Awesome Youtube Thread of Youtube and Awesomeness

Squiz 2017-04-17 17:07:32 UTC #1661

“Push, push, push…!” “Releeeeeeeease!” “Tears, tears, tears of releeeeeeave!”

Wenz 2017-04-23 20:09:00 UTC #1662

Fumarole 2017-05-02 14:49:19 UTC #1663

We’ve all seen the time-lapse videos of the stars at night as the earth rotates, but here’s a different perspective where the video is stabilized so that you see how it is actually the earth that is moving.

Imaginary_Llamas 2017-05-02 15:16:25 UTC #1664

Wenz 2017-05-04 18:49:35 UTC #1665

Kadayi 2017-05-05 22:13:33 UTC #1666

3 Days …Cmon already

Fumarole 2017-05-13 00:30:21 UTC #1667

Gus_Smedstad 2017-05-13 01:42:18 UTC #1668

A test video Elon Musk released of his 125 MPH electric tunnel car transport system. It’s surprisingly disturbing to watch for something short and simple. Like getting on one of those free-fall rides at 6 flags.

theclockworkrat 2017-05-13 16:13:57 UTC #1669

I could feel my lunch leaving my stomach as it stopped.

Gus_Smedstad 2017-05-13 16:45:01 UTC #1670

I think it’s the tight confines of the tunnel and the strobe effect of the lights as they go by. Takeoff speed for passenger jets can be 170-180 MPH and it doesn’t feel nearly the same way.

Grizzly 2017-05-18 18:09:01 UTC #1671

So as I learned today, Zondag Met Lubach has ENGLISH SUBTITLES. This makes me happy as I now can finally give everyone a concrete example of who this Geert Wilders guy actually is:

Matt_W 2017-05-18 19:47:42 UTC #1672

It’s pretty amazing how well the humor translates, and such parallels as there are between Wilder and Trump are eerie. Did Lubach come first, or Oliver? I think I’ll have to subscribe, if only to widen my exposure. Thanks!

Gus_Smedstad 2017-05-19 01:04:23 UTC #1673

Or a concreet one.

That was quite the video segment, and very informative for those of us (meaning me) who are completely ignorant of Netherlander politics.

It’s true that Wilders ran on Trump’s platform, though he used the Tea Party slogan (“Take our country back!”) rather than Trump’s (“Make our country great again!”). He’s just as vague as Trump is about how he’d actually accomplish any of his goals. However, I’d say that Wilders doesn’t come across as nearly as stupid or narcissistic.

EDIT: The lack of detail on policy issues really is a striking similarity. I remember harping on that during our election, that where Clinton had specific proposals on her campaign web site, the plan on Trump’s web site was “make America great again!”

Grizzly 2017-05-19 03:58:23 UTC #1674

Oliver came first, although you may already know Lubach from this famous one:

Gus_Smedstad 2017-05-22 19:30:57 UTC #1675

Crash test, 1998 Corolla vs. 2015 Corolla. Leaving aside the airbags (the comments on this one are full of people claiming foul on that one), the difference in how intact the 2015 passenger compartment is vs. the 1998 is dramatic.

ZakG 2017-05-27 16:48:48 UTC #1676

Why a proper british team (correction: the original creators) should do a Dredd film? Judge Minty:

EPICTHEFAIL 2017-06-15 21:51:08 UTC #1677

Beyond the Press spun some fidget spinners up until they exploded. Because reasons (chief among which, Scott Manley doing some maths).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N2Z224ti30

It’s like a DIY Finnish Brainiac, isn’t it?

Edit: why the hell isn’t the video embedding properly? Sometimes, I really hate vBulletin.

Matt_W 2017-06-16 03:30:16 UTC #1678

This was awesome. Try putting “video=youtube;-N2Z224ti30” in your opening brackets, otherwise the same as what you did. Like this:

EPICTHEFAIL 2017-06-16 12:12:59 UTC #1679

Thanks, got it now. You’d think the video button would handle that sort of thing automatically, but alas.

Wenz 2017-07-04 14:25:34 UTC #1680

I’ll never watch it but I appreciate 6 hours of effort