It’s called the Leidenfrost Effect, whereby the ball surrounds itself with a blanket of steam that keeps the rest of the water away. Eventually, the ball cools to the point where the steam jacket can’t be maintained, at which point, well, you’ll see.
It’s the same effect that allows liquid nitrogen to skitter across a floor, drops of water to cascade around a hot pan or a wet finger to be momentarily dipped in boiling lead without injury.
This works.
Master Of Doin’ It: an excellent funk-metal mashup of Metallica’s Master Of Puppets and Herbie Hancock’s Doin’ It by Wax Audio.
‘Metal evolutionist’ Brian Mock from Portland Oregon makes elegant recycled metal sculptures from discard nails, wingnuts, sheet metal, car rotors and hinges. He sez:
“I am intrigued by the challenge of creating an entirely unique piece from an eclectic collection of discarded objects. Giving these old, common items a new and extraordinary life as one sculpture is an artistically challenging yet gratifying process. This type of work is also designed to be highly interactive and prompt viewers to question the reality of what they see. Audience reactions fuel my motivation.”
More of Brian’s work here.
Youtuber lacycute20‘s metalhead Christmas light display. Not a Slayer fan? He’s also synced the display to tracks by Machinehead and Kittie.
Korean artist Park Chan-girl builds up human and animal topographical sculptures by welding thousands of metal nuts together and arranging thin metal layers which he describes as “sliced images”.
What happens when a train with multiple engines applies the brakes but one of the engines fails to shut down.
More detail, engineering theory and lols in the Reddit comment thread.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iQ93L0jV6c&feature=player_embedded#!
Yes, you’ve already seen the ‘happiest penguin ever’ video that’s been doing the rounds lately.
Never mind that. This is the remix you want.
