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10 Short Videos #6065

10 Short Videos #6065

Long skateboard slide

Heavy Oil Tanker Struggling Through Deep Mud

Землетрясение Мьянме и Таиланде [Earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand 2025]

Ping pong with nunchacku

Yamaha M1 MotoGP25

Beautiful Jump

Vaquejada, the Brazilian version of cow-tipping

水の力：木材を使った穀物の粉砕 : 古代の技術が現代に残す知恵 [The power of water: Grinding grain with wood: ancient techniques and modern wisdom]

Russian Helicopter flying low over the road

Horse jumping a ditch

KAWASAKI EC-145

KAWASAKI EC-145 (N263MH)

Also known as a Eurocopter. France and Germany also make them. Buggy looking thing.

Casting Big Aluminum Pieces

China’s One Piece EV Frame The Aluminium Engineering Breakthrough
PRV Engineering Ltd

This video is just a marketing blurb. I looked but did not find anything more substantive. This video got me started, but it's just this guy talking for four minutes. The company behind this might be Hantek, but I only found a couple of references to them. The only Hantek I found seems to be mostly involved in electronics.

Aluminium frame wall thickness ranges from 4 mm to 50 mm in a single cast.

This might be the frame Hantek is actually casting. 

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10 Short Videos #6064

10 Short Videos #6064

How A Unique Vinyl Record Is Made

0 to 165 MPH in 2 SECONDS F/A-18 Catapult Launch Cockpit POV – US Navy Insanity!

Burrowing owls

Carving wooden shoes

Missile Moment in Qatar!

Forging Heavy-Duty Parts from Old Train Wheels

USMC Ice Water Training

Clever raven

POV: Hydroelectric Power Plant DIVE

Amazing new record pole vault jump

Downtown Portland

418 SW Washington St. Portland Oregon

A couple days ago we heard that the fancy new Ritz Carlton had been reposessed by the lender. Now we hear about this. Things are looking kind of grim for the commercial real estate market. Well, grim for owners, but maybe opportunity for newcomers.

Willamette Week reports:

The Merchant Banker Building—the former home of landmark restaurant Greek Cuisina—has a new owner. . . . The sale price was $1.2 million. . . .  The 1898 building is 22,920 square feet. Its last sale price in 2019 was $6.1 million.

$50 a square foot is a pretty good price for a building. No telling what kind of shape it's it, but as old as it is, it is surely going to require some work.