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FLV
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AGF insurance company ad in French with English
subtitles. Something really bad is going to happen with the lens.
MPEG
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Volume Visualization of the Orion Nebula produced
by the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the American Museum of Natural
History Hayden Planetarium.
description of the animation.
FLV
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What some people think will occur (a black hole) when the
CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) comes back online after the repairs sometime
in 2009.
MPEG
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0:00:36
Elevator surveillance camera records the world's
fastest elevator descent and chalks up another few notches on the counter.
FLV
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0:02:48
Something wonderful is going to happen with the
office copier. But crime does not pay as this late night office worker
learns the hard way.
MPEG
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Eldorado Substation in Boulder City NV. A large 500KV
three-phase switch not quite working properly.
description of what's wrong with the switch.
WMV
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Was that really a meteor, or a flung fusillade of NASA's grossest grogans
grazing Earth's atmosphere? An unidentified NASA astronaut explains NASA's space toilet
though it seems the astronaut is "fuzzy" on the difference between air and a vacuum.
MPG
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NASA video showing one, of many, woodpeckers destroying
the external fuel tank's foam on Discovery STS-70 in 1995. Discovery was
subsequently nicknamed the "Woodpecker Shuttle" and the problem continues.
Video from
NASA's STS-70 mission site.
description of the ongoing woodpecker-caused
Shuttle foam problem.
FLV
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When your package really must get to Mars overnight. This is a
re-imagining of the original Project Orion, a nuclear-pulse propulsion system.
Air Force One tagged. Internet hoax of 2006 — no one
actually sprayed "Still Free" on the cowling of Air Force One. Click the thumbnail
to visit the page with more info and view the video.
WMV
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The trunk monkey theft retrieval system. I believe this was aired
during one of the Super Bowl broadcasts.
WMV
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Something's not quite right on Mars as we discover when
this rover is commanded to turn a wee bit and provide another view.
A friend stated the rover's controllers are speaking Bulgarian.
WMV
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Wynn's miracle automobile fluids for those trying times
with aging cars.
WMV
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0:01:44
The Danes are a wonderful people as attested by this novel method
using the Bikini Bandits to curtail speeding on their roads.
Rated R for partial nudity
WMV
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The delightful young lady at this Russian farmer's market
has a most interesting way of making change for purchases.
Rated R for partial nudity
FLV
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0:10:29
TV's "Mr. Wizard", Don Herbert, explaining how LaserDiscs work.
FLV
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1978 CBS news segment announcing LaserDiscs.
FLV
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0:02:37
Crazy gadget producing various background noises
and sounds for when you need to CYA over the phone. I suppose there
actually are some people who might need one of these.
FLV
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0:00:22
Richard M. Nixon appearing on Rowan and Martin's
LAUGH IN TV show prior to the 1972 US Presidential election. It's
been alleged his appearance on the show contributed to his win. In this
short clip he utters the infamous "Sock It To Me!".
FLV
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"I have never been a quitter," Nixon says in this address delivered Aug. 8, 1974.
But quit he did, saying he had lost support in Congress and he was stepping down in the
interests of the nation. Whether one admires Nixon or despises him, few would argue this was
his most tragic moment, when he became the first president to resign the nation's highest
elected office in disgrace.
FLV
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Marty Robbins singing his 1960 hit El Paso.
lyrics of the El Paso song.
FLV
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Steve Martin's interpretation of Marty Robbins' El Paso.
This aired on the NBC special "Comedy is Not Pretty" in the fall of 1981.
Drinks and food are not advisable while watching this.
SWF
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0:01:45
Humorous video that circulated prior to the 2008 US Presidential
election in which people could embed their own name in what appears to be
a legitimate news report. This one has "Thad for President". :-)
MPEG
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UK ad for the Ford Sportka (Ka's evil twin).
The bird is in for a surprise.
MPEG
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UK ad for the Ford Sportka (Ka's evil twin).
The cat is in for a surprise; not to be viewed by the
squeamish.
WARNING: cat sticks head through moon roof, moon
roof closes, ...
FLV
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Common wood spiders being fed several psycho-active drugs: LSD,
caffeine, THC (marijuana), alcohol, and crack cocaine. The spiders' actions
mimic what we see occurring in many disadvantaged human urban communities.
