Feb 20th Lunar Eclipse Timelapse

Windmill Destroyed By Wind

Balloon Not Exploding in Slow-Mo

Karate - Hand Chopping a Brick in Slow Motion

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Horseshoe Crab: A true blue blood

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This is from the NATURE episode: Crash: A Tale of Two Species It explains the surprising nature, and uses of this ancient creatures blue colored blood.

Theo Jansen: The art of creating creatures

Russians invent a time machine

Two Russian scientists claim a device created to investigate the origins of the universe could become the world’s first ever time machine. Scientists say the vast atom-smashing machine at the European Particle Physics Centre near Geneva could create a time tunnel.

E=mc^2 - Brilliant Animation Short

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Interesting and engaging film, but I found it to be way beyond my intellectual capacity. Definitely worth a watch. Directed and animated by Alina Chau and Hiu Fan, it won a Student Emmy at UCLA, according to the creator's site, found here. http://alinacinema.blogspot.com/

Underground Hydrogen Bomb Test - Man Made Earthquake

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"This footage is from Project Cannikin, which was merely a proof-test for the 5 megaton warhead to be used on the Spartan missile system. Researchers were fearful of such a large device being detonated underground, so the testing was moved to way out in the middle of nowhere on the Amchitka penninsula in Alaska."

"The effect on the ground was necessary, and predicted, to see its pulse effect."

"The blast registered a 7.0 on the Richter scale and caused a subsidence crater over a mile wide and 60 feet deep, which filled with water and became the largest lake on the island. Rockfalls, containing over 46,000 square yards of material, smothered intertidal marine life. Nearly three hundred deceased rock greenling fish were found offshore, and subsequent catches of rock sole declined substantially"