#3 As the news article said, they hope that giving her a fine will stop other a-holes from harassing them on the job. Of course they could have just called the police, but probably had better things to do at the time

#3, the gap is a very old-fashioned solution. Welded track is attached to the base so well that heat expansion only changes the thickness of the beams - not length. Smoother ride and I reckon less track repairs too.

#1 In China the roof lights should be always on anyway. Perhaps he was off-duty

I can tell you one thing that's never there - her cellphone! After hours of searching around the house it will magically appear inside the bag though

#2, oh they do, but there's little Beijing city can do about pollution coming from neighbouring cities. It was a bad idea to relocate all factories out of the city in 2008, as they lost control over them.

#3 Northern China is actually mostly building nuclear and wind power

#4: The claims about cucumber, vacuum cleaner, jam, horse meat etc. directives are simply not true. Media has either misunderstood them, or just made things up to have a funny story to sell. Even those "un-elected nomarks" have been chosen by the people who actually care enough to vote in the euro-parliament elections.

It might sound a bit counter intuitive, but water alone does not prevent dehyrdration. You need sodium too. EU does not allow lies or half-truths in advertising, and that's a good thing.

I'm not saying that EU doesn't have its issues, but "daily fail" and pals feed you a lot of BS.

#19: Can't argue with that.

I was thinking more about the kind of patriotism you see in US, China etc. A lot of people think their country is the best in the world and will get really offended if you present any kind of criticism. The vast majority of people in Northern Europe don't really give a rats ass about those matters. Sure, we love our countries and especially our way of living, as #8 pointed out, but we are way less passionate about it.

#5: The thing is that Nordic people really aren't that patriotic. Having an ad similar to the US's would just make all kinds of dumbass crazy people join the ranks while leaving the good and smart people out.

I think it's a good ad - the soldiers are not going to be invading a country, but helping and protecting civilians. It's a good thing if you want to do it despite the obvious risks.

#9, #10: Summer night, people are walking/biking back home from bars and parties. They could have killed people. Risking yourself is one thing, but putting others in harms way is just being a major asshole, and not cool at all.

#2, #5 said, that's not really socialism, is it? Sounds more like corrupt and dysfunctional capitalism to me.

For example, the Nordic countries are truly socialistic. Companies have very limited power and the government provides high quality healthcare, education and even basic income for everyone. Almost the exact opposite of what Brazil has been heading for lately.

#3 Some teenager stole his/her mom's Porsche, crashed it into a parked car, and then drove back home to park it... Like this

#6: These days also house dads

Doing more than 150 on a 30 zone, he got what he deserved.

If only the videos shown in history class were like this

#2: I guess that gives you some kind of idea, but modern recording devices do tend to hide the true sound of guns. I've used a 7.62 assault rifle myself and it's incredibly loud - so loud that I actually had to wear both earbuds and hearing protectors at the same time. On video it sounds just like that pistol

Why do the Americans always say their president is the "most powerful person in the world"? It's actually very important that his power is constrained by law. Just look at Russia's homeboy, Vlad Putin, who can do whatever he wants at the expense of his people.

#3, #5: The two aren't really competing with each other, at least yet. Falcon is designed to leave Earth, while the New Shepard is a lower orbit rocket.

That was a lot of hugs

Normally we Finns don't feel comfortable being near to strangers. Just check this pic of a bus stop:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e8/73/a1/e873a1c4066174dd1a241e0955b917cd.jpg

#4: Yeah, never a good idea to brake when already turning. Might be just the camera, but it kinda seems that the guy doesn't even know how to countersteer.

#8: I totally agree with the HOW part, but it has more to do with sustainability than market behaviour or the techical solutions. For example Finland is a major player in the lumber and paper industries but our deforestation rate is less than 0.02% per annum and steadily slowing down even further. Basically all lumber harvesting is done using these machines nowadays.

#5: That's not how the market really works. Demand stays pretty much the same all the time and the only real variable is cost. Harvesters cut the costs dramatically in developed countries. Instead of 20 lumberjacks, you only need one tech-savvy one.

Brave guys. Must be tiresome to live in a city full of assholes.

