I'm surprised it failed in the tread. I'd expected the sidewall or valve to fail first.

Looks like there might have been a nail or screw in it. You can see the hole clearly where his thumb is at 1:55

Aaand she didn't look at the cameras once? Acting at its best

That's less than 4 miles from my house!

#9 It came out of a dog

(You're welcome )

It's making more mess than my kids!

What they don't point out is that the expensive designer stuff is also made by Manisha for 13 cents/hr

Yep - #5 wins the "how's it done" prize

Just like my dog!

Being helped, now.
https://www.thedodo.com/sick-sun-bear-getting-help-1096297875.html

What's going on with the other soldier's trouser leg?

#3 I have. About 25 years ago I was on a Air France 727 landing at Heathrow. I knew the layout from too much Flight Simulator, and could tell something wasn't right because I looked out of the window and could see the whole length of a runway stretching away from me. I was looking along the runway we were about to land on. Apart from a little swerve to the left when the rear wheels touched down, and a little bump when the nose wheel was down, there was nothing to suggest it was unusual.

I've been in rougher landings on perfectly calm days.

#8 That's the due date on their announcement card, not the date of the scan photo.

I like how the news is wrapped round his beer on toilet roll card. "You're in the sh*t"

I'd have thought that bursts of flame from the barrel would be a very undesirable result. It can be seen from an extreme distance and gives the enemy something to fire back at.

3:40 "ingesting", not "digesting"

When it comes to cooking, anything which tastes good is correct. Just because we're not doing it the traditional Italian way - it doesn't make it wrong, it just means it's not traditional.

Why was the ceiling in the box not like the ceiling in the room?

Engineers didn't build transit systems, they evolved. In most parts of the world, major settlements pre-date motorised transport. To get from one settlement to another, you would follow the path of least resistance. As time progresses, and more people use the route, it will get "embedded" and in time become a road. The Romans formalised this process and made straight roads, which make the travelling time the shortest it can be, but they still have to circuit any major obstacles such as mountains, water or dense forest, and perhaps divert if it made sense (such as another settlement close to the intended route.

So, like people, slime mould is just plain lazy.

#4 Agreed - but considering that second shot, would there have been anything worth seeing? It was deflected a surprising amount by a glancing shot at thin metal. Against a tank, it would probably be fired from a greater distance; and either square-on or maybe at the tracks to disable it. The gun was either ineffective back then, or the ammo is so old it wouldn't have has an effect worthy of a video if used on armour now.

He would still have been wiped out.

Plus it's entirely possible he changed lanes because he saw an idiot in a sports car hurtling towards him.

Why would you want to? As long as it's not too heavy for the structure, snow is a great insulator.

The narrator says "most supercars" not "all supercars" so I don't see your point.

Am I the only one who wonders why despite all those smart, creative people; it didn't occur to anyone that the paper might need to be weighed down until they were already unrolling it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6YBIHc0LAY

Yep - most dangerous non-human vertebrate in Africa.
http://goafrica.about.com/od/africasafariguide/tp/dangerousanimals.htm

#7 I was asked to pull CCTV footage for my old boss (nothing major - just wanted to highlight a parking issue).

It was one of the most difficult jobs in my computing career. Wouldn't work without a codec - codec could only be retrieved from a text-based page of them - written in Chinese!

Sometimes, videoing the CCTV screen is the only option...

Recycling at its purest.

#15 If you check his site now, it seems like he is working for Google, now

Usually it's a good game spoiled by poor actors. This shows how good it can be.

Seems to me that the pedestrians are sometimes as stupid as the drivers

Well one thing we have learned from this video is that Americans seem to like recording video of rain from their patio or front porch.

...and I suppose the missile was made of nice environmentally friendly explosives?

#8 I think you mean "reckless".

Brown out

I'm amazed they are allows to land so close to a highway.

Why do I never get calls like this???

I'd do the "dumb user" thing, that I have to deal with on a daily basis.

"I don't know what you mean by start button"
"I don't have a browser. Do you mean Google? I can go into Google."

How would the screen show each person a view that matched the perspective of where they're sitting?

#6 Zebulun - you need to watch "Father Ted"

Strafing

(Unless you're a football player limbering up.)

(Real football, not armoured hand-egg.)

"Considering mussels are blind, and have never seen the shiner, the likeness is incredible."

Yeah - because all other animals can influence their evolution based on what they see? Give me a break.


And to the OP - clams and mussels are not the same. Mussels are almost always attached to a substrate, clams are almost always free swimmers that bury themselves in sediment. There are possible excpetions, but as the narrator even gives you the species, it's just laziness calling it a clam in the title.

Wonder if she'd have sued him if she'd had some sort of injury like a spinal fracture that can be made far worse if moved by the untrained...

Sure - get her out if the car is on fire, but otherwise leave it to the experts.

The biggest might have been at the end, but (in my opinion) the one at 1:47 was better.

I had to stop a couple of weeks ago while taking my wife to work. Some drunk bloke had got off the bus and fallen into the road in the darkness. Unfortunately, his face broke his fall. My wife looked after him (she's a nurse) while I manoeuvred the car to protect them from traffic until the ambulance arrived.

Two people slowed to make sure we didn't need help, dozens slowed to have a good old look at what was going on, and two drivers blocked the road trying to turn around while the blue-light ambulance was filling their mirrors!!!

Wish I had a dashcam.

#2 this gun is intended to save lives, not take them. (Or at least, that's why it was being prototyped.)

With missiles that are capable of speeds several times that of sound, simple projectile-based defence systems are lacking. It's possible for the missile to fly between the bullets that are being spat out at a rate of 75 per second. For example, there's 12 metres between each bullet fired by an upgraded CIWS, which is the missile defence system on American warships.

Assuming the same muzzle velocity, this thing would be putting out bullets that are 5½cm apart (a couple of inches).

Good man - even half asleep he knew his priorities.

@ #8 nomaddaf
He would have started on the other side of the river, going away from the bridge. Then, a hard turn to port will get them out.

The third secret of the Fatima is that the Pope would one day need to apologise for the church's lack of action over child abuse perpetrated by some of its priests.

"Not for a single moment did I imagine that this solemn and awful duty would one day fall to me." Well you imagined it long enough to get a speech drafted...

