Jupiter - Moon Rendezvous (live webcast 2100 EST)

Link to the webcast: 

http://events.slooh.com/

From the SLOOH Space Camera website -

"Bright planet Jupiter will be to the left of a spectacular Waxing Gibbous Moon - closest conjunction until 2026 for North America. "

From Space.com - 

"Jupiter and the moon will appear just a finger-width apart tonight (Jan. 21) for stargazers across North America. In South America, some observers may even see Jupiter slip behind the moon in an amazing occultation. The extreme close encounter between the planet and moon is a must-see, even if clouds block your view."

Landmark achievement in natural history film-making

The first footage of a giant squid in its habitat was captured by a team from NHK and the Discovery Channel. The Japanese broadcaster will air a special documentary on 13 January followed by Discovery on the 27th. 

"The video of the giant squid was shot 2,000 feet below the North Pacific Ocean, about 260 miles south of Tokyo.Scientists on the squid-finding mission had hoped to film at least a tentacle or two, but they got lucky: By the time the expedition was over, they had collected more than 23 minutes of the giant squid in the murky deep."

Sources: Discovery & LA Times 

Everyone.

Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot, animated with love:

Farewell (at 5K in slow-motion)

"How long is a piece of string?"

A BBC Horizon documentary with Alan Davies (of QI: Quite Interesting fame) exploring the intricacies of measurement - from rulers to thought experiments and quantum mechanics.

Overall, the science and maths is a tad over simplified; I feel viewers could handle a little more detail.

Via

This was overdue

To be watched in HD only! 

Video description:

"From the upcoming Special Edition Ascent: Commemorating Space Shuttle DVD/BluRay by NASA/Glenn a movie from the point of view of the Solid Rocket Booster with sound mixing and enhancement done by the folks at Skywalker Sound. The sound is all from the camera microphones and not fake or replaced with foley artist sound. The Skywalker sound folks just helped bring it out and make it more audible."

Time-lapse video compiled from photos taken from the ISS

View from the ISS at Night from Knate Myers on Vimeo.

Source

The Messenger Lectures - Richard P. Feynman

Richard Feynman's lectures on physics at Cornell University in 1964. Microsoft Research's Project Tuva has added to these videos by including commentary, notes and extras. All seven videos are available here. 


Note: The site linked above requires Microsoft Silverlight to be installed for your browser.


Alternatively, you could watch the videos on YouTube (without all the Project Tuva additions though):

Slick public service message on viruses

Warner Bros and Participant Media create a rather well produced public service message for Take Part's pandemic and disease prevention campaign:

Via

Schweizer glider out-landing/crash

From the uploader (LarryHockensmith) -  

Complacency has no place in soaring. I was trained better than to have lingered on the lee-side of a ridge over rough terrain. The dramatic outlanding was due to my actions exclusively.

While tight turns over roofs, brushing treetops and dodging street signs are not desired flight maneuvers, they do make for interesting viewing. An almost perfect (for a power pilot and plane but not a sailplane) landing until an unnoticed mailbox catches the right wing of the sailplane about 8 inches from the tip.

The original is 16 minutes of Full High Definition Video and shows every second of the events leading to this out-landing/ crash. It has been closely reviewed and much learning has taken place. My instructor, safety officer, FAA and NTSB were all outstanding professionals in helping grow skills from this experience.

More videos on this are coming. See if you can spot how the differences between a power pilot's training and a glider pilot's training could have contributed to this outcome.

Lego Rolls Royce 'Trent' Engine

On display at the Farnborough International Airshow 2012. Comes with functioning stages! Well functioning to the extent of 'turning' roundy round. 

From the Royal Aero Society's YouTube video:

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTCSKRsOdT4&feature=youtu.be


Via: http://twitter.com/FlightTestFact

Source: http://twitpic.com/a62qqv

Source: http://twitter.com/EADSlive/status/222642839253815296/photo/1

Human birth as viewed through an MRI machine

From Medical Daily:

"The 30-second movie captures the active second stage of labor as the mother makes expulsive efforts to push out the fetus.  Researchers had to stop recording in the late second stage as the fetal head extended and from the mother to ensure that the ears of the newborn were still covered by maternal soft tissue so that it was not exposed to MRI noise."

Source: http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20120626/10461/childbirth-mri-video-inside-delivering--magnetic-resonance-imaging.htm

"Nikola Tesla in Sound & Light"

via @orezavi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/orezavi/status/216138782179721216

The Royal Institution's New Video Collection - Science, Maths, Nature, Engineering, Space, Environment etc!

This looks like a great showcase of science vids! For a start:

The RI Channel 

Oh, and of course, they have all their Christmas Lectures too. 

Here's an example:

The creator, Matthias Wandel, has a website too --> http://woodgears.ca/ (An Engineer's Approach to Woodworking)

Video: Wide angle in-cockpit view from an A320

On-board an A320 - Great video of takeoffs and landings in HD.

Video: Evaluating the Boeing 747-8F's Rejected Takeoff (RTO) Performance

Excerpt from video description: "To simulate the ultimate rejected takeoff (RTO), crews loaded the airplane above its maximum takeoff weight of 975,000 pounds and installed a set of 100% worn-out brakes."


Altumkell Productions 2011