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    I Never Thought Water Drops Looked Like This

    Time Warp Backs Up Your Time Machine, Er, Backups to Amazon's S3 Service

    Penn Swallows Fire in Super-Slow-Mo on Discovery Channel's Time Warp

    Discovery Channel's Time Warp: Slo-Mo Videos of Crazy Sh*t Go Primetime
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    Image of Gordonium Gordonium
    11/10/09

    In reply to I Never Thought Water Drops Looked Like This
    I noticed this phenomenon (the first bounce, that is) while working in my lab last year. Man, I must have spent the next ten minutes just fooling around trying to duplicate the effect. Ten minutes of productive research, gone. #highspeedvideo
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    11/09/09

    In reply to I Never Thought Water Drops Looked Like This
    It seems that the height the water is dropped from plays a part in the way the drop interacts with the water it lands on. I didn't watch it with sound so they may have talked about it. As for "no special water" that is kind of meaningless. Water quality can be vastly different from tap to tap, or bottle to bottle, and all of those will be different from 100% pure H2O.
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    11/09/09

    @daniel.r.jacobs: I wonder if there is a dropping velocity that pushes all the air out from under the drop at once, allowing the whole drop to be absorbed. I'm sure falling from a rain cloud at 3,000 feet would do it if ever. #highspeedvideo
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    Image of redmac redmac
    11/09/09

    In reply to I Never Thought Water Drops Looked Like This
    Hi Kids.. Let's not forget the father of high speed photography.. Dr. Harold Edgerton.. Here is some of his work that galleries have been showing for years.. [www.corkingallery.com] #highspeedvideo
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    Image of Jeb_Hoge Jeb_Hoge
    11/09/09

    In reply to I Never Thought Water Drops Looked Like This
    Hey, shower scene.

    BTW, my favorite show in terms of slow-mo effects is Lock & Load w/ R. Lee Ermey. #highspeedvideo
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    Image of GustavoSM GustavoSM
    11/09/09

    In reply to I Never Thought Water Drops Looked Like This
    It's funny how the sound effects involve us so much we almost don't notice they're sound effects... #highspeedvideo
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    11/09/09

    @GustavoSM:
    I've always kinda wondered if we were just programmed to believe that water drops sound like that, when in fact they sound like something completely different.

    It's the same thing with artificial fruit flavors. Who dictated that this flavor will be "orange", when it tastes nothing like a real orange. What if we colored it purple, and called it grape? #highspeedvideo
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    Image of Gann Gann
    11/09/09

    @Xagest: I'm pretty sure artificial flavors start out as pretty accurate imitations, then slowly change over time as they are value engineered into something more affordable. I remember when gushers first came out, they were the first 'grape' flavored candy that I would eat. They actually tasted like grapes. The years haven't been kind to them. #highspeedvideo
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    11/09/09

    @Gann: lots of japanese grape candies still taste like grapes. it's cool. look for the "mitsuya cider" candies next time you go to a big grocery store. [en.wikipedia.org] #highspeedvideo
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    Image of MikeK MikeK
    11/09/09

    In reply to I Never Thought Water Drops Looked Like This
    Time Warp is a really cool show. They've gotten a bit "fluffy" in their science compared to the original pilot, but this one gives me hope! Very informative and spectacular at the same time. #highspeedvideo
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    11/09/09

    @MikeK:
    I once e-mailed Jeff about the Breakdancing episode where they're shooting nails through apples (they noted that tip of the nail deflects when it hits the apple, but it's already angled before it exits the barrel and simply cuts through the apple at a matching angle). He responded by saying that I was probably correct, but that they generally only had a short while to review the footage before shooting their "reaction" shot. It's not that they're not trying to keep it all scientific, but that when they don't already know exactly what to expect ahead of time (like when they were dancing on the tub full of corn starch and water), they might already be packing up for the day before anyone really figures out exactly what they were watching happen. #highspeedvideo
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    11/09/09

    @MikeK:
    I once e-mailed Jeff about the Breakdancing episode where they're shooting nails through apples (they noted that tip of the nail deflects when it hits the apple, but it's already angled before it exits the barrel and simply cuts through the apple at a matching angle). He responded by saying that I was probably correct, but that they generally only had a short while to review the footage before shooting their "reaction" shot. It's not that they're not trying to keep it all scientific, but that when they don't already know exactly what to expect ahead of time (like when they were dancing on the tub full of corn starch and water), they might already be packing up for the day before anyone really figures out exactly what they were watching happen. #highspeedvideo
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    11/09/09

    In reply to I Never Thought Water Drops Looked Like This
    This was so much cooler than I was expecting it to be. Freaking awesome. It was like watching Click, I thought it was gonna be okay, but by the end I was almost inspired. #highspeedvideo
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    11/09/09

    In reply to I Never Thought Water Drops Looked Like This
    I'm not particularly impressed by 2000 frames/s. That's not fast enough to show you the propagation of a "spidering" pane of glass being broken, among many other things. I'd like to see 1M frames/s. #highspeedvideo
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    11/09/09

    @dtemp: you want 1M frames? here we go #highspeedvideo
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    Image of I-Love-Gizhacker I-Love-Gizhacker
    11/09/09

    In reply to I Never Thought Water Drops Looked Like This
    How is it that every time someone takes a high speed video camera to a water drop, we get a different effect?

