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Das Guillotine

Gapo says...

- Beta times 5V. And I will solve that to beta. Okay, it is...
*Board crashes*
- WOW! phew... Do we have that on video? Awesome! Oh shit!
- Wow... Okay, I will once again clean the blackboard and then we'll continue. Just look at it like that, that the blackboard will finally be repaired. That's awesome.
*Cleans Blackboard*
- Alright, everybody calmed down, myself not so much.
Somebody else: Did something happen to you?
- No, No... but it is... yeah. Just write for today: Our lecturer nearly got killed today. I'm just happy I went to the toilet before the lecture or I would have shit my pants.

ant said:

*education

English translation please!

America's Got Talent - Amazing Illusion by Michael Grasso

Gapo says...

You can see that they are switching hands as the cloth gets removed from the assistant. First the thumb is on the one side, a second later it's on the other side and if course, it switches from a girlish looking hand to a more manly one.

Most people are not observant

A look at the t-shirt as a form of free speech

Mythbusters - Thermite vs Ice

Gapo says...

The water gets vaporized extremely fast because of the very high heat of the burning thermite. 1 liter of water turns into 1700 liters of steam nearly immediately. You get the idea why you see an explosion.
It's the same thing as if you would try to extinct a grease fire with water. NEVER EVER DO IT!

Westwood College Sued For Fraud

Gapo says...

I pay about 120 euro a semester here in germany. Thats maybe 200 dollar.
They wanted us to pay an additional 500 euro a semester but some people sued against that and won.

Goliath German anti-tank robot.

Rocket's parachute fails to open, narrowly misses spectators

Gapo says...

>> ^djsunkid:
I like the screaming sound it makes just before! Any physicists in the crowd care to work out how fast it was going? Assume that the rocket's energy expenditure was totally linear and lasted exactly 6 seconds.
Hmm.. I wonder if you need to know how strong the propulsion was, and/or the mass of the rocket to figure that out, or if the time of ascent and descent is enough?


A rough formula for the fall of the rocket would be

v = g*t - 0,5*t*c_w*A*p*v^2

The stuff behind the g*t would be the air resistence. You should consider this at high speeds like 450 kmh.

So. If you solve this to get v you would get something like this

v = - m/(c_w*A*p*t) +- sqrt( (m/(c_w*A*p*t))^2 + (2*m*g)/(c_w*A*p) )

Please correct me if I'm wrong. I just wrote a test about dynamics and I didn't get the results back yet - so maybe I failed which means I suck.

c_w = 0.1 (air drag coefficient for a rocket)
A = 0.07 m^2 (estimated value for the area of the rocket if you would look directley into it)
p = 1.2 kg/m^3 (air density)
m = 50kg (I don't know how much it weighs... 50kg??? *shrug*)

t = 13s

If you calculate that you'll get 113 m/s or roughly 400 kmh. Hm thats very interesting, I would have thougt that the air resistence would be much higher. But 50 kmh less is still a bit.

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VideoSift Fundraiser (Sift Talk Post)

Gapo says...

As soon as I figure out how this whole PayPal thing works (I have never done it before ) I'll send 10 Euro from Germany your way. I'm excited how much that'll be in USD.
I'm a MPE student and I'm currently writing my tests - I absolutly NEED VS to get me through the day and keep me from learning!!!

This site really rocks - it'll be the first time I donate anything.

Awkward German TV Moment - Uncomfortable Silence

Gapo says...

Rough translation:
He: "The both most beautiful points, the two points of my beautiful czech Susanka, will stay by my side tonight, that's clear..."
*slap*
She: "Is he crazy? Retard."
He: "That was just a joke..."
She: "Funny. - Nobody's laughing."
He: "So...
She: "Do the points. --- So, zero points go the BigFM Morgenhans [...]"

He seems to be the "Morgenhans". Morgen means morning.
I want to know where that's from. At first I was really puzzled but then I couldn't stop grinning about how awkward they both felt and talked with an even more awkward pronounciation.

IBM molecular MRI

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I think they'll use it to scan certain molecules like proteins. And I don't think that you could scan anything bigger then a protein because it seems like they test the behaviour of the molecule to the magnetic field and therefor get some answers about its shape.

Fastest gunman ever. Unbelievable Bob Munden

Gapo says...

The camera-guy won't get shot because munden is using blank ammunition.
The only things that come out of the barrel are hot gases and not exploded powder. Blank ammunition has very low recoil and if you are 10m away from the barrel it's pretty safe.
Still they are capable of destroying a ballon at low distance or could heavily burn your skin or give you hearing impairings if you are too close to the barrel. Sadly, that happened to some of my friends during our time in the military, so beware.

No Shirt, no Helmet Hero riding a Motorized Beercrate,

Why you shouldn't buy no-brand budget PSUs ...



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