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I guess this is a pretty superficial complaint, but this is a 2nd-generation clickbait-site link (posted on io9, reposted on thekidsshouldseethis.com). Why not

I guess this is a pretty superficial complaint, but this is a 2nd-generation clickbait-site link (posted on io9, reposted on thekidsshouldseethis.com). Why not post the Youtube link directly? This isn't really Hacker News material, anyway.

teach 12y ago
Especially since the linked site is starting to hit resource limits. I had to refresh a few times before it would load. Here's the youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs
- vixen99 12y ago
  A version without Cox would definitely pile on the views. As it is I will forgo the pleasure.
norlowski 12y ago
Experiment, curiosity, huge NASA buildings, near vacuum. I'd rather read about this than mark zuckerberg.
- deleted 12y ago
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ghshephard 12y ago
A multi-story vacuum chamber on earth is pretty freaking amazing. Certainly stimulated my intellectual curiosity.
colinramsay 12y ago
> What to Submit > If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- DanBC 12y ago
  > Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.
  - ColinWright 12y ago
    Yes, although I thought the site I submitted actually had an interesting comment. The IO9 site less so, and hence in my judgement, on this occasion, the link I submitted was in some sense "better" than the raw youtube link. I think the guidelines are mis-guided in this sense. Sometimes the original, raw content is somewhere else, but a page that points to it can sometimes add context, or otherwise enhance that original post/material. But this is meta, and getting off-topic. To go meta-meta, I do wish there were somewhere sensible to discuss these sorts of issues.
    - DanBC 12y ago
      for people who can't load the linked article: ---begin quote--- …though in this case, “the hammer” is a bowling ball. In this [excellent clip]{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs} from the BBC’s [Human Universe: Episode 4]{http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0276q28 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0276q28}, Professor Brian Cox visits NASA’s Space Power Facility in Ohio, home of the [world’s biggest vacuum chamber]{http://facilities.grc.nasa.gov/spf/# http://facilities.grc.nasa.gov/spf/#}, to test Galileo Galilei‘s Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment, circa 1589: [If you drop a brick and a feather at the same time]{http://www.planetseed.com/laboratory/galileo-drops-ball-virtual-experiment http://www.planetseed.com/laboratory/galileo-drops-ball-virt...} the brick will probably hit the ground first. But this is because of differences in the amount of friction between these objects and the air around them, not because their masses are different. If there were no air… What happens? How does a hammer, brick, or bowling ball move in comparison to the feathers when you remove any air resistance? Watch. Then watch this next: Apollo 15 Commander David Scott famously conducts this [same experiment in 1971… on the moon]{http://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/31056368331 http://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/31056368331}. ---end quote---
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giarc 12y ago
Things that aren't HN material will be downvoted by members. This is currently sitting at #3, and therefore the HN community has determined that this is indeed HN material.

teach 12y ago

Especially since the linked site is starting to hit resource limits. I had to refresh a few times before it would load. Here's the youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs

vixen99 12y ago
A version without Cox would definitely pile on the views. As it is I will forgo the pleasure.

norlowski 12y ago

Experiment, curiosity, huge NASA buildings, near vacuum. I'd rather read about this than mark zuckerberg.

deleted 12y ago
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ghshephard 12y ago

A multi-story vacuum chamber on earth is pretty freaking amazing. Certainly stimulated my intellectual curiosity.

colinramsay 12y ago

> What to Submit > If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

DanBC 12y ago
> Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.
- ColinWright 12y ago
  Yes, although I thought the site I submitted actually had an interesting comment. The IO9 site less so, and hence in my judgement, on this occasion, the link I submitted was in some sense "better" than the raw youtube link. I think the guidelines are mis-guided in this sense. Sometimes the original, raw content is somewhere else, but a page that points to it can sometimes add context, or otherwise enhance that original post/material. But this is meta, and getting off-topic. To go meta-meta, I do wish there were somewhere sensible to discuss these sorts of issues.
  - DanBC 12y ago
    for people who can't load the linked article: ---begin quote--- …though in this case, “the hammer” is a bowling ball. In this [excellent clip]{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs} from the BBC’s [Human Universe: Episode 4]{http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0276q28 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0276q28}, Professor Brian Cox visits NASA’s Space Power Facility in Ohio, home of the [world’s biggest vacuum chamber]{http://facilities.grc.nasa.gov/spf/# http://facilities.grc.nasa.gov/spf/#}, to test Galileo Galilei‘s Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment, circa 1589: [If you drop a brick and a feather at the same time]{http://www.planetseed.com/laboratory/galileo-drops-ball-virtual-experiment http://www.planetseed.com/laboratory/galileo-drops-ball-virt...} the brick will probably hit the ground first. But this is because of differences in the amount of friction between these objects and the air around them, not because their masses are different. If there were no air… What happens? How does a hammer, brick, or bowling ball move in comparison to the feathers when you remove any air resistance? Watch. Then watch this next: Apollo 15 Commander David Scott famously conducts this [same experiment in 1971… on the moon]{http://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/31056368331 http://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/31056368331}. ---end quote---
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giarc 12y ago

Things that aren't HN material will be downvoted by members. This is currently sitting at #3, and therefore the HN community has determined that this is indeed HN material.