Steve Carell Babble in 'Bruce Almighty'

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Playlist: TIME LAPSE, 14 videos

Extintion. 1933, Last Tasmanian Tiger, Thylacine

1929 Home Construction

This is 16mm home movie from 1929 of the construction of a large estate home. 16MM film was introduced in the 1920's as a home movie medium. Since 35mm film was printed on nitrate filmstock that could easily combust, a smaller gague (16MM) was created that was printed on saftey stock made of acetate that was safe for home use. The cost of a 16MM camera at this time cost more than a car. Thus this is a common example of a 16MM upper class home movie project.



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Playlist: year 1970, 10 videos

Playlist: year 1957, 12 videos

Playlist: Silent Films (38 videos)

"Playlist: Silent Films"

Playlist: 1939 (10 videos)

videos of 1939, World's Fair, WWII, pop culture


"Playlist: 1939 "

Playlist: Military History

Playlist: German Newsreels DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENHAU

America's War - WW II In Colour. Playlist

America's War - World War II In Colour - Wrath (D-Day to VE-Day)

WWII Gun Camera Footage COLOR

Images of the Luftwaffe Fw-190 gun camera



1945 Pacific - P-51 Gun Camera Raw Footage

(1942) German newsreel (Die Deutsche Wochenschau)."

"Amazing air combat footage from 1942. Luftwaffe Air Base in Callais (France) being attacked by RAF. German AAA and Fighter defense. Me-109 and FW-190 taking-off to intercept.

Bonnie and Clyde Death Scene

"Bonnie and Clyde death car scene newsreel

(1943) Mussolini rescue

"Combat footage. German newsreel. Mussolini is rescued, commandos march through the Abruzzi Mountains, a paratroop detachment is ordered to occupy the valley station of a tram going to the building where Mussolini is imprisoned, the building is approached, SS Captain Skorzeny is shown with Mussolini, Mussolini flies to Hitler's headquarters, where he meets his son, Vittorio, Hitler, Goering, and von Ribbentrop, Mussolini urges his followers to fight. "

1945. Mussolini Executed

Mussolini Executed - "Il Duce Obit 1945 - Benito Mussolini orates before his Black Shirt Legions and confers with his arch conspirator, Hitler. Reverses strike and Hitler rescues him from the Allies. Currently, he returns to Milan only to be tried and killed in the same inglorious way that he had meted out punishment to his political foes." (partial newsreel)

