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A tour guide with Kilauea EcoTours wanted a very close up shot of hot lava, so his GoPro got put in the line of fire. This is the story of an innocent GoPro put in danger Have you ever wondered what it is like to be consumed by lava? This incredible footage has emerged on the internet showing the moment that a stream of lava engulfs a GoPro camera during a volcanic eruption. Although the exterior of Erik Storm’s camera was almost completely destroyed, the lens somehow survived, and Erik was able to salvage the footage from the SD card inside, which shows the mass of boiling rock slowly slipping towards the camera during the eruption of the <a href="https://rumble.com/v3eb7t-drone-footage-shows-lava-flow-at-kilauea-volcano-in-hawaii.html" target="_blank">Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii </a> in 2016. As the lava reaches the lens, flickering flames briefly appear before fire completely consumes the camera. Erik Storm, the lead tour guide of Kilauea EcoGuides, was on a tour when he placed his GoPro into a crack to see if he could capture the lava flows. The resulting footage showed molten rock rolling towards the gadget which had been set up on the most active of the five volcanoes that form the archipelago's largest island, Hawaii. The camera is one tenacious trooper that can go through an extended and fiery bath in molten rock and still be somewhat functional. This is the amazing story of a tough little <a href="https://rumble.com/v3h8hw-gopro-falls-off-moving-ferrari-on-busy-highway.html" target="_blank">GoPro camera</a> that refused to die after being hit by molten lava, bursting into flames, and somehow surviving to shoot another day. Erik was telling a story when the molten lava, which typically reaches temperatures of between 700C to 1,200C, completely engulfed his GoPro before flames started to spark around it and it caught on fire.

Technology is always changing and people are always coming up with new inventions to satisfy the needs of people. In today’s day and age, technology is one of the most useful things we have. Someone is always surprising people with their invention and trying to make life easier for all people around. As people’s technology improves, the surrounding tech must improve as well. If our cellphones get better and more people use them, the technology around the house and city has to improve as well. This is the reason why we have items such as Alexa, electrical scooters you pay for with your phone, <a href="https://rumble.com/v5o3jz-stuff-they-dont-want-you-to-know-is-public-wifi-dangerous.html" target="_blank">WiFi</a> at all types of locations, etc. This video is all about the inventions of having WiFi in plant pots! Definitely a very creative invention and could be very useful to all citizens and can easily be concealed in a small pot! This Spanish company wondered if plants could be used for solar panels and electricity due to the abundance of plants. They thought they could benefit us with technology as well! They came up with this WiFi plant box that when you set your phone next to it, it gives you WiFi, the main attraction here is that is concealed in a small flower pot. This would look great around the room and you don’t have to have a big cable box supplying wife but a small pot that blends in with the room! Pablo Vidarte is the 22-year-old man behind this creation and is trying to change the world! The planet giving the people signs that we are causing damage to it is what made Pablo start on this journey. From the climate change to the increasing pollution levels Pablo wanted to make a change! They are able to get electricity from plants because of the substances that are created by the plant after photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is the process used by plants that converts sunlight to chemical energy later used to fuel the activities of the plant! They can break down these substances and get electrons from them thus creating the electricity. Obviously, they can’t control some factors in nature such as cloudy days or raining or windy, but they are progressing. This system can clean the air and can change carbon dioxide levels very much. Their plan is to have panels that can sustain whole families! They have projects going on around the world and are working with companies to apply their new technology in many different avenues! From the lights in parks or on the roads, being used in smart cities, this team is definitely trying to help out the world and environment! Hopefully, Pablo says that with the direction they are headed in, forests around the world can act as <a href="https://rumble.com/v30k63-hydroelectric-power-plant-drone-4k-.html" target="_blank">power plants</a>, but instead of destroying the environment, they will be helping it! This project will take a lot more people to come on board so they can have a big impact. It will take everyone’s effort to get the environment back on track. Pablo is very hopeful this can happen, he is definitely a very ambitious man!