    Regardless, this is beautiful. #highspeedvideo
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/09/09

    @I-Love-Gizhacker: I'm sure Ian Malcolm would have an explanation amidst the um's and uh's. #highspeedvideo
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    11/09/09

    In reply to I Never Thought Water Drops Looked Like This
    You should really watch TimeWarp on the Discovery Channel then. When they did stuff like this over a year ago, it was really amazing. #highspeedvideo
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    Image of jurrasix jurrasix
    11/09/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMo...: Someone at Discovery finally realized that we all just wanted to see everything happen in slow-mo. Unfortunately watching that footage is the only interesting part of the show. #highspeedvideo
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    Image of Jesus Diaz Jesus Diaz
    11/09/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMo...: Oh, did you just call this post old? Felling like a bit of iron bar in the morning? #highspeedvideo
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    11/09/09

    @jurrasix: Must agree. The inane banter and hosts are a little annoying. Although two weeks ago when they had the female lumberjacks on, I must admit I was hanging on every word. I think if they just did the segments on how they set up the cameras, and what equipment they were using, and then the videos, they'd have a lot more viewers.

    There was a show on I believe History Channel where they had people doing trick shots with bows, guns, and rifles, and I hated it because they spent like 8 minutes on the set-up, and only 2 on the images, which is too much filler. #highspeedvideo
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    11/09/09

    @Jesus Diaz: But in a gentler way... #highspeedvideo
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    11/09/09

    @Jesus Diaz: No, just saying they did it like a year ago as well. I think they have done more than one water episode, just like Mythbusters revisit myths.

    Don't be so defensive. #highspeedvideo
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    11/09/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMo...: Iroooooonbaaaaaaar #highspeedvideo
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    11/09/09

    @Jesus Diaz: Look, here's a video from another episode they did one water. Different shots and all. #highspeedvideo
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    11/09/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMo...: Oops. Sorry, wrong time warp. #highspeedvideo
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/09/09

    In reply to I Never Thought Water Drops Looked Like This
    This is surprisingly beautiful, and very hypnotic.
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    11/09/09

    In reply to I Never Thought Water Drops Looked Like This
    It's mind-bottling.. #highspeedvideo
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    11/09/09

    In reply to I Never Thought Water Drops Looked Like This
    Consider my flabber ghasted #highspeedvideo
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    07/20/09

    In reply to Time Warp Backs Up Your Time Machine, Er, Backups to Amazon's S3 Service
    You might only pay for what you use, but you have to pay it monthly. If you have 100gb of stuff it is NOT cheap. You’re better off buying an external drive(s).

    If you want off-site, put the drive in your car.
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    Image of tptcat tptcat
    07/20/09

    @UnderLoK: I believe you pay monthly for what you UPLOAD or DOWNLOAD, not use as storage. I'm pretty sure it's just bandwidth they're charging you for, not for the actual storage.
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    UnderLoK promoted this comment tptcat was starred tptcat was unstarred
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    07/20/09

    @tptcat: You pay for upload, download, and storage.
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    Image of Iron Man Underoos Iron Man Underoos
    07/20/09

    In reply to Time Warp Backs Up Your Time Machine, Er, Backups to Amazon's S3 Service
    Considering what Amazon did to copies of 1984 on Kindles, would you trust them with your data?
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    07/20/09

    @Iron Man Underoos: What did they do?
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    danger the pirate promoted this comment ioos was starred ioos was unstarred
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    07/20/09

    @2-7offsuit is ioos: they deleted it. something about somebody selling the book without the appropriate rights. link.
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    07/20/09

    @Iron Man Underoos: Amazon S3 is extremely reliable and has been around for awhile now. Comparing 1984 to their S3 service is getting a little carried away.
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    Image of FigNinja FigNinja
    07/20/09

    @UnderLoK:

    Even if they were going to bother searching through your stuff, how would they know what was licensed or not? Besides, it's an encrypted archive.

    Even though I don't agree with Amazon's decision to delete the purchased books from people's Kindles, it's a vastly different situation. They were in the position of having sold files that were in violation of copyright. They were trying to minimize the damage. They don't have any compelling reason to start rifling through S3 customers files.
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    07/20/09

    @FigNinja: Hey don't quote me man I said the same thing. Aim that at Iron Man Underoos! ;)
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