Casey Chan, Author at Gizmodo

Here are 5 alternate movie endings that would have totally been more bad ass

Sometimes movies change their original, director intended endings because the audience gets too attached to characters or studios want to leave room open for sequels or we all just want a teeny bit of happiness after we sit in a dark room for two hours. But some endings shouldn’t change because the alternate endings were…

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Watching CGI silly putty creatures fall on top of each other is hilariously satisfying

I can’t help but laugh when I watch these CGI silly putty creatures fall down and smack the ground and then have their buddy fall down on top of them and smack them and have another buddy fall down on both of them and smack them and then have them all sort of melt together…

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Honest trailer for Furious 7 proves that it was the perfect mix of silly and awesome

An easy way to weed out un-fun people who you shouldn’t hang out with is to find folks who don’t enjoy the Fast and Furious series and then stay far, far away from them because they don’t enjoy the best thing in life: stuff that is just stupid but awesome and totally silly but so…

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Video: The brown sludge that is mass producing brownies

Brownies are absolutely delicious and probably one of my favorite things in the whole world. It’s a wonderful little treat. What’s not wonderful? When you mass produce them and have to pour buckets of ingredients to mix them up to create a oozy brown sludge that can be baked. Oh well, at least they’ll still…

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This stunning aerial view of the coast is like a moving painting

Brendan Lim’s latest, Adrift, shows a beautiful view of the cliffs and the rocks and the waves and the ocean in a perspective that combines all of those features into a moving painting of sorts. When the camera soars right on top of everything, the edge of the world has never looked better. SPLOID is…

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Driving through a fire looks like going through hell

This is crazy. A fire broke out in Lake County, California and devastated nearly 95 square miles. One elderly woman was killed, 13,000 people have been displaced and hundreds of home are now gone. It’s a total tragedy. Here is footage from inside the fire and it burns so hot it’s really unbelievable to see.…

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This crocodile impossibly jumping straight out of the water is the scariest thing

Come on, man. Is this even allowed? How is it fair that crocodiles can just shoot up—like, completely mother effing vertical—out of the water like this? I’m totally okay with them swim lurking and then chomping down on the surface of the water or the shore but this is just not right. This guy is…

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Watch the scary power of a microwave oven make plasma and burn things

Yowza. Here’s a crazy rigged contraption that uses microwave energy from cavity magnetron to generate plasma and burn the heck out of things faster than you can warm a Hot Pocket. We can see it squeeze out plasma in a lightbulb, shatter glass and make basically anything burn. It’s a neat exercise to show how…

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Pouring molten aluminum into different melons casts a bad ass hand grenade

When you mix molten aluminum with a watermelon, you get something truly awesome. So what about other melons? Here the Backyard Scientist tries pouring molten aluminum into honey dew and cantaloupes to see what happens. Cantaloupes don’t really offer much but honey dews capture the liquid metal and turn it into a hand grenade-looking sculpture.…

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How many people has Superman killed in his movies?

Superman used to be really, really careful and considerate about the people he killed. In fact, you could probably count all the kills of Christopher Reeves-era Superman on one hand. He’s not like that anymore. Once you get to Man of Steel, you pretty much need every hand of every citizen in Metropolis to count…

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Video: The process of hand making a book the old fashioned way is a lost magical art

Anthony Bourdain’s Raw Craft takes a look at Arion Press in San Francisco in its latest episode and examines how this tiny printing shop carries on the legacy of printers of the past. It’s almost astonishing to see how much work gets put into each book. From the typesetting to the proofreading (which is done…

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The night time view of the Aurora Borealis

I wasn’t exactly sure what I was looking at. And then things started to make sense, you can see the city lights outline the US and the geographical footprint of other places and then this swirl mixture that basically takes over Canada. It’s the Aurora Borealis at night. NASA writes: This is a composite image…

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Cool video shows a spectacular B-52 bombing run from inside the weapons bay

Here’s really awesome footage that shows a B-52 bombing run on an island from inside the weapons bay. You can see the open doors of the plane peering down towards the ocean and then see the bombs drop away and strike the target and pepper the ground with explosions. Such a cool perspective. SPLOID is…

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These guys doing crazy tricks on a slackline follow different rules of gravity

I don’t know what planet these guys are from but it’s certainly not Earth because they don’t follow the very simple laws of gravity and break the concept of balance and destroy the very idea of time. They can jump on and off a slackline like it’s nothing and even do ridiculous tricks normal people…

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How visually similar Indiana Jones 4 was to the original movies

Very few people enjoyed Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Actually, I’m not sure if there was a single person who ever watched an Indiana Jones movie before who liked the movie. But as Pablo Fernandez Eyre points out in this video comparison, there were a lot of similarities between the last…

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Watch bare skin get tasered in painful super slow motion

This is a little bit gross but if you were ever curious as to how a taser works, just watch it shoot out in super slow motion. The electrical cartridge jumps out of the gun in an explosion of confetti (the confetti has a unique serial number), breaking down the door and then swimming through…

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Biking through Bali is like exploring a wonderland

Called Surfing Trails, you would think this beautiful video about Bali is about, well, surfing. But nope! It’s a biking video that travels through the wonderland that is Bali, exploring trails on volcanoes and cuts through the forest and jumps through the hills. It’s a lovely exploration of the island. ION: On Bali, there is…

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The skin of a squid is basically a magic material

The skin of a squid is basically a magic material that can change colors as they expand and contract. PBS Deep Look calls them tiny water balloons filled with pigment and it’s pretty much their strongest (only?) defense mechanism in the open waters. They can change how iridescent their skin is and mimic how sunlight…

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Do animals have their own language and can they talk to each other?

Can animals understand each other? And if they do, do they communicate through language? Is their language sophisticated enough to combine sounds into meaning in some grammatical sense? And can they talk about things that aren’t right in front of them? A lot of them can do some of those things! Bees can explain where…

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Hilarious video about handmade firewood skewers every artisanal video

We’re as guilty as anybody for propping up the process of making handmade goods and artisanal products but the truth is, they’re really fascinating to watch. But of course, being totally obsessed and narrowly focused with something can come with a lack of self awareness which makes the whole artisanal movement an easy target to…

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Here are 5 alternate movie endings that would have totally been more bad ass

Watching CGI silly putty creatures fall on top of each other is hilariously satisfying

Honest trailer for Furious 7 proves that it was the perfect mix of silly and awesome

Video: The brown sludge that is mass producing brownies

This stunning aerial view of the coast is like a moving painting

Driving through a fire looks like going through hell

This crocodile impossibly jumping straight out of the water is the scariest thing

Watch the scary power of a microwave oven make plasma and burn things

Pouring molten aluminum into different melons casts a bad ass hand grenade

How many people has Superman killed in his movies?

Video: The process of hand making a book the old fashioned way is a lost magical art

The night time view of the Aurora Borealis

Cool video shows a spectacular B-52 bombing run from inside the weapons bay

These guys doing crazy tricks on a slackline follow different rules of gravity

How visually similar Indiana Jones 4 was to the original movies

Watch bare skin get tasered in painful super slow motion

Biking through Bali is like exploring a wonderland

The skin of a squid is basically a magic material

Do animals have their own language and can they talk to each other?

Hilarious video about handmade firewood skewers every artisanal video

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