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Started by Sam, Nov 26, 2014, in Entertainment Add to Reading List

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Sam

Nov 26, 2014
Try and have one video per post so pages don't lag.. any topic just cool documentaries you want to share!

Try to include some information about doc

John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born June 13, 1928) is an American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the factors that govern chance and events inside complex systems in daily life. His theories are used in market economics, computing, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, accounting, politics and military theory. Serving as a Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University during the latter part of his life, he shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with game theorists Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi.
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Completely f----- up family... Guy took a polygraph examination and flunked it miserably. If you score a -7 on a polygraph examination you're considered "deceptive". He scored a -16

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Watching this on Netflix atm..

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Freeman Dyson performed the first analysis of what kinds of Orion missions were possible to reach Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the Sun.[12] His 1968 paper "Interstellar Transport"[13] (Physics Today, October 1968, p. 41–45) retained the concept of large nuclear explosions but Dyson moved away from the use of fission bombs and considered the use of one megaton deuterium fusion explosions instead. His conclusions were simple: the debris velocity of fusion explosions was probably in the 3000–30,000 km/s range and the reflecting geometry of Orion's hemispherical pusher plate would reduce that range to 750–15,000 km/s.[14]

To estimate the upper and lower limits of what could be done using contemporary technology (in 1968), Dyson considered two starship designs. The more conservative energy limited pusher plate design simply had to absorb all the thermal energy of each impinging explosion (4×1015 joules, half of which would be absorbed by the pusher plate) without melting. Dyson estimated that if the exposed surface consisted of copper with a thickness of 1 mm, then the diameter and mass of the hemispherical pusher plate would have to be 20 kilometers and 5 million metric tons, respectively. 100 seconds would be required to allow the copper to radiatively cool before the next explosion. It would then take on the order of 1000 years for the energy-limited heat sink Orion design to reach Alpha Centauri.

In order to improve on this performance while reducing size and cost, Dyson also considered an alternative momentum limited pusher plate design where an ablation coating of the exposed surface is substituted to get rid of the excess heat. The limitation is then set by the capacity of shock absorbers to transfer momentum from the impulsively accelerated pusher plate to the smoothly accelerated vehicle. Dyson calculated that the properties of available materials limited the velocity transferred by each explosion to ~30 meters per second independent of the size and nature of the explosion. If the vehicle is to be accelerated at 1 Earth gravity (9.81 m/s2) with this velocity transfer, then the pulse rate is one explosion every three seconds

Later studies indicate that the top cruise velocity that can theoretically be achieved by a Teller-Ulam thermonuclear unit powered Orion starship, assuming no fuel is saved for slowing back down, is about 8% to 10% of the speed of light (0.08-0.1c).[2] An atomic (fission) Orion can achieve perhaps 3%-5% of the speed of light. A nuclear pulse drive starship powered by Fusion-antimatter catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion units would be similarly in the 10% range and pure Matter-antimatter annihilation rockets would be theoretically capable of obtaining a velocity between 50% to 80% of the speed of light. In each case saving fuel for slowing down halves the max. speed. The concept of using a magnetic sail to decelerate the spacecraft as it approaches its destination has been discussed as an alternative to using propellant, this would allow the ship to travel near the maximum theoretical velocity.[16]

At 0.1c, Orion thermonuclear starships would require a flight time of at least 44 years to reach Alpha Centauri, not counting time needed to reach that speed (about 36 days at constant acceleration of 1g or 9.8 m/s2). At 0.1c, an Orion starship would require 100 years to travel 10 light years. The astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that this would be an excellent use for current stockpiles of nuclear weapons.[17]
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John Nash in the OP, I think I'll visit this thread often

This is about black holes: the difficulties in explaining them, how astronomers attempt to portray them and how they could be connected to the big b---.

If you like this type of documentaries (about astronomy, bh, bb, etc), you can look for documentaries with Michio Kaku, who appears in this one; he explains very difficult topics with ease and helps people who know next to nothing about these topics, get the general idea at least; he's very good at popularizing science and he actually has a sense of humour (better than Hawking's corny jokes at least).

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Full thing

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How to Get Away with Stealing
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Dec 11, 2014
The Power of Art (BBC)
David Schama's eight part series exploring the lives and work of eight renowned artists. Great way to familiarize yourself with the different movements.

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Inside the Dark Web turns to the topic of internet surveillance concerning the pros and cons of the ability for everything that passes over the immense World Wide Web being able to be watched, recorded, and analyzed.

Covers TOR Browser, Silk Road & BitCoin stuff.

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ESPN makes some AMAZING documentaries. My Top 3 would probably be..

1. Unguarded- Chris Herren/drug addiction
2. The Announcement- Magic Johnson/AIDS
3. Without Bias- Len Bias/drug overdose

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My favorite documentary. It's both one of the saddest and funniest things I've ever seen.

King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

"In the early 1980s, legendary Billy Mitchell set a Donkey Kong record that stood for almost 25 years. This documentary follows the assault on the record by Steve Wiebe, an earnest teacher from Washington who took up the game while unemployed. The top scores are monitored by a cadre of players and fans associated with Walter Day, an Iowan who runs Funspot, an annual tournament. Wiebe breaks Mitchell's record in public at Funspot, and Mitchell promptly mails a controversial video tape of himself setting a new record. So Wiebe travels to Florida hoping Mitchell will face him for the 2007 Guinness World Records. Will the mind-game-playing Mitchell engage; who will end up holding the record?"

Watch the entire doc here: http://putlocker.is/watch-the-king-of-kong-a-fistful-of-quarters-online-free-putlocker.html

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Pearl Jam 20, gave a very detailed history of the band and also part of the grunge era of music in the 90's. Made me appreciate that music a lot more.

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North Korea Doc

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DJ Lithium "The Cool Cats" - The Lith-Meister

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goat doco

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Top of my head:

The Cove
Black Fish

For the Netflix people, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Fat Sick Nearly Dead and Chasing Ice

More to come...

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just finished cosmos http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2395695/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (the remeke of carl sagan's version i believe) and it was amazing. everyone should watch this, it's extremely interesting

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