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This is just awesome...


Creating a LEGO mechanism to recreate the James Bond gun barrel sequence.


Walking, turning, firing gun, pullback through enemy gun barrel.
No stop motion, no CG, just a finger pushing a lever.

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Brady Bunch intro grid of TNG characters.


I find it odd that they know what the crew looks like, yet don't know what a bat'leth, or Spot, or a phaser looks like.

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The Mythbusters tackle the question of whether or not Kirk could make a homemade cannon and hit the Gorn.

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Today Yu-gi-oh The Abridged Series is twenty years old!

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I only took a semester of electronics/magnetism in college and I've already forgotten it, so stuff like this might as well be magic to me. How do you modify a transmission line to prevent reflections from junctions and maintain the strongest signal possible?

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LEGO stop-motion recreation of Ocarina of Time.


This thing has so many jokes it might as well be a videofiver!

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A funny TNG/Princess Bride meme


I don't want to spoil it for you.

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There are lots of AI Trek Disco music videos, but this one has Gene Roddenberry and Minuet, which is a first...

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Trelane/Harry Mudd/Garth of Izar music video

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Foreigner has her first root beer float


Always nice to see a convert to the glory of the root beer float. They're insidious...

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Numberphile tackles the mathematics of Snakes and Ladders


Never did like Snakes and Ladders, it seemed like the epitome of a "we're just killing time with no application of skill" game. At least other simple games of childhood like Aggravation or Parcheesi or Chinese Checkers required a little bit of skill!

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Neelix's reggae restaurant


It's worth the watch if only to see Q in dreadlocks!

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A roundup of what happened to the other ships in the first generation of Constitution-class starships.


It's always nice to see lore from the early novels. I was especially surprised to hear events from the novel Federation mentioned. What surprised me is the lack of mention of USS Yorktown, firmly established in canon in "Obsession" and later to gain notoriety in the novel Crossover. After all, Scotty stole it from the fleet museum (complete with the original Enterprise bridge module that was removed during the refit) and operated it via remote control from the shuttle the E-D gave him (originally the Goddard, renamed by Scotty to the Romaine)

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Originally Posted by Nate the Great

Numberphile tackles the mathematics of Snakes and Ladders


Never did like Snakes and Ladders, it seemed like the epitome of a "we're just killing time with no application of skill" game. At least other simple games of childhood like Aggravation or Parcheesi or Chinese Checkers required a little bit of skill!

Neat!

I've considered playing backgammon with my boys, but I'm not sure how well they'd take to the abstract board or appreciate getting landed on.

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I've tried to learn backgammon several times and I've never been able to quite wrap my mind around it.


When it came to mindless games my family leaned more towards card games like Rook and Uno until Phase 10 came along.

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Adam Savage meets the prototype for the new 1701 bridge toy


Swap around console sections to facilitate stop motion filming with action figures, activate preset lights/background sound combinations, switch what's on the viewscreen, etc.