Cool Video / Audio Archive - 7

This collection of video and audio files represents files that have been featured on the RF Cafe homepage. Every couple weeks, a new file is added that should be of interest to RF Cafe visitors. If you have something that you think would make a good addition to the collection, please send me an e-mail. Thanks.

 

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The Great Global Warming Swindle"The Great Global Warming Swindle," produced by Britain's WAGtv. The documentary is broken into 9 parts. This is the part of the story not publicized by the $£€Billion industry that thrives on it. Watch it... if you dare.
6-17-2008		RF Cafe: Metal RubberWhile not quite as high on the innovation scale as Scotty's transparent aluminum, this "metal rubber" is pretty close. It can be heated, frozen, washed or doused with jet fuel, and still retain its electricity-conducting properties.
6-24-2008		Babbage Difference Engine #2This is the world's first full-sized Babbage Difference Engine #2; Babbage completed the plans in 1849, but never built the machine. Composed of 8,000 parts made from five-ton bronze, steel and cast iron, this magnificent 5-ton machine calculates results to 31 significant digits. A manually cranked handle powers the gears, cogs, cams, and wheels.
7-1-2008		 
RF Cafe Cool Video: Takao Doi's famous boomerang toss in spaceJapan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has finally released the video of astronaut Takao Doi's famous boomerang toss in space. Q: Will it work outside the ISS?

5-15-2008

1500 Belgian students simultaneously inserted Mentos into Diet Coke bottlesIn the name of experimental physics, 1500 Belgian students simultaneously inserted Mentos into Diet Coke bottles in Ladeuzeplein Square. They broke a record set just half a year earlier.

5-22-2008

RF Cafe Cool Video: Boeing's Airborne Laser (ABL) Demo VideoThis demo video of the Airborne Laser (ABL)  is phenomenal. A high-energy, 1.315 micron wavelength laser designed and built by Northrop Grumman, is installed in a Boeing 747-400F. The test phase will culminate in an airborne intercept test against a ballistic missile in 2009.
5-30-2008

RF Cafe: Video of wind turbine blades shatteringJeff J., an engineer at The Daily Buzz, saw my current Cool Pic on the wind turbine blade and sent this video. Is shows why replacement blades are sometimes needed. Here is the story behind it. Supposedly a brake failure caused the event. Anyone care to translate from the website?
6-10-2008