Are you kidding. These are a fantastic idea to stop my beer from spilling!!!!

His navigator was the one who loosened the bolt...

Yep - my dog does this whenever he's given a bone.

How does it fare on water?

What's the lightning-effect at 0:19?

I'm sure it has generated more diarrhoea than it has cured.

Every shot has a static camera (except the last, which has a very gentle zoom which might have been done in post). It's not hard to matte out any unwanted traffic and its shadows.

One of my cats does this. The other one wouldn't care if I died, as long as he still got to eat.

#7 Poplar are wind pollinated. This might be a video of the pollen or the seed pappus - it's not high enough resolution (or close enough) to be sure.

Common sense suggests pollen though. Otherwise he'd be leaving a trail of poplar seeds in the grass right in front of his house.

#2 #4 #7 etc from the video we've seen, the lead car was passing others in the passing lane. Is it acceptable for the trail car to try and intimidate him out of the way because he's not passing fast enough?

They have one of those at the hospital where my wife works. It attracts exactly 0% attention. People would rather talk to real people.

Surely all landings are low landings?

#2 Not as much faith in a product as this guy:
http://img.izismile.com/img/img7/20140709/1000/daily_gifdump_657_13.gif

#5 but sometimes the fridge isn't quite as cold

He's not brake checking, it's a "crash for cash" scam - and the with the camera is not at fault because he managed to stop in time.

It'll all come out of the insurance of the vehicle we DON'T see - as it's him that failed to stop in time.

http://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/2014/1/17/-crash-for-cash-fraudulent-claim-prevented-by-camera/49336/

#6 and?

"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs." Charles de Gaulle

(Numerous variations attributed to others)

0:53 Oxygen starvation is not the only way laughter can kill
From Wikipedia:
"On 24 March 1975, Alex Mitchell, from King's Lynn, England, died laughing while watching the "Kung Fu Kapers" episode of The Goodies, featuring a kilt-clad Scotsman with his bagpipes battling a master of the Lancastrian martial art "Eckythump", who was armed with a black pudding. After 25 minutes of continuous laughter, Mitchell finally slumped on the sofa and died from heart failure. His widow later sent The Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell's final moments of life so pleasant."

#5 it already has
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_races_and_species_in_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#G.27Gugvuntts_and_Vl.27hurgs

The scanner is elevated over the car, so it's aware of cars all around. If the scanner can't see a vehicle (for example, if there's a truck in the way) a driver wouldn't be able to see it either.

This thing is inevitably going to get into crashes when it comes across a situation it isn't programmed to handle, because that's what happens with people anyway.

Is the spoke open at both ends, then? 9:24 If you can feel it's hollow at the hub, it'll destroy the wheel balance if the downward spokes fill with water.

I used to do this all the time with my son when he was 15 months old. He's 15 years old now, and I rarely get more than two words out of him per day.

What does it achieve that rendering on the computer doesn't? With the latter, the triangles can potentially be smoothed and hair added, making a far better loop.

This is just a real-life GIF made of wasted plastic.

Three days alone???

#4 It's hard to say with any certainty. The titles imply that these are all three-hour samples compressed into clips, but the clips are not of equal duration. The ones with jump cuts get gradually longer (I didn't use the ones that fade), between 11 and 23½ seconds, implying a speed-up of 980X dropping to 460X.

There is an airborne plane that covers the distance from just past Fairoaks (south west-ish of Heathrow) to Gatwick 34Km in 3½ frames - which would equate to an apparent speed of 875000 Km/h. Assuming an actual cruise speed of 500 knots, or 926 Km/h, it suggests it has been sped up by 944X so your estimate of 1sec=20mins isn't far out - it's nearer to 15mins.

#5 I can see how you get the name "Detective"...

#27 Here you go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaB9EHeDLSk

You can see how butterflies are able to get lift from both the down- and up-beat of the wings...

#3 is right. If you put the impact point further from the ground (as it would be with a person) you need less energy to knock it over. The 50 pound vs 150 pound argument is invalid, too. The 150 pound human is "articulated" with a good amount of that weight beyond the pivot points of those articulations. Trying to move 50 pounds at centre mass at least a metre from the ground is about right.

A human would only get knocked over with body armour anyway. Anything with enough punch to displace 50 pounds from its centre of gravity is going to punch through a mass of flesh and bone.

Action starts at 11 seconds. The rest of the 45 second video is padding.

Not very efficient. Most of its energy seems to be expended flinging the water up into the air than actually propelling the boat.

Wow - if she looks like that now, can you imagine how many hearts she was breaking 55-75 years ago?

#4 have you ever looked at the statistics for age vs road death/serious injury? Here in the UK the most reliable sources don't differentiate whether casualties were inside the car or outside, but the bulk of injuries are caused by the youngest drivers. Even adjusting for the fact that there are fewer older drivers actually on the road, you still end up with a massive age bias towards crashes- and it's not the old ones doing the crashing.

I get stuck behind them when they are going slow, or getting lost, or when they change their mind halfway through a manoeuvre, or being overcautious at a junction - and I get mad at them. Within a mile I'm usually mad at myself, instead, for being so unreasonable.

What was the flash at 2:44?

I'm amazed how much movement there is in the two receiver halves

If faster-than-light travel were possible, the alien wouldn't go forward in time. He'd arrive at earth before the light of his departure, so it would just feel like he'd gone forward.

I don't see how this is any different to a supersonic plane having already passed the listener before the sound of its passing hits your ears.

#(removed comment) Yes, yes you are.

This video appears to show that for $50,000 you're getting a handmade carry case and some external detailing not done by a machine.

Where's the lens construction? The internal components? Hell - even seeing the body being milled would be more of a justification for the price tag than what we got to see.

Karma

#5 same here

#9 ...except you can't see it.

Why are the bulk of discoveries in the right-hand quadrant?

Instant fate - I like it when justice is done and nobody is hurt, especially the ones who aren't doing anything wrong.

Maybe the driver in front thought "I'm not moving over, I might spin out"

#4 Landmines are intended to disable vehicles and people and for area denial. They are unlikely to be used in a jungle or a hillside, because people or vehicles are less likely to be there.

Some of these are being filmed from too far, and behind too much "cover", to be accidental.

