Ukraine War

The 80th Air Assault Brigade captured a T-90M Proryv tank in the Kursk region

The Geopolitics has a summary:

Four years after Russian troops crossed into Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the war has settled into something more troubling – a grinding conflict that continues to destroy lives and livelihood, and test the limits of international law. The early drama of invasion has given way to sufferings and anxieties, and there is hardly any substantive move toward peace.

The front line stretches for roughly 1,200 kilometres. Russia today controls about one-fifth of Ukrainian territory, but its gains since 2022 have been slow and costly. Estimates suggest that up to 1.8 million soldiers on both sides have been killed, wounded or gone missing. Civilian losses remain severe. The UN has documented nearly 15,000 civilian deaths and more than 40,000 injuries, while warning the true number is higher.

Thanks, Obama.

Always Remember Us This Way Remix

Always Remember Us This Way
Aspinal - Topic

Just popped in my head this morning. Used Google song search to track it down. I could remember it perfectly in my head but I could not sing it for shit. Google was still able to sort it out. Weird.

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10 Short Videos #6054

10 Short Videos #6054

The big guy know how to be soft with the little one

How America Used Stalin to Beat Hitler-Military Expert Explains

The Ghost Ship That Vanished for 451 Days — SMS Wolf WWI Naval History

Is this the ultimate jump hour?

This New Way of Making Robots is Wild

In your opinion, could this be called a helicopter?

Fishing live like bait fishing gear and tools

Ranking The Craziest Motor GP Moments!

what octopuses have in common with the statue of liberty

What is the shiniest gemstone on earth?

Brief History of Submarine Cables

Internet Vs Ocean: the essential wires we never think about
Jay and Mark

Submarine Cable Map

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10 Short Videos #6053

10 Short Videos #6053

Although Known as the #Ford Canabus #automobileCar it was actually mostly Soy

Don't trust locks

AND MY CAR IS WHEN EXACTLY 

How Otters Turn Winter Into a Playground

Why America Balanced Patience and Chaos to Win WWII

Fire from gum wrapper.

Nocturnal, stumping, still and camouflaged like no other - this is a Tawny Frog-Mouth!

The White Cream On Sailors’ Faces In The Caine Mutiny Explained

Moves Without Anyone Noticing

Minecraft world reveal!

Moon Shot

Magical Moon

New York Vessel Tower

Vessel Tower New York

Funny little tourist attraction stuck in the middle of a bunch of skyscrapers making it look tiny.

Vessel Tower New York

Interior View

Tara Polar Station

Tara Polar Station

Tara Polar Station is a French drifting scientific base aimed for Arctic Ocean expeditions and operated by the Tara Oceans Foundation and its collaborators. - Wikipedia

All the stories about this thing talk about Global Warming. Can't say as I blame them, that's how you get idiots to cough up the dough to fund this project.

Putting the global warming nonsense aside, it's a heck of a project. Imagine being stuck on this boat for 6 to 9 months with a dozen other people. It's almost as bad as being in a nuclear submarine. You can go outside, but in the middle of winter it is going to be completely black outside. It will be interesting to see how well they survive.

Tara Polar Station Cross Section

Mistakes Were Made

Mistakes Were Made
James Butler

I don't know why, but I really enjoy listening to this guy.

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10 Short Videos #6052

10 Short Videos #6052

Recreating A 140 Year Old Photo in the California Mountains

New York City paid cowboys for safety. But even they couldn't solve this problem.

A premium flake from a flint blade core, using a soft antler hammer

Making sure both wing mirrors are fully folded in

They took everything but the body, This is how the scam works

Lockheed Martin or Narco Cartels?

angieamato Just normal tourism - RMI Extrusion Plant, Ashtabula, Ohio

New anthem

This wedge removal got messy

The Driver Went Overboard—Then the Boat Took Off Alone

National Ignition Facility

National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California

Wikipedia:

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research facility, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, United States. NIF's mission is to achieve fusion ignition with high energy gain. It achieved the first instance of scientific breakeven controlled fusion in an experiment on December 5, 2022, with an energy gain factor of 1.5. It supports nuclear weapon maintenance and design by studying the behavior of matter under the conditions found within nuclear explosions.

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10 Video Shorts #6051

10 Video Shorts #6051

Hot to Cold – Coolant Hose Saves Engines Daily!

kmt cutter

Dark Magic of Industry – Black Shellac Making

Californias economy depends on…Barstow?

How America's Richest Family Went Broke

Not everyone is meant for this level of travel.

