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Video: Being Inside a Category 5 Typhoon Is Truly Frightening
Typhoon Haiyan was one of the most devastating tropical cyclones in history. The Category 5 typhoon killed thousands and ravaged the Philippines with billions in damages that it’s still recovering from. Here’s a brief glimpse of what it was like to be inside the typhoon. It’s absolutely frightening.
This Timelapse Blazes Through Three Weeks of Rocket Launch Prep in Three Minutes
LISA Pathfinder, a major effort to search for gravitational waves beyond Earth, launched on December 3rd, 2015. But those few minutes of space inferno actually takes much, much longer to prepare.
Awesome Photo of US Air Force Airmen Jumping Off a C-130 Hercules Aircraft
Here’s a fantastic shot of US Airforce Airmen flying off the back of a C-130J Hercules. The angle is pretty damn perfect as the airman with the camera captures the fearlessness of the parachute jumpers and gets the entire giant transport aircraft in the background.
Seeing a First Person View of Hockey Tricks Is So Damn Cool
I don’t really realize the skill of professional athletes until I see them up close. The speed in which they do things, the control they have over their bodies, the hand eye coordination, it’s all ridiculously superhuman. Just check out this video of hockey players running through exercises and tricks. You get to see…
Here's a Lightning Bolt Striking and Destroying a Tree
Alternative headline: Tree takes a lightning strike and is somehow still standing? I don’t know who the actual winner is here. The lightning bolt that struck the tree and rocked half of the trunk away while flooring all of its branches or is it the tree that takes the bolt’s best shot and hangs in there quite…
The Breathtaking Beauty of Paragliding Through the Aurora Borealis
Watch as Horacio Llorens paraglides against the backdrop of the Aurora Borealis. It’s especially nice because the paraglider cycles through different colored lights against the glimmering green of the aurora. His movements are almost poetic, a perfect blend of mixing an extreme sport with the grace of nature.
What Actually Happens When You Drink Too Much Soda?
Most reasonable people can generally agree on two things: the Earth is round and soda is bad for you. And though we know the first to be absolutely true, what’s so bad about soda? Asap Science explains as only they can in the hand drawn animation below. Basically, it erodes enamel on our teeth, pumps too much corn…
Seeing One Day Pass on Earth from Space Is Beyond Stunning
This is what one day looks like on Earth from space. The footage condenses 24 hours of imagery from Japan’s Himawari-8 satellite into 12 seconds and shows us how the our beautiful blue marble peels itself from the darkness in unbelievable detail. The reveal of Earth is just beyond words. No planet is as beautiful as…
These Aerial Views of New York City Are the Best I've Ever Seen
It’s unfair to ask me because when I look at New York City, I see the energy and the buzz and all the memories I’ve made there. Sure, the buildings are lovely and the skyline is gorgeous but it’s the feeling I get from when I just look at the city that makes it spectacular. So call me a little biased when I think it’s…
Silly Mashup of Dance Scenes from Movies Is Such a Good Time
Here is nearly 4-minutes of awesome dance scenes from movies that, just from watching it, will make you have a riotous good time. Dance sequences in movies are sometimes goofy, sometimes winking, sometimes weird but always worth watching. I had a dumb smile on my face throughout this entire video by Robert Jones of…
Watch a Wasp Turn a Cockroach into a Zombie
Be honest, when you’re watching a tv show like The Walking Dead or going through some zombie movies, you imagine how you’d act and what you’d do in a world full of zombies. But alas, you’re only in the real world and safe from the zombie apocalypse. Turns out zombie world isn’t that far away though! A jewel wasp…
How Science Fiction Helps Predict the Future
When people imagine the future, it’s always colored and limited by the constraints of their reality. The smartest person hundreds of years ago could not imagine the things we have now because what is science to us was essentially magic to them back then, the understanding just wasn’t there yet. That’s where science…
Hilarious Animation Imagines Old Star Wars Characters Meeting New Star Wars Characters
Did you see the new Star Wars yet? Of course you did. You probably watched it twice (and if you didn’t watch it yet, stop reading). It was great, right? Such a fun time. Did the franchise good. A heck of a show. Until you realize (stop reading now if you still haven’t seen) that the characters and the storyline are…
Watch This Snow Blower Tractor Monster Eat and Spit Out Snow
The worst part about a blizzard is the days after when the pristine white gives way to a dirty brownish gray. Where streets that once looked impossibly untouched transform into trampled reminders of our dirty footprint on this here world. I wish you could get that picturesque day of a blizzard and then immediately…
How Grocery Stores Are Cleverly Designed to Make You Spend More Money
We’re all fools who get easily convinced by marketing and store design tricks because we can’t save ourselves from ourselves. Here is a short video from Wendover Productions detailing some clever layout design grocery stores use to get us to spend more money. They include putting the entrance to the right because we…
Turn an Old Drill and Bicycle Wheel Into an Impressive Frisbee Launcher
Try as they might, some people just never seem to master the art of throwing a frisbee. If you’re one of them, in this video La Fabrique DIYshows you how to turn a bike wheel and an old drill into a frisbee launcher with impressive range.
Fun Inifinite Loop Animation Breaks the Concept of Past, Present, and Future
This quirky animation from CraveFX starts off innocently enough, a janitorial worker mops up a leaky refrigerator and then picks up a coin on the ground. It’s not until you see what causes the refrigerator to leak and why the coin is on the ground that you realize that you’re watching an intricate moving puzzle piece…
The Extreme Close Up Shots from David Fincher Movies (NSFW)
David Fincher is an amazing director with a unique vision of the world. He makes films that everyone wants to see, his talent and skill are obvious and his restraint might be what sets him apart. Here’s a look at the extreme close up shots of Fincher, he doesn’t utilize them in the same way as other directors but does…
Skateboard Tricks Look Even Cooler with Colored Paint Powder Flying Everywhere
Skateboarding is already cool as it is. The counter culture, the youth, the loitering, the tricks, it’s not like you need to add more to it for it to be cooler. Beyond Slow Motion, however, threw in some spectacular colors by putting paint powder all over the skateboard and skate park and then had guys do tricks on…
Watch a Knife Get Forged from a Steel Cable
With enough skill and patience, any sort of metal object can basically be heated up and forged into a weapon. It always make for such a glorious process too. For example in this video, a wonderfully threaded steel cable rope gets pounded and pounded until it resembles something that can be shaped and shaped into a…
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