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I would totally live in the world’s first carbon-positive house
According to Dwell, this is the “world’s first carbon-positive prefabricated house,” which produces more “more energy than its uses.” Its designer, ArchiBlox, claims it’s “expected to offer the same environmental benefits as 6,095 native Australian trees.” Simple, clean design—put it in a forest and I will move in. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us … Continued
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China used more concrete in 3 years than the US in 100 years
Bill Gates has an incredible statistic: According the USGS’ cement statistics, China has used more concrete from 2011 to 2013 (6.6 gigatons) than the United States in the entire 20th century (4.5 gigatons). It blows my mind but, then again, as Gates point out, look at Shanghai’s evolution in just 20 years… …and now imagine … Continued
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Beautiful aerial photo of New York surrounded by ice
Impressive aerial photo of New York surrounded by ice taken from the southern tip of Manhattan—tiny icebergs and ice plaques floating along the Hudson, the East River and New York bay. CBS has video here. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
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Here’s the first look at Fight Club 2
Fight Club 2 is here, the first 6 pages of Chuck Palahniuk’s 10-isssue comic book maxiseries illustrated by Cameron Stewart and published by Dark Horse are here. The first issue will hit the stores on May 27. Check out the cover and the first page: The synopsis: Fight Club 2 takes place alternately in the … Continued
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Is this even possible?
NBC affiliate WITN has published these two photos of a frozen sculpture created by the front of a Jeep, left standing on a curb near Vidant, a hospital in Greenville, North Carolina. Can this be really possible or is it an elaborated 3D render hoax? According to WITN, they “received two different photos from viewers, … Continued
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NASA satellite image shows record-breaking frozen Eastern US
NASA’s Terra satellite has captured an image of the current status of the Eastern United states, with “Arctic and Siberian air masses have settled in over the Eastern U.S. triggering many record low temperatures in many states.” The snow cover combined with the frosty air mass made the eastern U.S. feel like the inside of … Continued
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Wow, this dog racing through an obstacle course is insanely fast
This is the Tex, the 2015 Masters Agility Championship winner at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show. Incredible. Good doggie. And since we are on the subject of dogs, well, here, have some of the contestants. The best in show: Miss P, a 15-inch beagle from the hound group. Those eyes kill me. Photos by … Continued
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The crappy photos of NASA’s golden era you never get to see
We are used to see the epic, awe-inspiring, perfect photos from the golden age of NASA, during the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions. Those are not the photos that you will find in Drewatts Bloomsbury’s auction. These are all pretty shitty—poorly exposed, badly framed, out of focus, or just plain boring. But while these photos … Continued
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Delicious pig feet and head gelatin—that’s all folks
Our friend Anna Péter, from the Hungarian food blog Malackaraj, is back with another gross-looking but delicious plate called kocsonya, a cross between a meat plate and a gelatinous soup that seems straight out of a gore movie. I have never tasted it, but I definitely want to. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us … Continued
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These underwater animals are so amazingly unreal they feel CGI
I’m flabbergasted. I have never seen anything like the closeup images of marine life captured in this short film by Sandro Bocci. Most of them truly look like beings from another planet. We live in a truly wonderful world, my friends. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
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Snoopy looks so good in this movie poster
There is a new Peanuts movie coming on November 2015. I don’t know if it’s going to be good or not, but technically it looks like a pretty nice translation of Schulz’s graphic language into the 3D world. The trailer below just seems like the classic Snoopy and Woodstock fantasy silliness. It seems to me … Continued
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A perfect track to get into weekend mood on Wednesday
I love Innocent, the new track by Hundred Waters—a band from Gainesville, Florida, that sounds more European than American. This song sounds to me like a genetic experiment between old school Goldfrapp—think the amazing Utopia—and something Kate Bush. Ish. The video is excellent too. Hundred Waters is a band from Gainesville, Florida. You can buy … Continued
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First ever drone footage of the Soviet-era secret lightning machine
You have seen photos of the secret Soviet-era Tesla tower—capable of discharging as much energy as the entire USSR’s power grid in 100 milliseconds—but you have never seen this like this, from a drone. Russia Today got permission to take this video of one of the most fascinating science facilities in the planet. The facility … Continued
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Someone get this guy to work on The Last Starfighter remake
Eddie Del Rio grew up loving Star Wars and comic books, spending “most of [his] time lost in my kenner action figures, immersed in comics and oh yes….drawing.” His passion for all things spacey, roboty, and shiny shows in his artwork. Eddie Del Rio is an concept designer based in northern California. He started to … Continued
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Just follow the path, it will get you somewhere
David Ruiz Luna is not a professional photographer, just a guy who likes to travel around the world and take photos of his trips. He just happens to end in some amazing landscapes—sometimes breathtaking, sometimes alien-looking, always a reminder that I should get off this fucking sofa right now. Above: Going up Island Peak, Sagarmatha … Continued
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Goddesses materializing out of nowhere
Oliver Oettli says that he usually doesn’t do stuff like his Power Winds photo series but these photos became his most well known project. And rightly so. They feel magical, as if these women were supernatural beings. No digital tricks here: Photoshop was only used to adjust color and contrast. Oliver Oettli is a photographer … Continued
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Spectacular photos taken by an F-18 weapons trainer officer
Lieutenant Chris Nigus sent us these series of spectacular photos taken while flying on missions during the last couple of years of his deployment in Japan. Above you can see him flying low level in Japan’s Orange Route. Some of them show weapons firing from his F/A-18E Super Hornet. F/A-18E Super Hornet’s M61A2 Vulcan nose … Continued
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The only fun fact about Apollo 13’s dramatic failure is this invoice
I didn’t know about this fun factoid: On April, 1970, the Grumman Aerospace Corporation—manufacturers of the Lunar Module—sent a $312,421.24 bill to North American Rockwell—who made the service module that malfunctioned in the Apollo 13 mission—for towing services. Why, you ask? Here’s the story. On April 14, 1970, 56 hours after its launch from the … Continued
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Today is the 25th anniversary of the Pale Blue Dot photograph
25 years ago today, Voyager I turned around to take a photo of Earth on its way out of the Solar System. You are looking at it. Our planet—6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) away from the spacecraft—is that tiny pale blue dot, “a mote of dustsuspended in a sunbeam.” It is one of the … Continued
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