Over on YouTube, someone has spent a lot of time using Blender to create some impressive physics effects and combined his results into a 90s video showing fluid flow, softbody objects, particle instancing, smoke, and much much more.
Randall Hand
Randall Hand is a computer graphics programmer and news junky that's been working in the field for the last 15 years. He's responsible for visualizations generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, ytnef, mullion support in ParaView, and VizWorld.com.
Looks amazing! We need tutorials for that stuff!!