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Watch a military jump from the point of view of a US Army paratrooper

Check out this video of the 82nd Airborne Division in action. It’s all interesting but the best part is on the 2:21 mark—fast forward to see paratrooper Pfc. Tyler Billings jumping from a C-130 transport from his point of view. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield explains why humans should be optimistic

It feels like everything is going to hell, especially as a seemingly dreadful year comes to an end and winter keeps getting stronger. But, despite the continuous onslaught of bad news flooding media, there are many reasons to be optimistic about the future. Everyone’s favorite astronaut Chris Hadfield explains. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…

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Someone wants to build a futuristic version of Sauron’s tower in Africa

They call it Al Noor Tower (Tower of Light) and, once built in Casablanca, Morocco, it will be the tallest building in Africa. The 1771-foot (540-meter) building is a project of Sheikh Tarek M. bin Laden, designed by French architects Valode et Pistre, who obviously have been watching too much Lord of the Rings. I…

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A giant bow suspended over a ship

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co.—of South Korea—is one of the largest ship manufacturers in the world. Along with Samsung, they build the largest ships in the world too. It just seems amazing to me humans can build vehicles at this scale. Imagine when we start building interstellar ships in space. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…

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This is the coolest view I’ve ever seen of a motorbike jump

Wow. Just when I thought I had seen all kinds of jumps photographed in every possible way, comes this guy and straps a GoPro in continuous shooting photo mode to take a new angle of a Superman jump (no hands or legs, just him floating above the bike, mid-jump.) Unbelievably cool. SPLOID is delicious brain…

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Hypnotizing GIF shows how ice cream bars are made

Step 1. Get an ice cream factory. Step 2. Make cream ice cream batter. Step 3. Freeze batter till creamy. Step 4. Fill that “in” tube in that popsicle machine. Step 5. Load the wooden sticks. Step 6. Push “on” button. Step 7. Sit and watch in trance. Step 7b. Put face at the end…

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Samurai Star Wars is 12 parsecs worth of neat

Now that Disney bought Star Wars, I hope they get a little bit riskier and produce new stuff loosely based on the classic trilogy. A Japanese version would look amazing, as these cool action figures demonstrate. It’s only a natural step—as George Lucas’ original saga was directly influenced by Kurosawa’s work. SPLOID is delicious brain…

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Outstanding photos of the X-15, the fastest manned rocket plane ever

While the Blackbird SR-71 was the fastest manned airplane ever made, the fastest manned aircraft is the North American X-15, a rocket plane that flew for the first time on June 8, 1959, launched from a NASA NB-52B mothership. On October 1967 it pulverized all records: 4,520 miles per hour (7,274 km/h). Take-off carried by…

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A strange retelling of the birth of Jesus set in the space age

Here’s a strange Christmas film—weird, sad, and hopeful all at the same time. According to its creators, Anomaly is ‘a retelling of the traditional Christmas Nativity which explores, through a modern-day lens, the events of two-thousand years ago, set against the space-race canvas of the 1960s.’ SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook…

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Impressive new image of Saturn from above the ecliptic plane

Our friend Val Klavans sent me a Christmas present this morning: A color photo of Saturn as you would have seen it if you were riding the spacecraft Cassini on December 21, 2014. Saturn’s north polar hexagon stands out prominently while the rings encircle the planet. You can see the hexagon storm on its north…

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Chaos ensues as armored truck spills $4.5 million on a street

Dozens of Hong Kong motorists and pedestrians rushed to grab loads of money after an armored truck’s doors opened by accident on a busy road, spilling about 4.5 million US dollars in HK$500 notes (US$65) on Christmas Eve, reports the South China Morning Post. Check out all those frantic bastards. Police has asked the people…

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Add this spectacular house to your list of dream homes

Casa Los Algarrobos. Perched on the moutains of Puembo, Ecuador, this 8,966-square-foot (833m2) house is yet another dream home to live in and have peace, food, and sex forever. The views, the materials, the distribution—I like it all. But it’s that bedroom that took my heart away. I want to wake up there so badly.…

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New building in the Arabian desert looks like an alien spaceship fleet

This is Zaha Hadid’s latest building, the headquarters for UAE’s environmental management company Bee’ah, in the emirate of Sharjah. The company says that Hadid’s “design team found inspiration in sand formations created by the wind’s movement and direction.” I say aliens.