1940. BENITO MUSSOLINI War Declaration. Speech and transcripts

"Combattenti di terra, di mare, e dell'aria! Camicie Nere della Rivoluzione e delle Legioni, uomini e donne d'Italia, dell'Impero e del Regno di Albania. Ascoltate! Un'ora segnata dal destino, batte nel cielo della nostra Patria... Gritos de la muchedumbre... ¡Guerra, guerra!L'ora... l'ora delle decisioni irrevocabili.La dichiarazione di guerra è già stata consegnata a gli ambasciatori di...La algarabía de la muchedumbre interrumpe a Mussolini... ¡Guerra! Guerra! A gli ambasciatori di Gran Bretagna e di Francia." "Scendiamo in campo contro le democrazie plutocratiche e reazionarie dell'Occidente che in ogni tempo hanno ostacolato la marcia e spesso insidiato l'esistenza medesima del Popolo italiano. Alcuni lustri della storia più recente si possono riassumere in queste parole: frasi, promesse, minacce, ricatti e, alla fine, quale coronamento dell'edificio, l'ignobile assedio societario di cinquantadue Stati.La nostra coscienza è assolutamente tranquilla. Con voi il mondo intero è testimone che l'Italia del Littorio ha fatto quanto era umanamente possibile per evitare la tormenta che sconvolge l'Europa, ma tutto fu vano.Bastava rivedere i Trattati per adeguarli alle mutevoli esigenze della vita delle Nazioni e non considerarli intangibili per l'eternità. Bastava non iniziare la stolta politica delle garanzie, che si è palesata soprattutto micidiale per coloro che le hanno accettate. Bastava non respingere la proposta che il Fuhrer fece il 6 ottobredell'anno scorso dopo finita la campagna di Polonia. Oramai tutto ciò appartiene al passato. Se noi oggi siamo decisi ad affrontare i rischi ed i sacrifici di una guerra gli è che l'onore, gli interessi, l'avvenire ferreamente l'impongono, poiché un grande popolo è veramente tale se considera sacri i suoi impegni e se non evade dalle prove supreme che determinano il corso della Storia. Noi impugniamo le armi per risolvere, dopo il problema risolto delle nostre frontiere continentali, il problema delle nostre frontiere marittime.Noi vogliamo spezzare le catene di ordine territoriale e militare che ci soffocano nel nostro mare, poiché un popolo di 45 milioni di anime non è veramente libero se non ha libero accesso all'Oceano.Questa lotta gigantesca non è che una fase e lo sviluppo logico della nostra Rivoluzione.E' la lotta dei popoli poveri e numerosi di braccia contro gli affamatori che detengono ferocemente il monopolio di tutte le ricchezze e di tutto l'oro della terra. E' la lotta dei popoli fecondi e giovani contro i popoli isterili e volgenti al tramonto; è la lotta tra due secoli e due idee.Ora che i dadi sono gettati e la nostra volontà ha bruciato alle nostre spalle i vascelli, io dichiaro solennemente che l'Italia non intende trascinare altri popoli nel conflitto con essa confinanti per mare o per terra. Svizzera, Jugoslavia, Grecia, Turchia, Egitto, prendano atto di queste mie parole e dipende da loro, soltanto da loro se esse saranno rigorosamente confermate. Italiani! In una memorabile adunata, quella di Berlino, io dissi che secondo le leggi della morale fascista quando si ha un amico si marcia con lui fino in fondo. Questo abbiamo fatto e faremo colla Germania, col suo popolo, colle sue vittoriose forze armate.In questa vigilia d'un evento di portata secolare rivolgiamo il nostro pensiero alla Maestà del Re Imperatore che come sempre ha interpretato l'animo della Patria e salutiamo alla voce il Fuhrer, il capo della Grande Germania alleata. L'Italia proletaria e fascista è per la terza volta in piedi, forte, fiera e compatta come non mai. La parola d'ordine è una sola, categorica e impegnativa per tutti.Essa già trasvola e accende i cuori dalle Alpi all'Oceano Indiano: VINCERE! E vinceremo per dare finalmente un lungo periodo di pace con giustizia all'Italia, all'Europa, al mondo.Popolo italiano, corri alle armi e dimostra la tua tenacia, il tuo coraggio, il tuo valore."

Adolf Hitler y Eva Braun (Color)

MARCH 1945, LAST GERMAN NEWSREEL

1942 June, Hitler in Finland

1939 NewsReel "Europe at War"

1939 NewsReel "Europe at War"

1957 British newsreel

1957 British newsreel

1952 Newsreel - Futuristic and experimental aircrafts

-- Bill Horton's "wingless airplane". Bill entered into a partnership with Howard Hughes, and legal wrangling from that (still ongoing!) stopped all development of this plane.
-- "Sky Baby" the world's smallest homebuilt biplane, 1952. Made it in the "Guinness Book of World Records", but not practical for the homebuilt market and designer Ray Stits
donated it to the National Air and Space Museum.
-- the Fulton Airphibian, the first roadable aircraft (designed to be used as a car or an airplane) to be certificated by the Civil Aviation Administration.
-- XH-17 "Flying Crane", by Hughes aircraft. It still holds the record for the largest flying rotor system that ever flew. But was not practical for production.

Antonov AN-225

Antonov AN-225 displaying at the Abbotsford Airshow 1989.

The Virus Of Faith

Warning, religious content; if you have strong religious beleifs, this video might be offensive)
Richard Dawkins -
48 minutes

Greetings From Idiot America

Greetings From Idiot America
Creationism. Intelligent Design. Faith-based this. Trust-your-gut that. There's never been a better time to espouse, profit from, and believe in utter, unadulterated crap. And the crap is rising so high, it's getting dangerous.
There is some undeniable art--you might even say design--in the way southern Ohio rolls itself into northern Kentucky. The hills build gently under you as you leave the interstate. The roads narrow beneath a cool and thickening canopy as they wind through the leafy outer precincts of Hebron--a small Kentucky town named, as it happens, for the place near Jerusalem where the Bible tells us that David was anointed the king of the Israelites. This resulted in great literature and no little bloodshed, which is the case with a great deal of Scripture.
At the top of the hill, just past the Idlewild Concrete plant, there is an unfinished wall with an unfinished gate in the middle of it. Happy, smiling people are trickling in through the gate this fine morning, one minivan at a time. They park in whatever shade they can find, which is not much. It's hot as hell this morning.
They are almost uniformly white and almost uniformly bubbly. Their cars come from Kentucky and Tennessee and Ohio and Illinois and as far away as New Brunswick, Canada. There are elderly couples in shorts, suburban families piling out of the minivans, the children all Wrinkle-Resistant and Stain-Released. There is a clutch of Mennonite women in traditional dress--small bonnets and long skirts. All of them wander off, chattering and waving and stopping every few steps for pictures, toward a low-slung building that seems from the outside to be the most finished part of the complex.
Outside, several of them stop to be interviewed by a video crew. They have come from Indiana, one woman says, two toddlers toddling at her feet, because they have been home-schooling their children and they have given them this adventure as a kind of field trip. The whole group then bustles into the lobby of the building, where they are greeted by the long neck of a huge, herbivorous dinosaur. The kids run past that and around a corner, where stands another, smaller dinosaur.

