Cool Videos

[buzzenator]

It's a Bird...It's a Plane...

[john]

^ Very cool.

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Botfly larva removal (not for the squeamish)

[john]

In Nazaré, Portugal, the ocean is known as a place of death, not of riding waves,” pro surfer Garrett McNamara admits. If that’s the case, McNamara must be the tamer of the sea. Because on Monday, January 28, he surfed what’s thought to be a 100-foot wave, the largest swell ever ridden by a surfer....

Read more: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/30/surf...z2JXLmZsAW

Same guy, same place in 2011

[buzzenator]

^ I saw that picture and headline...hadn't seen the vid, thanks John. "Rogue Rider"...could be a song, or band...most likely a mega-hit country classic

[john]

Meteorite comes down in Russia and is captured in many videos.







Booms at 1:50

[My Alter Ego]

Meteorite comes down in Russia and is captured in many videos.

John, thanks for finding and posting those videos It's amazing how people seemed to look at this as something just outside of a "normal/everyday" happenstance.

[john]

Meteorite comes down in Russia and is captured in many videos.

John, thanks for finding and posting those videos It's amazing how people seemed to look at this as something just outside of a "normal/everyday" happenstance.

Indeed MAE, turns out to be a rather unusual event.

Russia Meteor Was Largest in More Than a Century

By GAUTAM NAIK And ALAN CULLISON

The meteor that crashed to earth in Russia was about 55 feet in diameter, weighed around 10,000 tons and was made from a stony material, scientists said, making it the largest such object to hit the Earth in more than a century.

Large pieces of the meteor have yet to be found. However, a team from the Urals Federal University, which is based in Yekaterinburg, collected 53 fragments, the largest of which was 7 millimeters, according to Viktor Grokhovsky, a scientist at the university.

Data from a global network of sensors indicated that the disintegration of the Russia fireball unleashed nearly 500 kilotons of energy, more than 30 times the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb....

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...l?mod=e2tw

[john]

Surf's UP!



Dude.

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[buzzenator]

^ Very Cool Vids John. Wow...the camera angles on that surfing video are what make that video (besides a guy acrobatically clinging to a surf board when the ocean does a toilet flush) so great. Loved it.

And what probably should be displayed on every dashboard in a Japanese made car:

Warning: If you experience a Tsunami, operate windshield wipers, and this vehicle is not a flotation device

[buzzenator]

Don't mess with the country girls...