Description should read "Looks like a good way to escape if you are trapped in your basement and the stairs are blocked and you're wearing heavy duty boots and gloves"

Wonder how it compares with Elite Dangerous...

#1 When you are viewing a 2D image, your perspective is dictated by the camera and the way your brain interprets what it's seeing. Today's classic video, http://www.snotr.com/video/2417/The_Crevasse_-_Making_of_3D_Street_Art shows a 2D image which only works if viewed from one point.

If you see a person who looks much smaller than the one next to them, your brain assumes that because people are more or less the same height, the "smaller" person is further away. If you add a point of reference, such as lines that "suggest" a room shape, or similarly designed mugs that are different sizes, you suddenly have a point of reference, and assume the person holding the big cup is not actually further away, but physically smaller.

This "forced perspective" is spoiled when something tells your brain that something is wrong, for example of the two people look at each other instead of at the space where your brain thinks they are. Sometimes it can be spoiled if they move, but it's most definitely spoiled if the camera moves. This video shows how moving the actors and props is a clever way to avoid spoiling the shot when you move the camera.

It's how you know the interviewees in this LG promotional video are actors
http://www.snotr.com/video/11769/LG_End_of_the_World_Prank
They would have registered when they walked in the room that they are not facing a window, but a 2D picture. Even if they weren't paying attention, they would have realised it's a TV when they stood up and their viewpoint changed, but the TV didn't.

Am I the only one who thinks this looks more like game graphics* than feature film CGI?

* Admittedly, very good graphics

What a crap test. With the baby and the dogs, there was no interaction with the stranger when the "familiar face" come back in the room. The stranger was playing with the cat when the owner returned.

Nevermind the "victim" of the prank - how can Tom Mabe stay friends with someone who routinely endangers other people's lives? It makes him look a bit of a dickhead as well.

You can't blame the media, because they are only interested in selling stuff. If women (collectively) were honest enough with themselves to buy a product advertised by a fuller-figured woman, the market for anorexic models would disappear.

It's a perpetual cycle which has gone on for long enough, now, that people feel comfortable with the idea of blaming the advertiser when all the advertiser is doing is trying to appeal to the masses.

#9 That would make it an "Oxford comma" - inappropriate in that sentence. However I did entirely miss out the word "if" in the last paragraph.

"philosophy is that IF their writing"

I used to get wound up by people defacing the language. The only thing that upsets me now is the insistence of some to avoid ALL punctuation, capitalisation and simple grammar rules.

It makes text hard to read, and my philosophy is that their writing is not worth them spending time to make it easier for the reader, then it's not worth the time of the reader.

They aren't in a flat circle, but it's nearly flat.
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/review/ice-dwarf/SolarSystem_side.en.gif

It's a shame they added a shadow to the moons then forgot to keep it on the opposite side of the moon to the sun...

He's changing lanes, either because he's anticipated a problem with buses or pedestrians, or because he wants to turn. I've never ridden a bike in my life, but even I know that bikers stay off the paint whenever possible, because there's less grip than on the tarmac. (Especially in the UK, where it's usually raining.)

This is how my dog attacks my feet if I move them under the duvet.

#4 The legal issues were taken care of in this case...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25139185
Killer serving minimum of 18 years for murdering someone he thought was a paedophile.

Good video

#4 Keep trying. Hasn't the mouse taught you anything?

#3 That one's definitely a male. Doesn't make much noise and is a messy eater.

I was just happy not to get the engaged tone

She's as likely to be crying because of her mother's facial expressions than the singing.

Thanks, roady, but I'm still not convinced. Even if the lens has a 180 degree field of view, it puts the spectators forward of the gun (which is bad). He might be an expert shot, but are you saying an expert never makes a mistake?

Plus there appear to be plenty of opportunities for a ricochet.

No helmets?

Not as irritating as Ken Block - and needs a stupid goatee not that full-face hair.

Nice try, though.

I don't know why #6 is being voted down. I don't shoot live ammo (gas BB), and even we would question our range safety officer about the setup at 0:55

Found it!
http://cheezburger.com/7876716288

Just want to see a reverse angle - with the dog's owner and the camera taped to his head...

Just remember to turn your PC volume down before going on to the next video...

#5 you're missing the point. For every 1 person who genuinely thinks there are 1 million in there, you'd get 225 or so people who would guess there are 100 in there.

If you got a large enough sample, you would indeed get 226 idiots - one with the overinflated guess and 225 inadequate guesses.

A destructive dog is a bored dog. These people need to get their dogs out for more exercise.


#4 Naah - this is the best one
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kLdO3EsECs

(SNOTR doesn't like it when a link ends in "secs" - must be a parsing error)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB9Dn_3T8TY

#8 "Hungary has one of the highest obesity rates"

Is that how it gets its name?

Roundabouts are also more fuel efficient. At low speed, the bulk of fuel is used in accelerating a vehicle. Cars are obliged to stop at the four-way, whereas if there's nothing approaching already on the roundabout there's no need to stop.

Roundabouts only work when used properly. I live on the corner of a UK roundabout, and it pains me the number of people approaching to my right who stop to let me onto the junction, unnecessarily holding up traffic behind them because they think they are being "nice".

I'm sitting at my laptop, without sweets or a giftcard, and I worked it out in three seconds.

Not proven.

(Also the sample size is too small)

#6 Now these chickens are wings in a bucket

#8 Mature red blood cells don't have DNA because they don't need to replicate. That's why it's not happening in *all* cells.

#6 MX5 racing at Croft in the UK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3nSOKdTWuQ

Reading the newspaper, checking out the weather, spying on the other rooms in the house. Since when were these all acceptable uses of work time?

Looks to me like the help from the chimps is not spontaneous. They are being "asked" for help.

Mute David Attenborough? Are you for real?

It's only partly to do with shutter speed.

Modern CMOS cameras which make high-resolution video affordable have a usually undesirable effect called "rolling shutter". Every frame is made up of 1080 separate moments in time, instead of the exact same instant every 1/25th or 1/30th (or whatever) of a second.

The first time the image appears to have settled back to its original state is when the rotor is at 1080rpm (or whatever the vertical resolution of the camera is. At 30rpm the image is from 12 different points in the rotor's spin - all cycling every 12 lines of the frame.

To further complicate visualising what's happening, the camera is recording in portrait mode - presumably so it can be more easily balanced when secured to the rotors.

