Redbull and BBC Earth Unplugged teamed up to show a race between mountain biking champion Gee Atherton and a peregrine falcon (aka the fastest bird on earth). As you will see in the resulting video, it is less about a race and more about testing the bird’s ability to remove bait attached to someone who is constantly moving up and down and side to side.
Check it out from the perspective of the bird and the biker after the jump.
Either that or he is in the process of giving some invisible foes a brutal ass kicking.
Check it out after the break.
It’s hard to make it out in the video after the jump, but this is a dog pushing a guy in a wheelchair through a flood zone. One more reason dogs are truly man’s best friend.
Rather than get pissed off over the fact that an airline was keeping them stuffed like cattle in a broken airplane with no A/C, food, or water, passengers aboard a Phoenix-bound Allegiant Air flight decided to break into song with a spirited rendition of R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly.”
According to the video description, the passengers were simply “delirious from heat” and “banded together in song” in order “to avoid a mutiny” after “two people passed out” and “two vomited.”
Check out the video, filmed in annoying verti-vision, after the jump.
Apparently one of these otters is trying to break out of the holt and into show business, and short limbs won’t stop him.
Watch the perseverance after the jump.
YouTuber “Brusspup” created this video demonstration of the Chladni plate experiment, which involves pouring sand over a vibrating plate and watching as complex geometric patterns are formed.
When physicist Ernst Chladni performed this experiment in the 18th century, he did it with flour instead of sand, and made his metal plate vibrate with a violin bow instead of a tone generator, but the end result is the same: when the plate vibrates at a steady frequency, the particles on its surface arrange into a beautiful pattern.
The particles (sand, in this case) are arranging themselves along what are called “nodal lines” – narrow curves of motionless calm that criss-cross the otherwise vibrating surface. As the frequency changes, so does the distribution of these nodal lines, which becomes increasingly intricate at higher frequencies.
Check it out after the break.
Amazingly, he made it through this video without ending up as a freeway stain. Check it out after the break.
The quacking of a mother duck alerted authorities to 12 ducklings that were trapped in a storm drain, resulting in the rescue that was captured on the video after the jump.