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This is what an airplane looks like when you cut it like a salami

Looking at this Airbus A300 fuselage cross-section at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany, makes me realize once again how lucky we are to partake in the miracle of flying. Look at that, just some metal sheets, seats on top, luggage containers in the bottom. How the hell could that fly. Obligatory: P.S. I’m at…

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New photo reveals titanic cliffs on Rosetta’s comet

Just when I thought I had enough of Rosetta’s photos of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ESA has released this four-image mosaic that shows an incredible cliff more than one kilometer (0.62 miles) high. The image was taken from a distance of 20.1 kilometer on December 10. Here’s another version, zoomed out. The image resolution is 1.71 m/pixel…

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The cutting edge of a knife is totally invisible to the naked eye

That’s a red blood cell on top of a knife’s cutting edge. Now, we know we can’t see a red blood cell with our naked eyes. It’s too tiny. But we think we can see the cutting edge of a knife because it’s there in front of you, right? No, you can’t see it. To…

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One of the most magical photos I have seen this year

Today’s National Geographic Your Shot editor’s pick is this stunning image of what seems to be a man/alien hovering over the ground in a forest. In reality, it is a surreal photo of a diver in a cenote, in the Yucatán, Mexico. The lighting is so perfect and the water so clear that you can’t…

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I want to live in one of these spectacular cabins in a Norwegian fjord

Look at this. It’s so perfect it seems artificial—some illuminated display inside a “Visit Norway” booth at a travel fair. It is actually the view from a cabin in the northwest coast of Norway, 250 miles northwest of Oslo, a paradise in the middle of a fjord. It is now one of my dream homes,…

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Can you recognize all the famous movie heroines in this neat poster?

I love Scott Park’s work. His collection posters—like these cars—are the best. This movie and TV heroines poster has 80 characters, from Agent Scully (The X Files) to Kira Nerys (Deep Space Nine) going through Leeloo (The Fifth Element) or Beatrix Kiddo (Kill Bill.) I just love to zoom in and go through all the…

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New trailer for Star Citizen shows our space dreams come true

Star Citizen’s new trailer claims all the footage is taken from the in-game engine, no pre-renderings, but it is so amazing, so detailed and beautiful, so impossibly complex, that I just can’t believe it. If it is really this way, I will buy a PC, an Oculus Rift, and disappear forever from the face of…

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Watch a military jump from the point of view of a US Army paratrooper

Astronaut Chris Hadfield explains why humans should be optimistic

Someone wants to build a futuristic version of Sauron’s tower in Africa

A giant bow suspended over a ship

This is the coolest view I’ve ever seen of a motorbike jump

Hypnotizing GIF shows how ice cream bars are made

Samurai Star Wars is 12 parsecs worth of neat

Outstanding photos of the X-15, the fastest manned rocket plane ever

A strange retelling of the birth of Jesus set in the space age

Impressive new image of Saturn from above the ecliptic plane

Chaos ensues as armored truck spills $4.5 million on a street

Add this spectacular house to your list of dream homes

New building in the Arabian desert looks like an alien spaceship fleet

This is what an airplane looks like when you cut it like a salami

New photo reveals titanic cliffs on Rosetta’s comet

The cutting edge of a knife is totally invisible to the naked eye

One of the most magical photos I have seen this year

I want to live in one of these spectacular cabins in a Norwegian fjord

Can you recognize all the famous movie heroines in this neat poster?

New trailer for Star Citizen shows our space dreams come true

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

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