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Dam!
On October 26th, a hole was blasted in the base of 125′ tall Condit Dam on the White Salmon River in Washington. In less than 2 hours, the reservoir behind the dam drained completely and the White Salmon flowed unimpeded … Continue reading
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Floppy Toccata & Fugue
For those of you that remember floppy drives, this is just the best. For the rest of ye… well, you had to be there…
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Chainmail Gloves
Yikes! Don’t worry, he doesn’t lose a finger. Watch to the end. BoingBoing
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Not So Dinky
Filed under Engineering. Calling this art is like calling Tracey Emin’s Everyone I Have Ever Slept With… uh… art.
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Tram Junction Rebuild
There aren’t many web videos that could hold my attention for 12 minutes, but this time-lapse of a tram junction rebuild in San Francisco just captivates. I actually went back to watch them pour the concrete a second time. :)
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Can I have a go?
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, in Tübingen, Germany, transformed an industrial robot arm into a Formula 1 simulator.
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