Casey Chan, Author at Gizmodo

Lighting 100,000 Firecrackers at the Same Time Is as Ridiculous as You’d Expect

Here’s a really fantastic use of time, resources, and uh, creative freedom: get 100,000 firecrackers and light ‘em all up at the same dang time. The rattling explosions hit in such a way that it’s basically sounds like if you fired every weapon in the world at the same time. Plus, it looks incredible—like some…

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Watching a Butterfly Hatch Looks Beautifully Alien

One of the wildest things that happens in nature is caterpillars go to sleep one day and then transform into a damn butterfly after a month. I thought that as a kid, and I still think it now. Like, that’s the closest thing we’ve got to actual sorcery on Earth. But it’s just an egg…

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Why Do Some Countries Have Land That’s Totally Detached from the Rest of the Country?

Most countries scribble their borders around a map and call it a day. Everything inside those lines is forever known as that country; everything outside is not. Simple enough, right? Not when you mix in colonialism, wars, history, natural resources, the terrible whims of despots, and more. For any of these reasons, you end up…

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How to Open a Can With a Spoon

I have this really fussy can opener that I always forget how to use and for some reason, I’ve never bought a normal can opener to replace it. Or maybe I’ll just never replace it and use this neat spoon trick to crack open a can instead. Basically all you have to do is give…

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Watch Beautiful Crystals Form Right Before Your Eyes

This is cool. Emanuele Fornasier ran an electric current through various chemical solutions and recorded the reaction to reveal the formation of crystals. It’s like seeing the birth of a snowflake. The process definitely looks fantastic but in reality, it’s really, really slow. It can take hours or even days for the crystals to take…

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The Ocean Is So Much Deeper Than You Think It Is

What’s hiding under the sea? A lot. In this neat animation, Real Life Lore explored the depths of the ocean and details what you would run into at what level, and most of it is goddamn terrifying. Luckily for us puny humans, most of us can’t even get very far in the ocean to see…

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People Look So Silly When They Stare at Superheroes in Movies

It’s after a superhero discovers his powers and before that superhero faces off with the big bad guy that we get treated with a montage sequence showing our favorite superhero doing various good deeds all around the city while bystanders stand around and stare with their mouth agape. You know those scenes in superhero movies,…

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Watching a Hot Knife Cut Through Styrofoam Is Unsurprisingly Satisfying

There’s nothing odd about this. There’s nothing surprising about it either. If you watch a very hot knife cut through a piece of styrofoam, it’s going to be exactly as satisfying as you’d think it’d be.. The styrofoam shrivels up after each cut and turns into this goo that looks more like a marshmallow than…

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It’s Almost Unfair How Stunning Iceland Looks in This Video

Seems like it’s been a while since we checked up on our favorite country via a sweeping nature video, so it’s good to know that, yup, Iceland is still the most visually stunningly place on Earth. The drone footage comes from the Highlands of Iceland, which are in the center of the beautiful island, and…

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Take a Trip Through Space With These Awesome Classic Movie Scenes

Going to space in real life is a lot of work, so let’s just take a journey with this compilation of movie scenes from A Trip to the Moon (1902) to The Martian (2015) and all the classics in between like Alien (1979), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Solaris (1972), and more. Going to space…

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Watch How Slime Mold Smartly Crawls By Itself All Over Everything

Slime mold is fascinating, because though it’s only a single cell organism with no brain, it somehow stretches its tentacle-like fingers in a coherent pattern in search for food. This time lapse footage speeds up the process of that goopy crawl (in reality it only moves a few centimeters a day), but you get to…

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Watching People Hug in Movies Makes Me Feel Like I Need a Hug

A good hug is what everyone needs at any time on any day. There’s a certain type of closeness combined with a sense of security, and a shared warmth that makes it necessary. Some hugs are sad and emotional, others are happy and relieved, but after watching these 50 hugging scenes from various movies like…

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Shooting Crazy Super Soakers Filled With Paint Is a Lot of Silly Fun

If you crossed a Super Soaker with a paintball gun, you’d get this wild creation from our friend Mark Rober: a crazy weapon that shoots out streams of paint like a Super Soaker would shoot out water. But that’s not enough. To make even wilder paint weapons, Rober also created this paint sprinkler/pseudo-artillery system to…

