.
Escalators are coupled to the transmission via a driving chain. If that snaps the people would go down because the regular brakes are connected to the transmission. In order to avoid such accidents the tension of the chain is monitored by a broken chain switch that instantaneously releases a fail safe emergency brake if the chain breaks. Either the brake was defective, or some shaft did shear off, something that has to be a really rare occurence. These components are designed with ridiculously high safety factors.

Great! Now your old friend has the shit job of driving the old lady while you have the time of your life.

#2 More like B.F. Skinner's grandchild.
Pavlovian classical conditioning describes an acquired reflexive behavioral response to a stimulus, whereas operant conditioning, as described by Skinner, inreases or decreases the frequency of a behavior of an organism by adding or removing environmental stimuli as a response to an action.

Pavlov: Human rings a bell, cat comes to the foodbowl.
Skinner: Cat rings bell, human comes with the foodbowl.

#1
The structures of rocket stages are extremely lightweight. A decent estimate would be, that the stage only weighs around 5-7% of its original weight when it is jetisoned. (Only the one stage, not even counting payload and the second stage).
The first stage barely leaves the atmosphere. After a short entry burn, the stage is aerodynamically slowed down to terminal velocity and navigated to the landing platform by fins, a process that does not reqire fuel at all. The little fuel that is spent for maneuvering over the landing platform, stabilizing the rocket and the final burn of the landing, only amounts to a tiny fraction of the overall fuel costs (I reccon less than five percent of the total fuel consumption of the rocket). That extra fuel however replaces valuable Payload capacity. Spacex gives the figure of 30% reduction in payload for a stage recovery.
#5
For some ballpark figures about fuel weight in rocketry I recommend this informative yet entertaining read:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition30/tryanny.html

#10 sorry, not much of a chemist

Venus being that close to the moon is a pretty cool sight. A shame the photographer seems to be completely oblivious to that fact.

I always wonder: are people too naive to realize that this is totally staged, or do they just don't care and pretend it is for real in order to get a laugh out of it?

#10 and how exactly do you come up with that estimate?

Give it some guns and rocket launchers and you have your commercial success.

#17 these people are most likely a product of the American society or at least of an American subculture and not native Africans.

It saddens me that this kind of racism is tolerated (and partly approved) by the Snotr community. This used to be a space for comparably intelligent discussions for a video platform. Now it degenerates more and more into a space for reactionary simplistic punchlines. Not sure I like it here anymore...

#12 you can be a man without disrespecting women, you know. I do it all the time and my cock did not fly off yet.

this is a spoof video of this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41lZmGcRWHU
I, as a german find it hillarious!

I have no clue, what my genetic ancestry is. And honestly, I do not give a fuck to know the precise setup of the random mix, that is just as random as that of my neighbors. Statistically I, as a northern European, have some direct African heritage within the last eight generations. How much exactly? Who cares?
My sense of identity is in no way defined by the location my genetic ancestors dwelled (all over the place). Biologically I identify as a human male. The rest of my identity is defined by loyalty to western values like liberty and the sanctity of human dignity and by beeing a member of my direct family extending (at the most) to my grandparents.

I'll stick with the original, thank you very much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Qm-Z5OsHw

#23 Ausgezeichnetes Deutsch, Frau Donnerschnee!

Thanks #11, that spared me some typing.

#1 Yeah, the Judge's videos didn't live up to the hype.
However, I was appalled of the ensuing display of the human desire to see someone crash and burn once in a while. It is only natural, but I believe we at Snotr are better than this, and do not have to gang up on community members. That's what Youtube is for.

Nearly every species that has ever lived has gone extinct. Nothing bad really about this fact.
However, the reasons for the current extinction period reveal some pretty nasty human traits.
Declaring a species endangered often seals its fate, because it usually initiates a run on the remaining individuals by poachers, collectors, snake oil salesmen and decadent big gain hunters.
The other main reason, of course, is the loss of habitat.
Both showcase human greed and selfishness.

This kind of comic relief is exactly what I needed after witnessing this disgrace of a debate.

#5 that like saying an ox-carriage is just a modified car

#1 As I understand the concept a monographic projection would be the projection of a plane onto a line. I guess that would be less exiting than a flushing toilet.

I would bet my ass this is fake, but it left me in stitches anyways.

Veganism taken too far...

I think he's got too much time on his hands...

Would be interesting to see how Trump supporters would have justyfied the massacre of the poor Wooly Mammoth.

Eichhörnchenschwaz is German for squirrel tail, not squirrel. But apart from that I am properly impressed with the narrators pronounciation.

#3 I am pretty sure it is the other way around... People pay $700 for a pair of Luis Vuitton Sunglasses, which they would not do if they knew, that they where designed and produced by the same company that sells glasses for 10 bucks under a different brand name.

Lightweight!

# The roof was made from a cardboard like material. I know that, because I fell through one once.

First of all they're dogs and can be trained to behave in any way you like if you put in the effort.
So, i totally agree that the problem with many aggressive specimen is on the other end of the leash, what partly accounts for the statistics.
But to label them as a gentle breed is pretty naive. This line of dogs was purposely bred to fight. The clue is in the name: Pit Bull - a dog bred as a bull fighter that was further optimized to fight in the pit.
Like any dog bred for a purpose it comes with some special and for family dogs often undesirable traits. A beagle will follow any scent trail his nose picks up, a Weimaraner will be hard to call of a Rabbit and guard dogs like a GSD will be hard to train not to bark, when someone is at the door.
I currently train two Staffs, both owned by loving responsible people, and let me tell you: they bring their own set of challenges. They are huge fun, but generally speaking I would not let them play with children. They simply pack too much power.
If you want a gentle dog a goldie might be a better choice.

#1 I actually like the taste of Bhut Jolokia a lot. Reminds of Habanero but with a distinctly different flavor. It goes really well with exotic chutneys. The only time I regret eating it is the next morning...

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”

Pedigree dogs are such a freak show these days

#3 Your comment gets my seal of approval!
I would have preferred murophobia, though, just in case it was actually a small rat.

#7 he can look ugly on cue.

#5 No arguing about that. Especially not with an antispeciesist like myself. My excoursion into behavioral biology leaves issues like emotional complexity and intelligence completely untouched. I only challenged the idea that these behaviors where acquired by mimicking humans. I spend most of my free time training animals and am in awe of their mental capacities. Learning through observation is a skillset they mostly lack, though, which makes Skinnerian learning mechanisms much more plausible in these instances.

#1 I doubt cows learn those things by imitation. Don't get me wrong: I am not saying they're stupid, but the ability to learn complex tasks by imitation from another species requires reasoning skills, or a really close social connection like we find in dogs and humans for example. And even dogs are not good at it unless you teach them to.
What you see here is the result of operant conditioning. The organism gets rewarded for an initially random action and learns to increase the frequency of the behavior through positive reinforcement. A thirsty cow that is nervously waiting for some water near a pump is bound to hit the handle sooner or later and gets rewarded for that action by getting some water. No higher mental capacity is needed to learn new behaviors that way. You can even teach crabs to ring a bell by pulling a string to get food by positive reinforcement.
The more complex behaviors are a result of confinement and a deprivation syndrome that lets them resort to meaningless actions like licking random things. Once in a while a cow figures out something new this way. With hundreds of millions of cows confined to inappropriate conditions some will figure out something amazing inevitably.

#11 Duck and cover.

On a much smaller scale, but mind blowing none the less:
The true scale of the solarsystem
http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

#3 he could have had an accident while messing around with just the squeaker. That looks like a plausible scenario to me.
https://sc01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1gk1rFVXXXXboXpXXq6xXFXXXc/39675/HTB1gk1rFVXXXXboXpXXq6xXFXXXc.jpg

#2 The percentages do not tell the whole story. They only account for a single bet. The fact that the casino has a virtually unlimited budget and has limits on the maximum bet or buy in massively shifts the expected values to the side of the casino winning.
A player that goes bust loses all its money at once and has to start from zero again the next time, whereas the casino can keep playing forever and easily can compensate for temporary losses.

#5 You're not alone. I was thinking the same.

#5 perhaps you can better relate to this one: The serving size of haggis is 1/2 cup according to the label.

3 Oreos is quite generous, actually. I would have suspected one per serving.

This has a lot of potential

I worked on a project for a manufacturer of airplane toilet systems and learned from one of the engineers that there is a "benchmark poop", strictly defined by industry standards, that is used for testing how big a dump the toilet can handle - a critical detail in the certification process. It is made from miso paste, saw dust, syrup and other stuff I forgot.

0:16 so diarrhea means get educated in Thai?

He could have just written z_(n+1)=(z_n)^2+c; z_0=0

#11 what are you trying to tell us?

It is absolutely pointless and a waste of energy trying to educate such an imbecile. There is not much to learn from a guy who says: "I choose not to believe that, because the bible says something different". Any kind of intellectual exchange is impossible with those people. Howard Conder does not even listen to Dawkins.

#6 Well, now you know that earth pretty much is a perfect sphere. The imperfections do not show up any more than the imperfections on a ping pong ball.

You have to consider the scale of things. Correctly scaled earth and moon are like a soccer ball and a tennis ball with a distance of 8 meters between. Now imagine zooming in on that soccer ball from 33 m away. Chances, that you get the tennis ball into the same shot are really small.
If it where a common thing for the moon to pass exactly on the extended earth moon axis (behind earth in layman's terms) we'd have lunar eclipses all the time.

I guess the other stars do not show up because of the exposure settings, but could have been edited out. So what? The sensors of the cameras do probably not even cover a rectangular area, certainly not a 4:3 aspect ratio. They were built for a very special purpose - to observe earth.

I doubt that a 3% change in distance from a light source would change the brightness significantly, but I am perfectly fine with NASA adjusting brightness levels to create an image that is pleasant to look at.

The satellite remains fixed in its position relative to the earth and the sun at the Lagrange point L1, so it is completely irrelevant how fast they are moving. The fact that we move through space at 2 million km/h does not has to be considered by photographers on earth, because their relative motion to their subject is stationary. Same thing there, only the angle and distance remain constant.

Recurring clouds in text form and South Africa rising above the clouds are figments of your imagination.

There seems to be a lot you do not know. I can only encourage you to spend some time learning about these things. It isn't always easy to understand, but when you finally do it is hugely satisfying, because the topic is truly fascinating.

#1 Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. 4000 light years is really tiny on a cosmic scale, about 1/30 of the diameter of the Milky Way. Not much going on there we have to worry about.

That was disturbingly close to the edge

Legalizing or not is an extremely difficult topic. The most cases of rape aren't committed to satisfy an urge for sexual stimulation, but for sadistic reasons and the feeling of dominance. These people would be also abusive to prostitutes in a manner that clearly has to be illegal. Legal prostitution automatically means more girls will consider this damaging career path that usually ends in drug addiction. On the other hand illegality takes them the last hope for protection, but to be fair, just because something is legal it does not mean it isn't controlled by organized crime, like the club business in certain areas for example.
I do not think the law can have much impact here. Society has to realize what those customers really are - sex offenders. The chance you end up with a prostitute who does not have sex with you against her will (for various reasons) are extremely small. We all have to create a climate, where people do not think it is ok to pay their sons a trip to the brothel for their 18th birthday.

#1 the ketchup is done exactly the same way as the lemon. He simply switches bottles when they get the ketchup packet. You can even see it behind the label of the prepared bottle at 1:46. And yes, usually this trick really is performed with the help of magnets, so I believe he is double bluffing.

Incredible!
In case anyone is interested what L1 - a Lagrange point - is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxpVbU5FH0s

Wow, what a shit idea! I am glad to read that my fellow Snotrarians do not get fooled by that kind of BS.

The whale saying "Thank You" is a pretty anthropomorphic interpretation of the behavior. Lobtailing is generally understood as a warning or a sign of aggression. Breaching can be a form of courtship or a warning signal, but it is also used to dislodge foreign objects or parasites from the skin, which makes sense in this scenario.
What ever, they did a great thing and will remember it for the rest of their lives.

#24 well, if you want my criticism of the content: If you have to compare yourself to Saudi Arabia or North Korea to look good, that makes your point, that you're so great, pretty weak. Whataboutism is a argumentative fallacy and a pretty cheap reasoning tactic. Also, there is some bait and switch going on, because it is implied, that people who do not get on the nationalist band wagon do not see a difference between america and authoritarian regimes.

#InfowarsWasAlwaysCrap

So basically, the more often a phrase is repeated, the more you should be on the look out for bullshit and manipulation tactics.
#MakeAmericaGreatAgain

He probably is in a state of shock, which can appear verry calm. My sister once called and complained that her radio wasn't working. After some more inquiry it turned out the reason was that she drove of a bridge and crashed in a tree at the edge of a canal, which saved her from drowning.