More tracks, more passengers 60 years ago. We're obviously doing something wrong.

#4 it's the launch trail from where the shuttle took off

Most of them appear to hit their targets sideways...

You don't worry about the ones who are thrashing and screaming at the surface. You worry about the ones whose only priority is keeping their mouth above the waterline.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinctive_drowning_response#Recognizing_drowning

It should be able to work out when the puck is going nowhere near its goal and (if it's not playing an offence) not bother moving toward the puck.

The software has room for improvement...

You don't necessarily pay google to increase your page status.

Anyone with a solid understanding of what that guy was saying can charge to create page links and web pages that spoof links to and from your page to increase "visibility".

And as Google finds ways to block fake positives from such sites, the site creators find ways to avoid the blocking algorithms.

That said - nothing is more effective at getting your page to the top of the list than changing it often. The more the spider has to crawl your page to check for updates, the better its rank. The spider only checks periodically, and schedules a sooner crawl if the page has changed since its last crawl, or a later crawl if there have been no changes.

#3 It happens to my Guinness all the time, when I forget that I'm trying to chill it quickly...

The last point - maybe they did give him $10 and the store owner if saying it's just $1

#3 I think you'll find...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_shark

My cat does that all the time. It translates to:
"If it wasn't for this damn window, I'd have eaten it already and would be puking it back on your carpet by now."

#2 as a network administrator, I don't thing this three-minute video was really aimed at you...

The only thing it was missing was the need for DNS translation. Plus saying that the transatlantic cable is "submerged" rather than "buried" would avoid the extra question from the viewer "how did they bury it?"

It's not a jay - definitely a pigeon

Are they blind in one eye???

Where is their depth perception? How can they not know it's a TV screen?

#4 I don't think they are cameras - they are probably supposed to be motion sensors...

#2 Should have gone to Specsavers

I love how there are so many discussions on how inaccurate this would be because of gravitational interference, yet nobody has mentioned that by turning the camera 90 degrees to the right, he could have had the shadow on the video matching the shadow on the planets.

It's probably also worth mentioning that the reference point matters. If the distances are being measured centre to centre (which is likely), Jupiter is 20% bigger than if the distances are being measured surface to surface. If the latter, we wouldn't be inside the sun, but it would still be quite warm.

An octopus can fit through any gap slightly bigger than its beak.

I don't see the problem here. They've printed their own lower receiver and mag to prove that it can be done. This means that firearms regulations (and probably others) aren't going to work because components can be acquired without record. In the mind of a politician this means 3D printers need to be regulated too because they can print restricted items.

They are just proving a point. Here in the UK private ownership of most firearms has been banned by regulation, and it's only affected recreational shooters. The loonies who shoot up schools and the criminals and gangs can still get hold of them for less than the cost (and less hassle) than a realistic BB gun.

#9 You beat me to it

I'm surprised he's allowed to cut so much of the corner to overtake. His wheels were over the kerb.

I used to drive that track in one of my racing sims. I hated it, especially that chicane.

#3 it does look different in real life, but that's because our eyes and brain process information at a different frequency (about 10Hz) and are quite adept at introducing their own illusions like motion blur.

If you took a photo of the water using a fast shutter, it would look like a sine wave, because that's what wiggling a hose would do. You'd get the same effect, but visible to your naked eye, by holding the hose in your hand and wobbling it back and forth.

The 23 Hz and 25 Hz frequencies produce a slightly different wobble which is not in the same place when the 24 Hz camera photographs each frame. Because of this, the wave form being produced by the audio and water appears to "move".

Interestingly enough, if you play a 48 Hz wave you'll still get a static display but with the wave peaks being much closer together. If you play a 36 Hz wave, (in theory) you'll get something halfway between, but with the flickering effect of two waves criss-crossing.

#3 It's nothing to do with the sampling rate - the strings are never in that actual shape.

It's because of the "rolling shutter". A good explanation here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lHlzRw_Oek (the iphone has the CMOS sensor)

More on Brainiac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n1pSHzdahc

#10 he's only got THAT girl because he can afford THAT tv

They were looking so cool until they rolled up in a Fiat Multipla...

Isn't it just the print head from a 3D printer, insulated so it doesn't burn the user's hand?

Why didn't they credit the pizza company at least?

He'd only partially ejected - which means the panel above his seat had blown out but the crash happened before the seat could exit the fuselage.

The wiki page is worth a read. The pilot sounds like a complete dick. People were refusing the fly with him.

If the poster hadn't cut the video at that point, you'd be able to see that the downed giraffe lives to fight another day.

#34 we couldn't even live on Jupiter. Despite being a gas planet, it has sufficient gravity to squash us into a dot if we venture too close.

Maybe you need to do it with one that doesn't have a printable layer. Or perhaps even the spacer disc from the end of a spindle?

Now try standing...

It's not a pan-European rule - in the UK we're not forced to use winter tyres, which is a shame because the last crash I was involved in wouldn't have happened if the other car had been so equipped.

0:48 How do they know it's tasteless and odourless?

"Get the intern, I just want to check something..."

Aimbot IRL

Looks faked to me...

Why were the subtitles censored some of the time, but not others? It's not like they censored the dialogue, too...

If you fail to fail do they cancel each other out, or make a win?

Now just need one for Jelly Belly beans...

Wish my chemist looks as good as that. I've just got a grumpy old fart...

Are you kidding? If you're a god botherer you might choose to let the losers live, over your own child; but if you believe in evolution, you know that your DNA is more important than the others. Let them perish, keep your own bloodline going...

Makes sense, I think...

Expert tip: Two brown paper bags (one for you in case hers comes off)

So he made her sh*t herself in panic before proposing? What a prat.

6:20 is it Goofy using the camera?

#4 the planes are at 10,000 feet - I'd have thought they'd be visible at that altitude too.

The digits are a quarter of a mile in height.

"without any reason at all"?

The guy tried to force his way in with a camera. I think they were wrong to tase him without advance warning that they would, but he did deserve to be restrained.

All good fun - except the flour & candle. That could have ended very, very badly...

The snake had to give up eventually - it needed to go to the surface to breathe.

You're kidding? The one at 1:13 is one of the best looking women I've ever seen.

