Tag: YouTube videos

Chuck Norris is still The Man!

A few weeks ago, one of the Volvo trucks’ ads went viral.  It was the Jean Claud Van Damme split video which now has more than 60,000,000 views and numerous parodies.  Here it is:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10]

Nicely done indeed, but the Internet knows that no matter how cool you are, Chuck Norris is The Man.  No matter what you do, he beat you down with your own coolness, and make understand how small, unimportant, and irrelevant you are.  And the above video was clearly a challenge.  True fans never doubted Chuck Norris for a second though.  And now, The Man delivers the answer in the form of this video:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-D1KVIuvjA]

Truly epic!  Move along Jean Claud, join the army of those who tried and miserably failed.  Chuck Norris is still The Man!

P.S.: If you don’t know why Chuck Norris is so cool, check these top 50 facts about him.  There are more on the same website.

Coldest Spot On Planet Earth

Slashdot lets us know that we finally know where’s the most freezing place on Earth:

What is the coldest place on Earth? It is a high ridge in Antarctica on the East Antarctic Plateau where temperatures in several hollows can dip below minus 133.6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 92 degrees Celsius) on a clear winter night. Scientists made the discovery while analyzing the most detailed global surface temperature maps to date, developed with data from remote sensing satellites including the new Landsat 8, a joint project of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., joined a team of researchers reporting the findings Monday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. Researchers analyzed 32 years’ worth of data from several satellite instruments. They found temperatures plummeted to record lows dozens of times in clusters of pockets near a high ridge between Dome Argus and Dome Fuji, two summits on the ice sheet known as the East Antarctic Plateau. The new record of minus 93.2 C was set Aug. 10, 2010.

The linked article from NASA has a nice visualization in the form of the YouTube video:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp6wMUVb23c]

One thing that is not so obvious about this research is the problem with tools – most thermometers that we are using elsewhere will simply stop working at these temperatures.

And just in case you were wondering how cold is it in space, here is a very nice explanation:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QE3oHoTgUQ]