#8 Mormons wear special mandatory underwear with masonic markings. Google "temple garments" if your up for a unsexy surprise and are wondering what Mitt Romney is wearing underneath. Some (not all) believe they protect them against physical harm, even knives or bullets. The latter clearly are morons as well.

#1 I snuck up on the basterd from the left and was able to detect a roll. So, dear colleague, I suspect a flaw in your experimental setup. Don't get me wrong: I am not trying to diminish your scientific breakthrough. Your model can still be valid in parts, considering your claims about nose and ears. The part about its butt, or arse if you will, needs a careful revision. You will find that the r will respond to pinching of the "snot". It seems to be a sensory organ, and in my interpretation of the data most likely the "sn" and "ot" are r's aforementioned buttocks.

If you think your underwear is fireproof you're a mormon. It's true! Look it up.

Penn and Teller Style. Only for real

She kinda fooled them. Most of the picture was prepared in advance. She only painted the beard and the neck, that looked like one of the judges upside down. Clever act though!

Now sit on it for that fresh downstairs feeling.

JJ now is satisfied for sure

At 2:02 I expected him to go to the hydrant and lift his leg...

JERONIMOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

I do not like how historical facts and mythical narratives, like the israelites beeing led out of egypt by moses, are mixed in this video.

#10 yeah, phobias can be a bitch (no pun intended). I know people who overcame their fear of dogs though and the do not regret it one bit. They are such wonderful animals that can give you an incredible amount of unconditional love and joy. I would be a much sadder person without my gang.

These dogs are mainly stressed out of their minds. The black one seems to look for guidance at the brown one and his charging behavior looks to me like what is called "displacement behavior" - an activity a dog resorts to if he feels the need to react and does not know what an appropriate behavior would be in a given situation. They are excited for sure, as the wagging tail indicates. The carriage of the ears and the eyebrows are indicators, that they do not intend to attack but rather put on a show to be taken seriously. The officer spots that verry well. It is easy to see these details with enough knowledge of dog behavior from a safe distance. But in the heat of the moment? Hats off!

I feel bad for her wingmen who do not get any credit at all.

#3 In case you ever have to structurally weaken a coke can. Can't hurt to be prepared. Better be safe than sorry.

#3 By the awkward looks on the faces of everyone in that tunnel, I doubt that there is much appreciation going on...

Wait, showing the butt is a sign of affection?
Talk about language barriers...

#4 It is 100% legit
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2016/4/confirmed-franky-zapata-sets-new-farthest-hoverboard-flight-record-in-france-427011

#13 The bone conduction method would work great with a third person in the loop, but texting or covertly wispering does not seem feasible to me. It would be a great idea for spiritualist scammers, though.

I missed the bit where he looks at the provider (well spotted). That makes it a whole lot easier. "the provider" then clearly signals At&t, which makes sense, because he uses the simplest phrase for the most common provider. If it was something more exotic he would have to ask something along the lines of "NEXT, WOULD you be so kind and TELL me the provider, PLEASE, if I MAY ask?". With such a sentence he could spell out the first 5 letters of the provider.

After I spent some more thought on this I am pretty sure I figured out how he transmits the pulses. When he is in plain side he taps her hand while holding it. Then he uses speech patterns to code the cellphone. With the eye drops he stands still in a place where his feet are hidden from view. That makes me think he has a transmitter in his shoes. There are sets you can buy and hide in your heels. The pulses can be triggered by operating a button with a toe, or a circuit can be closed by tapping the shoes together.

#10 These code systems are fairly extensive and cover most items people carry around. In the odd case they get an exotic item they usually describe it in terms of shape, material, color and move on to the next. They also can literally spell out the word using their codes. They have multiple phrases that correspond with a letter of the alphabet or they use morse code. This method involves a lot of chatting which can get pretty obvious in the long run. For that reason they memorize a huge database of items.

With televised acts it is hard to tell exactly what is going on, because lots of clues are edited out.

It is no coincidence these kind of mentalist acts are done mostly by couples, because they have a complex coding system that needs years to master to perfection and constant every day practice. This is what I think is going on:

They have a code system for typical items people carry with them. This can be a numerical code or the way Tommy phrases the questions. In their case it is both.

With the lipstick the information is transmitted by a numerical code via squeezing of the hand. Two numbers are sent. First an identifier for the Item and then the shade number.

The next act with the cellphone is coded in speach patterns. "Lets start with this." is code for cell phone, "What am I holding?" could be code for credid card for example. You get the picture. "So, the color..." means white, "What color is it?" could mean black.
The provider is the tricky part. My guess is that we either do not see everything due to editing, or that he felt lucky guessing the biggest provider in the states, and had another "out" in case he was wrong (something like "then someone next to you must use AT&T" ). It wouldn't matter if he got it wrong, because he had already established an impressive history of hits.

For acts like the one with the eye drops mentalists often use a device called a "thumper", that can be strapped to your upper leg and transmits morse. #2 could be on to something with the suspiciously chunky swing set as well. The same technique as with the lip stick is used here, and Tommy has a clever way of operating the transmitter (perhaps squeezing it in his underarms).

The basics of such an act are pretty easy to understand and are described in Corinda's Book from 1961, but you really have to appreciate the amount of practice that goes into it to be that smooth!

I can come up with a few ways this could be done but for me this one is the most likely:

When Derren looks away, he either has a live feed of the video of the camera angle at 1:15 that is hidden from view for the chess player, or he gets the colors signaled by a member of the production crew with access to the video.

Can anyone come up with a more elegant solution?

#7 true, Boko Haram and the Islamic State are in favor of slavery as a mean of Jihad and some Saudi officials support this.

Don't forget the Christian movement LRA, though. They are big fans of child sex slavery. That makes it at least two practicing religions.

In every Muslim majority country slavery is abolished, though. The insane views of 200000(+) radicals are hardly representative of the views of the one billion other Muslims.

It would be interesting to see how the graphic looked if it started 20 years earlier and included slavery.

There you have it: Otters eat Cocoa Krispies.

I noticed 5 changes. What about you?

#25 I get a notification about PMs sent to the E-mail accout I signed up with. The `nigerian prince` knockoff tried his luck with me also. By the time I complained at geekster abut the spammer he was already kicked off the site.

Americans are hypocrites.
Christians are constantly offended.
The "entire Muslim World" wants to enslave women.
French people only watch naked news.

Happy generalisation-day everyone

#16 generalizations always suck. But you must admit that uptight behavior when it comes to skin and naughty words is kind of institutional in America. The FCC has to reflect the opinion of at least a part of the American mainstream. I wanted to point out that one does not have to speculate that muslims want to ban your boobs on tv because there are enough reactionary forces in the all american population.
America has a huge influence over the rest of the world. The downside to this privilege is that your country's morality gets scrutinized and that there is some serious shit talking. Do not let it get to you personally.

#5 Seems pretty American to me. Aren't Americans the ones who make the huge fuzz about some words on TV and have a big problem with the broadcast of nudity?

#3 Obviously his arm with the glasses is prerecorded and part of the projection. And yes, he has the glasses all along, it would cast a shadow if it was placed behind the glass initially. He really reaches through the glass, though. The whole fake wall the "TV" is sunk into and the movement of the handkerchief from the bottom to the middle and back down again is a dead give away that he uses the same sliding glass panel as every other "Hand through Glass"-act.

Spoiler alert!!!!

It's the classic "reach trough glass" trick with a projected image from behind.
Basically it is a sliding glass panel with a hole that slides up when he is blocking it from view with the hanky and his body. You can see the reflections start to move the moment he places the hanky on the bottom of the frame at 0:10 and moves it upward covering the hole. Nice twist dressing it up as a TV set!

Ironically (or tragigally) his structure and gate is better and more functional than that of many GSDs you see in the show ring nowadays. I have a soft spot for deformed dogs, but not when they are bred this way on purpose.

#10 the major christian sects like Catholics and Protestants have no problem acknowledging evolution as a scientific fact. So do most Jews, educated Muslims and a lot of others.
#4 seems to confuse understanding religion with believing in one. It is empirically proven that atheists/agnostics have the biggest knowledge about religion from every demographic
http://www.pewforum.org/2010/09/28/u-s-religious-knowledge-survey/

#2 Leather an fur production is not as environmentally friendly as you might assume. Many tanning practices use nasty chemicals in the process and environmental safety standards are very low in many regions of origin (Pakistan which exported leather worth 1 billion dollars last year is notorious in this regard). Very few people would have their problems with real fur if it only were the skins that are left over from pest control. The majority of skins used by the fashion industry are farmed in horrible conditions to meet the demands created by the latest fashion trend for people who want to spend as little money as possible on it.

This is how my dog greets me every time when I come home from getting groceries

The question "Why does evil exist" only makes sense if you start from the premise that it exists at all and is deliberately bestowed upon us.
From a less anthropocentric point of view the question becomes irrelevant. What seems evil to us humans might be very good from a germs or parasites point of view.

What works for me surprisingly well, is some primitive form of meditation. I try to imagine standing on the beach with my feet in the water. I then picture the scene in every small detail. Sand washing between my toes, a breeze on my face...
This way I can completely detach from the pain until the meds kick in.

#5 That's wrong. GMO seeds reproduce like any other seeds. What you probably think of is hybrids, whose offspring do not have the same traits (like big yields) as their parents. These have nothing to do with genetic engineering. They are like mules, who are a cross breed of donkeys and horses and often are infertile. There are ways of creating what is called "Terminator Seeds", seeds that produce sterile plants by hybridization of genetically altered plants, but these have never been commercially produced.

GMO seeds could have the potential to feed humanity after a global catastrophe. Excluding them for ideological reasons seems a little naive to me.

A loin cloth would make this so much more authentic...

#16 I can understand and welcome that Snotr does not get involved in any of the election campaigns or takes a stance in either direction. That way we can all enjoy this site together. I just figured my video was funny regardless of political orientation after reading enthusiastic comments by republican voters in the comment section on Youtube. Can't you laugh about a parody like this?

#1 Rewatch it on accid. Then it will make perfect sense.

I tried to submit this a wile ago, but it was declined because the admins didnt want to start a political debate. But as it is already on its way: What the heck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRly-0wwl_g

#2 I do not think they implemented it, but active noise dampening is possible. I worked on the development of light weight noise reduction solutions for crew sleeping cabins in aircraft and our results with piezoelectric actuators that feed countersound into the pannels were amazingly good.
The spacial distance between your ear and the device limits the spectrum that can be processed by the control system but I suppose wavelengths under 5 cm (6500 Hz) should be manageable.
The frequency band of human speech lies between 300 Hz and 3000 Hz. If you suppress other noise in that range you could understand a phonecall in even the noisiest conditions. Also it would be perfect to discretely shut up a nagging wife.

That ridiculous fake "Einstein"-quote again...

#1 These are 100% ordinary cubes (they said so in the show). Most of the permutations he uses look random but are solved by max 4 moves with one hand. The permutation at 3:42 has 3 checkerboarded sides and 3 uniform ones (U' D L2 U B2 D2 B2 D2 L F' U D' R U' F2 L F' B' for you nerds out there). It is all skillful manipulation. The matching cubes at the end are achieved by making Teller pick the cube Brundage handled at the beginning (he got lucky, otherwise he would have had to add some other elements to the routine), or by switching Penn's cube at 1:00 (looks suspicious). That way the pattern was something he could easily replicate.
That's how I think he did it. Pure skill and showmanship - no gimmicks.

Any info about if or by how much this is sped up?

I tried it with a zucchini and the cat couldn't care less. Now I am wondering if the cat is too chilled, or if I picked the wrong vegetable. More testing needed.

As a skater, who grew up on an island 0:25 pretty much sums up my youth.

In German colloquial language these are referred to as "Negerkuss" which translates to "nigger kiss".

Wow! The way it closes up and does the transformation in secrecy reminds me of a magic trick.

It took 225 million years for humans to evolve from the first shrew like mammals and hominids only exist for 6 million years (homo sapiens 200k years). I really doubt in a billion years from now there will be anything living, that remotely resembles humans as we know them today, either because we will have evolved beyond recognition, or because we went extinct all together.

A billion years sounds like an infinity, but the fact that the great story of multi-cellular life on earth is beyond his half way mark already, strikes me as a little bit depressing.

Interesting story #3!
A lack of a sense of smell can have different causes. Perhaps in your case the limbic system still reacts to olfactory sensations, but the signals do not cause the normal response in your brain that allows you to process them consciously?
A friend of mine lost his sense of smell after he fell off a skateboard and fractured his skull. He was always afraid to have body odor, which caused him to use a lot of products like deodorants and perfumes, of which he had no clue about how they smelled. So, the only guy in our clique that could not smell it ended up running around smelling like a prostitute

Must be the pink walls...

A shame that they did not show a test of a serrated lock washer. That would be a good baseline for comparison.

You can watch him take off and land on the zapata racing page on facebook. which leaves the question: What were the editors thinking?

