Crossword
Sift Partners Network:DwiggerVaro CMSScrape UpEscalopter
Recent Comments by atara subscribe to this feed
1

Solid Rocket Booster Cam - separation to splashdown /w mic
>> ^grahamslam:
And I thought there was no sound in space? Is it because they are still in somewhat of the atmosphere?


The atmosphere is pretty thin up where the movie starts, but it doesn't need air for us to hear the sound. If the mic is attached to the SRB, any noises that it picks up are actually tranmitted through the SRB itself. Rather than using air as a medium to transmit the sound, the actual material of the SRB is conducting the sound waves. (This is the same way you can hear sounds underwater. It's not the same as what you would hear when the sound is transmitted via air, but you can still receive the sound waves.)

If they somehow sent a camera man up to film the SRB, and he was freefalling next to the SRB, there wouldn't be any sound until we heard him screaming as he burned up in the atmosphere.




written by atara  | 2 days 13 hours 52 minutes ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

Solid Rocket Booster Cam - separation to splashdown /w mic
How neat! I'm pretty sure that the plume of smoke you can see at 4:07 is from the launch.


written by atara  | 2 days 17 hours 42 minutes ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

Is this the most disturbing anti smoking ad you've seen?
...what are they finding to complain about, I wonder? Aside from, "Oh no, it's making me feel guilty."


written by atara  | 3 days 14 hours 10 minutes ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

Deus Ex Machina: the Wearable Motorcycle
How is this not *geek ?


written by atara  | 1 week 2 days ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

Laputa Opening and Ending (no text just pure awesome)
Steampunky airships always get upvotes from me.


written by atara  | 2 weeks ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD!
Every single time someone promotes this, it gets stuck in my head.

...thanks anyway, though.


written by atara  | 2 weeks 5 days ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

Feet on Face (30 seconds)
Even more wtf are the people walking around on the other side of the wall... This isn't even being done in private.

(And yeah, it's a fetish thing. Can't remember what it's called, though.)

*edit: I remember! It's called trampling! (Oooh, I had to go through a lot of scary Googling to find that, too...)


written by atara  | 3 weeks 1 day ago | CH
 4  | flag spam (0)

Countdown Special Comment - Prop 8
>> ^Aemaeth:
I wonder why it is that two other states passed an essentially identical measure and yet we continue to hear about what bigots Californians are.


I agree in part, since the same measure also passed in three other states. The difference is that the right for gays to marry already existed in California, and that right was removed. In the other states, gay marriage was never legal in the first place.




written by atara  | 3 weeks 2 days ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

Dodge Tomahawk - Worlds Fastest Motorcycle, powered by Viper
Why didn't they take it someplace not muddy, with a nice flat (non-bumpy) straightaway so the driver could really open it up?


written by atara  | 3 weeks 2 days ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

Half a Car and STILL Drives!
Poor man's chariot!


written by atara  | 3 weeks 5 days ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

Great White Sharks
*dead



written by atara  | 3 weeks 6 days ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

Colbert Twitters Election Night on Indecision 2008
*blocked


written by atara  | 3 weeks 6 days ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

How to fold clothes: the geek way
I thought everyone did it that way.


written by atara  | 4 weeks ago | CH
 1  | flag spam (0)
1
Friends O' the Sift