Bachi Di Horse Training

Austin Marathon 2026 Route | Pen Plotter Art

eFoil to Shipwreck pt1

This Dance Quietly Changed Hollywood Forever

Bali Sea Ferry Rail by Ferrosur

MV Bali Sea

Naval Nostalgia:

The MV Bali Sea was a rare rail ferry that operated between Coatzacoalcos, Mexico and Mobile, Alabama, carrying up to 115 fully loaded railcars across the Gulf of Mexico. Instead of crossing land borders, trains from Mexico’s Ferrosur line were rolled directly onto the ship using a linkspan ramp system supported by two vertical towers. These towers allowed for precise height adjustments to match the ferry deck with the shore tracks, ensuring smooth loading regardless of sea level changes.

Originally launched in 1981 as a heavy-lift ship, she was converted into a rail ferry in 2000 to serve the CG Railway route. The Bali Sea offered a 900-mile maritime shortcut for rail cargo, cutting transit time and avoiding congestion at U.S.–Mexico border crossings. After two decades of service, she was retired in 2021 and replaced by larger, faster ferries, but her role in connecting two nations with seamless train-to-sea transport remains a landmark in intermodal logistics.

Ferry Dock in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico

Ferry Route from Coatzacoalcos, Mexico to Mobile, Alabama

Ferry Dock Mobile Alabama

 

Analog versus Digital Recording

The Real Reason Why Analog Recording Is Better
Freaking Out With Billy Hume

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10 Short Videos #6050

10 Short Videos #6050

What Happens When a Tank Runs Over a Car?

Hard choices…

Mesmerizing book

technologia - elevator

He Couldn't Believe What The Army Wanted Him To Build - water cooling

The Song That Helped Defeat the Nazis

The Worlds Largest Spider Web!

Drainage Basin Busters - Goats

Called. Locked. Diving. - Hawk

The French ALM MECA Fury Interceptor

Delicate Work

Precision and Beauty

More Compact Muon Solenoid Particle Detector

Compact Muon Solenoid Particle Detector

Previous CMS post.

More Thread Chasing

Seized Solid! Can We Save These CAT 24M Grader Accumulators? Part 1
Cutting Edge Engineering Australia

Previous Thread Chasing video here.

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10 Short Videos #6049

10 Short Videos #6049

Passive aggressively helpful?

Derek - Dolphin, Firth of Forth

Clever Snow Removal Tractor Creates Neat Rows Of Snowballs

Short Circuit Grounding Test

Some jobs require people to do them

Umbrella is best counter drone

When the whole excavator lineup finds out they are clocking out early

Back to the Future

Removing ice from our lake at Kline Creek Farm

Next-Level FDM Printing: 280KHz Acceleration!

Virgo Detector

Virgo Gravitational Wave Detector

The Virgo interferometer is a large-scale scientific instrument near Pisa, Italy, for detecting gravitational waves. The detector is a Michelson interferometer, which can detect the minuscule length variations in its two 3 km (1.9 mi) arms induced by the passage of gravitational waves. The required precision is achieved using many systems to isolate it from the outside world, including keeping its mirrors and instrumentation in an ultra-high vacuum and suspending them using complex systems of pendula.

Between its periodic observations, the detector is upgraded to increase its sensitivity. The observation runs are performed in collaboration with other similar detectors, including the two Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatories (LIGO) in the United States and the Japanese Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA), because cooperation between several detectors is crucial for detecting gravitational waves and pinpointing their origin.

Virgo was conceived and built when gravitational waves were only a prediction of general relativity. The project, named after the Virgo galaxy cluster, was approved in 1992 and construction was completed in 2003. After several years without detection, Virgo was shut down in 2011 for the "Advanced Virgo" upgrades. In 2015, the first observation of gravitational waves was made by the two LIGO detectors, while Virgo was still being upgraded. Virgo resumed observations in early August 2017, making its first detection on 14 August (together with the LIGO detectors); this was quickly followed by the detection of the GW170817 gravitational wave, the only one also observed with classical methods (optical, gamma-ray, X-ray and radio telescopes) as of 2024.

Aerial view of Virgo
15 miles southeast of Pisa, Italy

P. S. Previous LIGO post.

Morcheeba - The sea

Morcheeba - The sea (Live) - Le Grand Studio RTL
Le Grand Studio RTL

Chasing Threads

"Sir, Your Parking Brake Exploded" - Fixing a Ford
Watch Wes Work

Jack has been working on making his lathe cut 30 threads per inch. He brought a bunch of pieces to lunch yesterday for show and tell, but he put them away before I managed to take any photos. Probably have to go pay him a visit. He had to make a couple of gears, and to do that he needed a cutter to cut the gear teeth. He tried making his own cutter, but that didn't work out so well. He ended up buying a set of expensive cutters.

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