#1 Seems fishy to me as well. The only shots of him flying are in a height typical for a water powered flyboard. We never see him take off or land, only in the landing sequence that has some weird cuts. The shots from high above look like they have been shot from a drone. Either it is fake, they want to create mystery, or somebody made a lot of extremely bad editing choices.

Thanks #6!
I can smell a whiff of bias in that clip, though. The guy operating the slingshot seems either to be stoned to be clumsy on purpose. I think there is no way around Jörg

"Pocket sized" isn't really an exotic attribute for a slingshot. An average slingshot with an ergonomic handle allows much more draw force, so I doubt the claim that you can get more power out of this one. I guess we have to call in Jörg from the slingshot channel for a verdict.

#2 Don't dismiss something simply because you do not understand it. Talking about infinity requires different concepts when you consider ordinal vs cardinal numbers, something the vvideo explains in great detail. Who knows what future insight in the natural world will be made possible with a concept like aleph-null at our disposal? After all, many details of geometry and number theory started out as a philosophical thought exercises in ancient greece and are now shaping the world we live in.

This never gets old.

#1 Well, should you?

#2 0.5% population growth does not sound like much, but it still means a doubling in 139 years, a time some of our grandchildren will live to see. The more serious issue is that low growth figures depend on economical prosperity, which in our current system itself relies on constant growth. With an economic growth of 2%, which is a typical figure in successful economies, this is an increase by the factor 16 by then and we are using up ressources beyond sustainability already now.
If economical growth declines again, which it inevitably will, birth rates will go up again and we will have a positive feedback loop. We should really have a plan for that.

#2 It's privately funded.

That's when these VIP seats pay off. From the stands on the opposite side it must have looked completely crappy.

#3 The magnetic field forms a closed loop around the cable. It cannot really attract another perpendicular straight cable. I bet there has been some accident further down the line that caused a loss of tension. In any case this is far from a safe design.

I don't get how this should prevent speeding. It is the same melody at any speed, only a little more cheerful and higher pitched if you are over the speed limit.

#10 0,000000152438792 times the speed of light. That should be an universally understood measure.

#10 Wow! Cancer is a fungus? It can be oxidized away? Cured by baking soda? Steam Room? Where do you get these crazy ideas from?

#2 fo(u)r wheel!

I bet they pray that traffic does not increase anytime soon.

By definition vaccines provide active acquired immunity against viral or bacterial infections.
Trying to develop a vaccine against a venom seem like a pretty silly idea to start with.
Doing it by letting yourself get bitten indiscriminately by a large variety of different species must be the worst possible way of doing so.

As many of the genes responsible for skin color are located on chromosome 15 it is not such a big surprise, that they inherited many of the several respective genes together, as this clip makes it sound. I also suspect that the man might not be of pure recent African ancestry and carries many genes for light skin himself, which would make the birth of a light skinned child and one of darker color even more likely.

That link is more like it, #6 !
It also confirms what i've been saying. We are a long way from clinical trials and no evidence for actual clinical efficacy is available so far. None of the studies the NCI mentions are about the antitumor properties of cannabis oil, but rather of isolated compounds like delta-9-THC or CBD.

About one quarter of all pharmaceuticals are derived from plants, most of them alkaloids. Cannabis contains a variety of different alkaloids, so it makes sense to investigate them thoroughly. There are other plants out there with the same potential, but only because it is weed, this one gets everyone all excited.

I am critical of news like this, because on one hand it potentially gives people, who do not understand the details of drug development, false hope, and on the other hand it nourishes conspiracy theories. I've heard countless time that the Jews are in charge of Big Pharma and have invented chemo to kill off the goi, while they themselves have a natural remedy (insert a miracle cure here) which cures cancer 100% without side effects.

#1 Collective Evolution is one the most ridiculous pseudoscientific sites on the whole internet. The only sources they cite is themselves and the studies - if any - they talk about get grossly misrepresented.

It is important to realize the difference between in vitro and in vivo. Scientists are looking into possible applications of cannabis derived compounds for cancer treatment based on some initial results, but an in vitro result does not mean that we have discovered an effective treatment for cancer. There are plenty of substances that kill off fast replicating cells that have been discarded in the past because they where not suitable for treatments of actual patients. So far I have not seen any evidence that cannabis oil is be any different.

I'd say they're leveling the gravel. The guy on the left is removing material from a bump and the other guy is filling up some holes. He then removes some shovels of gravel from the wheel barrel to reduce some weight so it can be moved without leaving to big of a mark. Seems all pretty rational to me.

#9 with the Trump phenomenon in america, populist right wing parties on the rise all over europe, the news resources many people consume via the internet that are pure propaganda and the popularity of scapegoats in many movements it does not look like we learned too much from the events of the past.
I only hope that such an atrocity is not possible anymore in the information age, because somebody will expose it in time, before an industrial killing complex can be set up. The public outcry and consequences after Abu Ghraib make me optimistic.

#4 I am pretty sure you are confusing "neck" with "ass".

#1 Right, the necessary force to overcome the rolling resistance would be the equivalent of 30 kg max.

When talent meets creativity the results are truly awesome!

Ok, I admit I got a little obsessed and researched a little bit further.

First thing I noticed when viewing it in slomo is, that he does not really twist the cubes at all. That made me reject my reverse hypothesis.

The current world record for a one handed solve of a RC is 7 seconds. He would have to have done 3 world record breaking solves simultaneously with alternating hands while juggeling - highly improbable.

Then I punched some permutations into a RC solver and it became clear that some consecutive permutations could not have been achieved by a single move.

The truth seems to be less impressive than I initially thought. I usually do not scream CGI whenever I do not understand something, but in this case it feels appropriate. He performs his trick in front of a building of a visual effect company, after all.

http://www.rushes.co.uk/

Hope I didn't spoil the fun.

#2 The zoom away from the face while talking is a give away. Also the unusual juggling style obscures any unnatural movement. He also looks at the cubes he his throwing and not the ones he is catching. And then there is the fact that he solves them all on the same trow.
I am impressed enough by the fact that he scrambles them while juggling.
But you're right, some people have too much time and learn all sorts of crazy skills that have been previously thought to be impossible.
I tend to go with the least crazy option, and that is he practiced to throw the cubes in an awkward style at the beginning that looks like he is catching them when played in reverse. Seems more likely than the feat described in the title.

This is amazing dexterity.
You do realize the clip is played in reverse, though?

Really nice presentation, Geekster!

#3 it's this guy's brother
http://www.snotr.com/video/13532/Excited_Train_Guy

[insert generic Duracell joke]

#11 "asshole" is not the politically correct term. I would prefer if you said "fecal excretory orifice" instead. Thanks.

#3 The online translators go in full tilt mode with this one. Care to translate?

And I thought Russians were the most foul mouthed drivers with all the "bljad" talk they have going on.

#6 Damn, that is one hot blob fish mermaid
I kinda expected this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y4DbZivHCY

#4 I am not into the details, but as I understand it ski flying is a subdivision of ski jumping. At least German sports commentators regularly point out the difference. Not that I really cared. I just mentioned it because I was stoked to see the impressing aerodynamic effect.

This is "ski flying". It's what ski jumping is called when you jump / fly distances of over 100m. The athletes cover huge distances by surfing an air cushion, as you can wonderfully observe at 0:44.

Sick custom composed sound by Amon Tobin! His tunes absolutely blow you away when listened to on a high end sound system.

As for the car: These design study presentations are the same as fashion shows. They strengthen a brand but do not have too much to do with the product the company is selling.

I laughed so hard, I nearly choked!

#12 good choice!

Science, Technology, Nature

In my opinion these aren't logical paradoxes at all. It is more semantics than anything else. Logic does not rely on language to be valid.
"Heap" and "self" are simply ill defined concepts or catergories that allow ambiguous interpretations. If you want to apply logic there can be no wiggle room.

#1 Ball bearings is the magic word.

#7 They had to saw out a piece of the ceiling which he is now wearing permanently around his neck. He seems to be ok with it:
"It might be a little uncomfortable, but at least it draws attention away from my ugly ass huge forehead."

These are all filmed in the northern hemisphere. You can tell by the counterclockwise rotation

The scenery is really nice, but the ride looks kinda lame compared to this one:
http://www.snotr.com/video/8334/Mountain_Coaster_without_brakes

#3 Actually, according to a study published in the March 2002 Journal of Geographical Research by a joint research team from the University of Maryland and NASA, overall, the increased amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is speeding up the recovery of the ozone layer.

You're probably thinking about greenhouse gasses, in which case burning the methane really is an act of environmentalism.

God, I am a smartass

I spent a lot of time computing vibration and resonance effects in helicopter structures. I cannot believe I never heard of this engineering mostrosity.

#24 No, the conflict of interest in this case was, that Wakefield was secretly payed around 500000 pounds by British trial lawyers, who wanted him to prove that the vaccine was dangerous, so they could sue for damages in a big class action law suit.

If you know anything about dogs you immediately see that this is fearful behavior. Laid back ears, squinting the eyes, licking the nose, wrinkles on the forehead, the way he is carrying his head, the tail tucked away and carrying the weight on the hind legs are all signs that he feels threatened. A truly aggressive dog will look pretty much the opposite, if you dont consider the showing of the teeth. When CM attacks him, he tries to retreat and starts to fight him off when that strategy has no success. When a dog signals that clearly "leave me alone, or I will defend myself" it is a really bad idea to aggressively corner him.

#18 Luckily it is extremely rare that such a study slips through the cracks in the pre-publishing peer review process of the big journals.
Falsified or flawed studies can cause a lot of harm, but they tend to be exposed, especially if they have big implications. That's when others in the field examine them closely and try to replicate the results. You probably should take any given study with a grain of salt after the initial publication, but as time goes on the self correcting mechanisms of the scientific method usually take care of the bad apples.
The biggest problem is that interest groups keep beating the dead horses like the Wakefield or the Seralini study and use them to instill fear into the scientifically illiterate.

#16 It started in 1998 when The Lancet published a study by Andrew Wakefield that linked autism to the MMR vaccine. The study was really poor and evidence of fraudulent manipulation of the evidence emerged. After the scientific community protested about the low quality of the study it got retracted later on. Many studies since have shown without a doubt that no such link exists.
Sadly, that does not keep people like Donald Trump from believing in it and advocating the idea. And this man has good chances to be in charge of the CDC and the NIH in the future

#4 Thundersnow did not make any anecdote based health claims, so there is no need to attack her.
Can you verify your claim that hygiene is the reason epidemics did stop spreading after vaccines were introduced? Why do you think hygiene always waits to kick in to reduce infection rates until a vaccine against a specific viral infection is developed?

#5 They look as if they are made from sintered metal. Sintering is a process of first compacting metal powder into the desired shape and then baking it. The resulting quality of those metal composites ranges from amazing to (in this case) complete rubbish.

The dog displays one of the most a basic calming signals. He signals that he is not willing to risk conflict over the food by averting his gaze and avoiding eye contact.

#5 You're right. Last time my girlfriend walked into a glass door I nearly died laughing...

#3 You do understand that humans run on bio fuel?

#5 rather than watching more of this questionable infotainment I went straight to the source.
Turns out the transcrips and recordings are publicly available since 1973 and didn't "emerge 4 decades later" (that's when NASA uploaded them to the internet archives) as the show claims. NASA scientists explain the the sounds as interference with the VHF ranging system, which is integrated in the radio system. The sounds are characteristic for modulation effects on an oscillating circuit like you would have in a theremin.
The sounds also sound completely different as you can hear here on the original tapes (beginning at 2:50):

http://history.nasa.gov/ap10fj/audio/a10o-1021010.mp3

Neither the Crew, nor NASA ever showed real interest in the phenomenon.
Apollo 10 Lunar Module Pilot Gene Cernan:
‘I don’t remember that incident exciting me enough to take it seriously. It was probably just radio interference. Had we thought it was something other than that we would have briefed everyone after the flight. We never gave it another thought.’

This whole show is utter sensationalist bullshit...

I am sure there is a perfectly plausible explanation for the sounds which this tv show deliberately obscures.
Also, the soundquality of the "space-music" somehow is on a completely different level than the rest of the transmission, which makes me suspect that we are not hearing the original sounds, but rather sound effects added by the sound engineers of the tv show.

So, That's this "cyborg bullying" I am reading about a lot lately?

Impressive robot! But I think the size of his junk is a bit over the top

#15 This is a truly impressive example of an "I am not a racist, but..." sentence.
Here are some more
http://imnotracistbut.tumblr.com/

#1 I too wrote my thesis about acoustics.
That didn't keep me from enyoing to see the psychoacoustic effects demonstrated.

Very nice!
But somehow the blurry scene at 1:34 gave me an instant headache...

Cool to have some original content!
If you want my unqualified feedback: I think it would look a lot nicer if the frames weren't interlaced.

