How to Make a Railroad Tanker Implode

MythBusters Hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman took on their biggest experiment ever in an attempt to implode a full size tanker car! On their last episode of the season, the TV hosts spent four days in July at the Port of Morrow in Boardman, Oregon testing whether a railroad tanker can actually implode if… Continue reading How to Make a Railroad Tanker Implode

Chasing Ice: The Largest Glacier Calving Ever Filmed

Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed the largest glacier calving ever filmed at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. The calving event lasted for 75 minutes and the glacier retreated a full 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) across a calving face 4.8 kilometers (3 miles) wide. The height of the ice is about 914.4 meters… Continue reading Chasing Ice: The Largest Glacier Calving Ever Filmed

Amazing Bead Chain Experiment in Slow Motion

On the latest episode of Earth Unplugged by BBC Earth Productions, they met with Steve Mould, the science guy from Britain’s Brightest, to explore the science behind the “self siphoning beads”. Steve demonstrates how the self-siphoning chain of beads works in slow motion. Amazingly, the entire chain of beads siphons out of the jar, float in midair seemingly against gravity. The chain levitate even… Continue reading Amazing Bead Chain Experiment in Slow Motion

Screengrab: Will Mess with Your Brain

Documentary filmmaker Willie Witte likes to make fun experimental films in his spare time. His latest, SCREENGRAB, was made without the help of computer effects, which is pretty amazing. Watch the video below. via: This is Colossal