Not quite sure what the guy says, but he starts with a very clear and loud "F**k!"

#1, #10: It might be relatively easy to implement the rules, but the issue is that they would have to be extremely specific as they basically override the actual AI. Probably would be safer if we didn't hardcode any rules at all, and just treated the AI as a child, teaching it ethics and giving it 20 years to fully understand everything it has learned.

#9: Even so, concrete wouldn't last a winter under the beating of studded tires or snow chains.

#7: I think you're right onto point with the history lesson. Guns have been widely available in the US for such a long time, there's no easy way out anymore.

More than trying to ban guns the US should really concentrate on fixing the corrections system. Hard punishments tend to make criminals more violent and has statistically had little success at lowering crime rates.

#2: People in rural areas are allowed to have more than one child, if the first one is a girl. This is because the government found that they were systematically killing, or selling, newborn girls. Basically lesser of two evils.

In the cities, if your parents both didn't have any siblings, you are allowed to have two children now. Previously there was not excuse for having a second child of any sex. Unless you could afford the fines, of course.

To actually have a child in China, you need to apply for a permit, and they do make some extensive health checks for that. Normal people don't get involuntarily sterilized after birth, but one-child-policy offenders might.

Forced menstruation checks are totally illegal, but they might be happening somewhere - after all this is China we're talking about. Rural areas tend to have cowboy local authorities doing whatever they want with no regard to laws, human rights or public health.

It was an illegal storage for dangerous materials, that exploded. The biggest blast was measured to be equivalent to 21 tonnes of TNT, and was actually felt as far as 350 km away.

The CEO of the company survived with injuries, but I'm pretty sure that he'll be facing death penalty for his actions, together with the corrupted officials who knew about the warehouse. Official death toll is (at the time of writing) 112, but the real number is most likely much higher. The government doesn't usually publish estimations and they tend to make the figures smaller to make incidents look a little less bad.

There were several fire stations fighting the inferno at the time of exlosion. The warehouse employees didn't warn them to not use water, effectively causing the initial blast. Most of the firemen were 18-20-year-old kids, without proper gear or training, as firefighter duties were part of their military service. Many if not most of the firemen never returned. There aren't many professional firemen in China, as it is basically a deathwish. Corrupted managers use the budget for their own benefit and leave the staff short-handed.

Locking the rear is normal in an emertency stop, even if you use the front brake. Anyway, proper braking would have stopped the bike well before the car.

Why is everyone's using an analog camera?

#3: That goes without saying

Guess I was the only one here who played the X-Wing and TIE-fighter games back in the day

Not to be a critic, but why did a TIE-fighter have a shield-indicator on its HUD at 1:43?

I just love watching a master of ancient techniques doing his thing

After gluten-free diet became a trend, the prices of these special foods have come down quite a bit. Great news for the people with actual celiac disease, like my sister

Good that they all had proper protective gear... oh wait...

When I look at the picture at home, it's white and gold. At work, it's clearly blue and black. Damn you, brain!

#6, if you don't count weapons as being a waste of human effort, a railgun is cheaper per shot than a traditional cannon. A big deal for a normal country, but for a military show-off like the US, the price has never been an issue. Tax payers have deep pockets

I think they're comparing apples and oranges here. An off-roader versus a small truck meant for bumpy roads.

The dark side of the Moon is not only full of craters, but also made of different material than the side facing us. I guess the difference in mass of the sides has eventually resulted in stopping the spin and always facing the same direction in relation to Earth. And where did the different halves come from, you ask? There are some theories of Earth originally having two satellites and even the Moon having collided with Earth. Pretty interesting stuff

Well, if I just did what I love, it would be an insane financial risk for my family. I certainly might make a living doing it, but most likely our quality of living would be much lower. Working for the machine pays my bills and feeds my children, so I still choose that over my passion

#5: Not to mention keeping their distance. Even the guy wearing the camera was waaay too close to the bike in front of him. Something as simple as a dog passing the road might have resulted in an big pile of crying motorists.