Which is wearing a saddle.
It is an English saddle, hornless and battered. Apparently, this was a dinosaur used for dressage competitions and stakes races. Any working dinosaur accustomed to the rigors of ranch work and herding other dinosaurs along the dusty trail almost certainly would wear a sturdy western saddle.
This is very much a show dinosaur.
The dinosaurs are the first things you see when you enter the Creation Museum, which is very much a work in progress and the dream child of an Australian named Ken Ham. Ham is the founder of Answers in Genesis, an organization of which the museum one day will be the headquarters. The people here today are on a special tour. They have paid $149 to become "charter members" of the museum.
"Dinosaurs," Ham laughs as he poses for pictures with his visitors, "always get the kids interested."
AIG is dedicated to the proposition that the biblical story of the creation of the world is inerrant in every word. Which means, in this interpretation and among other things, that dinosaurs coexisted with man (hence the saddles), that there were dinosaurs in Eden, and that Noah, who certainly had enough on his hands, had to load two brachiosaurs onto the Ark along with his wife, his sons, and their wives, to say nothing of green ally-gators and long-necked geese and humpty-backed camels and all the rest.
(Faced with the obvious question of how to keep a three-hundred-by-thirty-by-fifty-cubit ark from sinking under the weight of dinosaur couples, Ham's literature argues that the dinosaurs on the Ark were young ones, and thus did not weigh as much as they might have.)
"We," Ham exclaims to the assembled, "are taking the dinosaurs back from the evolutionists!" And everybody cheers.
Ham then goes on to celebrate the great victory won in Oklahoma, where, in the first week of June, Tulsa park officials announced a decision (later reversed) to put up a display at the city zoo based on Genesis so as to eliminate the "discrimination" long inflicted upon sensitive Christians by a statue of the Hindu god Ganesh that decorated the elephant exhibit.
This is a serious crowd. They gather in the auditorium and they listen intently, and they take copious notes as Ham draws a straight line from Adam's fall to our godless public schools, from Darwin to gay marriage. He talks about the triumph over Ganesh, and everybody cheers again.
Ultimately, the heart of the museum will be a long walkway down which patrons will be able to journey through the entire creation story. This, too, is still in the earliest stages of construction. Today, for example, one young artist is working on a scale model of the moment when Adam names all the creatures. Adam is in the delicate process of naming the saber-toothed tiger while, behind him, already named, a woolly mammoth seems to be on the verge of taking a nap.
Elsewhere in the museum, another Adam figure is full-size, if unpainted, and waiting to be installed. This Adam is reclining peacefully; eventually, if the plans stay true, he will be placed in a pool under a waterfall. As the figure depicts a prelapsarian Adam, he is completely naked. He also has no penis.
This would seem to be a departure from Scripture inconsistent with the biblical literalism of the rest of the museum. If you're willing to stretch Job's description of a "behemoth" to include baby brachiosaurs on Noah's Ark, as Ham does in his lectures, then surely, since we are depicting him before the fall, Adam should be out there waving unashamedly in the paradisaical breezes. For that matter, what is Eve doing there, across the room, with her hair falling just so to cover her breasts and midsection, as though she's doing a nude scene from some 1950s Swedish art-house film?
After all, Genesis 2:25 clearly says that at this point in their lives, "And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed." If Adam courageously sat there unencumbered while he was naming saber-toothed tigers, then why, six thousand years later, should he be depicted as a eunuch in some family-values Eden? And if these people can take away what Scripture says was rightfully his, then why can't Charles Darwin and the accumulated science of the past 150-odd years take away all the rest of it?
These are impolite questions. Nobody asks them here by the cool pond tucked into a gentle hillside. Increasingly, nobody asks them outside the gates, either. It is impolite to wonder why our parents sent us all to college, and why generations of immigrants sweated and bled so their children could be educated, if it wasn't so that we would all one day feel confident enough to look at a museum filled with dinosaurs rigged to run six furlongs at Belmont and make the not unreasonable point that it is all batshit crazy and that anyone who believes this righteous hooey should be kept away from sharp objects and his own money.
Dinosaurs with saddles?
Dinosaurs on Noah's Ark?
Welcome to your new Eden.
Welcome to Idiot America.
Let's take a tour, shall we? For the sake of time, we'll just cover the last year or so.

