This Manure-Tossing Monstrosity Can Shred and Spread a Whole Car
Fertilizing your garden is no easy feat when you’ve got acres upon acres of farmland to cover. That’s why industrial farming complexes rely on massive mechanical manure spreaders to evenly distribute cow crap. And atop this poopy pile sits the king of shit slingers, the Artex CB1200.
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This Manure-Tossing Monstrosity Can Shred and Spread a Whole Car
The Science Behind Making the Fastest Possible Pinewood Derby Car
You wouldn’t think that a four-wheeled car would go faster if one of its wheels didn’t touch the ground. Or if its axles were bent. Or if it was designed to grind against a wall. But you’d be wrong, and here’s the science to prove it.
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The Science Behind Making the Fastest Possible Pinewood Derby Car
See How Hornady Bullets are Made
The Outdoor Channel’s Down Range TV has released a compelling (if highly marketing tinged) look into Hornady’s operations and bullet-manufacturing. The video, clocking in at just shy of 9:00 is a revealing expose of the specialized machines, processes, and people that make our gun food. Click here the picture below to be taken to the […]
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A Brief History of Airspace Design
Think Los Angeles at rush hour is bad? Try doing it half-blindfolded with nothing but a radio and a few blinking lights to show you the way. That’s how pilots navigate the invisible highways in the sky, and there’s a beautiful design that makes it all work. It only took about a hundred years to come up with it.
Stabilized Footage of the JFK Assassination Is Unsettlingly Real
When it’s bouncing around and playing back at a jittery 18 frames per second, the infamous Zapruder footage of John F. Kennedy’s assassination feels almost unreal. But when it’s stabilized with additional interpolated frames bringing it to a steady 30 frames per second (like we’re used to seeing on TV) it suddenly becomes much more real.
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Stabilized Footage of the JFK Assassination Is Unsettlingly Real
Watch People Get Flung at a Mountain by a Giant Human Slingshot
What a great summer tradition this is. Every so often, these wonderful folks plop down a gigantic human slingshot and fire people at stuff. Sometimes it’s down a slip and slide and into a lake, sometimes it’s that, just double. This time it’s at a mountain, while eating pizza. It still looks like a lot of fun. [YouTube]
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