I love (rice) vinegar, but the Salt 'n vinegar Lays are just plain awful

Category: Weird (Al)

Why downvote #1? At least in my country, you can even get a fine for driving on the left lane for no reason.

Doesn't look very maintained to me...

So, basically, they just proved that different fungi live in different places, and that not all burgers contain the same amount of water?

#1, iPhones and iPads have excellent usability. Nevertheless, I can't understand those Apple fanatics either. I'm perfectly happy with an older version, as the software is still up to speed for years to come.

#9: "European knights were clad in a rather heavy suit of armour"

A knight's full armor weighted only around 20-25 kg. That's actually a little less than the full samurai armor. Also, it's quite obvious, that slashing swords would have been completely useless against metal-armored target. I think the odds would have been strongly in favor of the European knight.

Weapons aside, one shouldn't underestimate the lack of experience either. The Japanese were isolated for a long time, making them very specialized at killing Japanese. As cool as the samurai are, they would have had hard time beating anyone outside their own country.

He might haven't been as fluent in Mandarin before the coma, but obviously he already knew a lot. While sleeping, the brain does a lot of optimization, so I guess a week of coma was well enough to get the language sorted out in his mind.

Whether the mama bear appeared, or not, remains a mystery

3 million people living in a city that looks like it was built for 10 million.

Isn't 600 BC a bit late starting point? Egypt, China etc. had pretty civilized, and relatively well documented, culture already in 2000 BC...

#10: China has death penalty for drug trafficking, but it has not stopped drugs being imported. It has only made catching the criminals very dangerous, as the drug traffickers always fight to death.

Mixing bikes and cars is ok when you're in a city center (~30 km/h). These roads should have separate bikeways.

Here in Finland, only very dangerous people are put to real prison. Most of the convicts reside in an open prison, where they are given the possibility to educate themselves and even have minimum salary jobs. even more, the prisoners are allowed to have short vacations, when they can send time outside the facility. Also, one's criminal record is your personal secret, by law, so having one doesn't stop you from getting a job. Of course there are some exceptions, like jobs where you work with children, where you have to provide your criminal record when applying.

In the US 50% of the released inmates end up back in prison. In Finland the same number is 30%, while in Norway, where the justice system is even more forgiving, only 20% of the ex-convicts go back. I'm just wondering, when are the Americans going to admit that the system has failed, and rethink the strategy...

Not an illusion - just some geometric trickery

Seriously, 20 km/h in a place like that?

#9: "You wouldn't be so caring about prisoners if one of them killed a member of your family"

You can go to jail for stealing food in the US. It's naive to think everyone locked up is a murderer.

Interestingly enough, I can enter HK and Macau without a visa, but my Chinese wife can't. Even more, that visa is not issued onto a regular passport, but a separate special administrative region (blue) passport. On the other hand, I need to fill in entry and exit cards at every border, whereas my wife can skip this formality altogether

#5: "Lactose intolerance died out? Ah, yes. Only 75 % of us have it. Very smart point."

In Northern Europe, only 5% of the people are lactose intolerant. Historically, the people who didn't crap their pants each time they had milk, also didn't die of starvation during winters...

In most countries exposing illegal actions of a bureau would be considered such a service to your homeland, that the penalty for not respecting a secrecy agreement would be minimal.

Now do that in full-scale!

#2 "What was wrong with wheels?"

Traditional vehicles are heavy and landing them in one piece is very difficult. Just look how ridiculously complex landing the Mars-rovers was:

http://www.snotr.com/video/9524/Landing_On_Mars

I found this rather boring. It was kinda like watching your friends get more and more drunk when you're the designated driver. They remember the night as having a blast, while you just saw them as a bunch of retarded apes

140 with std deviation of...?

#4: Only special ops learn telekinesis

#1: I do ride a bike. I have for more than 10 years now. The safest place on road is in middle of a LANE. That's where cars see you from their mirrors. Driving like that is not only very selfish, but also a good way to get hit by a car changing lanes.

Just saying... But what do I know. I'm obviously a retard.

Would be even better if he didn't use plates all the time

Reminds me of this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den

Balls of steel

#11, I guess you don't drive a sportsbike? My supersport's mirrors are terrible. Better just turn my head and look what's going on behind me.