CONTINUE ON LINK

Greetings From Idiot America - Esquire

Carl Sagan on Astrology

From Cosmos, episode 3 "The Harmony of the Worlds".


Carl Sagan on Astrology

Astrology- The Enemies of Reason, Richard Dawkins,

This is a 9 min clip from "The Enemies of Reason", a documentary by Richard Dawkins which aired on August 13, 2007 on BBC Channel 4

Last Days on Earth, ABC 20/20

Last Days on Earth
1 hr 22 min 22 sec - Jan 2, 2007
The world's top scientists describe seven riveting scenarios detailing the deadliest threats to humanity. Some can destroy the planet, ... all » others have the ability to render us extinct, and all have the power to destroy civilization. "Last Days on Earth" goes beyond science fiction to science fact. Using state-of-the-art visual effects, it will take viewers on a journey that is both breathtaking and terrifying, from the outer reaches of the universe to the inner world of DNA, with an around-the-globe tour in between.



Last Days on Earth

A War On Science

(Warning, religious content; if you have strong religious beleifs, this video might be offensive)
God vs Science BBC - Horizon - [2006]



BBC - Horizon - A War On Science (God vs Science) [2006]

The War Game (1965)

The War Game (1965)
Subterranean Cinema
48 min 38 sec - Jun 13, 2007
Here is the complete, uncut print of the Peter Watkins masterpiece, The War Game. This BBC production about a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain was deemed so disturbingly realistic that they banned it from broadcast. It was released theatrically in the US, and went on to win an Oscar

The War Game (1965)

Time, BBC Documentary

BBC
59 min 1 sec - Oct 30, 2006
In this program string theory pioneer Michio Kaku goes on an extraordinary exploration of the world in search of time. He discovers our sense of time passing and the clocks that drive our bodies. He reveals the forces of time that make and destroy us in a lifetime. He journeys to some of the Earth's most spectacular geological sites to look for clues to the extraordinary depths of time at a planetary level. Finally, he takes us on a cosmic journey in search of the beginning (and the end) of time itself.

BBC - TIME

New Cyberspace Worlds Documentary

SBS - Future Focus
51 min 10 sec - Apr 18, 2007
A booming business has sprung up at the crossroads where virtual worlds and the real world meet. In auctions inside these realms, imaginary real estate and virtual islands are selling for hundreds of thousands of real dollars. Weapons and characters are also being exchanged every day for a few dozen gold coins. Millions of 'gamers' worldwide spend on average 30 hours a week playing in these boundless realms, creating their own new personalities as players in the game (known as 'avatars').



New_Cyberspace_Worlds.avi

2057: The World in 50 Years

2057: The World in 50 Years

Pandemic

Pandemic (a possible look of the future)
BBC
1 h 28 min 27 s - 19-jun-2007
An interesting documentary that shows the effects of a possible future outbreak of avian flu and how it would spread across the world.



Pandemic (a possible look of the future)

Great Natural Wonders of the World BBC

57 min 58 sec - Jun 17, 2007
Great Natural Wonders of the World is a wonderful journey across the seven continents in search of the most impressive and inspiring natural wonders of our planet.



BBC Great Natural Wonders of the World

The Hubble Space Telescope (Playlist)

Postsecret cards on Religion

A collection of postcards from www.postsecret.com highlighting thoughts on religion. Postcards are property of Frank Warren.



Postsecret Religion: ""

Best PostSecret

Best PostSecret




It's a slide-show set to music with fairly recent Post Secret Postcards.


Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives


PostSecret Collage


Postsecret Collection




YouTube - Best PostSecret

Post Secrets Playlist

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Trailer video for PostSecret and PostSecret.com

Trailer video for PostSecret and PostSecret.com

Hubble - Extended Groth Strip -

Ultra Picture of a "strip of heavens"

A Hubble Minute Video product with narration and music weaves a story on the Extended Groth Strip. The movie shows a rich tapestry of galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, revealing about 50,000 galaxies. The Hubble Minute gives a spectacular view of the Extended Groth Strip, beginning with its location in the constellation Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) and ending with a pan across the strip. A snowstorm of galaxies appears before our eyes.

