The Awesome Videos Thread (with Extra Sauce!)

GasBandit

GasBandit

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No, Montreal, that sound isn't somebody mowing his lawn late at night, it's a gigantic fireball moseying its way across town on your powerlines.


 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

GasBandit said:
No, Montreal, that sound isn't somebody mowing his lawn late at night, it's a gigantic fireball moseying its way across town on your powerlines.


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... The fuck was that thing?

I'm pretty sure that's like, some electricity based super villain, traveling through the power lines.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

GasBandit said:


News flash, nerd - Bruce Timm is the only reason anybody gives a shit about DC.

(It was LiveWire)
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The fact that I can't name the character, but can quickly tell the artist, should be a compliment to Timm.

Although, sometimes I confuse Bruce Timm with Tim Sale, just because of the names.
 
filmfanatic

filmfanatic

Just to fill in those who don't know, that's Livewire. Basically a radio shock jock who expressed a public hatred of Superman to get listeners and ended up getting electrical powers. Originally just a new creation for Superman: the Animated Series, they eventually added her to the comics.
 
drifter

drifter

Ravenpoe said:
... The fuck was that thing?
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Here's an explanation:
This was a high impedance electrical arcing fault. Usually the upstream protective device (ie. fuse, relay/breaker, recloser, etc.) will interrupt these types of faults and prevent them from continuing. They can start because of tree branches or animals or lightning strikes or anything that can bridge two phases or a phase and ground. The air becomes ionized and no longer acts as an insulator but a conductor. This arc is interesting because it was able to be sustained for such a long period of time.
If the fault has a high enough impedance, the current is actually not very high in comparison to regular faults. This makes it very difficult for the protective device to clear the fault since it the current can even be lower than the normal "load" current. The utility should be able to analyze any event reports in the area from the relays to try and determine what happened and if it can be prevented in the future.
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It's somewhat akin to a Jacob's ladder... I think.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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DJ tricked into caramel apple eating contest. The trick? His apple is an onion. This particular DJ HATES ONIONS.
It's glorious.

 
PatrThom

PatrThom

With that much simultaneous footage, there's a good possibility the whole thing could be stitched together into a single Oculus Rift 3D simulation that could having you shitting your pants in real life.

--Patrick
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
Russians.
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Did you see the transcript?
Driver: Oh, we float.
Passenger: Where are we going?
Driver: I don’t know. Maybe to the shore.
Passenger: Don’t turn the wheel, it’s useless.
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Also, Art.

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Oh hey look, they have a budget, an art director and a better video editor now!

(also quite a bit of processing, but that's to be expected given the subject matter)

--Patrick
 
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figmentPez

figmentPez

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Children's books are about to get a little cooler:

Paper Generators:


I'm betting this has application besides novelty as well. (Something I've wondered for a while is why there aren't remotes that are powered by the energy of pressing the button on the remote.)
 
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