Jello City

by Liz Hickok via Sweet Station

Dance of the Neon Knight

Dance of the Neon Knight from Paul Rayment on Vimeo.

Kinetic sculpture at the BMW Museum (full length video)

YouTube via peterbmw1
"Watch in high quality!
An amazing display of 714 metal balls on strings. It really gets creative after 1 minute. So please be patient.

This display was created by the company
http://www.artcom.de."

Perpetual Lightning - Catatumbo

via Wikipedia
"The Catatumbo Lightning in Venezuela is the world's largest single generator of ozone.[1] It is a cloud storm that forms a voltaic arc at more than 5 km of height, during 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour, over the bog area that forms where the Catatumbo River flows into the Lake Maracaibo.

The collision with the winds coming from the Andes Mountains causes the storms and associated lightning, a result of electrical discharges through ionised gases, specifically the methane created by the decomposition of organic matter in the marshes. Being lighter than air, the gas rises up to the clouds, feeding the storms."

via Boing Boing

Relampago del Catatumbo - Lago de Maracaibo

YouTube via YamasukiVen
"Venemoteros presenciando el misterioso "Relampago del Catatumbo". Fenomeno natural único en el mundo."

Virgin Galactic promotional trailer starring Richard Branson

YouTube via DougInBoulder
"Introduction by Richard Branson, interviews with Brian Binnie and Mike Melvill, with video footage from the SpaceShipOne test flights. For more information, please visit http://www.virgingalactic....

The "Virgin" and "Virgin Galactic" names and logos are trademarks of Virgin Enterprises Ltd and are used under licence.

(C) Virgin Galactic 2006. All rights reserved. All intellectual property rights subsisting in the content of this video are owned or used under licence by Virgin Galactic. This video is for personal use/private viewing only. Any alteration, modification, redistribution, reproduction, exploitation, broadcasting, transmission or storage (whether electronically or otherwise) or part or all of the contents of this video in any form is strictly prohibited."

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D

YouTube via tdarnell
"I've recently discovered an animation that was rendered using the measured redshift of all 10,000 galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image.

I've written a short script that leads you through a quick history of both deep field images and this video ends with a fly-through of the Ultra Deep Field.

Every galaxy in the image is in its proper distance as viewed from the telescope line of sight.

As if this image wasn't amazing enough.

Animation Credit:

Hubble Cosmological Redshift Animation Courtesy:

Mike Gallis

http://phys23p.sl.psu.edu/phys_anim/P...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6G2Z6..."

C-3PO

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James May rides in a U2 spy plane

YouTube via wasdom01
"James May from Top Gear U.K. takes an emotional ride to the edge of space in a U2 spyplane."