Was it programmed to do all these things, or did it work them out for itself? These are all things children learn to do before school by themselves, either by invention or repetition, so when robots can learn the same way, that's when we'll have AI.

I'm not trying to belittle this feat, I'm just saying that we've nothing to fear from robots with guns just yet (at least not from ones that make their own decisions who to shoot).

Well that escalated quickly

It's odd that they added depth to the shadow cast on the clouds at the very end of the film, but didn't bother at 3:19

I would have waited for a clear road behind, accelerated backward so he fell off the car, then driven past him. Then just keep the proof and wait and see if anything comes by way of a summons...

Incidentally, was anyone holding their breath hoping he got wiped out by a passing car as the driver made him walk to the side?

Drag races done like this are just so dumb.

If you had two Aventadors in the race, driven identically (same driver weight, same gear changes) but one set off a tenth of a second after the other - which would be imperceptible at the start - the second aventador would have come finished 6 metres later: behind the nose of the McLaren

"...but it's heavier weight makes it spin faster..."
um - no it doesn't. Weight has no bearing on the swing of a pendulum.

#1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsMtsxdnLBA (it's the whole mythbusters episode, unfortunately - you'll need to bypass the stuff about C4)

My wife does that with her car at Tescos all the time

That was the dashboard cam exploding

Ewe says to ram: "Honey, I can explain..."

Those sparks weren't the powerline vaporising, it was all the little birdies that were perched there for the night...

What sort of idiot would drop an explosive device next to his boat so it detonates just below the waterline? That's the whole principle behind how torpedoes are so effective against ships despite not carrying a huge warhead.

I've done the first half myself - tried to merge and someone was desperately keen to prevent it. However, this guy looks like he's trying to bully his way in - mine was a forced merge by the road markings. I overtook, then let the guy I'd overtaken pass me, so the end result was the same as if the guy who was being a dick had just shown a bit of common sense.

#2 still more fluid than my dancing...

Gotta love Robert Llewelyn (Kryten from Red Dwarf)

He's got his own YouTube channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/bobbyllew

It's a (young) whale shark, which normally filter feeds - those fish are a gargantuan banquet compared to what it normally eats.

Magnum - the weapon of choice if you need to take out a handful of inanimate objects at point-blank range.

How long before they get a class action lawsuit from RSI sufferers? That doesn't look like a comfortable typing position...

He has too many cats, considering his allergy to cats...

Buy online. You're protected (in the UK) by the Distance Selling Regulations as well as your statutory rights under the Sale of Goods act.

Ultimately, it's other T Mobile customers who will end up paying indirectly for his rampage.

Why did he have to stop the traffic, when they can
a) fly
b) swim

?

#37 Don't you think it would be more like:
Boss: "Let's see how good you are at Maths. What's the square root of... Wait - is that ginger pubic hair on your chin? NEXT!"

How do you say the safety word if you can't breathe?

Driving conditions: dangerous. What can I do? I know, I'll film while driving...

The Magic Flute (Mozart)

Sorry #16. It was funny for approximately 1.0000 times. After that it was boring.

#9 It's Kryten, from Red Dwarf - aka Robert Llewellyn

#5 Since when has a year been about 16 weeks?

7:32 - I've done that, many years ago...

From the title, I was expecting a 30M drop onto a car airbag.

Dissapoint

Looked to me like the fire extinguisher was more dangerous than the fire...

#13 Unfortunately not "only in America" - my wife is a nurse in the UK, and the alcoholics over here drink the sanitiser spray that's at the door to every ward.

They don't even bother distilling it...

So who do you think they are planning to mail that box to?

At least with one of these you won't get a film on snotr of a Russian driver shattering your lower limb bones.

Opposable thumbs - who needs 'em?

#3 Riding at night without any lights at all is also illegal, but it doesn't stop people from doing it. Better to have these lights, than none at all.

Anyone else notice the orange portal friendship bracelet?

2:25 not hard to see why the bear loves him so much

Not asleep - snow blindness... Where were his goggles?

(yeah I know he really was asleep, I just thought someone should maybe have noticed instead of getting the camera out)

The world rotates just under 86½ miles in five minutes... Shouldn't he have been out of breath a bit from running at just over 1000mph?

You'd think that the snake would know by now that it's bad for your digestion to eat a live 'gator...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4313978.stm

Don't they have internets there?

My dogs do this when I get back from the shops. Maybe they think I've been battling with the old ladies to get the dog food?

It's all fun - until he saws the legs off the table...

The second team had it easier - two of theirs were just "sushi"

So why do the blond character's pigtails dangle and her glasses drop off, but the reactive centrifugal force is keeping the car on the loop...?

Wouldn't have been so bad, but they keep telling the OTHER child to get out of the way of the video. Is he not allowed to be excited, too?

The bloke wasn't struck at all, it was his umbrella.

If he's wearing rubber-soled shoes, it will hit the umbrella tip, go down through the metal shaft, and continue its journey through the damp air below.

So where's the dog on the "6 years later" bit? Did they eat him?

Wind turbines aren't at all green - for wildlife
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwVz5hdAMGU

Boobies and a zipper for a mouth - what more can a man ask for?

The first four comments are the reason Snotr is Snotr and not Youtube

So the police reverse along the carriageway without putting their blue lights on? Looks like they need a bit of extra training...

Um - no. An abbreviation which is made up of initials can also be called an initialism, but an acronym is specifically* defined as an abbreviation that can be read as a word in itself. Just because something is in common use, it doesn't make it right. Any Grammar Nazi would of been able to tell you that. (Did you see what I did, there?)

Incidentally, #13 - have you never been to a hotel or hospital? They both have the H pronounced.



* or perhaps "pacifically"

#4 why is the word "not" in there?

#6 I'm guessing by the thumbs up that you're getting, the answer to your question is "no"

Makes me realise how good my offroad driving is.

#4 add "colour blindness", "driving too fast", "no depth perception" and "no common sense"

I have to admit, I routinely record short journeys on my phone. The people near school drive (and walk) like idiots, and I want to be covered in case of an incident.

I can't believe the idiot driver at 5:35 - "Do I just hit the car? No, I'll take evasive action and hit a pedestrian instead." Luckily, the cars did connect, so I think the pedestrian was probably OK.

I was always told not to play with food

People like this should not be allowed on the road.