Fortunately the USSR gave us heads up... Oh wait, no they didn't

After all these years, mushrooms are still radioactive in Finland because of the fallout. Some shrooms have radiation levels as high as 5000 Bq/kg, whereas the EU defined safety limit for Cesium-137 radiation in food is 600 Bq/kg. Boiling reduces the radiation dramatically and not all species and areas are as badly contaminated. In other words, one would have to eat ridiculous amounts of mushroom salads etc. to get any health issues. Still, a grim reminder of the scale of the incident.

Although Sweden remained neutral, there were almost 10 000 Swedish volunteers fighting on the Finnish front.

If you wonder how Finland managed to defend herself against a superior enemy, one must know that USSR didn't want to use local troops because they feared the men would not fight. Just imagine the poor unexperienced guys from more or less temperate climates, far far away, entering the freezing cold (-30C) forests, following leaders that were accustomed to fighting on open ground.

Roundabouts are also much safer for pedestrians and cyclists

#3, #8: I guess you're used to deadly wiring in your country?

In Western Europe, Nordics, US etc. connections like that are illegal for a good reason.

Love how the punk screams like a little girl at 1:45 when things don't go his way.

This is exactly why I just bought a 4S. Buying the latest iPhone is just waste of money...

"One of the happiest countries"

108th happiest (of 156) [UN World Happiness Report 2010-2012]

At least they're really optimistic

80k euros is enough to buy a 30-50m2 apartment in my city. And that would be a profitable investment, whereas the Merc will only lose value by time. ..

Not mentioned in the video: 98 - 99.5% of the fracking fluid is sand

6000 smackaroos! I could get a new 300 cc motorcycle for that price. Or a second hand one and a premium MTB

Evolution is everywhere. Even if you think a car, there is a lot of stuff in it that are not a result of intelligent design. For example the layout of the controls: In the beginning there was no standard of any kind, but because specific car manufacturers succeeded better than others, most of the alternatives died out. Eventually we ended up with the de-facto layout of today.

Evolution of organisms is no different. We can argue if "God" made the original spark of life, but there is no denying that we are what we are because of millions of years of evolution.

My glasses cost 300 euros. At least that's still cheaper than an iPad here...

#3: No worries, 40 m/s is hardly enough to even puncture skin.

#6: Also, there's something unnatural about the eyes. I guess they don't move with the skin as much as they should

#2: How do you explain the 6,5 billion people elsewhere who managed to start using SI system during the last 100 years? US is almost literally the last place on Earth not using international standard units.

I so wish I had the money to buy one. Model S is such an engineering marvel of its kind

10# I can't understand why people always use the version without a shoulder stock. The rifle itself is accurate up to 300 meters.

#9: The point was, that the driver is speeding. People in many countries tend to drive 5-10 km/h over the speed limit. Sure it doesn't look like much of a difference on the speedometer, but there's a huge impact on pedestrian safety.

That's one extreme bug. 17 year lifespan and almost 100 dB mating call

#9: "The difference with the current warming trend is that it's a lot more dramatic than previous change rates."

My point kinda was, that you can't make assumptions like that with the data we have. We can only say for certain, that within a period of couple hundred years, the temperature has been rising pretty fast. At larger time scale we have to compare mean averages, so the current spike doesn't even show. Mixing the two time scales is where this video, and many others, go wrong.

Comparing million year old rough estimations on modern time accurate temperature readings is as far fetched as it sounds... It's like saying 2(+/- 2) is less than 3. Not to mention how we are still far below the average temperature of last few million years. Equally as unproven is implying that man made CO2 has a major role in climate change. After all, our emissions are about 0.1% of the total and there's a limit how much CO2 can block of the Sun's spectrum.

I'm not saying the climate change isn't happening. I'm just annoyed by the media mumbo-jumbo explanations that hardly make sense, but are presented as THE truth.

Very impressive tech

That's enough to cause serious radiation poisoning or even cancer in the long run

13:20 I love how casual they both are

What an asshole, the cameraman

They don't have an abort button? The rocket was just allowed to hit the ground in a random spot.