#3 the latest calculation I read was that if we detonated all nuclear arsenals at once on a single spot it would only leave a huge crater and shift the poles by less than 1 cm. The 2004 eartquake is estimated to have released 10^22 joules of energy - more than 100000 times the energy even the biggest nukes pack. The fallout and nuclear winter is another story. To rephrase #1 with George Carlin's poetic words on saving the planet: "The planet is fine! The people are fucked!"...

#16 dismissing everyone who tries not to be a dick as an insane/irrational SJW reveals a lot about your personality...

#10 I also can't figure out if he is talking metaphorically or about serious physical trauma

I wonder what's written on the sign that's hanging from the seat and if it encouraged the "victims" to take the bike.

So, every time you applaude after a presentation, the meeting room turns into a bumper car ride?

I appreciate the concept as an exercise in robotics, automation and engineering. For a commercially available product ist is a redicoulous waste of recources, though.

Actually, owning several dogs this gadget would come in handy. Looks perfect to handle vomit and diarrhea on the hallway floor...

#1 Don't shoot the messenger. NdGT did not downgrade Pluto, he just communicated the consensus to the public. The guys who played a central roll in Pluto's demotion, Mike Brown and Konstanin Batygin are working hard on finding a new planet outside of the Kuiper Belt, that might be even bigger than Neptune and Uranus. Perhaps that will make up for it?

I agree with NdGT, that science should be presented to the public as something fun and exciting, to get more people into it. I also think that the way science is taught in schools has to be fundamentally improved. People have to learn how the scientific method works and not only which results it yielded. Students learn how DNA replicates, or how to calculate the harmonic of a pendulum in science class. What they do not learn is how proper clinical trials are set up, how to read scientific publications and, most importantly, how to discriminate between real and junk science.
People who have these skills can make informed political decisions, can assess the merits of sensational medical news and can protect themselves and their friends and relatives from being ripped off or harmed by pseudoscientific/medical cons.

#5 Besides advancements in engineering, computing, mathematics and measuring precision that we gain from setting up such experiments it is an empirical validation of a fundamental scientific assumption that previously stood on purely theoretical grounds. It tells us something about the scope of application of the theory of GR, which allows us to be more confident in predictions and the interpretation of measured data on a cosmic scale. It also is a working proof of concept for the upcoming eLISA project, which will be essentially a telescope that receives gravitational information.
Up to now our probing of the distant universe was relying purely on measurements in the electromagnetic spectrum. From now on we have an additional source of information at our disposal. The knowledge we can gain by analyzing both kinds of signals synergistically is far greater than the sum of its components.
Besides, who knows what such a fundamental breakthrough will bring us in the future? When Stein and Gerlach first measured the spin of a particle in 1922 they had no idea that this would revolutionize medical diagnostics 50 years later, when MRI was invented.

#1 The term "social experiment" and "staged click baiting hoax" have become interchangeable on YouTube because of the business practice of so called prank channels.
This particular prank channel's social experiments all show normal people behaving selfish and then this one unlikely candidate - a homeless veteran, a handicapped person... shows up and saves the day. Seems fishy to me...
Others of his prank clips contain obviously faked punches, so, yeah, don't expect this video to be any different, just because he posts the URL about veterans. With "please share to spread the message" he really means "please share to get me some clicks"
I hate seeing this shit on SNOTR, but on the other hand, if people watch it here, he cannot make money from his deception.

#7 The dialect is Eastern German. My guess is Saxony.
Like "Alter Verwalter!" (rough translation someting like "f..k me sideways!" or any other generic phrase),"Des geht ja goa ni, eh" is more an exclamation of awe and surprise, than anything else. I would think the whole building was up for demolition, but no one expected that it would be that easy.

Behold the power of the keystone!

#1 Would you please elaborate that thought? The working principle does not look to me like anything that has a biological counterpart on the first glance. What am I missing?

#22 The difference between our way of thinking is, that I try to have an open mind and base my ever changing opinion on the growing body of evidence. People in general are really poor in judging cause and effect relations. Just because you didn't observe effects in your private life does not say anything about risks.
You really shouldn't trust your own experience, when countless rigorous studies come to different conclusions. As an individual you really have too many cognitive biases like your confirmation bias, frequency illusion... that's just how the human brain works.
I personally know many smokers. None of them has died of lung cancer so far. Does that mean the risks of smoking are made up by scientists?
I know pot smokers who do well and are very creative and I know those who struggle with life and are lethargic but in none of these cases am I qualified to judge the effect weed has on their lives. Such knowledge can only be gained by studying carefully collected data.

That data shows, that some compounds in weed are highly effective in treating certain conditions, whereas others have negative effects. It also shows that smoking it regularly can be devastating to your lungs, that the risk of getting a stroke increases by a factor of 4 in young adults while high, that regular consumption permanently changes the brain in adolescents...

If it makes you enjoy life more and you personally don't feel that you are inhibited by your habit and are willing to take the health risks, then go for it. But promoting the idea, that it is a completely harmless, side effects free wonder cure just does not reflect reality.

#20 personal anecdotes are often very compelling to the scientific layman, but they are completely invalid if you want to establish medical knowledge.

In clinical and epidemiological studies great care is taken to observe a representative sample of test subjects and eliminate every possible bias. Something I cannot say about your cute story.

What about all the positive effects? Are they also all from personal experience, or do you suddenly trust the science, when it reflects your ideology?

#18 That's not how research at universities works. Published results are double checked in the peer review process by scientists with all kind of funding backgrounds. You do not become a respected scientist without the ethos to value accuracy and objectivity. Just because you feel that weed is a nice thing, you cannot simply dismiss conflicting evidence on the basis of a conspiracy theory. That's incredibly intellectually dishonest.

Even though I don't like the paternalistic approach of #15 of banning things the authorities deem bad for you, I feel the need to back him up with some facts, so you can make informed decisions what you want to consume an what not.

Cannabis and psychosis:

1. Front Psychiatry. 2014 May 22;5: 54.
Gone to Pot - A Review of the Association between Cannabis and Psychosis.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4033190/

2. Curr Addict Rep. 2014 Jun 1; 1(2): 115–128.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4352721/

3. Front Psychiatry. 2014; 5: 159.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4235385/

4. Front Psychiatry. 2013; 4: 128.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3796266/

5. Schizophr Res. 2013 Dec; 151(0)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3877688/

6. Psychol Med. 2014 Dec; 44(16): 3435–3444.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4255321/

7. Schizophr Res. 2012 Aug; 139(1-3): 157–160.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3415971/

8. Curr Pharm Des. 2012 Nov; 18(32): 5070–5080.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3474956/

9. Schizophr Res. 2008 Dec; 106(2-3): 286–293.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2613445/

10. Schizophr Bull. 2011 May; 37(3): 631–639.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3080669/

#5 I am pretty sure the traffic scenes are staged on closed roads. Otherwise it would be completely illegal.

#7 more like physics, physics, physics, (smart arse)^3

#5 And by fragments you actually mean ash, not ballistic projectiles? Otherwise it would need an ejection speed of min. 11275 km/h - in a frictionless environment. The peak of the ballistic curve would be at a height of 500 km - more than twice the height of the orbit of the ISS.

Why even mention the nuclear plant? 50 km is an extremely safe distance for a volcano of this size.

I love it when maths does the magic for you. That way i can impress my friends with card tricks even though I am more than clumsy with a deck of cards.

It is clearly a case of paradoxical undressing, a bizarre phenomenon that makes people with hypothermia discard their clothes. This is actually quite common and seems to occur in about 25% of cases of lethal hypothermia.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7632602

#4 youre off by a factor of 10 there. A regular car has tops 35 l/100km in extreme situations. A Bugatti Veyron has a peak consumption of 100 l/100km.

#7 no way! I've commented under the wrong video and since I could only edit my post, I had to write some junk and seized the opportunity to complain about the lack of a delete function.

#9 Great observation skills. This plane is fitted with a flat plate antenna for a radar jammer (red shrimp jammer), that is mounted there.

There should be a way to delete comments, otherwise you end up with comments like this one

#2 The inner layer of an airplaine window does not bear any loads and serves no structural purposes. It is more an interior design feature, dust cover and provides some thermal insulation. Without the little hole on the bottom it would bulge inwards, or even pop out at altitude, what would be more than alarming for passengers.
Planes do not implode, if anything they would explode. But the pressure difference is not big enough to create an explosion. The problem is the formation of cracks in high-stress areas, which will at one point cause the plane to rip apart once a crack is long enough. If such a crack allows the air with wind speeds of 900 km/h - 4 times the speed of a cat. 5 hurricane - to attack, it simply rips of pieces and once the shape of the hull is damaged it becomes unstable and the wind can give it the rest.

The o-rings have to handle very little pressure and do not have to be operated very often. From an engineers point of view it is not really a big challenge. A valve on a canister of compressed air has to deal with up to 400 times the pressure.

This guy always has fascinating gadgets. Sadly he has no clue about physics.

Any infos what kind of algorithms are used to find the solution? Are they computed in real time? Is the solution optimized to use the minimum amount of operations, or is it just a really fast execution of standard moves?

edit: Found it. http://kociemba.org/cube.htm

This concept is now tested in prisons all over the world. So far it seems to be a huge success story.

My advice for critical thinking: When you research, try to falsify your own convictions and ideas, not confirm them. If an idea like "is there a god" is unfalsifyable, then there is no right or wrong answer to it and you have to acknowledge that it is not a matter of rational thinking. If you try and fail to falsify an idea like "is the belief in the supernatural a positive force in society", that in principal is falsifyable, you then have a firm ground for your convictions. Finding evidence for something you already agree with is easy and your confirmation bias can easily cloud your mind. Examining the conflicting evidence can lead to painful cognitive dissonance. That's why it is so hard to be rational/critical.

This is the Norwegian parody group Ylvis, who poke fun at Pentatonix in this video. Their other music videos are rather bizarre as well. In this video they highlight the irony of something that is - as we in our schooldays referred to as "super gay" - being portrayed as something the cool kids do.

Maybe it is just me, but the visualization of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D-minor or the Well-Tempered Clavier is way more interesting. The complexity of his work that still sounds simplistic regularly blows my mind! The way he distorts and shuffles his motives makes it all come together to sound beautiful will never stop to amaze me.

This is a fertilized egg, right?

#4 I think the objection is that the bodies are displayed publicly. Strip bars usually can't be looked into from the street. I have no problem with the human physique, but I am not sure if I wanted my children to be confronted with these superficial body images and beauty standards. I would be all for it if also normal looking people could choose if they wanted to wear pants to work

#2 All dogs are capable of recognizing faces and shapes on TV. There are some interesting studies carried out in Germany in which one of our Dogs participated, where they had to interact with a touchscreen and identify emotional expressions of human faces. So, I tend to go with the option, that a dog who reacts on dogs in TV might not be the sharpest tool in the shed On the other hand remembering adverts shows some remarkable pattern recognition skills. Next chance i get i will ask the scientists opinion.

Who in his right mind would hire Gilbert Gottfried to narrate an infomercial targeted at elderly people?

Striking a match and lighting a cig without limbs is one thing. Maintaining a mustache with this habit... remarkable!

Even the goat had a laugh

#2 Let me guess:
https://youtu.be/g2iX9i5Ymbk?t=1m10s

#30 The stew is to die for...

#24 I've read it several times. And yes, I agree that the NT is a step forward and promotes less hatred than the OT or the Quran and therefore is a better update of the ancient texts. Your explanation in kiddies words does not really hold water. Plenty of nasty content of the OT remains untouched and nearly all religious christians do draw meaning from the OT. They mainly pick and choose the stuff that does not contradict the values of the society they live in, normal Muslims do the same. Many christians prove that it is possible to interpret the OT literally, though.
For that reason i promote caution of generalizing too much. Evil people can justify their deeds with all religions, as well as good people can be motivated by every scripture.
By the way, when is stew ready?

#19 ever read through the bible? It also promotes genocide of nonbelieving tribes and other unspeakable horrible crimes. True, Islam is not a religion of peace, but it is in itself not more a religion of hate than other monotheistic religions. The problem is, that some insane people interpret the quran literally, something the other religions have left behind themselves since the enlightenment. The vast majority of Muslims wants to live peacefully. In many Muslim majority countries women have equal rights. The people that are killed by religious fanatics are mainly members of the Muslim majority that has outgrown the early medieval belief system, and who are terrorized by the fanatic fringe of Islam.

The problem with Islam is that the number of Westborough-Baptist-Church, Anders-Breivik-equivalent Nutjobs is currently staggeringly higher than in other religions. But you cannot generalize that to more than a billion people.

