Category: Streamingvideo

Video After 1906 SF Earthquake

Here is a 1905 video taken driving down San Francisco’s Market Street. Compare that with this photo taken looking back from the Ferry Building tower, which you can see at the end-of the street in the video. Click on the picture and get an option to download a high-resolution version. Thanks to Randy for bringing this video to our attention. An earlier post on this blog of a simulation of how the Golden Gate would handle a similiar quake.

Rorschach test-inspired Music Video

‘boards – Screening Room
A clever Rorschach test-inspired music video for Gnarls Barkley.(Thanks to Randy)

This song was featured on this blog back in April because the oddly named hip-hop duo Gnarls Barkley made history in the U.K. with the song “Crazy,” which debuted at No. 1 despite being available only as a digital download. It was the first time a song had reached the top spot without being available on CD, tape or record. A live version, in Star Wars costumes, was featured during the 2006 MTV music awards.

Meteorite Collision simulation

Meteorite Collision simulation.
From the folks that brought us Godzilla comes the ultimate Disaster bummer.

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“When a meteorite collides with the earth” We tried to find the answers: Simulation Experiment. The diameter of the meteorite is slightly bigger than the breadth of Honshu Japan. The collision point is located at the 3,000km south from Japan in the ocean. The velocity of the meteorite is 70,000km/h. But the meteorite is bigger than we can imagine, so that it appears much slower. The earth’s crust of 10km in thickness where ground in the earth is composed is wholly peeled off. This is called,”Earth’s crust tidal wave”. There is 1km width of the rock, and it flies to the sky it by the impact. Continue reading “Meteorite Collision simulation”

Pitchfork Feature: 100 Awesome Music Videos

Pitchfork Feature: 100 Awesome Music Videos
sharing 100 of our favorite music videos; simply, dozens of clips that, for various reasons (because they’re so good, because they’re so bad, because they feature the Jacksons imagining themselves as gigantic golden gods sprinkling gold dust on humanity) and stick to clips roughly from the MTV era.

Water power

YouTube – Water power

This Fox News video has been circulating around the Internet. This pressurized electrolysis was fathered by Russian Scientist Kanarev Many scams have developed in the race for the new energy holy-grail to end the hydrocarbon age. Time will tell if Hydrogen Technologies Applications in Clearwater, Fla. really has something revolutionary. Tom Friedman has recently pointed out that American ingenuity will win out over giant government programs in the new energy source quest. “Necessity is the mother of invention” and here are some of them. What we don’t see are the huge research funds that mega-corporations have also been pumping into their efforts, but are kept under wraps to prevent industrial espionage.

In the meantime, while the price will rise from processing less-desireable grades of hydrocarbons, we won’t run out of supplies anytime soon. Industry consultant and author of “The Prize”, Daniel Yergin is dismissive: “This is the fifth time we’ve run out of oil since the 1880s”. Alberta is home to vast deposits of oil sands, grit mixed with oil. These are more difficult and costly to refine than conventional liquid crude. However, already in 2002, 178bn barrels of reserves from oil sands were added to Canada’s reserves, leaving them second only to Saudi Arabia’s.

In April, Venezuela announced that it was adding a significant chunk of its heavy oil – another largely untapped source that remained unexploited until relatively recently– to its reserves. These will allow its reserves to surpass those of Saudi Arabia, with enough oil to maintain its current production for another two centuries. Heavy oil already accounts for roughly a quarter of its output.

Disagreeing is James Howard Kunstler, the flamethrowing author of The Long Emergency. Still, the sooner that the hydrocarbon age ends, the better for the environment.