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Can anybody really understand True Detective without subtitles?

Here’s an essential clue to discover the identity of the Yellow King: “My mamma said: dog face to the banana patch.” The rest is all in this video. Watch. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

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I don’t recall Indiana Jones IV being so damn terrible (but it is)

I think we can all agree that Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull is the very worst of the Indy movies, but I don’t recall it being as bad as this Everything wrong with… episode shows. No, wait, I do now. I just think seeing Indy getting married at the end was…

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The gates of hell open in this time-lapse video

I just came across this cool old time-lapse video made by scientists from the US Geological Survey: The collapse of the crater floor of the Puʻu ʻŌʻō, one of the cones of the Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii. The video, filmed on March 5, 2011, “starts at 4 am and ends at 11 pm. The floor…

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Lobster burger on mac-n-cheese buns and other mind-blowing burgers

Pornburger is a new site that will make you drool and crave for a delicious atomic burger that would make Godzilla happy. I just want each and everyone of these burgers, like a burger bukkake. I want to stuff my face with them, I want to date them, I want to bathe in them, I…

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Cool visualization shows liquid water on Earth vs Jupiter’s moon Europa

I knew that NASA wants to send a submarine to explore the oceans of Jupiter’s moon Europa, but I never realized that Europa has more liquid water than Earth even while it’s roughly the size of our Moon. This graphic shows the shocking difference clearly, but there’s more. According to the Planet Habitability Laboratory from…

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This awesome tree building would be perfect if we had flying cars

I love this tower design in Montpellier, France. Those decks are made to chill out and drink vermouth in the summer, but I can imagine flying bikes and cars taking flaying in and out, like launching/landing platforms. Its architects—Sou Fujimoto Architects, Nicolas Laisné Associés and Manal Rachdi Oxo architects—say this 17-story multipurpose tower is “inspired…

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A detailed look at Russia’s formidable arsenal in Crimea

You are looking at one of the reasons why Stalin-wannabe Vladimir Putin doesn’t want to let go of Crimea: Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. Foxtrot Alpha explains why and shows us the Black Sea Feet and its weapons in detail.

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These weapons cutaways are so damn cool

Behold this incredibly precise and totally awesome cutaway rendering of a Colt .45 pistol by Ukrainian illustrator Alex Lartsev—aka Abiator. Check out the rest of his work because it’s really amazing: Kalashnikov AK-47. Click here to see the original. A multiple grenade launcher, the Milkor MGL M32. Click here to see the original. See more…

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You won’t believe how fast these Russian kids get towed on their sleds

Witness the idiocy of these crazy Russian kids being towed in sleds at really high speeds. Make sure to watch the entire video, because it really gets nuts. How fast are they going? 60mph? More? I don’t know, but for sure it’s way too much. What the hell, Russian kids—are you so bored that the…

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Mysterious forces destroy asteroid as amazed scientists watch

Hubble has captured the destruction of a 200,000-ton asteroid in the asteroid belt for “the first time ever.” It slowly broke apart for unknown reasons, scientists say. University of California at Los Angeles’ David Jewitt, says that “this [was] a rock, and seeing it fall apart before our eyes is pretty amazing.”

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This epic voice cover of Nirvana’s Heart-Shaped Box blew me away

Kawehi is an awesome singer and musician, capable of creating pieces like this cover of Nirvana’s Heart-Shaped Box. It’s a phenomenal rendition executed only with her voice, a step sequencer, and a MIDI keyboard. Skip a bit to get to the start of the actual song if you’re impatient or go through the whole thing…

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The best wake up alarm in the world is a dog and a laser pointer

Daily Pics and Flicks spotted this fun video of a woman using a laser pointer and a husky dog to wake up some poor sod, something that I want to do on myself (if I had a dog or a laser pointer.) SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

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If you’re a NASA engineer you get to play with toys like these

If you’re a NASA engineer you get to play with a lot of awesome toys, like these furious mini-rockets. They are models of the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage engines, “scaled down to just 2 percent of the actual size of the flight hardware.” [M]odels of the SLS core stage RS-25 engines and solid…

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Incredible photo of invisible cosmic forces tearing a galaxy apart

Hubble and Chandra telescopes have captured an image of a galaxy being destroyed, torn apart by invisible cosmic forces 200 million light-years from us, in the constellation Triangulum Australe. Honestly, my brain just can’t comprehend the scale of this event. Description from Hubble: Our spiral-shaped Milky Way galaxy lives in a comparatively quiet backwater region…

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Awesome video of F-16 pilot firing a missile

That selfie of a Danish F-16 pilot firing a Sidewinder missile is actually a frame from a cool video. I’d rather have a perfect animated selfie in an infinite GIF loop, though, so I made this one. Here’s another shot as seen from the side. And the original video: SPLOID is a new blog about…

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Portraits of people deformed by Scotch tape are hilariously freaky

Jenna Garrett at Feature Shot highlights these great portraits by Albuquerque-based photographerWes Naman, who uses transparent tape Scotch tape to deform his subjects into comical monsters. Never taking more than 10 minutes to apply his effect, Naman uses photography to stretch and squeeze everyday people into fantastically freaky creatures. SPLOID is a new blog about…

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Fantastic cartoons show the evolution of famous characters and actors

Jeff Victor is a fantastic illustrator and a long time Gizmodo reader. I asked him to send us his favorite illustrations from one of my favorite series: Evolutions. His first one is Princess Leia, which I find delicious. I want a lot more Bill Murray, though. Bill Murray Batman Gary Oldman Arnie Superman Tom Hanks…

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This is not a frame from a science fiction movie

It seems like a spaceship arriving to another planet, but it just happened right here on Earth. It’s an actual image from the successful Morpheus vehicle test completed today at the Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility. There’s great video too. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

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An interstellar spaceship is about to exit this hyperspace portal

The first time I saw this image taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory I instantly thought of dozens scenes in science fiction movies, games, and illustrations—interstellar ships about to come out of hyperspace portals or wormholes. Spectacular photo. The reason why this looks like wormhole is because a galaxy in the foreground is acting as…

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Mad skier backflips over a highway—and faceplants against the snow

“A valid attempt at a backflip over the Mount Baker highway,” says the author of this jump over a highway in Whatcom County, Washington. Well, at least it wasn’t a total failure and you didn’t smash your face against the asphalt. Totally worth it I say (if only because I love to make satisfying looping…

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Can anybody really understand True Detective without subtitles?

I don’t recall Indiana Jones IV being so damn terrible (but it is)

The gates of hell open in this time-lapse video

Lobster burger on mac-n-cheese buns and other mind-blowing burgers

Cool visualization shows liquid water on Earth vs Jupiter’s moon Europa

This awesome tree building would be perfect if we had flying cars

A detailed look at Russia’s formidable arsenal in Crimea

These weapons cutaways are so damn cool

You won’t believe how fast these Russian kids get towed on their sleds

Mysterious forces destroy asteroid as amazed scientists watch

This epic voice cover of Nirvana’s Heart-Shaped Box blew me away

The best wake up alarm in the world is a dog and a laser pointer

If you’re a NASA engineer you get to play with toys like these

Incredible photo of invisible cosmic forces tearing a galaxy apart

Awesome video of F-16 pilot firing a missile

Portraits of people deformed by Scotch tape are hilariously freaky

Fantastic cartoons show the evolution of famous characters and actors

This is not a frame from a science fiction movie

An interstellar spaceship is about to exit this hyperspace portal

Mad skier backflips over a highway—and faceplants against the snow

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