#2 I admit the borders between terrorism and guerrilla warfare are a bit blurry. You could say that it is a terrorist act, when its main objective is to instill fear as a way to further your political/religious motives. The way the acts of violence counted in this video are classified as terror may be slightly biased from a western point of view, I give you that. But you cannot compare strategical drone strikes with civilian casualties to indiscriminate massacres with the sole objective to cause pain and misery. Therefore "Terrorist" and "Enemy" are not terms that are interchangeable and purely a matter of perspective.

#1 I estimate the baskets are traveling with 20 m/s when they hit the nets. It then takes them about 20 m to come to a halt. That would be between 1g and 2g deceleration force. Since it is applied gradually it cannot be too bad. Certainly not that bad, that i hadn't hitched a ride on the final descent

He should have given the pieces a good shuffle before starting. Now he is basically solving five 6000+ piece puzzles in a row. Impressive none the less.

#2 That's dissapointing. I've seen the effect with the printout been performed previously without the use of stooges though...

Nice routine!
I especially enjoy his patter style. Many magicians sound fake and douchebaggy. He comes across really nice and authentic.

The the psychological technique used in this video is called flooding. Basically the concept behind it is to overwhelm the individual with a stimulus it is afraid of until it stops fighting it and hopefully realizes, that it causes no harm. In this case it worked really well, but it has the potential to backfire and traumatize the dog even more. Also, there is a high chance of getting bit.
So, don't try this at home.

I bet if the board was presented as a proof of concept prototype, people would be hyped about it. Presenting it as a finished 'product' that grants 'total freedom of movement/travel' makes people just think 'what shit is this?' instead of appreciating the engineering behind it. At least that is the vibe i am getting in this comment section. Not a good strategy to get investors...

Is it maneuverable at all?

#2 That does not sound big to me *Buzzz!!!*

#5 Nice Job!

#7 How can you say something like that? I demand an apology!

2015 - The year of the squirrel!

In my field of work quantum computing has the potential to reduce computing time in orders of magnitude. I regularly have to solve linear systems of up to several million equations - a process that feels like it takes for ever (months really if repeated solving is necessary). Quantum computing offers to speed up this specific computation exponentially compared to classical algorithms. The benefits for industrial product development, logistics... would be enormous! So, I really do not get why cyber security and the whole prime factor business is highlighted every time the topic of quantum computing is raised.

The perfect symphony of aero- and fluid dynamics displayed in this video made my jaw drop. I would have thought a bird would make itself as streamlined as possible for the dive. Instead it maximizes the surface tension and creates a slingshot effect to pop right out again.

#1 I wondered about that as well. The habitat of the plant is pretty confined and the palms reach ages of 200+ years. Perhaps the slow way of reproducing prevents a population growth that is not sustainable by the islands ecosystem and a stable population is required to prevent soil erosion. Growing huge seeds could be a method to slow things down. That's the best I can come up with. Any other ideas?

#16 I am glad you enrich the discussion and provide citations. I have learned that the meager $21,600 first officers earn at U.S. Airways is not as widespread a practice as I believed, thanks to you.

#2 How is this related to fracking?

#8 I do not know about the details, but working in the aerospace-industry I sometimes get to have lunch with passenger jet pilots (who all get reasonable salaries). Some of them have expressed safety concerns, because it becomes more common that young pilots (in the US) have to work second jobs and are really exhausted in the cockpit. I admit that's all I know about the topic.

#4 The maximum average might still be high. That's because senior pilots have been in business for a long time before flying became so cheap as it is today. Nowadays cheap airlines pay 20 $ an hour after you've finished flight school. Sounds reasonable? The catch is, they often only pay "in flight time".
Sure, many pilots make a good living, but many accept being horribly exploited to work their dream job.
Check this out:
http://thetruthabouttheprofession.weebly.com/professional-pilot-salaries.html

Beeing a pilot is such an appealing idea, that many airlines get away with paying rediculously low salaries.
Some pilots get as little as 20k $ anually for a demanding job and often have to cover expenses themselves when they do not sleep at home

#8 The disitinct ring you can see is the geostationary orbit. It is chosen for many applications like broadcast and communication satellites, because the satellites position remains fixed relative to a point on earth's surface. Also, the trajectory of most rocket launches is parallel to the equator to add the spin of the earth to the rockets velocity and save fuel. That explains why most space junk accumulates near the equatorial orbit.

#14, Funny that abstinence is promoted by christians of all people.
After all, the virgin *cough* Mary has demonstrated how fool proof this strategy really is ...

Wait, you call this "news" on your side of the pond?

He has to put a bit more work into the "reloadable" part. Exploding in your face on the first shot does not exactly meet the criteria, imho

I like big bots and I cannot lie...

Merry Christmas to all of you! I really got to like you guys and hope you all keep contributing to this site by submitting and commenting. Whether you celebrate the birth of a religious figure, the winter solstice, your relations with friends and families or simply take some time off to recharge, I hope you all get the most out of it

#10 If it motivates you to be a good person and help others out, it is without question a good thing and you should probably stick to it. It is only logical that you get love, respect and positive things in return if you treat others well. I would rather do something nice for a likable guy than for a selfish prick. No need to be all metaphysical about it.
I don't buy that you sincerely believe that a person dying in agony from some disease is to blame for his misery because bad things come to bad people.
If you simply mean that everybody is responsible for repercussions resulting from their behavior, there is no arguing about that. Only the use of the word Karma is a bit misleading without additional explanation.
My point is that the concept of Karma is terribly romanticized in the new-age movement and the more sinister implications are often ignored.
I guess I am a bit too sensitive about the issue since charlatans like Rhonda Byrne cashed in on a variation of the idea with "The Secret" and basically blamed the Jews for falling victim to the holocaust, because they weren't positive enough (she really wrote that).

Considering your point on language restrictions: Fucking A!

What my IP-Adress has to do with any of this I do not get. Did I come across like I was posing as an Indian?

I only took one guy to break the ice and motivate the other cowards to help as well.
That's why you should always be the icebreaker.
I defended humanity on SNOTR a lot recently and asserted that the urge to help is an innate human feature. Seems I was pretty naive...

#7 Karma is indeed a wicked concept. Western people tend to interpret it as "good things come to those who do good deeds.", but that is only half the story. The concept originally means "You get what you deserve". If you're suffering it is your own fault, because you are essentially a bad person. This way of thinking helped to cement the Hindu caste system, where you have zero social mobility, because you are born in a caste according to your behavior in the previous life. This is why the lowest social class "the untouchables" have to deal with a lot of hatred which makes their lives even more miserable.
Not a concept worth adopting.

#2 If they did it for youtube only, they probably would have made the effort to hold the cellphone the right way.

#4 The current version has a flight time of 10 minutes. Thats 20 times more than previous personal VTOL devices (rocket belts) had to offer.

I wish I was able again to enjoy Christmas presents as much as Tommy. It reminds me so much how i felt as a kid. Perfect Christmas feeling video!

#14 I thought Romania was a secular country without a state religion? I also live in a country, where Christianity is the major religion. However, many natives like myself are not religious, and some of them are bothered by the privileges Churches enjoy in the public debate and financing. Where should those people fuck off to?
Nobody here is offended if the word Christmas is used by state officials. Some do use more religious neutral terms to be more inclusive with people without a christian background. That's when people really begin to take offense, because they are scared the evil Muslims want to take away Christmas from them.
Communitys are displaying "Christmas trees" by the millions and nobody gives a shit. If a community decides to put up some "Holiday decoration" on the other hand, you can bet that public outrage will ensue.

Category: "Bljad!"

#8 of course I wasn't beeing serious there. But this really resembles the absurd reasoning patterns of some people.

#8 Science has shown, that the danger of uncontrolled propulsion by (unlit) farts is negligible
http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/06/can_you_propel_yourself_in_space_by_farting_109249.html

#4 The technology puts hard working oil rig drillers out of their jobs and denies plants the extra CO2 they so desperately yearn for. Also, the first experimental reactor was stationed in Russia, so it is basically a communist technology. How's that for a start?

Harnessing the power of nuclear fusion really is the holy grail of energy generation. The best thing is: there is no reason to believe it cannot be done during my lifetime.

#2 thanks a lot for ruining all the ISS videos for me...
The guy to the right looks like he knows exactly under how much pressure his colleague is and tries to keep a straight face.

#3 Apart from some man-hating feminist whackos, who admittedly get much more attention than they deserve and thereby influence the public perception negatively, modern feminism is an emancipatory movement that strives to eliminate structural disadvantades for all sexes. The umbrella term feminism has a historical background, because it was created in a time not long ago, where women weren't even allowed to vote.

From a feminist point of view it is perfectly ok to acknoledge, that women tend to express their emotions more openly like crying in front of others. They also have no problem if you acknoledge their beauty or call them sexy in a non threatening way.
However if you refer to them with the term pussy, which basicly reduces them to their reproductive organ, you should't be surprised that they call you sexist or chauvinistic.

It's great that you try to be respectful and I admit, your last sentence is pretty funny.
Don't take it personal, I just seazed the opportunity to try to clear up some common misconceptions

#8 that's because nobody straps on a gopro to help a granny over the street. If a drunk guy that's lit on fire attempts to jump from a rooftop onto a trampoline while chugging a beer, you bet somebody has a cellphone out.
I think most of us would have reacted the same way in a heartbeat in those situations (except from some of the extreme cases). If not you're simply as selfish a$$hole!

We might all know that a projection of a spherical plane to a flat one comes with distortions. However, we are so used to the Robinson-projection of the earth, that it influences our perception. I enjoy a little reminder of how relations really are.

#8 A room with a back alley entrance?
Ok. I'll grow up and stop...

#5 Have you been caught from behind by my last remark?

#3 you mean it was a freudian slit?

#1 Don't worry. The gaydar was developed already and would have warned you in time to dress really unattractive.
Back room plots - I see what you did there

#1 In the genre "magic" is a well defined term and does not imply something supernatural in any way. When magicians refer to "illusions", they normally mean a specific niche of magic like Copperfield, Sigfried & Roy...
#2 Card tricks are awesome! The ones shown here are mediocre, though.

Guys, let's not jump to conclusions based on a single piece of circumstantial evidence.

#30 oops you're right about CATO, my bad. Didn't bother to look it up and remembered wrongly. It is founded by Koch Industries, who also have a lot to lose if political measures against global warming come into action.

The problem with science from lobbies and think tanks is, that they generally do not do real own research. Their main job is to filter the existing science done by transnational organisations, put a spin on it and present it in a way that fits their objectives. What results do you expect from a group that declared its goals - free economy, less government,.. - in advance.

Real science on the other hand has no desired conclusions. Its goal is to examine the evidence and constantly update the theory (check #18 for the definition of a scientific theory) to make it best fit all available data. Scientists working on government grants are not in for the money. If they are good at what they do they could make much more elsewhere. They do it for the love of science and are willing to change their minds if new evidence conflicts with previous concepts they believed, because that's what scientific progress is about. Few of them would waste their time trying to confirm a theory they know doesn't hold water.

Your link simply is an opinion piece. A source in a scientific debate should look more like this:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2005ESASP.560...19U

As much as I enjoyed our little debate, i think it is exhausted by now.

#25 Most oft the people you list are affiliated with CATO, Heartland, Lavoisier... - organisations funded by the fossil fuel industry that have clear agendas. This alone does not dismiss their research (if they did any) but the conflict of interest is worth mentioning none the less. Less than half of these people are real climate scientists with much experience in the field, and the combined record of substantial publications on climate in peer reviewed scientific journals is not impressive, to say the least. I suppose those are the best you can come up with?
I will not reply with hundreds of names of climatologists, who agree on the scientific consensus. That would be silly...

Solar activity sure is a factor that influences earths climate. That does not mean CO2 concentration does't. In fact solar irradiation is declining since the sixties, whereas the climate is constantly getting warmer.

But then again i am a scientist but no expert on climate. So it would be better to just read the meta-studies published by real experts that passed review by other experts, than cherry picking facts that prove our points.

#21 Climate change as a political battleground is pretty much an U.S. american phenomenon. In the rest of the world there might be much political debate on how to react but not if the science is real.
Liberal representation of science and the alarmist rhetoric is horrible, no doubt. That is why you don't consult politicians if you want to learn about science. That's what scientific experts are for.
The american right does not want to give the government reasons to intervene in our lives and habits. But just because you don't like the implications, you cannot simply dismiss reality.
Addressing your point of many scientists that disagree: The appeal to authority is a very weak argument, especially if the people you refer to are a fringe group, who - generally speaking - didn't contribute anything to the science. I really wonder why you as a layman put your trust in these few people while dismissing the scientific consensus of people who actually know exactly what they are talking about.

I suppose there is no point arguing with you. Once someones mind is made up and he emotionally invested a lot in a topic, it is hard to change his mind. Trying to convince you is as futile as arguing with a young earth creationist.

