Favorite YouTube Video (2 Viewers)

[Sam Posten]

So cool:http://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/the-hammer-feather-drop-in-the-worlds-biggest-vacuum-chamber

 

[Mike Frezon]

So cool:http://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/the-hammer-feather-drop-in-the-worlds-biggest-vacuum-chamber

OMG! That is so completely cool. I wish my dad were alive so I could send him that link. He was a mechanical engineer who LOVED stuff like that.

 

[Ejanss]

So cool:http://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/the-hammer-feather-drop-in-the-worlds-biggest-vacuum-chamber

OOO!...Our old science museum had little 12-foot vacuum tubes that did the same experiment with a lot less hangar space.

(And when I saw "For All Mankind" with a theater audience, everyone cheered NASA's David Scott doing the experiment on the moon, to vindicate Galileo.)

 

[DaveF]

We should just lock the thread, because there's nowhere else to go after that video. It's everything awesome ever, in 11 minutes.

 

[Ejanss]

We should just lock the thread, because there's nowhere else to go after that video. It's everything awesome ever, in 11 minutes.

Think there'll ever come a day when the next generation of stoners reference kitschy 90's things, like Titanic, and Seinfeld, and Scream movies, or is that pretty much the cultural cutoff point right there, and it'll basically be GI Joe, Battlestar Galactica and Electra Woman & Dyna Girl jokes for the next twenty or thirty years on in?
And by 90's, I mean, apart from just Jar-Jar.

(Adult Swim: The scariest anti-drug ad on the air. )

 

[DaveF]

Watching that video, I was wondering when that will happen. I look forward to the equivalent video in a decade, referencing Friends, X-Files, Buffy, and ER.

 

[Ejanss]

Watching that video, I was wondering when that will happen. I look forward to the equivalent video in a decade, referencing Friends, X-Files, Buffy, and ER.

Well, that's just it--Unlike Superfriends reruns, 80's movies and Diff'rent Strokes, there's very little about 90's TV for socially sheltered Rip-Van-WInkle stoners to feel symbolically superior to, in the form of cheap shared pop-refs.
In fact, the rest of us...kinda miss it by now. I was even missing some of the 70's shows.

 

[DaveF]

I see where you're coming from. But I think there's a commonality enough for parody in the 90s. There was a lot of sci-fi with (to modern eyes) mediocre effects (ST:TNG); a lot of serialized late-night adventures (Xena), and high-minded drama (ER), and best-ever comedy (Seinfeld). And there's the kids stuff that I was too old for, like Power Rangers and Nick and Night. And this still pre-dates the fracturing from the web, Netflix, and commonplace DVRs.

But the 2000s and on, that could be different. There are touchstone shows. But it might skew more towards movies, as pop culture TV is getting more fragmented.

 

[Sam Posten]

Neat:

 

[Sam Posten]

Pssst, wanna know something?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow&app=desktop

 

[Mike Frezon]

 

[andySu]

I see snowflakes on the site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbbKjDjMDok&list=RDtbbKjDjMDok

 

[andySu]

This is sweet while the budgie takes a nap on his owners lap.

 

[andySu]

You get arrested for indecent exposure. Obviously a Moghny, prank.

 

[DaveF]

This pop-music video can be appreciated on a few levels.

 

[andySu]

The Shat Turkey.



http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/video/2011/nov/23/how-to-deep-fry-turkey

 

[Adam Gregorich]

When moms get involved:

 

[Mike Frezon]

Merry Christmas, YouTube fans!

 

[Sam Posten]

Was impressed with the production but the story fell flat for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpmkpCK3ysg&feature=youtu.be

 

[ChristopherG]

Katniss Everdeen, eat your heart out...