Thanks, I just got a decent mic and this was the first video in which I used it. A few people have said that and they've all started the comment with "not to be :gheyhi:" Thanks!
Here is a video I put together on how an EMP works and how/why a Faraday Cage/Box protects electronics. I decided to skip the tin foil covered shoe box and build something a little more substantial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6tKoYV7b24
This is the second part of my interview with a Minuteman Nuclear Missile Combat Crew Commander. This guy was fascinating, we talked about all kinds of cold war era topics related to our nuclear deterrent. From operations to UFO's. If you think cold war history is interesting, this is a must...
I didn't know quite what forum to put this one in, but I recently interviewed a former Missile Combat Crew Commander at a decommissioned launch facility in North Dakota.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePicUr5f8CU
If the modern conveniences of weather satellites and communications were to become unavailable weather forecasting would have to revert to more basic fundamentals. One of those fundamentals is the barometer. One convenient barometer is the Suunto Core watch. Here are a few weather basics and how...
What is a great weapon with virtually unlimited ammo, good take down power (at least with small game and giants) and is almost silent? The answer: a slingshot. This review is of the Survival Slingshot. This Survival Slingshot takes the age old slingshot into the 21st century with the ability...
One more point, just like anything in life this increases the probabilities that you survive, it doesn't guarantee it. So if a bullet passes through whatever books an elementary student has it might slow it down enough to injure instead of kill. Any advantage helps.
I think 4 elementary text books would have enough meat to do the same thing. The Corbon was stopped by just one 450 page book, the FMJ went through 850 pages.
It is a pity not many schools arm teachers or have police officers on duty in schools. I wanted to run this test to see if there was some type of advice I could offer my kids if they ever found themselves in a school shooting. Short of buying them a kevlar backpack or even home schooling I...
It is the pronunciation that is accepted by Websters by from folks in Northwest Indiana. The facts in the video do not change if you pronounce it "new-clee-ar". At this point I have been through this about 417 times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzoeXkdxKuc
In this final part of the effects of a nuclear bomb series we take a look at some of the largest weapons that ever had the possibility of being delivered to target. A 20 megaton weapon is at the upper end of the warheads that sat atop ICBM's and in the...