One of the teachers at my son's school reversed into the parking spot without bothering to look and hit one of the kids. I pointed out to her the error of her ways...

Bad pace notes. The usual call from the co-driver is the direction and severity of the turn, either preceded by how far to the turn or followed by the distance to the next turn.

Looks to me like they haven't checked the supplied notes against a map or by walking the route.

0:10 wee wee dance

#1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_fish

Regardless of its fakeness quotient, I'm very jealous that there are people in research and educational establishments who get to play about with cool stuff all day, while I have to sit at a desk looking at numbers on a computer screen.

1:15 SQUIRREL!

He should have shot himself first - it's "abbreviation" in this case, not "acronym".

Um - my dogs do this if I nip out to the shop for 10 mins

"Mustafa Kamel" - you're kidding me, right?

#2 "the wild"?

It has a concrete path running through it.

Also makes you wonder why it's called "the impenetrable forest" at the start.

How do they achieve the effect that's used in the edits after 1:03 ?

Love the egg carton soundproofing...

Does this mean we don't need monks any more?

1:37 - "Don't panic - I got this one"

0:37 OK now you're all just showing off

Must have a wife with a face like a slapped arse, that's why he spends all his spare time in a shed making things like this...

1:46 could not have ended any other way...

Does this work with a person?

Driver didn't look - got some bad news for him...

If you listen to it without reading the subtitles, it sounds like he's talking about Godzilla

"Its only source of power is potential energy"
"we think it's very environmentally friendly"

Just like a range rover, if you let it roll downhill in neutral.

#8 Depends if it was a male or female.
If female: "Mind that tree. You're going too fast. Ouch, that rock you just rode over hurt my back. You're riding like this just to annoy me".
If male: "Just ride through the damn water."

How can you still see the object after passing it? I could understand if you're going faster than the speed of light, because you'd be catching up with the "image" of the back face of the cube. But as you're going slower than the speed of light, the light making up the image of the cube's back face is moving away from you (relatively).

This is what SNOTR is all about! Thanks for the upload

It's a trailer from the program that's on tonight. You'll be able to watch the whole show TOMORROW at http://www.channel5.com/shows/the-gadget-show

This show is usually offensive and hilarious in equal measure. This clip is neither...

Not sure - but do you mean the space between the horizon and the cloudbase where the lightning strikes are hitting the sea?

0:24 - that's how my dogs come down stairs...

The editing on this is terrible - the transitions hide the actual funny bits - especially in the second half. And some of them aren't funny without their original audio.

I think you'll find they prefer to be called "culturally diverse" bear cubs.

To the bloke in the middle: 1974 called, it wants its T shirt back.

Wait a minute - they do less than half a job of cleaning the grime off the walls and streets, and it becomes SNOTR-worthy?

#21 I like it when your wife wears slinky clothes, too...

7:27 - without sound to provide context, this looks like she's describing something else entirely

#10 - you're obviously not watching extreme animal porn

3:55 - just reward.

I can't help feeling that if they had less crap attached to their windscreen (cameras, phone holders, speed trap detectors) and made more use of the item that was there in the first place (mirror), a lot of these crashes would have been avoided.

boala?

Is that some reptilian bear or something?

0:29 wha? did he just take my wallet?

I'd have though this was quite dangerous. dust being swirled around in air is explosive.

#10 Are you kidding? She's the only one who didn't crash!

Maybe the floor was sticky & he got it on his paws just before going up the wall...

You can see the crack where it's going to break. There are two more in the leg and on in the ankle where it breaks when it hits the ground.

...then Death says: "No worries - You've lost the ability to drive now the car does all your thinking for you. I'll just wait 'til a fuse blows then you can come with me"

Doesn't the one on the inside of the track have an unfair advantage?

#4 Zevv you forgot to take into account terminal velocity. I've made a big assumption that the rock's TV is 150mph (based on a skydiver's TV being about 120mph).

Anyway, it would reach that after 7 secs or so, so it is no longer accelerating.

Accounting for the time taken for the sound to come back up the hole, you're looking at a depth of just over 500 metres.

Of course, there are other factors as well as the guessed TV. It assumes the air density is constant (it won't be), so the speed of the sound from it hitting the bottom and the drag on the rock will change depending on where they are in the shaft. Also, you can hear it hitting the wall a couple of times on the way down. If these are ledges like on the graphics intro to the IT crowd, they will have a big effect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bH-MdVCLWM - 16 secs in

Liked the opening sequence. First I was "FFS" then I was "OK that was amusing"

KB should stick to this sort of stuff, though. He can't cope when it's against the clock...

That look he gives at the end - I know who he's planning to bang...

#5 thankyou for "tiltshift EFFECT"

I don't know why this is in the "awesome" category. Shoot some video from a high vantage point, speed it up and blur the top and bottom of the frame.

I can honestly say that with similar source footage, it would take me longer to upload the finished video than it would take to edit.

#13 Even if it's a closed range, you see some of those tracers bouncing off the ground and heading for the forest. Someone didn't think it through - he should have set up his target over the water you see at the start.

Someone needs to tell the DVD people how to spell "copies"

Plus you wouldn't have a giant electromagnet in a room full of PCs...

#10 The differential in proper off-road cars can be locked.

Stuntmen doing it in ordinary road cars can achieve the effect by welding up the differential, but no welding is needed in 4x4s. There may be as many as three diffs, one for the drivetrain and one for each of the axles. You need to lock any that are providing power to wheels on the ground.

That has the side-effect (undesirable, for this stunt) that at least one of the wheels off the road is spinning. This driver needed to drive with the front locked, centre and rear unlocked, until the rear wheel was off. Then with the front and centre unlocked, and rear locked, while the front wheel was coming off. While changing locks from front to rear, he would have needed to engage then disengage the centre lock. All this while driving a car balanced on two wheels, which impressive by itself, becomes more impressive when you remember there are people and wheels moving about on one side, shifting its centre of gravity.

#10 is absolutely right - #6 you won't get a car door open even with manual unlocks if much of the door is below water.

You need to break a window, preferably one that is not under water, then just wait for the car to fill with water to the same level as outside. It takes courage - especially if the car is completely under water. It still takes more effort than usual to open the door, but fighting against water outside when there's none inside is impossible.

