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10 Short Videos #6097

10 Short Videos #6097

¡Así se instalan los Imanes Superfuertes! El Truco que Nadie Te Cuenta [This Is How You Install Super-Strong Magnets! The Trick Nobody Tells You About]

Prop Weapons and Air Mortars

WW2 stretchers repurposed as railings

Bobsled Track Finishing Process

When Houses Were Cheaper Than Everything Inside Them

Optical illusion - Stare At The Dot — Something Will Disappear

Dragonfly slow motion

Twinkies = Healthy?

Small crab making sandballs

Road racing motorcycles at speed

Handley Page Halton

Handley Page Halton

Kay Aero has a long page about this aircraft with several excellent photos. It was derived from the Halifax bomber and served as an airliner for BOAC after the war. First flight in 1946, last one retired in 1961.

BOAC's flagship Halton, G-AHDU (c/n 1372) 'Falkirk' is captured in flight shortly after delivery - BA Heritage Centre

That is the same airplane in both images.

The name comes from English industrialist Sir Frederick Handley Page, head Handley Page Limited,  known as the father of the heavy bomber.

The Answer - Imagination Audio Books

The Answer
Imagination Audio Books - Topic

The question is 'who started the war of nuclear Armageddon?' An American and a Russian scientist discuss their plan to launch 50 kg of anti-matter high up and watch it as it falls back to Earth. What a good idea. 30 minutes is just enough time to wear myself out walking around the block. Could it be that the bomb that started the war wasn't a bomb made on Earth by human beings, but a chunk of anti-matter from another galaxy that just happened to strike Earth?

Gangs of Galicia: Season 2 - Netflix Series

Gangs of Galicia: Season 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix
Netflix

Our girl, Ana, the female lawyer, has been in Madrid for the last three or four years, raising her daughter, the daughter that was fathered by Daniel, the son of the Padin patriarch that runs the Galicia drug smuggling empire. Ana and Daniel are our Romeo and Juliet. He's been in jail for the last three or four years and has just been let out on account of they haven't gotten around to holding his trial. The trial may still happen, but for now at least, he's out. 

Ana left Galicia on bad terms with some people, Now in order to make amends, she offers to go to work for a Columbian drug smuggler, setting up a lab to process their drug, which doesn't make a lot of sense, unless maybe they were just doing packaging, but it sure looked more complicated than that with screens being dipped into tubs full of liquid. I mean, I can understand setting up a packaging operation. The drugs (heroin or cocaine) come in lots of hundreds of kilogram size blocks that each need to be cut into at least a couple of thousand pieces for retail delivery. But a lab for producing heroin or cocaine doesn't make much sense. The raw material would be much bulkier which is going to make shipment more difficult. Then again, maybe they were making a totally artificial drug like meth or fentanyl. But in that case I think you would need like full-on hazmat suits and respirators. Or maybe losing a few factory workers isn't a problem. Or maybe I wasn't watching that closely.

Anyway, the Columbian is conspiring with Paco (Luis Zahera - famous to me for his role as Ezequiel in the Netflix series Wrong Side of the Tracks) to take down the Padins. To do this they setup an elaborate trap. When a shipment of drugs comes in, it gets manhandled from the go-fast boat to a waiting van. This happens in a matter of minutes and then the van and the boat disappear into the night. On this night though, the Columbian gets tipped off and sends a squad of fake policemen to raid the scene and snag the van as it was driving away. Now Paco and the Columbian start selling off portions of their haul. Naturally the Padins find out about it, and go raid the warehouse where the Columbians stashed the drugs. The Columbian has been waiting for this - he has lookouts watching the warehouse. When they spot the Padin crew approaching, they call the cops who swoop down and arrest Nilo, Daniel's best bud.

Now things start to unravel all around. I think all of the shooting was confined to the 9th episode, and there was a bunch. Naturally all the principal players survive so we can have another season. Maybe.

Colombia-Galacia-Brazil

Why is the Colombian from Brazil? Maybe because Colombia doesn't have any seaports on the Atlantic Ocean. Umm, no. Colombia's busiest seaports are on their Atlantic coast. Maybe because Brazil is a thousand miles closer, or maybe northern Brazil drug enforcement is not as formidable as what you find in urban Colombia.

Season 1 here.

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10 Short Videos #6096

10 Short Videos #6096

Smoke Ring Trick

Fancy Camera Support

NASA Rocket Engine Explodes During Test

For yachts that operate in both seasons, crossing the Atlantic becomes part of the routine.

Vevor Fuel Nozzle Repurposed

Amber Glenn ice skating

Edible Moldy Bread Props

THE TRANSFORMER! A Fast Excavator That Runs On Wheels & Tracks

Pipeline construction - Getting lowered in X-ray rig.

This Chinese Car Has Volcano Headlights