Category: Science & Geeks

  • Moving

    Little administrative message for those of you you know me more personally than through a mere Internet connexion: I just moved which is a relatively good explanation for some of the minor service disruptions observed on the Roumazeilles.net web site these recent days. As a matter of fact, there is no obvious difference for the…

  • Let Particle Physics have fun

    I don’t know why but this video clip attracts me strangely. Even if I don’t understand all the advanced notions that are evocated quickly one after the other, (I am not really up-to-date despite all my efforts to understand some of it), I bow in front of the enormous work to adapt Queen’s music (Bohemian…

  • Space and tennis collide in Roland Garros

    30 years ago, on May 28, 1983, in the middle of a tennis match between John McEnroe and Drew Gitlin, the public suddenly started to applaud with no apparent reason. The first US space shuttle, Enterprise, was flying over the Roland Garros stadium during an in-flight demonstration for the Bourget air show. Even McEnroe did…

  • Synology DS413j is easy and safe RAID & NAS

    Synology DS413j is easy and safe RAID & NAS

    For some time now, I have been worried about the frequent failures of my hard disk drives. It seems unusual, but I have been hoarding a lot of data storage space (but I don’t believe in the optical disks of , purchasing disk drives over the years whenever I needed some more storage on one…

  • Aluminium anodization

    Metal parts can be colored in the strangest ways. When we speak about aluminium, Apple is able to produce extraordinary hues on aluminium covers. As a matter of fact, they are using an anodization process which oxydizes the surface of the metal to create small pores to receive color pigmentation which will become nearly impossible…

  • Leave me alone!

    YouTube link Bravo à Philippe L.

  • Nurburgring: Holiday on ice

    You never saw the magnificent race track of Nurburgring under this appearance: covered with snow. Better! The snow has frozen. Worse: A pilot takes a formula car on a trip around the track and we can have a peek. No speed record for sure but a very unusual show. YouTube link

  • Hand-nourished great white sharks

    They don’t seem so ferocious or so voracious those big sharks. I wouldn’t do it, anyway. YouTube link

  • Videos (more or less) about cars

    Rather than using electricity to power a car, here is a prototype using Coke Zero and Mentos. YouTube link But, when you’ve been using so much coke, you need to clean your car. Just don’t try to do it the same way as… Two guys vs. a car wash spray hose