The Awesome Videos Thread (with Extra Sauce!)

[PatrThom]

Oh god. I feel like going and digging up all my old music theory workbooks and burning them, because this guy just gave out 90% of what you need with no theory required.

The explanation is simplistic, but so is a lot of today's music.
(...says the guy with the dusty, unused Music degree)

--Patrick

 

[GasBandit]

When you thought you could take it... but you can't.

 

[filmfanatic]

 

[figmentPez]

I'm really digging these candy making videos from Public Displays of Confection:

 

[DarkAudit]

Happy Towel Day, you hoopy froods! This just went up on Nick Page's YouTube channel mere minutes ago...

 

[GasBandit]

 

[GasBandit]

Reporter was not prepared for the GOTG ride.

 

[Dave]

Filmed with a potato. Seriously. 360p the max resolution?

 

[PatrThom]

Filmed with a potato. Seriously. 360p the max resolution?

His screaming broke the studio camera. Only the backup GoPro survived.

--Patrick

 

[Dave]

His screaming broke the studio camera. Only the backup GoPro survived.

--Patrick

GoPros film in higher resolution than that.

 

[PatrThom]

GoPros film in higher resolution than that.

New ones do, sure.

--Patrick

 

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Oh god. I feel like going and digging up all my old music theory workbooks and burning them, because this guy just gave out 90% of what you need with no theory required.

If you want to mimic any independent drama sure to win an Oscar, just find a chord and improvise back and forth on single piano notes. Boom. Oscar.

 

[fade]

A pilot friend of mine posted this on Facebook, and I thought it was really cool. This is a Boeing 787 using autoland to land in Brussels. That's right. This enormous, behemoth of a plane is landing itself. If the airport is properly equipped, it can dock at a gate by itself, too.

 

[PatrThom]

Pilots are just 3-D Truck drivers, after all.

--Patrick

 

[GasBandit]

I guess over 7 years, they finally worked out the kinks.

 

[Eriol]

Grey is back:

I might know some people (totally not myself in any of those) who could use this advice.

 

[PatrThom]

Grey is back:

I might know some people (totally not myself in any of those) who could use this advice.

--Patrick

 

[GasBandit]

I'll just leave this here again...

 

[Eriol]

I'll just leave this here again...

Related (Kinda)

 

[fade]

I guess over 7 years, they finally worked out the kinks.

That was a fly-by-wire system, but the pilots were in control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296
Crash was blamed on bad maps not noting the forest, which from the air looked to the pilots like tall grass.

Not really sure why the YouTube video is titled "fully automated".

 

[GasBandit]

In honor of Jet Lagged @Terrik:

 

[PatrThom]

whomst'd've?

--Patrick

 

[ThatNickGuy]

YAY!

 

[GasBandit]

whomst'd've?

--Patrick

It's a really shitty meme that's been cluttering up the memeways for a week or two now. I'd spare you the actual implementation.

 

[PatrThom]

I'd spare you the actual implementation.

Thanks!

--Patrick

 

[Cheesy1]

 

[ThatNickGuy]

I present to you: an armadillo attempting to burrow under a tortoise.

 

[GasBandit]

Reinforcing preconceived notions about people who drive certain cars: Yelling at a schoolbus edition.



Part 2:

 

[DarkAudit]

Tom Scott with more sciencey goodness...

 

[mikerc]

My Queen, I'm afraid the new batch of recruits require remedial training.

 

[PatrThom]

Well, that's a new twist on things.


--Patrick

 

[GasBandit]

Well, it's neat and all... but I'm really not impressed by any fancy drone these days until we overcome current battery tech limitations that mean these things can fly for 10 minutes and then have to recharge for an hour or two.

 

[PatrThom]

Maybe the biggest incentive to refine silver/zinc batteries won't be for computers, but for drones.

--Patrick

 

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Plus, according to the beginning of that video, it has some emissions problems big time.

 

[PatrThom]

Plus, according to the beginning of that video, it has some emissions problems big time.

That's just the engineers, vaping during taping.

--Patrick