Favourite Youtube videos v2.0

[iiradned]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7GDCCC9dT4 What happens when an actual rabbit runs across some greyhounds during a race.

[iiradned]

Dirty Dancing to the Muppet Show theme.

[Té Rowan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcYUefBhpp0 — "How Fast Can The Iconic Toyota AE86 Lap The Nordschleife?"
A stock 120-hp Trueno does it surprisingly fast, at least in a race sim.

[Té Rowan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEdulNd9n-w — "Meru-meru! Meru-meru! Meru-meru! Piroriparopirirora!"

[Té Rowan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH1pyaZxO4o — Jack Tramiel tells a tale of survival.

Edit: https://www.ntsb.gov/Pages/brief.aspx?ev_id=29477&key=0
Right now I believe this page refers to Tramiel's tale above, since "Microcomputer Printout" of Dec. 1980 mentioned it as having happened 'recently'.

[Té Rowan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWFTglm1bWw — Four Learjets in a diamond formation make a low pass along a runway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQMy9CHwqto — On the ground, at the far end of that runway…
Man, they look pretty sharp.

[Té Rowan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0x2TgHeIc8 — Hatsumode at Hikawa shrine.
Well, I couldn't spot a purple-eyed miko in this clip…

[Té Rowan]

This guy is just so enthusiastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjAlzA4Cyys — Building a 555 timer with valves/vacuum tubes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp4l-RWHbes — Building a 741 op-amp, also with valves/tubes.

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

For years, I wished I'd invented the 555. Lovely circuit, and you could use it for almost anything.

[Té Rowan]

I would not be surprised if one could build a complete computer out of nothing but 555s.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8ux82iV50E — Airline pilot reacts to "Airplane".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmkMkoh7e_Y — Same guy reacts to parts of "Madagascar 2".
How massively sad it is when comedy gets more parts right about real-life aviation than Hollywood movies do.


Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-JN2U4jHgk — What the Crookes Radiometer can teach us
A whopping lot, if this guy is to go by.

[Té Rowan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yUOLgTexHs — How the Trabant was made.
The trab-trab – the only car that could say its own name.

[Té Rowan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptnU54wflFs — XL-Calibur, a balloon-carried telescope, takes off from Sweden.

[Té Rowan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqWA4rNr2ow — A Shinkalion 500 transformation sequence.

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

The mysterious Orient seems to like battling space trains with transformation sequences. Space Symphony Maetel. Galaxy Express 999. Night on the Galactic Railroad - now there, it is more the passengers that have transformations. Train anime.

As a scientist and engineer, I find Snowpiercer detestable. Why, in all reason, is there a gigantic train carrying the remnants of humanity around the frozen wasteland of the globe? The constant motion of the train is supposed to provide energy, and keep people from freezing? (Snort here from Minnesotan who lives where there is little but a barbed-wire fence between myself and the wind from the North in Winter!) They have scarce resources to feed them, but they've been traveling for seven years, with the social unrest getting worse and worse? With all that apocalypse, how are they sure the rails are in good condition? Where do they get the energy to run the train? (Atomic energy would work, but they could use it for better things than motion.)

There are so many damn impossibilities in just the synopsis of the show that even the Great and Powerful Oz (or the Great and Powerful Trixie if you fan in that direction) could keep this vicious clown-show running. Mind you, I've seen not a second of the show. I ran screaming when I heard the premise.

Good grief! Why did you get me so worked up just before bedtime? Still, a good rant makes me feel alive ....

[Té Rowan]

Maybe this will help ease your heart…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRQ4Xfd6U0I — "The Little Ships that saved thousands of lives (plus other classic boats)"
Boaty McBoatface isn't here, but a multitude of other little ships, including several Dunkerque heroes. You can spot a few amphibians, too.