#19 you're beating a dead horse here. The "hide the decline"-quote was taken completely out of context. See, if the global temperature falls for a few consecutive years, that does not mean that the climate is getting colder. Surface air temperature is not the only indicator for heat trapped in a system. Add natural cycles and statistical variance and it might appear from a limited data set that a climate is cooling. Climate describes the temperature trends over decades, not years. It is perfectly acceptable to account for that by using statistical algorithms. If two colleagues exchange ideas, how to best represent the data and use wording that isn't meant for release to the public, you hardly have a scandal. In this case the decline wasn't even in temperature but in tree ring size in high latitudes since the sixties.
Even if individual scientists are intellectual dishonest enough to tweak pieces of data to be able to publish results (which in this case didn't even happen), that does not discredit climate science anymore than the field of, say, epidemiology, where these things did happen in the past.
I wonder why you take such incidents seriously enough to dismiss a whole scientific field, and on the other hand swallow the grossly distorted representation of think tanks that are financed by the fossil fuel industry hook line and sinker.
We can argue over the appropriate measures and the expected magnitude and socio-economic impact of climate change. But believing in a conspiracy of "Big Climate" based on information you get fed by Big Oil borders on insanity...

Not that the toxicity of CO2 has anything to do with the issue, but it is not all that black and white:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16499405

edit: your car puts out large amounts of CO2 (15%) and very small amounts of CO(0.2%). Big difference

Sorry, #17 i really emphathize with your stance on the issue, but your use of the word theory is not the way it is used in science. A scientific THEORY is a model that describes how something works and allows to make accurate predictions. A HYPOTHESIS is something that requires more evidence to be confirmed and when it is, it becomes a THEORY. The more evidence gets gathered the stronger a THEORY gets. When the body of evidence from multiple scientific disciplines all converge to support a THEORY (like the heliocentric model) it becomes so strong that parts of it can be considered FACTS. The THEORY of evolution for example has a lot of holes and many mechanisms are unknown or showed to work completely different than previously established. Its core, however - the origin of new species by natural selection - can be considered to be a fact since the 18th century. and then there is string theory
The terminology is often misused deliberatetely to discredit scientific reality.

In climate-theory there are still many open questions and a tiny minority of experts disagrees on the anthropogenic impact on the climate. Arguably these experts are politically biased and the dissense is grossly exagerated by the right wing media, that thinks there is a huge conspiracy of climate-scientists that only want grant money. These conspiracy theorists, however ignore the fact that scientists with the credentials to publish in respected scientific jurnals like "nature" could earn a lot more money in the private sector and get filthy rich if they sold out to the fossil fuel industry...

The evidence for anthropogenic impact on climate change is pretty compelling and if I had to choose between the scientific concensus and the rants of a talk radio host, I would bet my money on the first.

#4 My comment was in no way directed at #1 but a general response to that particular "amazing fact".
I still remember the joy I experienced when i read "fartkontrol" on a danish motorway for the first time. I totally get that he likes it

If you're amazed by fact nr. 9
(2x+6)/2-x=3
you're either eight years old, or you slept your way through math class.

All that modifications have to reduce life expectancy for a few decades. That woman needs psychological help, not surgery. How is this compatible with the hippocratic oath?

Prices start at $ 120.000. Gotta kill a lot of ducks until it amortizes...

Is the world really such a bad place, or are we humans simply morbidly fascinated with destruction, mayhem and suffering, and therefore the media and the consumers attention focus on that aspects of life, which in return shapes our views? From personal experience i get the impression, that people generally want to help each other (and other species) out and if they don't it is often due to fear and not indifference. That fear can be a result of social pressure as well as real physical danger.
But then again I have been in several situations where people where threatened/attacked/mugged in public and i was the only one to intervene (usually other people did call the cops, though). Perhaps I am generalizing...

#7 You sound like you need a hug

#8 I guess by that logic your car is air powered because it doesn't work under water...

#9 True, it comes down to trust and the video asks for scepticism. That point goes to you

#5 You think so? How depressing. I choose to believe in the decency of my fellow man by default. But then again i might just be naive...

#2 exactly. Every time i read something along the lines of "faith in humanity restored..." as a comment under a video that shows a completely natural act of basic compassion, I am shocked that people seem to believe, that the normal thing to do is letting a creature suffer and show complete indifference.

#5 if you'd payed attention you would have noticed that this video is not monetized.

#4 It would work in outer space, if you're in an accelerating system.
But i guess your question demonstrates that you don't know the difference between power and force. Gravity is the latter.

Bosnianbill's videos are the reason why i got into lock picking. You should try it. The final click is always hugely rewarding!

Well, the light isn't powered by gravity. It is powered by the person who lifts the weight. His muscle work is added to the system. It is then stored in the form of potential energy, transformed to rotational, electrical... energy.

The product looks very useful, though.

He parked the car. You have to give him that.

Oh, the irony...

It is actually quite common for dogs to back out a room with a floor they don't feel comfortable on in that manner. I guess he was told to retrieve the TP and another person filmed the whole thing. The dog displays a lot of commitment for its task here.

#8 But the woman you describe would have it a lot easier if she wouldn't have to fight against constant brainwashing, that convinces her she has to worry about this or that imperfection and that she can buy something to get rid of it.
A lot of the pressure in our society is structural. Some jobs (like in finance) for women require them to walk in high heels for example.

I wouldn't have thought, that it was that difficult to pull off. But apparently it is.
Even impossible without Sony's help.

#4 I did not have sexual relations with that donkey.

#2 I believe the word you're looking for is "cock". The honorable judge has made clear thought, hat he is (against all rumors) in fact a hen.

The backgroundstory: The Bus was carrying a bomb that was wired to the speedometer and would go off if the speed dropped below 60 mph. I watched a documentary about it. it was called Speed.

#1 more like 3 months. Cynicism works a lot better when you get your facts straight...

Its a great feature if someone farts in the passenger seat.

It's a roller-organ, humanities first attempt at midi.

classic "It wasn't me" moments...

#1 I have a fancy cooking knife collection and agree on everything you say with exception of a tomato being a bad example. It is when i cut tomatoes that i decide if a knife need sharpening.

The number of sleight of hand jokes this guy must have heard in his life...
No, seriously: I am impressed!

Someone cut open the top of my friend's parents 2 weeks old Alpha Romeo, puked inside and left without taking anything. The motives continue to be a mystery...

The 15% estimate might prove to be far off in the future. Until then it is our best available guess based on a calculation using linear regression by experts. What i find hilarious is that the makers of the video derive the 15% from an article that says 86% of organisms are undiscovered. Something does not add up

Are there any estimates how the political landscape would change in america if every vote had an equal impact? I would guess that republicans profit from the status quo because they are popular in less densely populated areas, which get disproportional many electoral votes.

Erm, the term "political correctness" was coined by reactionary forces to discredit the progressive agenda. To me the title of the video makes no sense at all. I agree that there are some taboos in academia and not all ideas can be discussed equally. But this video is the worst load of crap (I hope #6 lets me borrow this term) I've watched since the last Dennis Prager clip.

#11 thanks for mentioning the favourite button. Ive never noticed it before...

#3 I love the depth of your discussion with #2. But i would argue that morals are not strictly acquired by learning but also hardwired into our human brains by some degree. Virtually all cultures have an incest taboo for example. These morals have been shaped by evolution so that we as a species can thrive.
If we want to create an AI that shares our morals, we would have to program them. An impossible task, I might say, for we do not know the normal human moral response to every possible scenario. Our ethics have to be constantly redefined to keep up with technological, political, ... development.

#7 That content is blocked in my area due to copyright issues. So i am safe from your twisted joke

This specimen is even more nightmarish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UROVfmY3NTA

Except from autotune the current teens are just fine...

With this contraption he could have gotten rich in the early days of cinema. That beats a theremin by a long shot!

#1 and #5 close, but no cigar. The terms debugging and bug existed prior to the incident with the Mark II. It was the first documented bug that was caused by an actual bug. For that reason the incident amused the engineering community and the term was even more popularized.
But i am splitting hairs again... sorry

That seal does not look airtight at all.

This looks so authentic, I bet he has even got pornographic magazines under the drivers seat.

That tied up horses at 2:03 look absolutely miserable

Reminds me that i wanted to get an organ donor card. And so should you guys.

Is the surprise ending a 30 ft drop?

Volkswagen has the opposite at their main plant in Wolfsburg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAQ0ewhZWs4

Filmed from a specific angle it looks cool, but it neither is a hologram nor a 3D effect. It is a anamorphic projection on a transparent surface, that shows 4 independent images on all four sides of the construction. When viewed in stereovision it is a flat image, slanted towards the observer.

#11 actually the incident has been exhaustively studied and the main culprit here is human gullability. If dowsing effects are tested without the proper double blindig procedures they appear very real and convincing. Some austrian government agencies still use dowsing do find spots where they construct wells. Nobody would benefit from corruption in that case, except the grandpa with the dowsing rod. The case has had a huge resonance in the sceptic community, because it illustrates the importance of a basic science education and of critical thinking skills, even for nonscientists.

#2 well, many snakeoil salesmen, that cater to the consumer marked have lost lives on their conscience as well. Many useless and very expensive products claim to heal you from potential lethal medical conditions. The difference, that shocks me here is the large scale of scientific illiteracy displayed by governments around the world. Everybody that makes important decisions should know about the importance of blinded randomized trials, when it comes to claims that are to good to be true.

#9 In Germany (Deutschland) we have an equivalent expression: "Schlaaand!" It is used to make fun of drunken soccer fans who discover their patriotism during the soccer world cup.

The way i interpret the whole "Murica"-joke, it is only directed at a very specific part of the population. The part that thinks shooting shit up is a patriotic act.

We humans are hardwired to detect patterns in everything! This has been extremely beneficial because it allows us to establish cause and effect in our lives. For example: "If i water my crops regularly, i will have food for the winter." At the same time we are prone to false positives like "If i pray to the goddess Demeter, my crops will grow."
The only method that allows us to determine if a pattern is actually there and if there is an underlying causality, is the scientific method.
Science has shown that graphology, astrology, iridology ... aren't real, yet we cling to such irrational beliefs to the point, that it is still used for criminal profiling by some police forces.

In Europe you can be recorded in public places as part of the scenery. The release of a video that exclusively focuses on an individual needs the person's consent, if there aren't any extreme circumstances.

Funny, how the children act as if they had no clue. I bet most of them know damn well from their friends, that making babies involves some nasty stuff.

#6 true, but we would be a whole lot more.

#2 your diplomatic skills are just amazing

When i am not mistaken, this is a rebuttal to the claim, that a scientific worldview does not acknowledge beauty. He certainly makes a good job of describing the poetic aspects of a biological world shaped by random processes and nonrandom selection. Kinda what Neal Degrasse Tyson does on a cosmic scale. Even though scientificly thinking atheists don't attribute meaning to the world and their view is not that mystical, it does not mean that they can't be deeply emotional and awestruck by the natural world. Their lives are far from empty and senseless.

#14 Right, real men enjoy the degradation and objectification of wet women with their undies up their butt cracks. They also eat a diet consisting exclusively of raw meat, wipe their asses with sandpaper, beat their wives, use gasoline as aftershave and most certainly have a Yorkshire terrier as their profile-picture...

If this is legal - and i am not saying it shouldn't be - you can as well ditch the whole medical premise which scientifically stands on pretty shaky ground anyway, and legalize it for recreational use. A doctor, that is effectively employed by a weed delivery company, makes the big pharma - doctor connection look pale in comparison...

#1 then mute the video and find out.

Thanks #8

Not sheering a sheep, just to set a record, is animal abuse!

I wonder how many fatalities have been caught on GoPro at events sponsored by the company. Do they have a secret archive?

I guess they aren't paid by the hour...

#5 I feel you. This really is the lowest imaginable form of entertainment. Lets get downvoted tohether!

#4 Authority certainly comes into play, but i wouldn't say he misses the point, as the analogy of the caring mother covers that briefly. The absolution of personal responsibility does help a lot to deal with ailments, but placebos have been shown to work even though the recipient knows it is only a sugar-pill.
On the flip side your argument demonstrates how irresponsible it is to spread fear, distrust and uncertainties about well established medical procedures, because the nocebo-effect can compromise the efficacy of an intervention as well.
A mix of both worlds would be ideal: A caring, charismatic health professional you could have a trusting relationship with, that also delivers treatments that meet the standards of up-to-date medical science. Sadly, most specialists are nerds and their time is rare...

#3 Didn't you know that henges, especially those made from stone, where multipurpose?

Now that's the stuff i visit SNOTR for!

The placebo effect is a fascinating phenomenon, but it is very often falsely credited for the popularity of nonsensical alternative medical practices, or at least its contribution is overestimated. The subjective benefits of sham-treatments are much better explained by "regression to the mean" (symptoms often fluctuate in intensity and you're most likely to search for help, when you have a bad episode), and confirmation bias or selective perception (you tend to remember facts that support your world view - e.g. "alternative medicine is more effective than conventional medicine" - and forget all the incidents that contradict it).