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Don't adjust your TV set, we have not taken over your color adjustment. This isn't a Warren Miller documentary. This is an amateur video from Mars...er, sorry, Russia. What's going on here is red hued sand blowing north from the Sahara Desert in Africa has decided to decorate the white snows of Sochi. Sochi was the location of the 2014 Winter Olympics. It looks just like a scene on Mars, except for the skiers, of course. They're earthlings. The phenomenon happens about once every five years, so the Russians are no strangers to life on Mars. This particular event happened in March, 2018, and was widely reported from multiple news sources, so we have no reason to doubt it. The dust even tinted the sky, and skiers had to wear goggles. Skiers reported that “the wind is really wild,” which probably explains how the sand got there to begin with. Anybody with skiing experience would do a double take. Not only is skiing on red snow not normal, but subjecting your skis to <a href="https://rumble.com/v4okxp-sunglasses-guy-surfs-down-sand-dune-and-faceplants.html" target="_blank">sand</a> sounds like a horrible idea. It can't be good for your skis; imagine skiing on sand paper. This is an occasion when you break out your old boards, the ones you normally use for spring skiing, when you know you're going to be skating over patches of mud. If you do have expandable skis, poles, and goggles, then Mars Day could be a way to turn lemons into lemonade. Not everything about <a href="https://rumble.com/v4639e-weekend-night-skiing-comes-to-bogus-basin-mountain-resort.html" target="_blank">skiingi</a> is simply going down a mountain as fast as you can. Skiing is a nature event, and sometimes you want to take the long way down. We're seeing a lot of powder here, too! Wish we could say “white powder”, but we know it's not. And what about those barefoot kids being pulled in tubes? Is that a clue as to temperature? Because they seem well bundled up, otherwise. How many people around the world can say they've skied on Mars? Serious tourist market opportunities exist, if only the Russians could predict it ahead of time. Of course, with all that sand I would hope the Russians are covering their mouths and noses. Skis aren't the only thing that could be hurt from the abrasion of red sand from the Sahara. It can't be very good for your throat and lungs, either. A good shower is in order after you've been outside, and a hose down of all your outdoor equipment. The only people unhappy about “Mars Day” in Russia are the Saharans. “We want our sand back!” demanded several dignitaries from north Africa. “Our dunes are dying.” OK, nobody really said that. We can't verify reports of angry Saharans planning a sand recovery raid on Russia. But it is true the Sahara desert gives away a lot of sand to other places in the world. Sand blowing into the atmosphere out of West Africa is a determining factor in whether hurricanes will be strong or weak. A lot of sand in the air means weaker hurricanes in the Americas

After being struck by a hurricane in 2009, India's Sundarban Islands' mangrove trees, and entire ecosystem, were destroyed. That was until Pranabesh Maity decided to mend his island and its devastated community.

A quick recap of some fascinating developments in tech and science that happened in 2017!

Indonesia's incredibly rich marine ecosystems are under threat. Plastic is the culprit and Avani are fighting by producing biodegradable alternatives to single use plastic products.

The sound of upcycling: this band can teach us something about thinking a little greener.

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101 Dalmatians may not be so far from the truth. South Korea has launched a cloning center in which you can have your canine companion back, just like new. The police could even create a new dog workforce.

This is a perfect video for animal lovers and seeing them in their natural habitat. Especially ones that are endangered or the last of their kind in a certain area. This video follows a group of researchers that are tracking the last 12 snow leopards in the region. We take a hike across the mountains on the Russian-Mongolian border, following a group of researchers who are tracking the movements of the last twelve snow leopards in the region. Footage takes place in the Russian-Mongolian border and the team navigates the woods and snow to see these leopards. There are actually only about 8000 <a href="https://rumble.com/v30i5d-snow-leopard-jumps-on-walls.html" target="_blank">snow leopards</a> left in the world and they look like amazing creatures! It is very interesting to see their group tactics and pure love for these leopards! Simply amazing! The team is in Buryatia, Russia a southern area of the country just north of Mongolia and the team is tracking down snow leopards. The group is a big advocate of the preservation of these leopards and definitely dislike the people who hunt these beautiful creatures. Anton Tsatska, the 25-year-old man in charge of this group, is very appreciative and loves snow leopards! He has an extensive background with wildlife as he used to hunt and hike as a child with his father. They would collect berries and mushrooms in the wild and he loved to go fishing with his father. This is someone who definitely feels at home when he is hiking and living in the wild! Tsatska claims that the hunting of these, now endangered, snow leopards began in the 1980s. These hunters would hunt down these leopards and sell off their fur and organs. This is a similar situation with what is happening with elephants and whales where poachers attack and sell off organs or ivory. It is very sad when animals are being attacked in their own home to be sold off for some money. The fur and organs can actually be found in museums and it is unfortunately what happened to the animal for it to be put on display for people. According to team’s research there are about 12 snow leopards in the mountains they are exploring! A normal day for the team involves waking up in their campsite and making food to get ready for their day’s long journey! After all, breakfast is said to be the most important meal of the day! They start by surveying the area for leopards whether it is feces, tracks, left over food, etc. After all that they log all their data into a GPS device so they can pinpoint their locations and see their travel patterns and they even collect DNA from these findings. They leave cameras in these areas so if they come back to sleep or rest in the same spot they can see what the leopards are up to! Tsatska says they observe them as a pack to see how they move as a group and to see how they act with their environment around them! Tsatska has a true love for these animals and really enjoys learning even the smallest amount of detail about these leopards. It is great someone so passionate really cares about the well-being of these <a href="https://rumble.com/v31ky3-adorable-endangered-leopard-cub-born-in-captivity.html" target="_blank">endangered animals</a>!