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Watch a Red Hot Metal Rod Get Wound Up Into a Coil Spring

Burn metal hot enough and you can do whatever the hell you want with it. Here’s a glimpse of how a coil spring, which is used in a car’s suspension, gets made. It’s interesting that even though the machines do most of the work in shaping the spiral, there are still a lot of hands…

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Holy Crap, Watch This One Huge Ass Firework Light Up the Entire Sky

Hot damn. This 573-pound firework basically fills the entire night’s sky with explosions so ridiculously huge and, like, everywhere that it’s almost unbelievable. One second you’re just watching normal fireworks go off, and then the next, you’re being blinded with the most insane 5-second light show your eyes will probably ever see. The fireworks were…

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Surfing and BASE Jumping Off a Zip Line Is Something I’ve Never Seen Before

I’ve thought I’ve seen it all when it comes to BASE jumping and then I just watched the Flying Frenchies surf down a zip line at over 45 mph and then jump off in the middle of the line from nearly 2000 feet in the air in the Vercors mountain range. It is totally nuts…

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Flipping a Water Bottle Filled with Mercury in Slow Motion Is What’s Cool Now

You know you’re old as hell when the only way to find out what young people are doing is to have other old people explain to you what the youths of today are doing, because you don’t actually know anyone young anymore. That’s basically water bottle flipping. If you’ve done it, you’re young (or pretending…

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10 of the Funniest Movie Scenes of All Time

When I watch a funny movie scene, I laugh. Sometimes really hard. Sometimes I might even remember the lines in a quiet moment of the day and chuckle to myself. But I’ll never think about those scenes as much as the folks from CineFix do. They dug really deep into the different methods films use…

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Could We Survive a Nuclear Winter?

Here’s the short answer: we probably could not survive a nuclear winter. But the long answer, well, it depends on which countries are going to war, how many nukes are being dropped, and where those bombs are being detonated. Life Noggins explains that in a simulation with 100 nuclear bombs being dropped between Pakistan and…

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These Scenes from Trainspotting and Its Sequel Look Exactly the Same

I’ve never actually watched Trainspotting and I’m not sure if it needs a sequel 20 years later but I do think it’s kind of cool that there’s so many shots and scenes from the sequel that looks exactly like the shots and scenes from the original movie. Candice Drouet spotted the similarities in the recently…

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Lighting 100,000 Firecrackers at the Same Time Is as Ridiculous as You’d Expect

Watching a Butterfly Hatch Looks Beautifully Alien

Why Do Some Countries Have Land That’s Totally Detached from the Rest of the Country?

How to Open a Can With a Spoon

Watch Beautiful Crystals Form Right Before Your Eyes

The Ocean Is So Much Deeper Than You Think It Is

People Look So Silly When They Stare at Superheroes in Movies

Watching a Hot Knife Cut Through Styrofoam Is Unsurprisingly Satisfying

It’s Almost Unfair How Stunning Iceland Looks in This Video

Take a Trip Through Space With These Awesome Classic Movie Scenes

Watch How Slime Mold Smartly Crawls By Itself All Over Everything

Watching People Hug in Movies Makes Me Feel Like I Need a Hug

Shooting Crazy Super Soakers Filled With Paint Is a Lot of Silly Fun

Watch a Red Hot Metal Rod Get Wound Up Into a Coil Spring

Holy Crap, Watch This One Huge Ass Firework Light Up the Entire Sky

Surfing and BASE Jumping Off a Zip Line Is Something I’ve Never Seen Before

Flipping a Water Bottle Filled with Mercury in Slow Motion Is What’s Cool Now

10 of the Funniest Movie Scenes of All Time

Could We Survive a Nuclear Winter?

These Scenes from Trainspotting and Its Sequel Look Exactly the Same

A QR Code Too Small to See Hints at a New, Non-Annoying Use for the Format

Andy Weir Apologizes After ‘Star Trek’ Comment Backlash

Scientists Discover Hidden Behavior in Water That Helps Explain Why Ice Floats

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