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The Webb Space Telescope’s sunshield is complete and it looks amazing
NASA has finished and stacked the Sunshield for the Webb Space Telescope and it’s now getting ready to test it. Look at this huge thing. That’s enough tinfoil to cover a roasted chicken— if the chicken was the size of Tyrannosaurus Rex. According to NASA, it provides the equivalent of a 1,000,000 Sun Protection Factor. … Continued
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English giant fart machine is so loud they heard it in France
Well, he did it! That crazy genius of Colin Furze did it. The biggest fart machine ever created was a resounding success: He fired the giant butt at France from Dover, England, and it was reportedly heard across the English Channel by at least two people in Pas-de-Calais—four miles away. Knighthood for this guy, s’il … Continued
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Airplane passenger captures cool shot of lightning striking the ground
Gina Hyams was in a Southwest airliner circling the Denver airport when she captured this beautiful shot of a pink lightning striking the fields of Colorado surrounded by rain. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
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Missile launch looks like hilarious fail until you see what happens next
When I started to watch this video I thought “oh, that’s funny, a failed missile launch.” Obviously, it didn’t fail at all. That’s exactly how the nuclear-capable anti-submarine missile RPK-2 Viyuga is launched: Just throw it in the water and it will come alive to deliver its warhead up to 28 miles away. …it is … Continued
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The fastest cruise missile in the world launching underwater
This is the first underwater launch of the BrahMos, the world’s fastest cruise missile in operation capable of flying at Mach 3.0. I just like to see it pausing and changing direction in mid-air, like a scene from Robotech. The BrahMos is one of the reasons why aircraft carriers are obsolete. The Indo-Russian supersonic aircraft … Continued
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What the far future of space mining could look like
When it’s time to colonize space, we will need space miners to provide with the minerals and gases needed to build massive ships and refuel stations across the Solar System. There are serious companies already working on it—and concept designer Cuba Lee has imagined how this would look in moons, asteroids, and gas planets. It’s … Continued
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Stunning selfie of a lone man facing a terrifying volcano pit
Look at that lonely guy, so tiny and fragile on the edge of the fiery Gates of Hell—the Kilauea Volcano’s Halemaumau Crater. His name is Andrew Hara, the photographer who took this amazing self-portrait, which was just featured as photo of the day in National Geographic’s Your Shot. How the hell did he do it? … Continued
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This is the coolest object disintegration video I’ve ever seen
We have featured time-lapse videos of objects being sanded down one millimeter at a time before, but this film by Mexican illustrator and animator Simon Gerbaud is the best I’ve ever seen. I would keep watching that shoe GIF forever if there weren’t so many other awesome examples here: SPLOID is a new blog about … Continued
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Drone films the eerie Costa Concordia sailing on its last voyage
The infamous Costa Concordia is sailing again after running aground on the island of Giglio, Italy. Francesco Marinari has filmed this drone video as it’s being transported for scrap to Genoa. It’s so eerie and weird. The structure that keeps it afloat makes it look like some kind of Mad Max/Waterworld prop. SPLOID is a … Continued
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Cyclist films his own road accident, miraculously saves life
“The second time I rode into London in an effort to gain some fitness, rather than take the train, ended like this,” says YouTube user cyclejack. “This” being an idiot in a car deciding to ignore him, ramming and sending him and his bicycle into the air. Miraculously, he wasn’t injured, just bruised. I was … Continued
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Space station astronaut sees missiles exploding on Gaza and Israel
German astronaut Alexander Gerst reports live with this photo of Gaza from the International Space Station. This is his description. “My saddest photo yet. From #ISS we can actually see explosions and rockets flying over #Gaza & #Israel” A sad view indeed—although I have to confess that I can’t distinguish which light flares are normal … Continued
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Huge chocolate mill reveals delicious changing geometry as you shave it
This huge chocolate mill—created by Studio Wieki Somers and chocolatier Rafael Mutter for a retrospective on the Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld—reveals intricate geometrical designs as you rotate the sharp metal arm that shaves it one millimeter at time. It cements my conviction that all art should be edible and delicious. I would be content with … Continued
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Guy splits bullet in two firing it against a machete, hits two targets
According to the Rated RR guys, this is the most difficult trick in the world: Fire a bullet against a machete and split it in two hitting two targets. They didn’t only do it once—but twice in a row. And then once more, shooting backwards using an iPad as a mirror to aim. SPLOID is … Continued
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I wish I could spend summer in the Mediterranean driving this beauty
Italian designer Pietro Russomanno‘s Raceline is the 26-foot-long daughter of a classic Riva boat— one of my favorite vehicle designs—and a classic sports car. If I had to spend a summer in the Mediterranean riviera, this is the vehicle I’d like to have to move from coast town to coast town to eat seafood and … Continued
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Hundreds of flying rays is one beautiful nightmare
This photograph of a large school of mobula rays by Eduardo Lopez Negrete is one of the entries for the 2014 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. Keep in mind that these majestic creatures can reach a 17-foot (5.2 meter) wingspan and weigh over a ton. It may look like a nightmare but they are harmless. … Continued
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Calvin and Hobbes creator’s new comic strips are now for sale
Bill Watterson’s new comic strip originals—born from his collaboration with Stephan Pastis—are now up for sale for the benefit of Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. They published very high resolution scans of the three original uncolored strips so yo can enjoy the finest details of his ink brushwork: This collaboration is something of … Continued
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Amazing trees produce 40 different types of fruit
When Sam Van Aken found out that a New York state orchard—with varieties of stone fruit 200 years old—was about to be abandoned in 2008, he bought it to save those species and to experiment: Grafting from the existing trees he created the magical Tree of 40 Fruit, which produces over 40 types of fruit. … Continued
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All the most amazing supernovas ever photographed
NASA has revealed spectacular, newly reprocessed images of four of the most amazing supernovas ever captured by a human science instrument—the Crab Nebula (top), Tycho, G292.0+1.8, and 3C58—to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Chandra observatory. I decided to go one step further and collect them all. We have detected other supernova, but I have … Continued
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Seeing real US Navy SEALs moving underwater is way cooler than any movie
This isn’t a trailer for the next Tom Clancy movie. These are real U.S. Navy SEALs showing how they get into enemy territory from the sea. They get deployed in a mini-sub launched from a nuclear submarine. Then they get out as they approach the shore at night, ready to complete their mission. SPLOID is … Continued
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Guy builds biggest fart machine ever to fart at France with it
Colin Furze—maker of the coolest Wolverine claws—wants to build a giant butt and fart at France from Dover. That’s why he has built the biggest valveless pulse jet machine ever—these engines powered the Nazi V-1 bombs that terrified London during WW2 making an infernal noise that sounds like a furious fart from hell. Now that … Continued
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