This is one of those bright ideas that makes the world work that little bit more efficiently. But how do we take a good idea to one that can save millions of lives? World: meet graphine.

Women are from Venus, men are from Mars. But what actually is out there? Find out what the ExoMars mission is trying to discover.

If you can't take the animals to water, then why not bring the water to them? A one man mission to single-handedly drive tons of water to the most vulnerable: Kenya's wildlife.

This material captures 99.9% of the light that hits it, Vantablack is taking the world by storm but there is more to this material than meets the eye. Watch this video and find out! Have you ever heard of Vantablack? Probably not, but it is becoming increasing popular in the scientific world and it is a matter of a material that is used for coating things. It is chemical substance that is made using vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays. This is considered to be the <a href="https://rumble.com/v4g4s9-s2-ep25-did-dark-energy-just-disappear.html" target="_blank">darkest</a> material on Earth. It actually captures 99.9% of the light that hits it and because of this it easily masks its shape and formation! It appears as a pitch black and the VANTA in its name actually stands for vertically aligned nanotube arrays. It is currently trademarked by Surrey Nanosystems and it can be used to keep light from reflecting so it can be useful for telescopes. You can see why it is currently a hot commodity, as there are a ton of uses for it! Ben Jensen, founder and CTO of Surrey Nanosystems, talks a bit about the making and use of Vantablack. It is particularly useful for the space, the automotive industry, the different electronics, etc. This material is basically pitch black, and that is a little bit disturbing. Think of going into a windowless room at night and turning off all the lights. It is so dark that it appears as a mask from one angle, but it looks like a black plane as well! This is one very fascinating technology! Keep watching the video as it describes the process of creating the Vantablack. It involves three big machine chambers, one where they put the substances, the second for the catalyst used for growing the Vantablack, and the third is where the <a href="https://rumble.com/v2z91i-vantablack-the-closest-thing-on-earth-to-a-black-hole.html" target="_blank">Vantablack</a> actually grows! Seems like a lot of components for this material! Jensen was originally working at the University of Surrey where he was working with nanotube synthesis equipment. They eventually developed an equipment that allowed them to make the Vantablack, which is the current world record holder for being the blackest material ever created! They actually coated an entire building in South Korea in preparation for the 2018 Winter Olympics! The building looks very strange and is looks like a big black square sort of like a cube cut from space and inserted into the city of PyeongChang! The architect behind this, Asif Khan, wanted it to look like looking into space. They even studded the building with little lights appearing as stars in the deep space! It is definitely very creative and imaginative! If you get close enough, you would be staring into the dark walls without seeing the sky behind it or the streets to the side. This is Khan’s goal of keeping viewers immersed in the matter! Aside from capturing the light, this Vantablack actually repels water as well. It comes in a spray paint form, therefore, you can apply this pitch-black substance to almost anything with ease! Aside from the spray paint version it can be applied directly with the vacuum deposition technology. This is a very impressive material and it has been shown to have multiple uses. From being used in technology to finding its way up in space or down in cars, to even having a use in art and architecture. This material is bound to grow even more popular!

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