0:56 is me and my family btw.

there it is:
https://www.google.de/maps/@14.0081415,120.9961545,984m/data=!3m1!1e3

ok, that didn't work just search for "14° 0′ 7″ N, 120° 59′ 34″ E"

I guess the first two segments of the 25000kg tower weren't put there by helicopter. The AS-332C1 Super Puma in this video has a max. payload of around 4000 kg. Makes me wonder how they got the 14,7t element up there.

#9 German ice-cream with gass-chamber-flavour would taste like almond.

My objections to eating this ice cream would be more of a sanitary, than of a racist nature. Those cones seem to be handled by a lot of people...

Also a snot-screen wouldnt hurt.

Are there any infos what passing out at 9 Gs does to your underwear?

This dog is doing nothing extraorinary. Most dogs love playing tug of war. All of my dogs would do the same thing from the spot. It is a great idea by the kids to utilize the dogs prey-drive in such a cute manner, never the less.

Ah, gender marketing... What a scam!

#2 actually many studies have conclusively shown, that gaming does not improve your mental and cognitive abilities. They make you better at the task presented in the games, but that does not translate to real life scenarios. You can utilize memorizing techniques and practice them in games and get able to memorize larger and larger numbers, sets of names or other lists. But that wont help you remember the color of the shirt of a person you've met yesterday for example. The mind exercizing-industry in general is complete BS.

#5 her father, the journalist and author Robert Christophe (1907-1983), was a prisoner of war and, even though he was jewish, was under the protection of the Genever Convention, which the Nazis, oddly enough, adhered to in general. The fact that her father was a POW even granted her family the "privilege" to go to the camp Bergen-Belsen, where prisoners were held for exchange-deals, and not to an extermination-camp. The family was able to maintain contact by mail most of the time and was reunited after the war ended.

I am impressed that there are still survivors of the holocaust left to tell the story and that some of them will be around for at least a decade. Some of them, like Francine Christophe don't even appear to be that old.

Is this for real?

I once had an axe-wielding Conan the Barbarian action figure, whose weapon was lost. The hollow hand could be placed in his lap and when he was wound up he started wanking vigorously. Onan, as we lovingly called him, became the centerpiece of many parties.

#4 On the contrary! This will only feed conspiracy theorists. Its the way their minds operate: You confront them with a huge pile of evidence. Then they will focus on a small detail they don't understand, declare it impossible and have new evidence for a huge hoax. Classic case of confirmation bias.

#7 How come you hear about Staffies so often? Statistically a German shepherd is the most likely breed to be involved in a biting-incident. Good luck separating a GSDs jaw... I have witnessed countless bitings, because as a passionate dog sports enthusiast i am around excited dogs all the time. Never saw a staff (or similar breed) bite. The problem with the staffs and bullies i know, is that they are too friendly with other dogs, which they often find very annoying. The only incident with a 3 year old Staff i can recount was such a case. The staff fled in terror btw.

As for aesthetics: People find beauty in very different things. I (and i am more a herding-breed guy) find Staffs very appealing. Much more than, say, an american cocker spaniel, a pomeranian, pug ...

#7 In a perfect vacuum you wouldn't be able to detect the beam from the cameras perspective. In this case however, the photons interact with matter and light gets refracted towards the camera. In the air there is not as much matter to send photons off their straight path as in the less transparent bottle. For that reason you can see the ray only very faintly in the air, but at the moment the light interacts with the water the whole scene lights up.
Is this convincing?

Awesome skill to have as a father. Offense is the best defense.

Just when you think you'd seen it all...

Saw the first one coming miles ahead

That is 200 m from my apartment. It is at the annual Hafengeburtstag (Harbor Birthday) in Hamburg which is always a huge spectacle.

#1 if we let Pluto in the club of planets, it won't be long until the whole Kuiper Belt comes knocking at the door. It is a slippery slope...

#5 this question was analysed by New Yorker vets with interesting results: The cats where most likely to get seriously injured or die when they fall from the 3rd to 5th floor. When falling from bigger heights they can use their body to glide on a cushion of air. This effect is maxed out by the 7th floor from which on additional height does not matter anymore. Recordholder in this study was a fall from the 32nd floor that resulted in a broken tooth and minor trauma to the lungs.

#4 as #1 said they really like elevated positions. Give a goat a barrel and it will hang out on top of it all day. They do it on even less cooperative material than trees:
http://www.snotr.com/video/12967/Goats_balancing_on_a_steel_Ribbon

Trust me, ive got a degree in behavioral biology from SNOTR-University

I visited Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg, where one of the two new private 747s of the emir of Qatar where customized at the time. I won't start with the racehorse stables and operating theater...
The most insane fact was that he wanted it painted in pearl colour to match his favourite car. Since no such color exists for aircraft and car paint does not survive the expansion and contraction of the fuselage very well, he bought painting crews and an enormous paintshop at every airport he visits regularly.
Another crazy fact is that it is en vogue amongst sheiks to have crome coloured air inlets for the engines on their private airliners. As they land and take off in sandy environments they get all dull and have to be replaced everytime the aircraft is serviced between flights. So they have a whole industrial complex in Hamburg that exclusively restores crome engine bodies.

His mother must be sooo proud!

Tinfoil! Get your tinfoil!

Is this a mating ritual?

By most definitions space starts at three times that height. The fisheye makes the earth look really round and the visual thinning of the atmosphere is a cool looking effect. NASA was just short a few hundred meters of this height with its propeller driven solar-electric aircraft Helios HP01.

Great project never the less!

#2 My recorded top speed on a skateboard (by the police ) was 46 mph. This guy looks way faster. But then again, i didnt know how to break at the time...

#2 better rethink that one.
http://www.snotr.com/video/15584/Hot_Daughter

Anyone of you visited "Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit" (aka Bangkok)?

#1 , #2 actually only very few crops (like apples) rely on pollination by honeybees. Most plants are pollinated by a variety of insects like flies, moths and wasps and most of the main food sources of humans don't even use them at all, thanks to the wind. I'm not saying "f..k the bees", but don't believe the scare-tactics that some lobbies are spreading.

#2 I am into dog sports and the dogs i encounter are exceptionally well trained. Some dogs however (like some high drive Malinois) are just not safe around other dogs in a stressful environment. These are not the dogs a sitter would have to deal with.
Although the muzzles are funny, I think it is a really bad idea to make a dog with behavioral issues look threatening. Other dogs might not get the joke and will attack in defense.

One of our dogs does the same silly thing, only opposite. He backs up from carpet to wood.

I almost believed the story about his friend, until he started with all the flatline and "clear" nonsense, that was taken straight from television and not from real life.
I guess it is ok, since the goal of the competition is a good performance, but it devalued the whole thing for me.

Seems like someone watched too much Lord of the Rings...

I really hope, there was a medical need (like parasites) for bathing the cat. Otherwise it is just cruel. And i dont even like cats...

First research on the "rubber hand illusion" was conducted at Princeton University and then the topic was studied in depth at the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. I have now idea why they give the credit to PHD students messing around in Freiburg.

The same effect has been used successfully with other bodyparts - even to induce sexual pleasure in people with fake genitalia:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00926230600835346#.Vd3qZvntlBd

Amazing!

Idiot! Who in his right mind brings a machete to a scimitar-fight...
Damn #7 was first! (Always read all comments before posting) +1 #7

Dont be so harsh with #1. Somebody had to write it. Its the internet after all. He just jumped on the grenade so nobody else had to face the embarassment.

#7 Try shaving your balls with a chainsaw. Then i'm impressed!

#11 You sneaky bastard!

The guy describing shadow did a god job. An analogy for rainbows i would have chosen is a meal, separated into all its flavors. Getting all poetic and excited about it in the face of a person, who is missing out on it seems a bit cruel to me. Sure, a sunset is a nice thing to watch, but they make it sound like it is the best thing ever.

1:00 is that how jesus did it?

#17 Nobody knows how aware Hitlers contemporaries really where about the horrors of the Endlösung, but it was made damn sure that the following generations knew exactly what happened. Today there are many voices that say "why should i feel guilty because our grandparents f...ed up?". But i think it is better to make sure that the part of the German psyche that led to the Holocaust is treated with caution and Germans are kept painfully aware about it.

#6 I guess there is a platform under the carpet connected to a metal rod that is strapped to his right lower leg. The fact that he can disconnect and walk away makes the illusion even more impressive. He can pivot, so the rod is probably simply resting in a short piece of tube.

#6 There certainly is no whitewashing in German history class. On the contrary. It is a constant guilt trip. I estimate, that one third of all books we read in literature and history class deal with the despicable way Germany acted in WW2. In my eyes this is adequate, but many rightwing Germans complain that it is over the top.

#21 Apologies accepted. I know the frustration that comes up if one argues in the comments bellow bullshit science videos

#18 What do you think is more likely: The efficacy of a treatment that isn't compatible with all we know from medical science, or a case of spontaneous remission or a misdiagnosis of the initial condition?
Sadly, there are a lot of people out there who take medical advice from a guy on the internet, on whose aunt a cure supposedly worked. But anecdotal evidence and personal experience is not how the effectiveness of a treatment is established.
Anyway, I am glad your aunt is ok.

#19 Haha, I honestly admitted defeat and realized that my argument didnt hold water. I admit it is unbelievable to change somebodies mind in an online debate in the commentary section, but it sometimes happens, you know.

#16 I guess you have an important point there. Under closer examination it seems wiser for me to fully retract that statement, which i hereby do. I hope you agree with the rest of my initial post, and if not, please dont make me look like an idiot again.

This guy sums up the issue more accurately:
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/herbs_are_drugs

#14 Thanks for pointing that out. Let me rephrase: The bigger the effect of a chemical on a biological process, the more potential for side effects (that have to be identified in clinical trials) there is. Better?

#12 Right, when i noticed it was to late to edit. You're probably the wrong guy to lecture about naturalistic fallacies

#10 Herbal remedies are not side effects free. Due to softer regulations, they are merely less studied than conventional medicine, that in many cases is an purified form of the active ingredients you find in varying quantities in herbs. So the side effects are not identified in clinical trials. As a rule of thumb one could say, the more potent a cure, the more side effects it has. "Natural equals better" is a fallacy that snakeoil salesmen eagerly exploit.

Why does it go limp before insertion?

A single goldie that likes to swim smells awfull. Imagine the odor of this pack!

That is a fakie 50-50 grind!

Le Mag' De La Santé, which is aired on Canal+ in France, is a comedy show that parodies breakfast television.
The sketch is hilarious though.

#2 It really is a tragic dilemma. On top of that the so called "informed" are heavily influenced by agendas of numerous lobbies.

The big question is: How much grassroot democracy is possible before things escalate into irrationality?
On the other hand: Nobody wants a paternalistic government, that knows better whats good for you than yourself. Difficult...

#13 No flame war here. We all seem to agree that the term "race" can either mean (as i just learned) a local socio-economic class, which has historical reasons and the division of biological and genetic distinct groups of a species, which is not applicable to humans. The latter has not been recognized or flat out denied by a lot of people. So, i thought it was worth pointing out.

If someone is interested in a superbly done documentary on the science of human race:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teyvcs2S4mI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVmj8dDx9yY

and #14: Blues are the worst of all!

I meant #6 of course...

These people sure are stupid. But it is quite ironic that the woman accuses them of stupidity, while filming a vertical video.

#2 The concept of a white race has been abandoned by science since the victorian era btw.

#2 It is meant for self defense and to repel polar bears, not hunting them at long range.

That sounds exactly like the band i was in as a teenager

I wish i hadn't enabled you to continue. Those pictures are hard to get out of the head now.
You're probably right doubting a causal link between bacteria and health in dog owners. I simply stated that this research is going on to make the point that intimate contact with dogs (that sounds a bit wrong...) doesn't seem to have severe adverse health effects.

#13 What did they teach you about anecdotal evidence?
please continue...

#2 they probably had a 10% reserve
But honestly, this is 1960ies technology that can hardly be called futuristic. A strap-on-rocked that isn't operated in space will never be more than a gimmick if you ask me.
A quadcopter you could wear would be awesome.

#6 i believe it is this incident:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-3163988/By-standers-scramble-safety-fuel-leak-fire-massive-explosion-factory-leading-mass-evacuation.html

#5 Yeah, i admit the hypothesis sounds a bit sketchy. But its basis is the observed improved health of dog owners and their families of which many engage in unsanitary activities with their pooches. So, at least it doesn't seem to be a big health hazard. Your 2nd link supports this notion btw

Who came up with the idea to fill up the rest of the screen with a blurry copy of part of the original vertical video? In my opinion this makes thing even worse!

