Author: Dark5

From Mr Allsop History:

TV advert for the 1988 Cold War era computer game ‘SDI: The Odds Are Even’. The game is now playable here thanks to the Internet Archive.

“The button has been pressed – it’s all-out nuclear war. As bomb-laden missiles rocket above a terror stricken Earth, East and West are locked in the deadliest game of all.

“With an awesome cache of nuclear weapons at your disposal, can you zap your enemy – and save the planet from imminent catastrophe? Using skill, judgement and razor-sharp reactions, you must deploy your Strategic Defense Initiative – and avoid global disaster!”

From Science News:

Just before it ignites in water, an alkali metal (Na/K, an alloy of sodium and potassium) loses electrons and shoots spikes from its surface, which can be seen at the top of this slow-motion footage. A water droplet’s dive can be seen for comparison at the bottom.

From New Scientist:

Three people with paralysed arms had their hands amputated and replaced by prosthetic bionic ones that they control with their mind.

Full story: http://bit.ly/1GposPe

From NASA Goddard:

NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement mission has produced its first global map of rainfall and snowfall. The GPM Core Observatory launched one year ago on Feb. 27, 2014 as a collaboration between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and acts as the standard to unify precipitation measurements from a network of 12 satellites. The result is NASA’s Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM data product, called IMERG, which combines all of these data from 12 satellites into a single, seamless map.

The map covers more of the globe than any previous precipitation data set and is updated every half hour, allowing scientists to see how rain and snow storms move around nearly the entire planet. As scientists work to understand all the elements of Earth’s climate and weather systems, and how they could change in the future, GPM provides a major step forward in providing the scientific community comprehensive and consistent measurements of precipitation.

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From Slow Mo Lab:

Rubber Band Ball Destruction!!! Will it survive or will it tear apart??

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In this video: Taras and Dima, experiment with the rubber band ball they had left from the previous video (Rubber Watermelon Trick). After the watermelon has exploded with the rubber bands, it formed a Rubber Bands Ball. So Dima decided to explode it in slow mo. He took a firecracker and put it inside the Rubber Bands Bool. First try, it exploded just at the top not doing much damage. Then he decided to put it all the way in using longer fuse. So he put the firecracker all the way inside to film it in slow motion. He fired it up and boom! the rubber band ball exploded and…watch to see what happened.
Enjoy the incredible slow motion compilation!

ABOUT US: Taras (Crazy Russian Hacker) and Dima film a lot of cool video. Some of the clips they film in slow motion are: science experiments, fireworks reviews/testing, explosions, shooting bullets, demonstrations, compilations, and so much more!. Some of their best examples of their work include: dry ice explosion, works explosion, dry ice bomb, watermelon exploding, battery exploding etc.
RUSSIAN/На Русском
Тарас и Дима делают много разных приколов для видео. Они любят снимать разные видео: эксперементы (по физике, для дитей, эскперементы в домашних условиях, эксперементы с микроволновкой), врывы, слоy моушен, слоу мо, замедленная съемка. сухой лед и многое другое,

From the GoFast 2014 Space Launch Team:

The GoFast 2014 rocket officially set a new world record on July 14, 2014 as the highest and fastest amateur rocket ever launched into space.

Analysis of the data from the recovered military grade Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) that flew onboard shows that the GoFast rocket reached 385,800 feet above mean sea level (73.1 miles) and hit a top speed of 3,580 miles per hour. The old record held by the CSXT’s GoFast 2004 rocket was 72 miles with a top speed of 3,420 mph.

The GoFast 2014 IMU had flown successfully on four commercial space missions at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in New Mexico and was calibrated using C-Band transponder US Army radar tracking data prior to its flight into space on the GoFast rocket July 14, 2014. Statistical analysis of the WSMR flights and the GoFast 2014 launch verifies the 73.1 miles attained by the GoFast rocket has a variation of 0.6 miles with a confidence level of 95%.

Congratulations to everyone for a job well done! Thank you so much for everyone’s participation and endless hours making this launch a success.

GoFast 2014 list of accomplishments;

• World record highest altitude rocket launch
• World record fastest speed rocket launch
• First photo taken from space onboard an amateur rocket
• Second amateur rocket in history to reach space

For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions how much dust makes the trans-Atlantic journey from the Sahara Desert to the Amazon rainforest. Among this dust is phosphorus, an essential nutrient that acts like a fertilizer, which the Amazon depends on in order to flourish.

The new dust transport estimates were derived from data collected by a lidar instrument on NASA’s Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation, or CALIPSO, satellite from 2007 though 2013.

An average of 27.7 million tons of dust per year – enough to fill 104,980 semi trucks – fall to the surface over the Amazon basin. The phosphorus portion, an estimated 22,000 tons per year, is about the same amount as that lost from rain and flooding. The finding is part of a bigger research effort to understand the role of dust and aerosols in the environment and on local and global climate.

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