'YouTubing' Category
Casual Friday — go for launch!
If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to get a space shuttle ready for launch, here’s a time-lapse movie put together for Air & Space magazine that shows it all — in just under four minutes
Casual Friday — Astronaut’s eye view of Mars
Courtesy of ESA’s Mars Express orbiter, a movie showing Mars during a full orbit…
Casual Friday — Food ad tricks
If you ever thought that photographing food was simple (or that ads are honest), here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how food is made to look its best for a TV advertisement…
Casual Friday — a D.I.Y. Turing Machine
Compute anything that can be calculated — with some tape leader and a dry-erase marker…
Casual Friday — airspace rebooted
An amazing visualization of northern European airspace returning to (a very busy) normal after being closed for much of April thanks to that unpronounceable volcano in Iceland…
Casual Friday — best new use for an iPad
Sure hope he’s been declawed…
Casual Friday: Hubble’s 20 years of space-shattering discoveries
In honor of the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, here’s NASA video tribute to the telescope and its accomplishments…
Casual Friday — First light for the Solar Dynamics Observatory
You might remember a previous Casual Friday post, where I linked to video showing the launch of the SDO spacecraft (in the process, wiping out a sun dog). Well, NASA’s now got the observatory up and running and has released its first images…
Casual Friday — John Cleese on Extremism
This isn’t your typical “science” video, I suppose — although it’s a good (and funny!) explanation of the psychopathology behind extremism…
Casual Friday — will it blend?
The shape of the (aircraft) future…
