Chase and Sam

Welcome to the Home Page of Chase Thompson and Sam Knowles. We're tech journalists, web designers and computer security consultants from Birmingham. Hear Tech Talk Saturday's at 11:00am on WAPI 1070 and see us on TV (Thursday night, 9:55pm) hosting Tech Check on WBRC6 - the local Fox affiliate. Call us on Saturdays at: 1-866-927-1070

Amazing Videos

ChaseandSam.com has had short videos on our site for several years - predating YouTube. We have Amazing Videos, Funny Videos, Sports Videos, and many others - check them out!

How about we start archiving our Tech Check’s here

If you are in the Alabama area, check out our weekly TechCheck segment on Fox6 News aired on Thursday nights usually just before the 10:00pm news. Or you can click here to watch it online where ever you are!!!

When Octopi (sp?) ;) Attack!


This is amazing footage of a giant octopus attacking an ROV sub.

The incident was caught on the ROV’s video by Mike Wood of SubOceanic Sciences Canada. He had just located a data recorder and taken a grip of the cable with the ROV’s manipulator arm, when suddenly an 80 lb octopus launched an attack.

With tentacles ‘as thick as man’s arm’ and a bite that he believed can exert 1000 lbs pressure, Mike Wood feared the octopus would bite the camera cable or umbilical and trip out the Falcon ROV.

Not wanting to lose the receiver that he had just located he decided to take on the creature and after tightening his grip of the cable with the manipulator arm, revved the ROV’s thrusters in reverse in an attempt to blast seabed particles at the creature. For a moment the octopus appeared to intensify its attack with its mantle flared but eventually the swirling fragments drove it away. Click here to check it out!

Two great new videos

Here’s a couple of classics - one funny video, and one amazing video.

First: The amazing bendy Woman
- Unbelievably flexible!

The very funny Ninja Rap Video:

Three New Quickguides - Four more video pages on Safevideo

We’ve written or revised, three new quickguides that we guarantee will provide you with helpful and useful information - Check them out!

Anti-Spam guide - Everything you need to know about preventing spam. Great anti-spam tips, free anti-spam software, and several paragraphs of anti-spam advice.

2006 Online Tax Guide - 2006 Tax Software reviews, Money Saving Tax Tips, and links to great tax advice.

2006 updated Online Legal Guide - need legal help, or curious about law school?

We’ve also added 4 new pages of Sports videos to our Safevideo.com site, so please check them out!

New Video Site!!!

Huge New Video Site!

The ChaseandSam.com Video page isn’t going away…even though it has been a little sparse lately…but here is some exciting news: We’ve just launched a great new video site, with almost triple the video content of this site. It’s called Safevideo.com, and it has over 300 videos - no pop ups, nothing objectionable, all safe for work and safe for home!!

Check out the categories of videos that we have:

Sports Videos
Amazing Videos
Funny Videos
Computer Help Videos
Classic Videos
Great commercials
Music Videos

Thanks!

NASA UFO/Asteroid video - Shot from space


Some interesting footage of UFO/Asteroid activitiy Shot from space.

Some UFO Videos - Cue the X-Files music!


Two UFO’s dance around in the sky over Area 51 in Nevada

NASA.gov - Return to Flight

Tollie can’t help but say that what NASA does is “incredible.” And so, besides telling you that this week’s recommended website is www.NASA.gov, I want to point you to specific places on NASA.gov where you can find the really good stuff.

  • Discovery over the blue Earth, desktop background: 1024 x 768 or 1280×1024
  • Watch NASA TV online
  • Liftoff! and Launch.
  • Video from a Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) from takeoff to separation (2 minutes in the video) to splashdown.
  • Video from the External Tank (ET) as the Orbiter separates.
  • Video of the first ever EVA (space walk) under the Shuttle, and removing protruding gap fillers. “It looks like this big patient is cured.” Commander Eileen Collins asked Steve to check the oil while he was down there.
  • Pictures taken by Steve Robinson while underneath the shuttle.
  • Hi-res image taken by the International Space Station (ISS) crew as the shuttle did a backflip at 17000 miles per hour. Looking closely, not only can you see the two protruding gap fillers, but you can also see someone’s elbow in the side-window.
  • The STS-114 and ISS Expedition 11 crew in the US Destiny lab on the ISS. Check out the wires.
  • All the videos, and in three formats. (scroll to the bottom to navigate from page to page)
  • Finally - the big high-definition video. The only HD video I’ve found for free so far, but it’s “incredible.” Requires installing Quicktime 7. Slower computers should get the 480p version, or the video may be choppy.

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