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Why Do Animals Make Different Sounds in Different Languages?
All animals all over the world sound the same. It’s not like they speak different languages, they make the same noises even if they’re different countries! But why is it that different languages think animals make different sounds? It’s because we’re giving names to the sounds that animals make in the construct of…
Watch the Horrifying Spectacle of Three Million Bats Going Night Hunting
Bats are fascinating creatures—both from the point of scientific research and their place in the canon of the horror genre as spooky creatures of the night. So whether you’re a science person or a horror person, this shot of millions of bats streaming into the sky is either great, or great and fearsome.
Video: Exploring the Arctic Is Beautifully Difficult
It’s cold. It’s lonely. It’s really cold. It’s really lonely. It’s unfathomably cold. And it’s lonely. That’s what this mere glimpse of life on an Arctic expedition looks like. The visuals are jarring: the ship looks like it’s parked on land, the mustaches are frozen, the research looks difficult. But it also must be…
Making a Hollow Wooden Surfboard Looks Like It's Totally Worth It
The inside of a wooden surfboard looks like the skeleton of a fish. And it only gets more beautiful from there. The entire process of making a surfboard from wood (most surfboards are made from foam and fiberglass) is so fun to see. There is so much carving and shaping and clamping and an obscene amount of glue that…
What It Looks Like When a Dam Releases 13,000 Cubic Feet of Water Per Second
Water is a powerful mother and our dams do all their might in trying to control it but sometimes they need to pump some of that out. This is them doing that in the video. Or well, that’s what the dam is trying to do. The floodwater looks more like it’s exploding away.
What Makes Star Wars So Damn Special?
The new Star Wars movie made enough money to fund a Death Star because basically any human with access to a movie theater went to go watch it. Or so it seemed like it. In truth, there are still a lot of people who don’t understand why Star Wars is so special. Why does Star Wars stand out, apart, and above every movie…
How Pixar Copies Scenes from Other Movies
Pixar movies are great because of their characters and their storylines but also because they pay homage to the great movies that came before it. And they’re not even’t imitating animation movies, it’s a tribute to cinema, it’s live action films that get paid the form of flattery. Many of the scenes you can recognize…
Here's the Totally Awesome Way an Airplane Gets Painted
It takes a whole team of painters, an orchestra of machines and paint spray, what seems like miles of tape and paper, and oh so much work (not to mention the planning process) in order to paint an entire plane. Southwest Airlines shows some of its detailed plane paintings in the videos below (the Missouri One and…
Super Fun Illustrations of 42 Different Types of Ramen
Ramen is everywhere because ramen can be eaten with pretty much anything and in any style but more importantly because ramen is almost always delicious. Designer Fanny Cheuk Chu previously made a poster that detailed 25 different varieties of ramen but is back with a bigger and better version that includes 42 styles…
How Much Power Does It Take to Actually Blow Up a Planet?
Like, a lot of power. Scott Manley delves into the science of the planet destroying business and came up with the numbers that it would take to destroy a planet in Star Wars. To destroy an Earth-like planet which was like Alderaan, you’d need three trillion trillion trillion Joules of energy. There are five billion…
Watching These Tops Spin Forever Breaks My Understanding of Reality
These tops can spin for nearly 20 minutes long. That was not a typo. The one on the left spun around for 18 minutes and 56 seconds while the one on the right duked it out for 17 minutes and 55 seconds. And even though machines were used to initiate the top spin, the force of the spin is equal to that of a normal…
A Cool View of a Ship Going Through a City on the River
Here we have the Dorothy Ann/Pathfinder tug and barge vessel cruising right through Cleveland, Ohio on the Cuyahoga River. It’s a really cool view of the ride because you see the long ship navigate the narrow channels next to the city. I mean, at some point the width of the river is no wider than the width of the ship.
Watch How a Bow and Arrow Slices Ballistic Gel Like It's Nothing
We’ve seen ballistic gel get lit up with bullets before and saw how the bullets lodged themselves inside so here’s what happens when a compound bow and arrow is used to shoot at ballistic gel. GY6vids uses a chisel tip 3-blade broadhead arrow and a compound bow to try and puncture (that’s probably not a strong enough…
A Minigun Made with Roman Candles Looks Like an Alien Space Weapon
Here’s how to win the war with the aliens, for when they come (and they will come). Strap every human with these Roman candle firework miniguns and then start lighting up the entire sky with these fiery bright rockets at the same damn time. It won’t hurt a single one of them but the hope is that it’ll be intimidating…
Stunning Time Lapse Shows the Skyscraper in Dubai Engulfed in Fire
On New Year’s Eve, the 63-story Address hotel in Dubai caught on fire. It was a scary sight made worse as the back drop to the fire was the Burj Khalifa (and Dubai’s New Year celebration). The entire skyscraper seemed to be burning! But thankfully only 14 people suffered injuries. This time lapse by Kirill Neiezhmakov…
A Rare Optical Phenomenon Makes This Naval Parade Look Magical
For those who equally enjoy U.S. Navy photography and atmospheric optics, this photo is a gem. This is the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group in formation with Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships, shrouded in a fog-based light show.
What Happens When You Shoot a .50 Cal Right Down the Barrel of a Shotgun
I’ve never wondered this but I’m happy to see it actually happen in real life: what happens if a .50 call shot a bullet that went right through a barrel of shotgun barrel? If you aim it perfectly does it just go right through the opposite direction? Could you maybe even use the shotgun after? FullMagsought answers…
Spinning Burning Steel Wool Around Looks Like Being Inside Fireworks
You know how there’s different levels to “Don’t try this at home”? One is absolutely not are you crazy you will die and the other is eh, I think it’s safe enough to do. Lighting steel wool on fire and then spinning it around on a rope to spread the sparks all over the place falls under the one where you can kind of,…
This Beautiful Animation for The Wire Is Absolutely Fantastic
The Wire absolutely belongs on the Mount Rushmore of television shows (it would probably be the spot of ol’ Abe) and its intro sequence was always one of the most memorable because of the music but also how it utilized up close look at scenes of the season while painting a broader picture of the entire world of The…
Here's the Fastest Way to Defrost Your Car Windshield According to Science
It’s winter. If you drive a car that’s parked outside, you know what that means. It’s frigid as hell inside your car and the windshield is totally opaque from all the foggy ass frost. Not cool. How do you get rid of it? Hit the defrost button right? That’s not all. The always inquisitive Mark Rober tested out every…
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