Don't be too hard on him: the guy has a modicum of knowledge about the rest of the world - that makes him a rarity among Americans.

or "raridy" as the Americans would say.

#2 I thought that too - but he's not aged that much since I last saw him...

"Go faster Joe"
That's what he always says when they use a condom

Wait... let me get this straight: Is this ad trying to say that Pepsi is drunk by men whose only chance of getting laid is to deceive a woman into thinking that she's going to be dead in 10min anyway?

Am I the only one who thought they were wearing underpants on their head at the start?

All those departures and only one arrival?

Is Boston a really cr4ppy place, or something? Everyone wants to leave.

#7 where else would you get a headache?

#8 surely you can use the same principle for breaking ice?

I can't believe #5 has been voted down so much! My wife and I have never raised a hand to our twelve-year-old son, and he's polite, considerate and well-behaved.

#2 thanks for the link, but this video isn't really tilt shift - they just blur a band at the top and bottom of the screen in their video editor. It's very hard to fake tilt shift convincingly because structures that are orthogonal to the lens (such as vertical poles, building faces etc) should be in constant focus along their height. For example the crane at 0:13 and the building at 0:20 and the gantry at 0:49 should all have consistent focus (whether that's in focus or out of focus).

2:48 Give in to the dark side, Luke

I'll never comment on my wife's driving again

#5 the tank burns up, the big part that the shuttle piggybacks, but everything else is reusable.

Wonder how many ninjas died in the making of that film

I'd just like to see him take his finger off the trigger when he's done. I've never fired a real gun in my life, but I know that's a fundamental part of gun safety.

Exercise for you and your dog - American style

I bet she still can't understand the offside rule, though

How can you call them stupid just based on that? Those are the sort of numbers that normal people don't have to deal with - ever.

0:40 My Dad did that in his Honda Civic

Am I the only one who was expecting it to fall off the wall?

Something like this antique
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsL6wNP_oJo

1:24 Why does the car take 550 coins off his total when it should only cost 500?

You could always add your own audio. I recommend Youssou N'Dour & Peter Gabriel "Shakin' The Tree"

Which TV program is this?

#9 getting down is easy, it's the 90mph stop at the bottom that's the problem.

#8 Don't you mean "roundhouse"?

Definitely illegal in the UK, but probably OK in America: I think in some states you need to have a front plate, in others you don't, so if you want to improve the look of your car it's worth having.

So did the girl at the end crash because she wasn't watching the road?

#25 good graphics does not equal good games

He'd do the same but you'd have to go through six million different language options when setting up the system

#4 - that's not toothpaste...

#18 - it's already fill of blanks, he was firing directly at a handheld camera at 0:45 and a helicopter immediately before that.

It doesn't look very comfortable when he's stuck inside with nothing to shoot at

Just like my ex

7:10 And that, my friends, is why you should always backup your work.

Wow - he can move really fast when he wants to. I might get him to shift my old grandfather clock

One of these was set off a few doors up the road from my house some months ago. It came down, burning, onto someone's car. Thankfully, it just burned away the paint on the car roof and one of the doors...

If it had lit the tyre nearest the petrol tank, the story could have had a completely more dramatic ending.

I am the first to complain about our overly safety-conscious society, but I think there's something completely loopy about launching molten wax into the sky with a combustion source and no idea where it's going...

#5 - "Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he can eat for...

um...

a day"

For everyone who wants to use the table for having sex - your enthusiasm would last only until you get a popup message saying "You're doing it wrong" or "Virus detected"

#11 I knew something was wrong when he said 25,000,000,000,000,000 discs have been made- but like #14 it was the foil that clinched it.

Didn't realise it was filed under "parody" until after it had finished, but hen I don't browse by category - I just preload the new videos unless they have a crappy rating.

It's quite obviously a fake - the shopping cart's wheels aren't rying to send it in opposite directions, and there aren't two other parrots standing in the way because they've decided that the shopping aisle is the best place to reminisce and catch up on gossip.

4:02 LOL

Why did they go to all that effort to get through the door? It's not mounted in a wall, they could just walk around.

And the video would have been just as interesting, but 3 minutes 27 seconds shorter.

Am I the only one who wanted him to raise the scissor lift..?

"If you want me, climb up and get me."

Um - the title needs to be changed. New Year's eve 2011 hasn't happened yet...

0:14 - Jesus face in sugar !!! Quick - call the newspapers

1:39 pwned

Shame they didn't "reverse roles" and put Graham Norton on the block...

I'm sure I've seen him in a porn video. It was called "The Iceman Cometh"

0:46 "It's an accident waiting to happen. One space, two cars, and two women drivers" LOL How sexist is that?

It wasn't an accident anyway - it was road rage, which affects men more than women.

Why didn't they nick the video camera?

"Scorchio"

Makes me wonder why I bother recycling a couple of kilos of metal and plastic every week when organisations like this just dump it in space.

I do have a lot of sympathy with drivers in conditions such as these. There is a lot of negativity when people comment on here and other video sites, but let's face it, driving is a skill which improves with experience. If these drivers haven't experienced conditions like these, they may not know how best to deal with them.

When I first encountered a very slippy hillside, about 15 years ago, I slowly twirled the car through 180 degrees. It didn't make me a really bad driver, just really inexperienced. Now I have the experience and the confidence to stay off the brake, if I lost control of the car today, THAT would make me a bad driver.

(Not that I'm particularly good.)

Facebook should take inspiration from Red Dwarf's Rimmer:

Rather than "Friends" it should be "People I met"

#4 I assume you didn't watch it hoping the strap would break and he'd fire out of frame at a tangent, then?

#4 your machine has a spellchecker, so it's already one up on you...

The girl at 2:00 has just realised that ICBMs just look like big willys.

#1 the bottom of the auxiliary tank is 4.3 metres above the runway - he could have had the cameraman sitting on his shoulders and there still wouldn't have been any physical contact...

(Altitude calculated by comparing the ratio of the vertical distance of the shadow to the fuel tank to the wingspan, and then multiplying that by the 9.25 metre wingspan of a Harrier II)

It must be American domestic beer - in which case that's a pretty good way to get it down your neck without the inconvenience of having to taste it.

Watch it without sound - the look at 0:25 says
"And your human offspring do this for entertainment?!?!"

Anyone who wears pants like that needs some way of distracting your attention...

