Casey Chan, Author at Gizmodo

How the Russian Navy Would Invade a Beach Today

It’s not quite the Evil Empire but seeing the Russian Navy storm a beach doesn’t exactly elicit warm and fuzzy feelings now, does it? This training exercise of the Navy was held at the Barents Sea by the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet and shows soldiers being deployed from helicopters, armored vehicles being released from landing…

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Surreal Video Transforms the City of Paris into an Empty Movie Set

When you walk around Paris in real life, you can’t help but pretend you’re inside a movie. It’s the architecture, it’s the energy, it’s the people, it’s the city of light and you can’t help but romanticize your experiences there. This clever video of Paris, Apparences from Claire & Max, uses that dreamy quality of…

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How a F-18 Super Hornet Gets Built from Beginning to End

Each F/A-18 Super Hornet carries a sticker price of about 60 million dollars and requires a whole lot of work to put together. This fun time lapse video shows the entire building process of an F/A-18 and you can see where a lot of that money goes. To transform scraps of metal into a flying…

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This Giant Spinning Windmill of Fireworks Gives a Spectacular Exploding Light Show

The maniac inventor Colin Furze cooked up a truly spectacular thing this time around: he made a giant firework wheel. As in, fireworks are attached to a wheel (not unlike a windmill) which is attached to a truck which is then all lit at once which is then spun around in circles which then explodes…

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Video: The Deliciousness of Kansas City Barbecue

Like any respectable eater of meat, I pretty much like every kind of barbecue that exists. There are few things that taste better than something cooked long and slow with smoke and over indirect heat. Texas style, Kansas City style, Carolina style, Korean barbecue, char siu, it’s all delicious. Ribs, brisket, pulled pork, burnt ends,…

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This A-10 Thunderbolt II Being Aerial Refueled Looks Like a Bad Ass Flying Shark Machine

Here’s a photo of a US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refueling an A-10 Thunderbolt II over the clouds. The perfect angle of the picture and the lovely nose art of the aircraft makes the fighter jet look like a flying shark machine that has a machine gun as its mouth and scars on its battered…

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What It’s Like to Be Inside a Washing Machine

Surprise! It’s dizzying as hell. That’s obviously to be expected since a washing machine spins and spins and spins but if you kind of squint just a little bit and flex your imagination a lot of bit, you can pretend that the washing machine is actually a portal opening capsule that’s revving itself up. It…

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What’s the Most Powerful Weapon in Sci-Fi History?

What’s the most powerful weapon in the sci-fi universe? How does a lightsaber in Star Wars compare to the energy sword of Halo? What about a Death Star vs Dr. Who’s reality bomb? And how do they match up with a real life nuclear bomb? Foundation Digital made this infographic for Fat Wallet detailing the…

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What Happens When a Popular Instagram Account with 8 Million Followers Posts a Picture

As if you needed more proof that celebrities live in a different world than us: here’s what happens when an Instagram account with 8 million followers (this particular one shows the 433 soccer account) posts a picture and then gets deluged with likes, comments, emojis, and whatever other notification. There’s no sad awkward moment before…

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The Evolution Of Robots In Movies and TV

Science fiction movies and TV shows don’t really count unless they have iconic robot characters. That’s a completely true statement, by the way. Nobody cares how good a story is unless they can pretend living in a reality where sentient robots, awesome droids, and fun little machine pals exists. We want to live in the…

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Here’s the Best Way to Cook a Steak

I know how to cook a steak perfectly, already. I know how one of the best steak houses in America cooks their steak. I know how different countries prefer to eat their steak. And yet, I don’t mind watching another video about the best way to cook a steak because the end result makes my…

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This Tunnel Put Together Like Lego Bricks Impossibly Sticks Together with No Support

Yeah, I’m not ashamed to admit this: I feel slightly less comfortable when I’m under a tunnel than when I’m not. It’s not that I think that the tunnel will collapse on me but it’s because I know the sky absolutely won’t. This tunnel would put my fear into overdrive because this one looks like…

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Crazy stunt man soaked in water slides through a huge fire and escapes unharmed

The folks at NRK Viten are up to their usual nutty antics in their latest experiment. The concept behind this video is that it takes a lot of heat to evaporate water so if a crazy person soaked himself in water and then slid down through an extremely huge fire, the water would provide a…

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Fun Morphing Animation Summarizes What Happened in 2015

2015 was a year. And like most years, things happened. Pranay Patwardhan summarizes the big events in this wonderful animation. The world’s biggest stories morph into each other seamlessly. Can you recognize them all? In order of appearance, the events shown are: Leonard Nimoy (1931 – 2015) – New Horizons’ Pluto flyby – Nepal earthquake…

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Snowboarding an Empty Water Park Must Be So Fun

Who the hell wants to go to a water park during the winter? Snowboarders. That’s right. Watch as these three snowboarders shred an empty water park and snowboard through water slides, skid down stairs, skip lines, and basically break every rule a water park could possibly have, all while looking like they’re having the most…

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How Whoopie Pies Are Made

Whoopie pies are lovely and delightful because they’re big ass freaking Oreos that are fluffy and moist and all sorts of yummy. They’re sort of like a cake but also kind of like a cookie but yet for some reason, they’re called a pie. However you want to describe it, you can’t really go wrong…

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These Totally Mesmerizing Robots That Sort Batteries Are Just Awesome

I legitimately have fun watching these robot arms sort out batteries because they are just so damn good at their jobs. A conveyor belt pushes out an endless stream of batteries that desperately need sorting and the robot arms somehow never fall behind. One robot arm grabs the batteries that are scattered all over the…

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Watch a 80-Foot Tall Boat Somehow Clear a Bridge That’s Way Too Low

It’s the classic dilemma of being on a sailboat that has a 80-foot tall mast but needing to get under a bridge that only has a 65-foot clearance. The answer is obvious, right? Just strap some heavy bags to the mast so you bend the boat diagonal so it shortens the height of the ship.…

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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 language, not…

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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 so…

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How the Russian Navy Would Invade a Beach Today

Surreal Video Transforms the City of Paris into an Empty Movie Set

How a F-18 Super Hornet Gets Built from Beginning to End

This Giant Spinning Windmill of Fireworks Gives a Spectacular Exploding Light Show

Video: The Deliciousness of Kansas City Barbecue

This A-10 Thunderbolt II Being Aerial Refueled Looks Like a Bad Ass Flying Shark Machine

What It’s Like to Be Inside a Washing Machine

What’s the Most Powerful Weapon in Sci-Fi History?

What Happens When a Popular Instagram Account with 8 Million Followers Posts a Picture

The Evolution Of Robots In Movies and TV

Here’s the Best Way to Cook a Steak

This Tunnel Put Together Like Lego Bricks Impossibly Sticks Together with No Support

Crazy stunt man soaked in water slides through a huge fire and escapes unharmed

Fun Morphing Animation Summarizes What Happened in 2015

Snowboarding an Empty Water Park Must Be So Fun

How Whoopie Pies Are Made

These Totally Mesmerizing Robots That Sort Batteries Are Just Awesome

Watch a 80-Foot Tall Boat Somehow Clear a Bridge That’s Way Too Low

Why Do Animals Make Different Sounds in Different Languages?

Video: Exploring the Arctic Is Beautifully Difficult

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