This video quite well demonstrates all that is wrong with the EU. No country has to actually follow the rules if they don't want to

For those who don't live in the 1700's
116 F = 46 C

Seeing an AK brings back memories of cleaning my service rifle for hours and hours. Forget to do the daily maintenance and the whole thing rusts inside

Fishing explosive?

#4: They get 15 sunrises a day up there, so I guess it doesn't really matter what time you wake up or go to sleep

Unfortunately she's teaching the traditional characters. The vast majority of Chinese haven't used them for more than 60 years now...

This ad might be banned here because it mocks another company's product.

#1: Thank you captain obvious. The Katana was, after all, invented about 4000 years after the bronze sword

#19, #22, Hungary really was there in 1000 AD, where this video starts. After all, they did their conquests somewhere around 900 AD.

Very impressive

Holy shit how fast he passed the opening!

They missed the Virtual Boy too (1995)

#12: "Kids". In Africa they'd have like three children at that age, and no time to play merry-go-round (of death)

Now all I need is a car that still has a cassette player. Even my crappy 1989 Japanese sedan had only CD...

#1, #8, #10: The driver side (left) of the truck is still in one peace, so wearing a seat-belt would have just kept him in the car without any real injuries.

As the title says, this is pure luck. Often when flown out of the car, the driver gets run over by his/her own vehicle and dies.

#8: I think the bystanders were just trying to stop the fight. The two guys in the car started the whole thing, so no surprise they were both assholes.

#5: Well, if you listened to the show, not all the reasons exist anymore...

I really could use the third eyelid though

It's amazing what a modern turbo can do. A decent sized diesel truck (lorry) can have enough power to operate normally even with a mere 2-liter engine. This enables pretty impressive fuel savings. I guess the downside is that having two turbos makes an engine more unreliable, and obviously more expensive to build or repair.

Fortunately the whole ACTA thing was scrapped in Europe. It would have basically made everyone a criminal, until proven otherwise. Another fortunate thing is that our patent system is not as broken as the American one is. Patent trolls have hard time registering anything too generic here, as they only get laughed out of the office...

#19: Head injuries mostly occur in city when a cyclist gets run over by a car. Even at slow speeds hitting your head on the car or the pavement can be fatal.

Anyway, I think I'm going to stay with the traditional helmet. It only costs 20 euros and provides the same level of protection. I personally like wearing cycling gloves too - had my share of road rash as a kid

#12, #13: Actually, there are some hybrid buses that use this technology.

However, capacitors can't hold their potential nearly as long as batteries can. Therefore they're pretty useless when it comes to electric cars.

In China, there was this old couple begging very close to where I lived. The man usually just lying motionless on the ground and the woman begged. Every evening they both walked away, changed their clothes nearby, and went to a restaurant to have some supper. Then they took off in a rather new VW Passat.

There it comes... Aaaand you missed it

#4: Hasn't happened in the Nordics and we're definitely not communists here. Then again, we're not capitalists either.

By the way, I've read a number of theses from MIT during my student years, and they're generally really horrible compared to theses written by European students. We would fail even exercises with those papers, yet some people have got their university degree with them. Sure, the American MSc only compares to European BSc in knowledge, but regardless the US clearly has quite a lot of catching up to do when it comes to education. If nothing changes, the day will come when all the brain work is done somewhere else and Americans will be just providing the assembly lines...

#13: Ambulances (and police cars for that matter) always have their warning lights on in Far East countries. There is no way to know if they actually are in a rush.

I hope the crazy driver goes to jail for what he did. Fleeing an accident scene is a very serious crime, at least here in Finland. Surely he'll have to pay large compensations for the victims too.

#2, #3: So that's where baby tennis balls come from

Actually, they didn't show HOW TO make it, like the man at the beginning promised. Instead it was all about them doing it

Another amazing thing is that Russia now has real police! I had no idea they shut down the militia in 2011. Good for them

#5: If he didn't, he probably wouldn't be able to exit the facility later on. All the gates would just display him "No record of entry" error. Been there, done that

#12: Here in Finland we have the same taxes for smokes as you do (about 80%).