Never trust a dog that licks its lips while looking at your testicles.

I only watched it for the "gets arrested" bit

Wouldn't those old people be fantasising about corsets and whalebone antiquel lingerie rather than Victoria's Secret skimpies?

2:46 looks a bit like my bedsit floor when I was a student

Why is he driving backwards at 0:19 ?

If they're in France - it might just be supper.

#8 I think you mean turtle shells - but I gave you thumbs up anyway for effort!

So at 0:10 where it says "No training wheel required"... Is that the unicyclist name for what the rest of us call: a bicycle?

#6 You just need a zipper and some theatrical wax or latex and makeup to blend the zipper to the "intact" part of the face. The bit under the zipper can be a mixture of glycerin and red food colouring. There will be 100s of thatrical blood recipes on the net, if you don't want to buy it.

1:35 Arguably the most important part of the whole process.

Who wants to find a secondhand staple, mid-wipe?

Don't forget, there are French cars - it's not a cavalcade, it's the fleet of backup vehicles to cover for breakdowns.

As a last resort, there's a merc in the middle in case all 102 break down.

It's SPG! - Vyvyan's hamster from "The Young Ones".

As I was watching this I thought at 0:20 "Wouldn't it be good if they fell through the ice while jumping on it"

Much better result than that, though...

#18 "Anyone know how much HP *horse power* it took to get launched like that?"

I reckon it's exactly 2HP

(count the horses)

#5 "I would say this is in the UK or Australia. Probably UK given that the sign doesn't quite look English?" - so you don't think signs in the UK are in English?

Anyway - The sign is for viewing from the outside: You need to flip the video image to be able to read it. The bottom one appears to say "Cloudy day"

Last time *I* tried to film a bird in the bath and put it on the internet, I was arrested!

She also got a court order...

All that money is his fee for doing the commercial - he looked very happy right up to the point his accountant told him that 12,000,000 is worth about fifty bucks...

I thought it was bread being taken - he's really got his woman in her place - that's a lotta sandwiches she'll be making.

#9 The checked pattern is intended to introduce more fake parallax into the scene. If the cube were real, the squares furthest from your eyes would appear smaller than those closest to your eye. The way this effect works is:

a) the cube isn't really a cube, as you can see when it's shown from the side,
b) the squares that meet at the three-faced vertex are bigger than those on the two-faced vertexes which in turn are bigger than those on the one-faced corners. Even though these one-face corners (the vertexes where only one face of the "cube" is visible) are closer to your eye, the fact that the checks are smaller means your brain translates that to them as being further away.

Parallax is the apparent difference between near and distant objects when viewed from a different location. It's the fundamental way depth perception works - your eyes are a few inches apart and see different views. Distant objects are pretty much the same to both eyes. Near objects look very different.

I'd be interested to see if this effect is as realistic when viewed in true 3D - i.e. by a person sitting in front of the construction, not a camera...

#3 Even if it was a brand new Rolls Royce - do you think they should have someone driving it for the purposes of the clip?

Any car will look broken without a driver.

#4 It wouldn't work on a flowing 3D shape like a person or a car. It is doing a 2D scan on a 3D environment and using the contrast between edges to build a vertex map - which is why it used the hard shadow on the back plane and short box at the back as if it were a separate surface. (Most obvious during the green segment around 1:33)

"Extremely fatal"???

Something is either fatal or it's not. There isn't a sliding scale from "Barely dead" to "Extremely dead"

Is the bloke's back burned at the end?

#6 use a bit of artistic licence, FFS.

Even if there had been something in the tube, you'd have been complaining that he fired two rockets from a disposable, single-round tube.

I'd have said to both of the thieves:

"Why don't you just lift the bike over the sign?"

Human hamsters!

Why do they call it the "circle of death" if a mistake would just mean an injury? Surely it should be "circle of broken leg" or "circle of faceplant" if they come off - it would take a freak accident for them to actually die...?

Why do the front wheels need to be bigger than the rear?

When things go wrong it's always best to wait as long as you can before ejecting. However you need to eject while the plane is still moving. There have been at least two US Marine aviators killed when they've parachuted into the fireball of their wrecked plane.

The problem for this pilot must have started very close to the start of the vid - he's not had anywhere suitable to jettison his tanks and GBUs.

#4 This episode first aired in 1984,

It's funny that all the Americans notice Dr House, but don't notice double oscar winner Emma Thompson...

#11 Do Mk2 escorts even have rev limiters?

I liked it - it makes you realise rally co drivers are more than just passengers.

I wonder how he gets the extender to fire - if it could be made to go a split second earlier, he'd still have some of the thrust from the first stage so it would go even higher.

The rolling shutter effect is the result of the cheaper CMOS sensors used in mobile phones and consumer level HD cameras. It's also the cause of jello/jelly lens, where the subject is relatively static but the camera itself is moving a lot. Where the camera pans up, the footage appears squashed, where it pans down, it appears stretched, and where it pans right or left, it tilts in the direction of the pan. All video cameras suffer from the effect described by #17. This effect is particular to those cameras where the top of the video frame was not captured at the exact same instant as the bottom, which is what happens with older (and in my opinion, better) CCD sensor cameras.

I was expecting a croc to get the impala when in the water...

In the UK, a lot of drivers honk their horn if they pass a newlywed couple. I've never seen them do it where there's a horse and carriage, though. That's just stupid.

This one should be at number 11 (careful - profanity at the end)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX629ZjWD68

To be pedantic, the clip of the death star blowing up at 1:49 was from the remastered (1997) Star Wars version - not the original (1977), so it's not in the right place in the chronology.

With statistics like those, it's so easy even the French could do it!

I love the dog's look at the end. He looks over at his master as if to say "WTF?"

#7 Not quite 1/5 as it's not necessarily the same rotor blade at each position from one frame to the next. The rotor is turning through an exact multiple of 72 degrees with each frame.

So to be completely geeky: The camera FPS only needs to be x/y of the rotor RPM, where x and y are integers and y is a multiple of 5.

Don't be too hard on them - the commercial tries very hard to look real, with its faux amateur camera work. So pointing out things like the wake left by the boat (or jet ski) that's towing the "shark" is entirely reasonable

bugger

> what came through his mind when he lighted it up

About a quart of burning gasoline, I'd guess.