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[scarface]

Tonight, new videos are available for the users of the forum.


Mariana Trench | In Pursuit of the Abyss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoEVezcE0k0



Why can't you visit the Statue of Liberty's Torch? -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ybKILVz2Xc



Some rioters took to the street in Paris today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-f5ByRnF-c



An infamous Komodo dragon is attacking a wild boar in a mud puddle. The wild boar doesn't stand a chance: even if it's still trying to thwart the attacks of the giant lizard, it is paralyzed, due to the venomous bite of the Komodo dragon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tqvOJjMWXM

[humbert]

I was watching some of the videos you posted. I believe the one about the Mariana Trench is living proof that life forms can adapt to ANY conditions. This is why I firmly believe life is not even close to being unique to this planet. Also, if and when they find it, it will look NOTHING like anything found on this planet. They probably won't even recognize it.

I was briefly reading about the riots in Paris. I think the rioters are mad at Macron for either reducing subsidies or eliminating/lowering government payments to the needy. What is it exactly?

I was waiting for a Komodo dragon to eat a human in that other video. Sadly this didn't happen. 

[scarface]

I was watching some of the videos you posted. I believe the one about the Mariana Trench is living proof that life forms can adapt to ANY conditions. This is why I firmly believe life is not even close to being unique to this planet. Also, if and when they find it, it will look NOTHING like anything found on this planet. They probably won't even recognize it.

It's an interesting theory. But it's hard to confirm it since nothing was found for now.

I was briefly reading about the riots in Paris. I think the rioters are mad at Macron for either reducing subsidies or eliminating/lowering government payments to the needy. What is it exactly?

It's about the pension reform... there are more explanations in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmXdDuG1Kts

I was waiting for a Komodo dragon to eat a human in that other video. Sadly this didn't happen. 

I was expecting that too. These lizards prefer pork meat apparently.

[scarface]

Tonight, new videos are available for the users of the forum.


Is Remote Work a Liability? Why Some Companies Think So.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C_RImEcTSY



Where Trump Could Be Indicted, Arrested, Booked and Arraigned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hP3jwDPGR8


Some Cheeky Baboons are robbed of their palm nuts by elephants!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHU6P44MnMI



How to to make your way in the Lighthouse, in the game The Room Three? Note that this game is available in the best games topic. Guliver and shadow.97 might appreciate it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prvosOKfZn0

[scarface]

Tonight, new videos are available for the users of the forum.



Prague, at the heart of Europe - Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU7ZFmg1zus



The dark side of Switzerland incredible economic success.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxZevw0p8lY



The Mid Proterozoic and Earth's Middle Ages, is the time period between 1.8 and 0.8 billion years ago, characterized by more or less tectonic stability, climatic stasis, and slow biological evolution. What happened during this time lapse?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sbwUeTyDb0



Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès Case: Dead or Alive?
Count Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès is a descendant of a French aristocratic family. He mysteriously disappeared after the bodies of his entire family were discovered under the terrace of their stately home in Nantes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuvyvON_UDA

[scarface]

Tonight, new videos are available for the users of the forum.



The largest collection of Johannes Vermeer paintings on show in Amsterdam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spx6NmCQjzc



With inflation at record highs, Sweden grapples with poverty | AFP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enkMIvyqtdU



The Insane Biology of the Octopus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFP_AjJeP-M



Abandoned - Memphis Pyramid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEB-YG2iiYA



The Führer's Final Downfall: Hitler's Bad Decisions and the Consequences of World War II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVZTcDL8WBQ

The defeat of Stalingrad

[humbert]

The Führer's Final Downfall: Hitler's Bad Decisions and the Consequences of World War II

That the Führer was a drug addict is known to history. Dr Theodor Morrell injected him with a cocktail of mostly amphetamines sometimes several times a day. It got to a point where he actually believed his own propaganda, i.e., that the Germans were an invincible race of supermen and he had been chosen to be their leader. Goebbels used to say that any lie, no matter how ridiculous, would be believed if repeated incessantly. He was right.

And speaking of Goebbels and his vehemently Nazi wife Magda, everybody criticises them for "murdering their children". What people forget is that if those young girls fell into the hands of the Russians, they would have been raped repeatedly and probably undergone other hellish torture. Magda spared them from that fate.

[scarface]

Tonight, new videos are available for the users of the forum.


The Trick That Solves Rubik's Cubes and Breaks Ciphers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL3uWO-KLUE



Japan Syndrome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aef7f4RyJcQ



Face to Face with a deadly predator: the giant Komodo dragon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGxtb2U5hiY



The Battle of Stalingrad | Doomed from the start?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F679phS3xT0



How the Crash of Flight 4590 Destroyed Concorde's Mystique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zeDsSJmcpM

The Concorde in flames, on July 25 2000, in Gonesse (Val-d'Oise).


How this country became a climate villain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFV0WaJLjeM



Innertales - Odyssee (Original Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A-Jh2RhHyM

[Guliver]

With respect to the movie about life in Paris circa 1900, was electricity available at the time? I saw those fountains spraying water. To my knowledge that requires a strong electric motor, which in turn requires a grid. The other way to pressurize water like that is to use some sort of water tower. How do you get the water up there without electricity?

Ooh, I think I have something that will blow your mind They did have water towers in the 1900s, actually way before that. Here you can see a water tower in Prague from the 16th century that is still standing today: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0%C3%ADtkovsk%C3%A1_vod%C3%A1rensk%C3%A1_v%C4%9B%C5%BE
As for how they got the water up there I can't say for sure, but they definitely did have basic mechanical pumps that could be driven by slaves or serfs, or more likely by an animal like a mule or an ox. And let's not forget that even in ancient Rome they had fountains spraying water. The romans were really good with things like aqueducts, pipes and plumbing, and they took advantage of the fact that Rome is surrounded by mountains, so they carved cisterns in the rock and used plumbing to transfer the water to the city. There, the simple difference in altitudes meant water could flow and even spray from fountains. Also, some of these cisterns were absolutely huge, check one such here: "The Cisternoni"
Cisternone albano





And as for electric-powered fountains, I have another little gem for you. There is an electric fountain in Prague, built in 1891 by an inventor and proponent of electricity and electric power František Křižík. This fountain was not only driven by an electric pump, but also lit up using electric lights, see here: Křižíkova světelná fontána

[Guliver]

Today, I also have a video I'd like to share with you. It's a news report that I saw on the TV two weeks back and it concerns the arrest of Oleg Orlov in Moscow. Orlov is a chairman of the human rights organization "Memorial", established in the Soviet Union way back in 1989 and dedicated to uncovering and studying the human rights abuses in stalinist times. The organization has been critical of Putin's regime for quite some time, since before the current war against Ukraine, and has been banned as a result. I guess studying a totalitarian regime somehow gives you the ability to also spot and call out other totalitarian regimes.
But what especially stood out to me in the report and what I want to point out, is Orlov's wife at the end of the video. You can see her on the verge of tears and in complete despair, explaining how she couldn't live anywhere else because she loves Russia, and you can feel her despair that her beloved country is becoming worse and worse.
My thought at that moment was that Putin is one of the people who have hurt Russia the most in decades, Putin is one of the people who have done the most damage to Russia, maybe since Stalin himself, and I don't mean economically, politically, militarily, internationally (though it's certainly that)... but in terms of mentality, of psychological damage to it's own inhabitants, to inflict such desperation and disillusionment and heartbreak upon the exact people he pretends to protect and defend... Just some thoughts I wanted to share.

The video: https://vimeo.com/817200006