#2 there actually is research beeing done at the University of Arizona with the working hypothesis, that dogs germs are probiotic and beneficial for human health. I would do it the same way as these parents to make sure the new arrival is a positive experience and a social bond is formed before jealousy issues arise.

I would have thought that he has a steel bar going up his sleeve, not an entirely fake arm. But it is such a lame trick, that i wonder why he goes through the effort of concealing it.

#5 it is bioluminescent plankton that glows when stimulated. It can be found in oceans around the globe. In the summer months it is quite common in the North Sea (where we went skinny dipping).

Reminds me of the times when we were teenagers and convinced tourist girls to have a naked swim at night. "dont be shy, it is totally dark anyway..."

The noctiluca miliaris at my place had more of a green glow.

Did anyone else feel the urge to wipe the screen after this video?

He should integrate a lawn mower into his design. That way he could get some work done while getting hammered.

#5 Has an important point.
#12 Spot on!
It is not the fault of pedophile people, that they have these feelings (Acting on them is another Story). Society should help them live a decent life and reduce risk for children to a minimum.
If you want to experience the complexity and the moral dilemmas of this issue, i suggest viewing Louis Theroux's "A Place for Pedophiles".

Pedophiles are deeply troubled human beings, that deserve some compassion.

Hard to tell which of these so called superpowers is a physiological irregularity, a trained ability, fraud or just plain craziness.

Thank god, my sister is ugly as hell!

#4 the Sufi are an ascetic monastic sect. In comparable christian practices women are excluded as well. So, this might not be the best video to start an anti-muslim rant.
I like your passion for feminism though!

Interesting mechanism. When you have water to evaporate, you can create a temperature difference to power a stirling motor (1816), or generate electricity through a thermocouple (1885), which i suppose would be far more effective. I guess the problem here is energy density. You would have to construct gigantic mechanisms to harvest reasonable amounts of energy. Time will show, if there are some amazing applications.

#1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV4vHpqrj6E
#8 The job you're doing belongs in category awesome!

I wouldn't exactly call it landed if it involves crashing on the roof...

#5 It wasnt me, i swear. Although i found #2 way funnier than #4. #2 there is a very active SNOTR user who calls himself Cameraguy you know...

Also, look up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logorrhea_(psychology)

Is this visual effect created by long exposure or HDR-technique?
Cameraguy i am asking in your direction?
There is no way this is how earth actually looks from space.

Mike Patton is one of my favorite musicians, but this singing was crap!

Shut up and take.... Wait! 20 $ a kilo? I'm out!

Some of those looked more like suicide attempts

There are no "unborn babies" in the same way there are no "born fetuses". A fetus becomes a baby through the proces of childbirth. The phrase "unborn babies" was coined by the anti-abortion movement. It has no place in a news-show.

Now, that my rant is finished, i'd like to applaude this guy.

"Furze" in German is the imperative of "to fart"

As an engineer and the trainer of agility dogs, i can hardly think of a more interesting video.

I thought the C-string was on top of the evolutionary ladder...

Unless they demonstrate their technique with a random person and compare the predictions with reality i have no reason to believe the pictures resemble the litterers in any way. If it would work then law-enforcement would be all over it. But for an uneducated population the campaign may just work.

Balls of steel!
In more than just one way...

#7 I've visited the archives for arctic ice-drilling cores, which are stored at -120°C at the Alfred Wegener Institute. You could walk in the freezing chamber in shorts and t-shirt without any kind of discomfort to get one of the popsicles they kept inside there. But they strongly advised to let it warm up for five minutes before licking it.

#5 Over here in Germany, we might not have a whole lot of actual sex going on, but we sure are not afraid to talk about it in drastic vocabulary or display body parts on tv.
I like the second part...

This only works on cheap springloaded locks. Higher quality locks use ball bearings that are locked in place.

#3 Haha, high fife!

#4 gave you a thubs up for bringing some reason to this video and its comments. The vitamin-c will not "boil off" though (under 190°C), but it will neither do anything to relieve your symptoms or help you recover unless youre suffering from a deficiency. So, never mind

Don't think the workers see more money of a 20€ shirt. But by paying only 2€ the consumer gives his consent to the exploitation.

This kind of editing is probably supposed to make him appear more dynamic, but it somehow makes him look like he isn't able to complete a single sentence without help from the cutting software (i am sure he can).

These days, you don't get any coverage of your protest if nothing burns. So i think some violent protests can be justified from an utilitarian point of view. But most of the time the kids are indeed just there too "f**k s**t up", what usually simply discredits a movement.
It is funny how the media generally presents these kind of protests in a bad light when they're close at home and glorifies them when they are in Egypt for example.

Nucular! It it's pronounced nucular.

In theory a cylindrical shape could achieve a 91% packing density if arranged in a hexagonal pattern. In practice the cans are arranged in a quadratic pattern which lets the space usage drop to 78.5%.

And now the few helicopters stationed in Nepal are used to evacuate the wealthy adventurers from Mt. Everest while the Nepalese people below are dying. Strange world...

We had a kid in our local skatepark whose parents assebled his board with the trucks facing the wrong direction. He did quite well in the miniramp, but something looked odd. One day his mom asked me to try out the board, because she thought it behaved weirdly. After I had a painfull experience and told her the mistake she made they reversed the trucks and the kid couldnt deal with it and asked his mom to change it back. As far as i know he still rides his board that way.

The brush-cutter could use some longer bristles.

Why would it be an advantage to swarm when recources run low? I had suspected the opposite.

#1 There you go:
http://www.plassertheurer.com/en/machines-systems/track-renewal-laying-ru-800-s.html

In soviet russia dog walks you.

I wonder what game they played before. Judging by the hair this kid is electrically charged to the max.

There are methods to detect this kind of organized trolling. Investigative journalism should make more effort to expose and publicly shame the culprits.
It is more necessary than ever to properly fact-check your information (peer reviewed scientific journals) and be skeptical. BUT be careful not to revert to the shill-card when your opinion is questioned online.

Astroturf-paranoia is a perfect tool to reinforce irrational beliefs, because it makes it easy to dismiss every information that conflicts with your opinion.

We have these at our local prison.

I would be sooo annoyed with such a thing on my wall...

It is never a good idea to punch someone who is physically superior. It also sucks to exploit this superiority. Why is this even about gender?

#4 I beg to differ! George Carlin for example was a truly eloquent artist who drew his power from swearing. And thought provoking as he was, he was funny as hell!

Which country is this? In Germany we are learning in a car provided by the driving school. It has a set of break- and clutch-pedals for the instructor.

As a SNOTR regular i am well aware of the leidenfrost effect. So, no surprise here. The bubbles looked cool though.

Can anyone explain the significant mechanical effects at work here?

My hypothesis is: The CD is in resonance at its 5th eigenmode and the framerate it is filmed by makes it appear to be a stationary warp.

#6 The fact that there is a face imprinted on the moon just shows that these giants where huge enough to bang their head against it.

This is not only evidence that giants walked the earth. Since it is in granite, it also proofs that these giants lived more than 2000 m inside the earth, where they took walks on molten rock. Don't let the narrow minded erosionists tell you otherwise!

#5 that is a bold claim to make without providing further information and sources.

#5 yeah, guess i was sidetracked by the whole Arab-falcon thing. Impressive ornithological knowledge, sir!

#8 You're right, under usual circumstances piranhas don't poise a threat to humans. But in a feeding frenzy it would be foolish to offer them any body-parts you still need.

It seems like someone is up there every day to make an awesome video.
Taking a chihuahua to events that involve falcons like the guy at 1:37 seems rather risky to me...

The banking system cannot be explained in 6 minutes!

#8 Thank You!
I did a Google search and couldn't find sound scientific data and neither seem the authors of the articles you linked to be able to. At least they did not bother to share it.
I still don't think that the danger of "...irritation in your puppies digestive system, particularly if eaten in large quantities..." justifies insulting everyone laughing at a dog making lemon-faces.

#6 Says who?

What happens if they are hatched?
Do you get a chicken pre-loaded with an egg, or a chicken inside a chicken?

You can google virtually every alternative treatment, no matter how silly, and you will have to search really hard before you find real scientific advice. Either big pharma sucks at astroturfing, or the problem is not as big as Sharyl Attkisson presents it. But then again such a largescale conspiracy would explain why nobody takes her seriously in regard of the dead horse she keeps beating (vaccination-authism-link). I guess to her it is more probable that everyone who comments pro-vaccination is a payed shill, than that she suffers from confirmation bias with this toppic.

I am not denying that it is happening, just saying that she seems a bit too paranoied about it.

Oh boy, this one will get downvoted really bad....

Some disenchanting background info:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/internet-story

#4 I suggest "primates". It is not that offensive to handicapped people.

#2 exactly. A photographic memory wont help much. All you could do with that is remember the initial configuration. The skill here is more related to imagination. Like a chess master looking 10 moves ahead in some situations.

#9 just a healthy level of curiosity. Interestingly, a words phonetics seems to be what makes it inappropriate and not the underlying meaning. For example s**t, p*ss, f**k ... are words many agree cant be mentioned, even though they are just lower-class words for everyday's activities. But saying "felching" or "rusty trombone" is usually ok. (Am i making things worse?)

#6 Well, that is the problem with tabooed words. You have to say them and get into trouble in order to find out which ones they are. So you will just have to try them all out and wait for the response. I know for a fact that "pegging" is ok on SNOTR.

#12, sorry for making you wait that long. We grammar-Nazis need sleep too.

The reactions reveal a lot about human nature. Cognitive dissonance can be hard to bear.

I am sure he is gentile. Dogs cannot be jewish.

What a nightmare!

I guess someone will have to find a new hobby.

Hyenas: The inventors of pegging.

Mr. Happner deliberately confuses weather with climate ( #1 as well). The minimum period that can be climatically interpreted is 30 years. So even if the global temperature would have sunk in the last 20 consecutive years it wouldn't mean much. I dare to assert that his cost-risk-assessment is purely speculative. Sure, a warmer planet with more Co2 in the atmosphere would be beneficial to plant life. The critical point is the pace of the climate shift. Will the ecosystems be able to adapt fast enough (or collapse temporarily) and if so, will the following large-scale migrations poise a threat to peace?

In order to make the right political decisions we should pay close attention to the constantly refined model climate-scientists are developing and not dismiss them as a "religious cult".

#5 That's very interesting. And also counter-intuitive for me. So a Scottish dialect would be in fact even less comprehensible for a Londoner than for me?

#6 If you observe closely, you'll notice that the voice from the off isn't subtitled.

These subtitles are completely useless. I can understand him perfectly, even though English isn't my native language. Seems slightly racist to me.

Only problem with this technique is, if you go for seconds all the sauce is absorbed and the pasta is all squishy.

#1 are you sure jet-skis aren't powered by jets?

#1 i googled it. After ten seconds of research the answer was: Projection on/in the box. Works only from one side.

View from less spectacular angle:

http://vitalvegas.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/center_bar_side_view.jpg

This will be a reliable weapon against rioting vegans. All you need to beat this system is a 1/64 inch thick meat-suit.

I think we gonna need a longer ramp!

sure #14 :
Velocity equals mach 7 equals twothousandthreehundredeightytwo meters per second.
Acceleration-time equals ten milliseconds equals zero point zero one seconds.
Acceleration equals velocity divided by acceleration-time equals twohundredthirtyeightthousandtwohundred meters per second squared equals twentyfourthousandtwohundredeightytwo times earth's gravitational acceleration (with earth's gravitational acceleration being nine point eight one meters per second squared)

Equals severely fucked up payload.

Glad i could clear that up for you!

v= Mach 7 = 2382 m/s
t= 10 ms = 0.01 s
a= v/t = 238200m/s^2
= 24282 g (g=9.81m/s^2)

=

They make the same sounds when taking a dump, btw.

#11 I dont care what made up number of scientists believes in global warming. For me it is enough to know that nearly all climatologists agree it is happening and linked to the increase of CO2 in our atmosphere. You should look up a peer reviewed scientific journal some time instead on relying on right-wing newsblogs.

I was hoping she would go all Ken Block on them and not just burn some rubber on a wide open space.

NDG is such an important personality! He will be responsible for many scientific breakthroughs in the future by sparking the enthusiasm for science in the next generation.

God saved her? Looks more like a warning shot to me: "Next time you hear of a nearby robbery stay inside, for my sons sake!"

I really love the spirit of this one. It feels like it was honestly done for the old man and not for Youtube.

Depends on the size of the balloons and the velocity/shape/mass/density/strength of the bullet i'd say.

#3 Nazi-UFO-base on the far side, Duhhh!

Most news clips with people at work are staged. In car factories they fiddle with the welding-robots to produce extra sparks and when people are shown working with computers, they usually do hilariously pointless stuff. Also, i wonder how often a chemist puts drops of liquid in a vial, holds it overhead an looks through very focused in his daily routine...
In our engineering office, weve got a stash of lab-coats solely for TV appearences.