It has been calculated that one smoking worker causes Finland about 28 000 eur losses annually (in sick leaves, decreased working performance, public heathcare, etc.).

You'd have to buy a storehouse full of cigs to make up for that.

Guess this is what happens when somebody farts in the audience. The wind, you know...

#13: Well that has worked great, hasn't it? In every country where the punishments are always severe, crime rates are high and stay there. Here in Nordic countries most criminals get education in prison and become good law abiding citizens. The government gives the inmates a second chance and they do their best to make it count. In that sense, our prisons are more like hospitals for curing the dumb.

#8: Alternative energy sources have existed for some time, but the problem is not so much the greed but the fact that they don't produce a constant stream of energy. This renders them pretty much useless compared to combustion or fission power.

Fortunately this is about to change. Scientists have recently developed large capacity all-liquid batteries that can handle electricity at large scale. When they hit the market, we are going to see much more renewable energy applications and hopefully get rid of our dependency on fossil fuels.

What kind of a monster of a vehicle were those intersections designed for? We don't even have parking lots that large here

1 500 - 2 000 USD? In Finland driver's license costs 1 500 - 2 000 EUR. Still cheaper than Norway though

#6: My thoughts exactly. Perhaps they only take short power naps

#15: Indeed. Piston engines are pretty much obsolete these days. At least in aviation.

Now those are some awesome multitasking skills!

A Russian co-worker of mine used to drive trucks in his country. He told that the older drivers took vodka before going on the road. Perhaps the driver here just run out of vodka and started to feel sleepy

She managed to get the car so stuck that even his husband had trouble getting it out

#7: Really? Always thought you were smarter with these things and we Finns just copied your good proven laws. Using a mobile phone without a hands-free device while driving is illegal in Finland. Unfortunately there are many who don't obey the law. You can easily spot them, as they tend to drive like drunks. No signals, sudden correcting moves, very slow acceleration, etc.

Beijing just had a similar accident. Unfortunately the woman fell into boiling water and died

#2: Not allowed to sell the shares for 10 years? Are you sure they actually agreed to that? It does sounds like a rather crappy deal, unless FB is going to give out some serious dividend every year.

Attempted manslaughter is a serious crime. Kicking a car isn't.

The Chinese sure know how to build on an epic scale

#8: That sure is a strange trend. Here in Finland big companies, like Finnair, give huge bonuses to CEOs that have failed miserably too. And this while they demand employees to work extra hours for no salary, or sack them altogether! This recent crap completely defies logic... And it's happening in more and more companies

#8: Ritchie was awarded for his work many years ago. It just happens that he did little to nothing of interest afterwards. Jobs was, not only a celebrity, but also a CEO of a hugely successful company whose products touch our everyday lives. Media seldom cares about scientists, but they sure love celebrities.

By the way, C-language just happened to become the de-facto standard. It could have been any other language too. Maybe this world would be a better place if Pascal was the most common language. Who knows...

Unix on the other hand is even the base for Apple operating systems. There's no denying it's importance, but Ritchie was only one member in a team of experts developing it.

#6: No-one thinks a purring cat is worth filming. A dog going insane is much more interesting.

Only seen aurora once in my lifetime. They also made a rattling electric noise.

#13: Obviously there's no such thing as a free lunch. I just meant that the taxes eventually return back to you in a way or another.

PS. You sir, are the idiot, if you don't know that the best countries in the world also happen to have the highest tax-rates. That's no communism. Just common sense.

#1, indeed. Recent evidence even imply there were originally two moons that collided to form the one that orbits us today.

#3: At least taxes don't end up only in the corporate bosses' deep pockets. The good thing about taxes is that we all benefit from them. They give us free roads, free schools and universities, free healthcare and even free money if we lose our jobs or get handicapped. In civilized countries anyway...

Wow! Just... wow!

There's a Korean version of Top Gear?!? Oh, yeah the crash...

#9 No it wasn't. You can clearly see the cable was attached to the rear bumper. The actual tow mount points are further in below the car.

