10 Short Videos #6178

10 Short Videos #6178

A fish that knows how to use tools—a rare find - Tusk fish opens clam

urvive the water.Rule the sky🇺🇸 - Military helicopters making moves

Pulled From The Depths of Pearl Harbor MASSIVE 16-Inch BATTLESHIP Breech - open & close

The War Siren Heard For Miles 🔊⚔️

THE SNAIL THAT SAVES CORAL REEFS - eats starfish for lunch

Feel a 300-Year-Old Surgery With Your Own Hand

This is the giant European legless lizard!

#戲曲傳承與創新 #戲曲傳播新思路 #青年戲曲文化傳播 #青年戲曲傳承傳播者 #戲曲舞臺技術技巧 - Traditional Chinese Opera Inheritance and Innovation #New Ideas for Traditional Chinese Opera Dissemination #Youth Traditional Chinese Opera Culture Dissemination #Young Traditional Chinese Opera Inheritors and Disseminators #Traditional Chinese Opera Stage Techniques

서로 엉덩이를 때리면서 ‘삼진송’ 김해리(Kim Hae-ri[金海莉])치어리더 - Cheerleader Kim Hae-ri singing the 'Samjin Song' while slapping each other's butts

20mm Anti-Tank Rifle Vs 400lb Weight! (Kentucky Ballistics)

P-51 Mustang

Miss Helen - North American P-51D Mustang

From Warbird Aviation:

P-51D Mustang “Miss Helen” was delivered to the US Army Air Force (USAAF) in 1945 where she saw active service in World War II with 352 Fighter Group (FG) ‘The Blue Nosed Bastards of Bodney’, and has several confirmed kills to her name. ​She was flown by Capt. Raymond Littge as ‘Miss Helen’ and by later by Lt. Russell Ross as ‘Miss Nita’. Today wearing the same paint scheme as she did in 1945 and is the last original 352nd Fighter Group P-51 known to exist. 352 FG flew nearly 60,000 combat hours in just 19 months of WWII, claiming 519 enemy aircraft destroyed in the air, 287 on the ground and produced 26 aces for losses of 118 aircraft. Her full name is ‘P-51D-20NA 44-72216’ and when she was delivered to Capt. Littge he already had a kill tally of 10.5, including an Me 262.

It’s uncertain exactly how many missions Littge flew in Miss Helen but it’s known for sure that he flew her on a mission escorting B-17 bombers to the marshalling yards in Dresden on April 17th 1945, along with another 51 Mustangs. ​They came across an airfield at Platting with about 70 parked aircraft and Littge made an astonishing seven passes, destroying three Me 109s and 2 Me262s on the ground, despite having been hit in the initial attack on enemy flak positions which nearly emptied his oil tank.

​She’s passed through several hands since the War, including those of the Royal Swedish Air Force and Israeli Air Force, starred in the Hollywood film Memphis Belle, and is now owned by Robert Tyrrell and based at the Boultbee Flight Academy at Goodwood Aerodrome.

Several earlier posts about the P-51.

Funnies

Tagusari Brothers - Netflix Series

Tagusari Brothers

Tagusari Brothers is a Japanese crime drama starring Masaki Okada and Shota Sometani. The story follows two brothers who join the police as a detective and a medical examiner. Acting as police officers, in each episode they investigate a new murder. On their own, they continue to try and unravel the mystery of their parent's murder that happened thirty years ago. Curious characters, curious cases.

Why have they waited this long to start investigating this crime? Near as I can tell, they were prompted by a new law that declared a statue of limitations on crimes committed before some date, or after some date, I was never clear about exactly what changed. In any case it was enough to prompt these two to start investigating their parents murder. They didn't start before then because the police were investigating and the brothers, being good Japanese citizens, do what they are told and leave the investigation to the police. This unquestioned faith in the police is exactly what got their father killed.

Their father worked in a machine shop. One of his coworkers has a wife who needs an expensive operation, so he takes on a side job of making some guns for the local mafia. The guns are made and they just need to be delivered. Right then, the sick wife collapses at the machine shop. The coworker entrusts delivery of the package to the boy's father. Everything would have been fine as long as the father doesn't open the package, but he does, and then he compounds his error telling everyone within earshot that he is going to report this to the police. The mafia is not happy and so mark him for execution.

It turns out that when the assassin arrives to kill the parents, they are already dead, or on their way, having been poisoned. The assassin knows nothing of the poison and the parents are still breathing, so the assassin follows through on his mission and kills them.

So who poisoned the parents? The pawnshop owner. Her father was also killed by the mafia because the gun deal went bad. Seems a little extreme, but maybe dealing in guns makes people super paranoid.

No trailer, but here's a couple of items of interest.

Pentax 645N Medium Format Camera
Shows up in episode 4 near the 14 minute mark

Illegal gun made in local factory
Shows up in the last minute of episode 4

Is it a problem if you don't notice it?

Problems experienced by original owners of three-year-old vehicles

Looking at this chart got me to wondering if it is accurate. Maybe we aren't looking at the actual number of problems, but the psychological profile of people who buy these cars. Maybe people who buy Volvos and Volkswagens are more particular about their cars, and people who buy Lexii are just oblivious. Or maybe people who drive Lexii have other things on their minds and can't be bothered with problems with their car.

To the Stratosphere

Solar-powered fixed-wing aircraft attached to a high-altitude balloon -  Ondirae Abdullah-Robinson

Defence Blog reports:

U.S. Army soldiers attached a solar-powered fixed-wing aircraft to a high-altitude balloon at Orote Airfield on Naval Station Guam on June 24, 2026, and prepared to launch the combination into the stratosphere as part of Valiant Shield 2026, the largest U.S.-led joint exercise in the Indo-Pacific.

This aircraft can cruise indefinitely at an altitude of 60,000 feet, which is 50% higher than commercial airliners. This is like U-2 territory (U-2 can reach 70,000 feet). Spy satellites will only have a specific spot on Earth visible for like ten minutes out of every 90 minute orbit, plus you only need a conventional radio to talk to an aircraft, not a specialized satellite communicator. Not sure why you can't use a conventional radio to talk to a satellite. Maybe because spy satellites have low power transmitters so you need a directional antennae to pick up their signal.

Previous posts about balloons and high altitude.

Venezuela Earthquakes

Venezuela Earthquake Slider

Notice how the shadows from the tall buildings in the left hand image disappear in the right hand one. Aljazeera has several other slider views of the damage wrought by the recent earthquakes. It's pretty bad.