Historical Landing of Space X Falcon 9 Stage 1

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SpaceX's Monday December 21, 2015 launch of the Falcon 9 rocket made history. Apart from carrying and successfully deploying 11 satellites for ORBCOMM, in its first time SpaceX successfully landed its first stage. (CLICK HERE for more details at the SpaceX site). Watch the full webcast below from the launch to land of the stage 1 and successful deployment of 11 satellites from stage 2 below.

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The flight plan of the launch and separation of the stage 1 and stage 2 can be seen below.

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The shorter version of the launch and landing of the stage 1 of the Falcon 9 can be seen below.

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The vertical landing of the Stage 1 boosters have brought in a level with reduction in costs at some rough estimates at 40% (Not confirmed). 

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The following video is the landing of the Stage 1 taken by a helicopter giving a clearer view.

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Today is in Back to the Future 2

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Today, is the day Marty McFly traveled to the future in 'Back to the Future 2' - 21st October 2015. The internet is going on about this subject. The important point is that what predictions (more like assumptions) of a particular futuristic date and what we would have accomplished during that time is the main concern. Its like when countries and government come up with 5 year plans or 2020 target or 2030  or even 2050. Do we accomplish our things that we sent our mind to. I feel it is more like New Year Resolutions - what we have achieved during the previous year and will that drive us to accomplish anything during the rest of the 365 days. Some of the interesting set of videos to look out for the above subject are shown below.

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The above video by Fine Brothers on Youtube give us a feel about how the young generation imagine what it will be like in the future - Things we imagine about the future as against what is really in the future. Example, flying cars were to be a thing in 2015 in 'Back to the future 2', but we are still way away from having a commercially viable flying car. Another video is about the Time Paradox effect of Time travelling by 'How it Should Have Ended'

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Scientists usually say that we can make things happen or make but creativity and ideas are of those of writers. Similarly, the movies give a lot of ideas and many try to make them into reality, be it hoverboards or adjusting jackets. Below is a video on the adjusting jackets created by Instructables. 

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Lexus came up with the most realistic & believable hoverboard video. The only thing for that to happen is the whole mechanism is placed below the hoverboard track with super cooled - super conductors - super magnetism concept to make it happen. There are multiple videos - 'It's Here', 'The Ride', 'The Science' , 'The Story', 'Hoverpark', 'Evolution' and 'Testing'.

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The online community is coming up with what things Back to the Future got right or not. One such video is below.

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Toyota pays homage to the Back to the Future series by promoting its new Mirai Hydrogen Fuel Car in an advertisement which stars Michael J. Fox (Marty McFly) and Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown). Toyota made couple of videos leading to the main video - The Science behind Fueled by the Future, Fueled by the Future: 15, Diner, Clocks,and Statler Toyota 2015. Details of the advertisement can be seen HERE.

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Dnews - What back to the future got right about 2015

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The Verge - What Back to the Future got right about 2015

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Nerd Alert - Happy Back to the Future Day! Here's What they got right

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Honest Trailers - Back to the Future

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Cinema Sins - Everything wrong with Back to the Future 2

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Burger King - HoverTray (For French CLICK HERE)
For details on the Ad, click here

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SciShow - The Future of Back to the Future

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Beyond Science - 12 Back to the Future 2 Predictions that came true

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AlltimeMovies - Back to The Future Predictions: What Came True?

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Jimmy Kimmel - Marty McFly & Doc Brown visit Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Jimmy Kimmel - Michael J. Fox on making Back to the Future

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Connection between a mother and a child

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The unique and beautiful connection between a mother and child truly cannot be summarized in a single video but a small fraction can be seen in the experiment conducted by Pandora Jewelry in their project 'The Unique Connection'. The kids are blind folded (of course with the permission of the mothers and in their presence) and asked to find their mother.

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The video gives a small (very small) tribute to mothers around the world. The most amazing things about the video is that anyone can watch this video as language does not play a role. Similarly another video was put up and you can watch it below. (My first thought was that it was an advertisement for jeans or for a fashion line)

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Across the internet many more videos are popping up with similar experiments being conducted. What I notice is that many parents are creating this kind of experiment at parties as an interesting party event. I am not sure whether it should be conducted, as i am sure many factors are considered when they do the above experiment. I am worried about the effect the child or the mother will go through if the outcome is unfavourable. Our society is not a supportive one (creative criticism). The video below is from 'inside edition' which explains about Pandora - The unique connection video.

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Actual size of the solar system

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We have seen the solar system model during our studies in schools and colleges, visits to planetariums, movies and internet. Turns out they are not in exact scale size. So a team of people tried to make it to scale size but needed a large open area to make us understand the size of the planet and sun and the path of the planet around the sun. The chose the open desert area of Nevada (U.S.A).

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The team uploaded the behind the scenes and also the hard work they put up together to create the video. For our own understanding, we have always been taught how big the planets are and how far things are from each other. But to see a scale version gives us the understanding of enormity of the solar system or better yet the universe.

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I hope these videos can be shown in schools and colleges to give us a better understanding and make us feel that Physics is cool and easy to understand.

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References: I came across this on ASAP sciences on Facebook. CLICK HERE to check their website.

The Magnus Effect - Curve Ball

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The Magnus Effect is the curving of a moving object due to a spin on the object generally a ball (WIKIPEDIA). More explanations in the videos with amazing footage of the effects on basketball and soccer ball. One of the videos that became popular is the Youtube Channel Veritasium's explanation on the Magnus effect. Check the video out.

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The magnus effect on basketball performed by How Ridiculous team is the original video. And they performed a follow up video on that also which looks incredible.

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The follow up video by How Ridicolous is below (through the clouds)

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All the above videos cover about Basketball, so it will be fair to cover about other sports, like Soccer. Check the video below.

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"Slap Her" children's reaction

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This social experiment was conducted in Italy and the video was uploaded just after new years in 2015. You can check out the youtube channel of Fanpage which is responsible for the below video. In the video, the young boys were asked a few questions and then introduced to a girl of their age. They were tested with a few tasks to do which they obliged until they were asked to SLAP HER. Check to find out what their reaction is and what they think about slapping a girl. The video is in Italian with English Subtitles.

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The above video really brought a topic which is close to a lot of people around the world. The above video was shown to kids in United States of America (USA) and their reactions and opinions are also valuable to hear. Check the video below.

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In India, based on the above video, in June a similar video was made. Check the video below. The audio language is in English and some Hindi with English Subtitles. The video was created by Ufaan.org

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A Similar experiment was recreated with the Kyrgyz children (Kyrgyzstan), there is no English subtitles available. But you can give it a look. Check out the video below.

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Another video in India was immediately made after the launch of the first original Italian video, in this the girls were asked to hit the boys. Check the video out below. The language is in Hindi with English Subtitles.

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Based on the Fanpage social experiment, there has been a lot of parody videos which have been made. But the purpose of the above videos is to send a message out about a problem that we face and that resonates throughout the world. Hope we learn a lesson and are able to better ourselves.

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Cymatics: Science Vs. Music

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Cymatics by Nigel Stanford brings Science and Music together in this video. I have seen individual experiments done and one can find these videos on Youtube. Cymatic frequency that affect matter - be it salt, powdered material, tesla coils, water or even flames of fire. This video brings all of them together and creates its own rhythm. I came across this video on facebook first when a friend shared it.

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The video can be viewed on HD or even 4K. All of the science experiments in the video are real. For the original video youtube link CLICK HERE. For Nigel Stanford's facebook page, CLICK HERE. Now watch the video below.