I'd just call the cops and not tell him about the camera

This kind of behavior is one reason why East-Europeans are not very popular abroad. Thumbs up for the guy who actually stopped to help.

#6: It looks like they used long exposure time. You wouldn't be able to see all the pretty colors with naked eye, but the images are by no means photoshopped. They just show a little more than our limited night vision can.

#4, I think you're right! The font seems to be very easy to read even when scaled down. And as far as I know, I'm not dyslexic.

I'm pretty sure it's illegal to do that without asking for everyone's permission first...

"illiterate immigrants invading our Southern borders to steal our jobs"

Well played, sir. Well played...

Where I'm standing, we recycle nearly all the bottles several times. And who buys bottled water in the 1st world countries anyway? Tap water is way cleaner and cheaper too...

We sure are a complex blob of micro-organisms. I wonder if our components are somewhat sentient beings too?

The biker made a good point, but why on Earth doesn't he wear a helmet? Seriously, I think riding without a helmet in my 200 000 people hometown is suicidal. It's a cheap life insurance.

I live in Finland, and I'd love to go visit Lapland, but strangely enough it is more expensive than flying to Southern Europe for a vacation.

#12: If this video is Chinese, why is it in Japanese? Chinese written language has no curly characters. The Japanese however use traditional Chinese characters alongside with their own alphabet.

#7 kind of said this already, but to hopefully make it clear for everyone, here goes:

Both ends have a tension caused force vector towards the center point of the coil equal to the gravitational force. We can know this because the lower part is stationary and the Slinky is symmetrical. When the top is released the bottom still has the same forces in effect as it had before. The top however now lacks one force - the hand - and thus starts moving. Because the coil is so soft, the new downward force vector doesn't transfer to the bottom until they pretty much collide.

A more rigid coil would most likely start moving at the bottom too, as the kinetic energy of the falling top would partially transfer to the bottom part. A completely rigid object would (obviously) have both its ends moving instantly.

Basic kinetics in action.

No shortage of idiots on this planet

#6 might be right about the numbers, but he's clearly missing the point. Australia has a population equal to the one of Beijing. And Beijing population is only about 2% of China as a country. The amount of power needed is just astronomical.

If you're planning on saving some money and driving to Russia... Don't! Just take the train/plane

#7: Sure the waste is a problem, but it is produced in relatively small quantities and stored in radiation-proof containers. Exposure would require someone to physically go inside the cave and open the containers. Even then the radiation on the surface would be within normal levels.

Nuclear waste can also be recycled. I'm pretty sure that our children will learn how to deplete the fuel much further than we currently do.

I'm always waiting when all those Ghostrider etc. pricks run out of luck. They drive like brainless monkeys, and all it takes is a single car that doesn't see them coming, and next someone will be scraping their asses off the asphalt with a shovel.

As the saying goes; a smart man doesn't even run into situations a skilled man might survive.

I just can't figure out why Greenpeace doesn't support nuclear power. Really makes no sense, as it is the most environmentally friendly form of energy production on the planet.

Also, why do they think that bio-diesel development is something even more sinister than burning oil is? Palm oil is just a temporary solution, but little does Greenpeace care.

Just saying...

I was pretty much scared shitless the whole time I lived in China because the traffic is really like this all the time. It's like no-one understands how easily a person can die, even though local road deaths were on the news every day. Also, nobody uses a seatbelt and they even tend to remove the back-seat safety belts from taxis

That's no SUV. An SUV is a car that looks like a hybrid of an off-roader and a city car, but is completely useless in both environments.

#3 Actually this time it's "In Communist China" Those things are surprisingly common in China's poorer cities.

Very old stats. US was the #1 in broadband penetration in like 1999 or something. Now it's #25 - lagging behind most of the Europe and Far East.

Also, did you know that nowadays China has the most Internet users in the world too

#21: "And btw, the first girl got killed because she was texting AND didn't put her seat belt on."

My thoughts exactly. No way she would have flown out of the car if she had buckled up.

On a side note, many people die as they get run over by their own cars in an accident. Just because they didn't care to use a seatbelt. So much unnecessary suffering...