Casey Chan, Author at Gizmodo

The Closest You Can Get to a Lightning Strike Without Actually Getting Struck by Lightning

Well, damn. That’s a heck of a close call. This footage of a thunderstorm is from South Sydney Australia and you can see how close the people taken the footage were to getting struck by lightning. Like this is very probably the closest you could get without actually getting blasted with a bolt. SPLOID is…

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Video: The History of Japan Explained in the Most Fun Way Possible

If we canceled history classes in high schools across the world and replaced them with YouTube videos about history, kids would learn so much more. I just sat through this wonderful 10-minute video on the history of Japan by Bill Wurtz without even skipping ahead because it was so riveting and funny and fast paced.…

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Making Art Sculptures from Drywall Is Very Impressive

Artist Bernie Mitchell creates these art sculpture masterpieces from drywall and the results are really wonderful. You can watch him use different tools in order to shape out landscape images and animals and finger objects to bring out the detail. It’s always fun seeing art get made in the most inventive of ways. SPLOID is…

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Watch a Drone Fly Into the Crevasse of a Glacier

Here’s some really cool footage from Flyability that shows a drone exploring a crevasse into the Zermatt Glacier in the Swiss Alps. Flyability says that the ice caves were previously inaccessible to other drones but they managed to get their UAV down the narrow crack because of its protective cage. It’s just really cool to…

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Why Wildfires Are Actually Helpful for the Environment

Wildfires scorch and blacken the Earth but turns out they’re actually essential for the environment and even good for the trees themselves. That’s right, this animation explainer from Ted-Ed explains how burning trees can actually help trees grow in the future. It’s because when trees overgrow they’ll have too thick of a canopy that’ll block…

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Thousands of People Are Stuck in This Ridiculous Human Traffic Jam at a China Train Station

People in China have been trying to travel across the country for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday but some—if tens of thousands of people can be considered just some—have been stuck in one of the most insane human traffic jams in the world at the Guangzhou Railway Station in southern China. CNN reports that…

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Jumping Off the World’s Largest Hammock Hung Over a Canyon Is Totally Nuts

A hammock is supposed to be the most relaxing thing that this world has to offer. It is the picture of carefree contentment. This giant hammock hung over a canyon though? Absolutely intense, the total opposite. People use the spacenet to base jump and slack line and other extreme things that’s so batshit fun and…

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The Intense Shockwave of Flattening a Car into a Pancake with Explosives

Mythbusters attempted to turn a car into a pancake with the help of 1,000 pounds of ANFO (ammonium nitrate fuel oil) and a giant steel plate which resulted in a ginormous explosion and a really spectacular shockwave. Seeing the whole thing in high speed, you can see the shockwave grow like a bubble beyond the…

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These Wackily Colorful Rainbow Bagels Are Breaking My Eyeballs

The rainbow bagel looks like a Willy Wonka creation crossed with used play doh set in a reality that I’m not quite prepared to live in. It exists at The Bagel Store in Brooklyn, New York and is topped with a schmear of Funfetti cream cheese made with cake mix and is something you can…

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This Snowball Machine Gun Shoots Snowballs So Freaking Fast

Snowball fights are basically the only reason for winter so any advancement in snowball fighting technology is always going to be well received around these parts. Our pal Mark Rober, the ever inventive genius, has taken snowball fights to the next level with this awesome snowball machine gun invention. He basically outfitted an Echo Leaf…

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Here’s How Those Big Store Signs Are Made

Here’s how channel signs—basically those big signs that hang above stores and restaurants across the world—are made. The Science Channel gives us a sneak of the way things are done and it’s surprising that so much of it still requires the help of a human. It’s not all robots! And it’s actually a lot more…

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The 10 Best Closing Scenes in Film History

CineFix did a pretty solid job in creating a list for the best opening shots in movie history so its fitting that they would try and do something even harder, making the 10 best closing shots in movie history. If you’ve watched movies in your life, you should already know what will pop up on…

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Watch a Navy Battleship Sink to the Bottom of the Ocean

