This is a visual comparison of known tsunami wave heights, culminating with the Lituya Bay, Alaska mega tsunami that measured over 520m (1,700+ feet) high. Holy smokes! That particular tsunami was caused by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that triggered a rockslide, quickly depositing some 90-million tons of rock into Lituya
This is short video of James Orgill of The Action Lab presenting a video from his more internet attention span appropriate channel Action Lab Shorts, featuring him repeatedly cutting water droplets in half with a razor blade that’s been treated with a superhydrophobic coating. Pretty neat, but *unsheathing blade, swinging
Opening May 19th, the ‘Sky Pool’ in London’s Nine Elms neighborhood connects the tenth story rooftops of the Embassy Gardens Legacy buildings with a heated 85-foot pool, 46-feet of which is clear acrylic and ‘floating’ 115-feet above the street below. The clear portion of the almost 10-feet deep pool has
This is a point-of-view ride down the world’s longest water slide, a tandem-tube run at Malaysia’s Sim Leisure Escape water park measuring a very respectable 1,111-meters (3,564-feet) long and taking four minutes from start to finish. Four minutes! That’s almost long enough to *looks around, lowers voice* make love during
Curiousity: it may kill cats, but it won’t stop you from putting lights, a GoPro, and a 360-degree camera inside a washing machine to see how it works when its on. Me? I already know how my dishwasher works: with elbow grease — I pick up the brush and I
Because structural engineering shmuctural engineering, this is a video from Vitória, Brazil of a condominium building’s raised pool instantaneously collapsing into the parking garage below, flooding it. Man, just think if you’d been going for a night swim at that time — SKINNY DIPPING STYLE. Now you’re naked in the
These are three videos (United States, Europe, Asia) from Business Insider detailing what earth’s coastlines will look like if all the world’s ice melted, resulting in a 200-foot rise in sea level. WATER WORLD — great movie. Of course we don’t actually have to worry about all the earth’s ice
This is a video from Mauriceville, Texas, of a team cutting into a live 6-inch water main to install a shut-off valve. Some more info while I speculate why they didn’t convince a couple rich women to sit in that hole and charge them for a luxury mud bath: “We
