Insane footage of a supercell over Nebraska
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A Bedford RL ‘Bobbin’ truck from the 1950s lays a roadway mat on soft sand, making impossible beach landings smooth and fast.
Known today as compression lift, the idea of the XB-70's folding wingtips, was to use the shock waves generated by its own supersonic flight to generate lift.
This clip shows what the Valkyrie could have been.
"Night of Fire" at Orlando Speed World Dragway in Orlando, Florida. An annual, high-octane drag racing event featuring extreme exhibition machines.
A mining haul truck driving over a regular-sized pickup truck
The flight control system of the F-35B adjusting the angle of the nozzle to balance the aircraft in a vertical landing.
[📹 sky_fighters_club]
The physics of a vertical wave
[📹 Marcel Clemens]
Nagasaki is surrounded by mountains with a unique layout as everything was built over the natural slopes.
Because of this, a “slope transport system” is in place to allow senior citizens or people with mobility issues, to move around Nagasaki with ease.
Alleged footage of lightning from Madikeri, Kodagu District, Western Ghats of India.
The Great Ziggurat of Ur has towered over the Iraqi desert for over 4,000 years.
Sun-dried mud bricks, bound with natural bitumen (asphalt), reinforced with woven reed mats to stop cracking, one of the earliest examples of smart engineering in human history.
Ancient builders were on another level.
The stunning beauty of an Altay sunset, Kazakhstan
The better you drift, the faster you go
This technical roller coaster at Suzuka Circuit in Japan, is part thrill, part skill.
[📹 suzukacircuit_official]
The efficiency of a mobile industrial fume extractor
This is what the Earth will look like in 250 millions years according to plate tectonics theory.
"The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home."
— Carl Sagan
Milky Way over La Silla Observatory.
📽️: ESO/S. Brunier
Freestyle in Dive4Life, Germany’s deepest pool
[📹 jaiepetty]
Controlled blasting for mining
Extreme close-up of a Space Shuttle launch.
How big municipal pipelines are cleaned.
You are now listening to a relaxing frequency.
Take a moment to regulate your nervous system.
This sound aids in releasing happy hormones such as serotonin and endorphins naturally, regulating blood pressure and heart rate.