The Mexican Navy sank a battleship off the coast of Rosarito, Mexico in order to create an artificial reef. Apparently, it’s the first artificial reef made in Baja California. GoPro shows the footage of the entire process and you can see the timed explosions and the rushing of water that cause the ship to be…

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Map Shows the Spread of ISIS in the Past Few Years

The Islamic State or ISIS or ISIL have quickly risen to power in the regions of Iraq and Syria. This map by Peter Ridilla tracks the group’s spread across the region. The Islamic State is shown in red against the rest of the region. What started off in just a few areas a few years…

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Almost Getting Smashed By a Swinging Wrecking Ball to Prove a Law of Physics Is Crazy

Our favorite physicist Andrea Wahl is back with his wild experiments where he blends real life physics with Jackass-style self torture. This time he uses a swinging wrecking ball to prove how conservation of energy can neither be created or destroyed, it transforms into other forms. Basically, as dangerous as being in the line of…

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Can You Solve This Complex Riddle About Escaping a Cursed Temple?

This one’s a doozy in that there is a lot going on. The goal is simple, you need to escape a collapsing tunnel with a group of nine people (including yourself). It’s all the other variables that confuse things. There are four potential exit tunnels but only one of them is actually the way out.…

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Watch a Surfer Survive a Crazy Wipeout Off a 40-Foot Wave

This wipeout is totally crazy and not unlike jumping out of the 4th floor of a building. The waves were that high (thank you El Nino) and the sea monster that is the ocean looked like it was blowing itself up and whipping surfer Tom Dosland around as he barreled around. The drop must have…

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Thermal Imaging Reveals How Fast a Shirtless Person Loses Body Heat in the Cold

Here is footage taken using the military spec Selex Merlin thermal imaging camera of a shirtless man in the Scottish highlands during winter. The point is to show how fast humans lose the heat on their body when their bare skin is exposed to the bitter blistering cold. When he first takes off his clothes,…

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All the Bomber Aircraft That Could Carry Nuclear Weapons

Only 5 countries have been able to create strategic bomber aircraft with the capability of carrying nuclear weapons. That would be the US, Russia, the UK, France, and China. We’ve put together this video that details every single one of those bombers. It’s fascinating to see how each country develops its only style of aircraft…

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Seeing the Special Effects Behind Jurassic World Is More Fun Than Seeing the Actual Movie

If you guys didn’t know, the dinosaurs aren’t real in Jurassic World. Sorry. As for the rest of the movie née money printing nostalgia machine that didn’t have half the soul of the original, not much of it was real either. Here’s how ILM pulled off the visual effects in Jurassic World, you can see…

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The Closest You Can Get to a Lightning Strike Without Actually Getting Struck by Lightning

Video: The History of Japan Explained in the Most Fun Way Possible

Making Art Sculptures from Drywall Is Very Impressive

Watch a Drone Fly Into the Crevasse of a Glacier

Why Wildfires Are Actually Helpful for the Environment

Thousands of People Are Stuck in This Ridiculous Human Traffic Jam at a China Train Station

Jumping Off the World’s Largest Hammock Hung Over a Canyon Is Totally Nuts

The Intense Shockwave of Flattening a Car into a Pancake with Explosives

These Wackily Colorful Rainbow Bagels Are Breaking My Eyeballs

This Snowball Machine Gun Shoots Snowballs So Freaking Fast

Here’s How Those Big Store Signs Are Made

The 10 Best Closing Scenes in Film History

Watch a Navy Battleship Sink to the Bottom of the Ocean

Map Shows the Spread of ISIS in the Past Few Years

Almost Getting Smashed By a Swinging Wrecking Ball to Prove a Law of Physics Is Crazy

Can You Solve This Complex Riddle About Escaping a Cursed Temple?

Watch a Surfer Survive a Crazy Wipeout Off a 40-Foot Wave

Thermal Imaging Reveals How Fast a Shirtless Person Loses Body Heat in the Cold

All the Bomber Aircraft That Could Carry Nuclear Weapons

Seeing the Special Effects Behind Jurassic World Is More Fun Than Seeing the Actual Movie

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

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Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

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Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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