YouTube - Extended Groth Strip, in the constellation Ursa Major: ""

50,000 Galaxies. Hubble Pans Across Heavens

Hubble's wide view — achieved
Several hundred images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have been woven together into a rich tapestry of at least 50,000 galaxies. The Hubble view is yielding new clues about the universe's youth, from its "pre-teen" years to young adulthood.
by weaving together many separate exposures into a mosaic — still only covers a comparatively small slice of sky. The entire width of the image, in angular size, is no bigger on the sky than the apparent width of your finger held at arm's length. To astronomers, however, this seemingly small area is a big piece of celestial real estate.
To cover even this much of the sky, Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys snapped more than 500 separate exposures, at 63 different pointings, spread out over the course of one year. The final mosaic is 21 images long by 3 images tall. (The dimensions in degrees are about 1.1 by 0.15 degrees. For comparison, the Moon is about 0.5 degrees in angular size).
The snowstorm of galaxies in the Hubble panorama does not appear evenly spread out. Some galaxies seem to be grouped together. Others are scattered through space. This uneven distribution of galaxies traces the concentration of dark matter, an invisible web-like structure stretching throughout space. Galaxies form in areas rich in dark matter.

Among the discoveries so far in this galactic tapestry are a giant red galaxy with two black holes at its core; several new gravitational lenses — galaxies whose gravity bends the light from background galaxies into multiple images; and a rogues' gallery of weird galaxies that should keep astronomers busy for a long time trying to explain them.

"These images reveal a wealth of galaxies at many stages of their evolution through cosmic time," said astronomer Anton Koekemoer of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., who combined all the Hubble observations to create the final panoramic image, which contains over 3 billion pixels.

The Hubble observation is part of a larger project to study galaxies in a moderately small area of sky, which provides a representative sample of the universe. The study, called the All-wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey (AEGIS), utilized four orbiting telescopes and four ground-based telescopes. The five-year project involved the cooperation of more than 50 researchers from around the world observing the same small region of sky in the radio, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, and X-ray regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
The Extended Groth Strip is named for Princeton University physicist Edward Groth. The project is jointly led by Sandra Faber, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and Marc Davis, professor of astronomy at the University of California at Berkeley. "The goal was to study the universe as it was when it was about half as old as it is at present, or about 8 billion years ago, a time when youthful galaxies undergoing active formation were becoming quieter mature adults," said Davis.
The Hubble telescope images reveal a time when galaxies were starting to reach their mature shapes, looking like the nearby galaxies we see today. A wide diversity of galaxies can be seen throughout the images. Some are beautiful spirals or massive elliptical galaxies like those seen in the nearby universe, but others look like random assemblages of material, the leftovers from violent mergers of young galaxies. These resemble some of the most distant, youngest galaxies observed, AEGIS team members said.
Hubble may have spied tens of thousands of galaxies — many of them odd and chaotic — but other telescopes observing at wavelengths other than the visible over wider areas have pinpointed more extreme and exotic objects, including supermassive black holes and energetic starburst galaxies.
In a summary paper now posted online in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Davis and his colleagues note that AEGIS is providing a unique combination of deep, intensive observations over a comparatively wide area, yielding large samples even of rare types of galaxies. They contrast their work with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which has observed the local universe in great detail, but focuses on only the last 2 billion years of cosmic evolution. "As of this time, there is no other region this large on the sky that has been looked at so deeply in so many different wavelengths," Faber said.
A total of 19 papers based on the Groth Strip survey will appear in a special issue of ApJ Letters. All currently are posted online at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/.

AEGIS provides many windows on this time of transition. Ultraviolet and long-wavelength infrared light from newly born stars, observed by the GALaxy Evolution eXplorer (GALEX) and the Spitzer Space Telescope, respectively, shows that stars were being formed at a much higher rate than today. Shorter-wavelength infrared light measures the total mass of the stars in each galaxy, allowing astronomers to see how galaxies grow larger over time, while X-ray and radio observations by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Very Large Array in New Mexico, respectively, can reveal the presence of powerful black holes at galaxies' centers.

HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Hubble Pans Across Heavens to Harvest 50,000 Evolving Galaxies (03/06/2007) - The Full Story

Planets and stars size in scale

Planets and stars size in scale, Uranus isn't shown but it's barely bigger than Neptune.
It shows: Mercury Mars Venus Earth Neptune Saturn Jupiter Sun Sirius Pollux Arcturus Rigel Betelgeuse Antares MY Cephei W Cephei


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Helicopter Crash

This guy flying "crashing" the chopper had only just bought it, and was waiting for his instructor, but decided to have ago himself !

LiveLeak.com - Helicopter Crash: ""