Homemade High Altitude Rocket (On-board Video) travelling to 121000 ft. Space is amazing and our atmosphere is beautiful.

Stats:

• 8" diameter
• 167.5" long
• 329 lbs
• Q-18,000
• 143,000 N-sec
• 4,000 lbs of thrust for 8 seconds
• Case-bonded, Fin-O-Cyl Grain
• Welded Aluminum Fin Can
• Graphite Throat in Phenolic Carrier with Aluminum Retainer/Expansion Cone
• 2 Timers
• 4 GPS
• 1 Accelerometer
• 1 Cosmic Ray Detector
• 2 GoPro HeroHD
• 1 FlipHD
• Black Powder Actuated Pneumatic Cylinder Recovery
• Custom Launch Tower
• 121,000' in 92 seconds
• 3,200 ft per second
• 15+ g's

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Ganja smoke must be heavy.

The mellow song in this video is Mt Eden Dubstep - Still Alive

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A ferrofluid (from the Latin ferrum, meaning iron) is a liquid which becomes strongly polarised in the presence of a magnetic field.

Ferrofluids are composed of nanoscale ferromagnetic particles suspended in a carrier fluid, usually an organic solvent or water. The ferromagnetic nano-particles are coated with a surfactant to prevent their agglomeration (due to van der Waals and magnetic forces). Although the name may suggest otherwise, ferrofluids do not display ferromagnetism, since they do not retain magnetisation in the absence of an externally applied field. In fact, ferrofluids display paramagnetism, and are often referred as being "superparamagnetic" due to their large magnetic susceptibility. True ferromagnetic fluids are difficult to create at present.

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What is this sorcery!? Where does the water even... seriously, WTF? All other waterfalls seem boring now...

Pearl Shoal Waterfall (珍珠滩瀑布) is a waterfall located in Aba-Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan Province (China). Located in Jiuzhaigou, at an altitude of 2,433 metres (7,982 ft), the top of the waterfall is 162.5 metres (533 ft) in width. It has a fall of 40 metres (130 ft).

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The 49-year-old star was attending the nuptials of David Ellison, the executive producer of Mission Impossible 4, to Sandy Modic.

And he was challenged to a dance battle by a fellow reveller as Maroon 5's Move Like Jagger was playing at the Palm Spring bash, in California.

And after a few energetic dance steps the pair called a truce with a hug.

Tom Cruise is a true badass.

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Rest in Peace Steve Jobs. You changed the world. Sad to see you go Steve. Than you for what you did for the world. Not only Apple, but the world has lost a visionary. Few people have done has much for technological advancement in the world.

Steve Jobs was co-founder of Pixar. These movies will always be classics for us.

Steve Jobs and his wife after his last keynote.

Hi I'm Mac. Hi I'm PC.
The early years: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

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29-year-old woman named Sarah Churman filmed by her husband as she gains her hearing for the first time. The clip is the #3 most-viewed video of the past week and remains the #3 most-viewed video today in the United States as of Monday afternoon. It's also still one of our Most Shared.

The video skyrocketed to fame on Friday when it was viewed over 1.7 million times on that day alone. YouTube data shows that views started to spike very late Thursday night when it was posted on social bookmarking site Reddit.

I was born deaf and 8 weeks ago I received a hearing implant. This is the video of them turning it on and me hearing myself for the first time :) Edit: For those of you who have asked the implant I received was Esteem offered by Envoy Medical. Sarah Churman.

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Most Shared video today is Lady Gaga's duet with Tony Bennet. Lady Gaga should definitely do a jazz album.



Music video by Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga performing The Lady Is A Tramp. (C) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment

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They always take it to the next level. Thanks, Japan.

[Ed. note- This video has been around for a while, but it's experiencing another resurgence in popularity. I mean, it is pretty neat.]

I for one welcome our synchronized dance-flipping Japanese overlords…what is it with Asians? anything humans can do, they can do better.

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That'll do, Internet…that'll do. Ohio University debuted their newest routine Peden Stadium. As a former band geek this was fun to watch. Not to mention that it's nice to see a band get down while still sounding decent.

That awkward moment when band kids dance better than you do...

Ohio University Marching October 1, 2011 at Peden Stadium, Athens, Ohio - The Party Rock Anthem.

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New York Observer: Exclusive "Occupy Wall Street" Unaired Fox Footage

Somehow this interview with Occupy Wall Street's Jesse LaGreca never made it on the air. (via the New York Observer)

Scumbag Reporter:

Says: We're giving you a chance now to speak your mind on air.

Never airs it.

HO. LY. SHAT. I'm watching this at least 20 more times. Of course Fox News wouldn't air this--it's an intelligent and well-articulated point. Of course they didn't air it. It's got rationality, responsibility, compassion, and authenticity. Focks News doesn't do that sort of thing.

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This just made me fatter. SO MUCH ROOM FOR NUTELLA!

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The lotus effect refers to the very high water repellency (superhydrophobicity) exhibited by the leaves of the lotus flower (Nelumbo). Dirt particles are picked up by water droplets due to a complex micro- and nanoscopic architecture of the surface, which minimizes adhesion.

This effect can easily be demonstrated in many other plants, for example Tropaeolum, cane and columbine (Aquilegia), and on the wings of certain insects.

The phenomenon was first studied by Dettre and Johnson in 1964 using rough hydrophobic surfaces. Their work developed a theoretical model based on experiments with glass beads coated with paraffin or PTFE telomer. The self-cleaning property of superhydrophobic micro-nanostructured surfaces was studied by Barthlott and Ehler in 1977, and perfluoroalkyl and perfluoropolyether superhydrophobic materials were developed by Brown in 1986 for handling chemical and biological fluids. Other biotechnical applications have emerged since the 1990s. Learn more about the 'Lotus Effect' on Wikipedia.

If you wipe your butt with the lotus leaf after taking a poop in the wilderness, will the turds stick to the lotus leaf?

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Start Mapping Your Carts! This has to be somewhere weed is legal.

Sudden App Idea: It'd be legit if you could create a shopping list online, login on your cart and have it plot the most efficient route thru the store.

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Please tell me his license plate frame says "My other ride is your girlfriend."

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Wild new software program that has very interesting possibilities.

From Chairman Mao to Michael Jackson, Arturo Castro, the designer behind the clip, used face-tracking software to have a computer digitally imprint the faces of others onto his own. Castro used the Facetracker API to build the tracking program that essentially stretches images of other people's faces to fit his own.

WATCH:


Faces from arturo castro on Vimeo.

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Hotel Booked in Freefall

Extreme hotel booking...

JT Holmes pulls off a skydiving stunt for Hotels.com at Lake Tahoe in this video that was heavily shared over the weekend.

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To do all those moves in an outfit like that, very impressive. Mickey stays in character the entire time. Not to mention that Micky is 83 years old. I was waiting for him to attempt spinning on the ground, and watch as all the kids started crying because Mickey's head came off. I hope Mickey gets a raise for this.

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Fly epic meal time out there. We need a way to contact them. I want to send them some f*cking good coffee.

For info on sending care packages or to send them some Starbucks VIA® Ready Brew Colombia Coffee (50 count) , visit: http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/commun/message/addresses-eng.asp

All I could think is I hope they're ok and get to go F*CKING HOME soon. Here is the how to instructional video on how Canadian troops make coffee in Afghanistan under combat conditions.

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