Jem Melts Rock Using Sunshine
Jem Stansfield travels to the Solar Furnace Research Facility in Southern France. He witnesses the incredible power generated by highly concentrated sunlight.
10 Barrel Gatling T-Shirt Cannon Can Shoot 200 T-Shirts 150 Yards
Team 254 Robotics of Bellarmine College Prepatory in San Jose, CA, with the help from NASA Ames Robotics, built an amazing 10 Barrel Gatling T-Shirt Cannon that can shoot 200 t-shirts up to 150 yards at a rate of 3 t-shirts per second.
In Summer 2010, Team 254 decided to build a T-Shirt Shooting Robot to be used for promotional events. After two months of hard work, our robot debuted at a spirit rally at our school, Bellarmine College Prep in San Jose. The robot was received very well and was loved by the students at the rally.
Team 254 plans to use its T-Shirt Cannon Robot to promote the team and its sponsors. We will be bringing the cannon to team and school events as well as sponsor events.
Experiment: Town in England turns off traffic lights, surprising results.
Interesting video of a small town in England that was experiencing chronic traffic backup due to a bad intersection which has a long delay on its traffic lights. The local government tried an experiment where they turned off the traffic lights for a few days to see what would happen. The results surprised a lot of local residents.
Go watch the video (sorry, not embeddable)
Hitting droplets of nitroglycerin with a hammer in slow motion
In the interests of science, the presenter from the BBC's "How We Shook the World" hits a droplet of nitro with a hammer, over and over again, in slow motion. I am enscienced!
Nitroglycerine Detonation Filmed in Slo-Mo - Explosions: How We Shook the World, Preview - BBC Four
Homemade Spacecraft
Video from a camera attached to a weather balloon that rose into theupper stratosphere and recorded the blackness of space.
Angry, Bored Octopus Goes Gets Into Mischief
Angry bored octopus goes wilding: "Otto the Octopus, a resident of Sea Star Aquarium in Coburg, Germany, is bored because the aquarium's closed for the winter -- so he's making mischief. First he squirted an overhead light until it shorted out, and now he's taken to juggling the hermit crabs.
'Once we saw him juggling the hermit crabs in his tank, another time he threw stones against the glass damaging it. And from time to time he completely re-arranges his tank to make it suit his own taste better - much to the distress of his fellow tank inhabitants.'
(Via Boing Boing.)