Kurzgesagt compares Earth to a prison and says the only way to break out is to pay off a 4.5-billion-year-old energy debt. The video explains how gravity keeps humanity locked up and the ways we have managed to rise above it.
We are trapped on earth. Controlled by an ancient debt to the universe…
Tom Scott recently visited the Bremen Drop Tower at the University of Bremen in Germany, a 100-meter tall vacuum chamber that lets scientists test zero-gravity experiments on Earth as an alternative to sending experiments to the International Space Station or zero gravity plane flights. Scott and his colleague Matt Gray…
Ahmed "Iron Monkey" Kerigo, founder of the calisthenics group Team Physix-Zero Gravity, has set a RecordSetter world record for performing the highest flying push-up by using small benches stacked 4.5 feet high. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips
http://youtu.be/G7ysnXH53Wo YouTube user JamesRB1995 demonstrates what happens when a powerful neodymium magnet is dropped down a copper pipe: the magnet drops in bizarre slow motion, as if defying gravity. The phenomena is caused by electrical eddy currents (this BBC science site explains the copper pipe magnet experiment in detail). via…
In the 15th episode of the funny culinary series You Suck At Cooking, the host prepares a simple recipe for the easiest salad dressing on earth. He also prepares a gravity defying version of the moon's easiest salad dressing and then sings a song to proclaim how wonderful it is.
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