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This is how they load missiles on a US Navy ship

I’ve seen them firing many times, but I’ve to confess that I’ve never seen one of these missiles systems getting loaded. It seems as easy as inserting a cartridge in a Nintendo Entertainment system. ATLANTIC OCEAN (May 20, 2014) Sailors assigned to the combat systems department of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71)…

1964-65: “Let’s Go To The Fair and Futurama” brochure cover from the New York Historical Society via X-Ray Delta

What Is This Giant, Swirling Hexagon At Saturn’s North Pole?

Something is going on at Saturn’s North Pole — something big, swirling, and shaped like a giant hexagon. So just what is it? Carolyn Porco, the leader of Cassini’s Imaging Team, explains it to us. Top Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Hampton University Porco joined us today to take our questions about life on other planets, the ocean on…

This Makes Us Happier Than Ever That Revolution Was Cancelled

Revolution was cancelled after two seasons of dystopian floundering. Still, we were tantalized by its moments of brilliant weirdness, promising a better show that never materialized. The season finale — filmed before cast and crew knew it was their final episode — made us glad the show is gone forever. There were so many great…

Get to Know The Painters Who Turn Lettered Signs Into Modern Art

There is something seriously satisfying about watching someone with steady hands drag a paint-laden brush along a smooth surface to make a picture-perfect letter. Sign Painters is a new documentary that offers that—so much of that—and profiles people in the in-flux industry who continue to make the way-finders and place-markers in our cities truly beautiful.…

Killer Rack May Be The Wrongest Horror Film In The History Of Wrongness

Move over Herschell Gordon Lewis — a new horror movie, Killer Rack, may be the wrongest thing ever. Just wrong. So wrong. You know how in video games, the unrealistic breasts sometimes take on a life of their own? To the point where you get boobs that move like tentacles? The dreaded “breastopus”? This is…

Pink Slime Is Back

Remember the great “pink slime” panic of 2012? Well, it’s back—both pink slime and the ridiculous panic surrounding it. Finely textured beef (or “pink slime”) is essentially just beef that’s been processed from the cuts of meat that Americans find less desirable, and then treated to kill any possible bacteria present. The technology for making…

Frozen and Tarzan Theory Proves People Will Believe Anything

It’s hard to even believe people would consider something so ridiculous, but the theory that Tarzan’s parents are the same as Elsa and Anna’s got enough traction to earn the attention of Chanel Frederator’s “Cartoon Conspiracy” segment. At the same time, Emily (the host) clearly understands the implausibility of this theory. But where does all…

Twentieth Century Futurism Looks Really Bizarre Now

What kinds of houses will we build in 100 years? Looking at these illustrations and movies about homes of the future, you realize how much the twentieth century vision of tomorrow differs from the twenty-first century one. Spherical houses from the September, 1934 issue of Everyday Science and Mechanics If spherical, the house of the…

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Hey friends, it’s the weekend—and not just any weekend, but a holiday weekend. For a lot of you, that means an extra day off work, and therefore an extra day to idly play around with your smartphone. Make it a great one with these, our favorite new apps. Android Gmail A few nice updates arrived…

The Bravest Warriors Decide Their Own Fate

After a long wait, Pendleton Ward’s Bravest Warriors is finally back on Cartoon Hangover. “The Parasox Pub,” the 10th episode of the second season, shows main character Chris Kirkman confronting the entirety of his future selves — the Emotion Lords. It’s a decently funny episode, but the series is getting to the point where the…

Every single Nicolas Cage laugh ever compiled in one single video

Get ready, my friends. Get ready to feel all kinds of emotions. Get ready to love, to cry, to hate, to look away, to stop this video in disgust only to start playing it again because you can’t resist keep looking at it. Get ready for every single Nicolas Cage laugh ever compiled in one…

These Unseen Photos From World War I Are Unbelievable

Typically, when long-lost photos are found and restored they’re a bit underwhelming. But this new series of images, captured by an unknown photographer, are just incredible — from their portrayal of life in the trenches to the intimate glimpses of famous leaders. All images: Collection Odette Carrez/Reuters. Above: German soldiers (rear) offering to surrender to…

Man films terrifying ordeal after falling into 70-foot crevasse

Dr. John All was taking snow samples on his own on Mount Himlung—in Nepal’s Himalayas—when the glacier broke under his feet. He fell into a 70-foot crevasse and suffered multiple injuries, but he managed to escape using an ice pick, filming himself during an agonizing adventure that lasted six hours. John is a geography lecturer…

This USB-Friendly Flashlight Is So Bright It Hurts—in a Good Way

Now that we all have pocket computers with camera flashes, the need for a good flashlight just isn’t what it used to be. But if you’re lost in the woods at midnight, that little LED is not going to cut it. The Maelstrom Regen MMR-X will. This lightweight, pocket-sized flashlight is simply terrific. Not only…

This Weird-Ass Animated Documentary Is Like Creature Comforts For Food

In the stop-motion animated documentary Food, people don’t just talk about the foods they like to eat. They’re also animated to look like talking cheeseburgers, pretzels, and strawberries. CalArts student Siqi Song takes a page from Nick Park’s short film Creature Comforts, pairing real interviews with stop-motion animation. The results are delightfully odd, especially with…

Look up! Giraffes Falling from the Sky

The Camelopardalids are having their debut meteor shower tonight. Will it be awesome, or a total fizzle? We have no way of knowing, we just know that we’re encountering a fresh batch of dust in space we’ve never ran into before. So head out tonight, take a look, and report back! https://gizmodo.com/a-never-before-seen-meteor-shower-peaks-tonight-heres-1580724695

The Star Trek: The Next Generation Finale, 20 Years Later

Did you realize that Ron Moore and Brannon Braga were writing the final TNG episode, “All Good Things…”, at the same time they were drafting the first TNG movie, Generations? That’s just one revelation in some fascinating interviews about “All Good Things,” 20 years later. It sounds as though the process of creating both TV…

Blood, Bondage, and Silver Bullets: How To Drink Gothic

Vampires and zombies, ruined castles and gloomy dungeons: the scary tropes of Gothic horror, which first terrorized the world 250 years ago with the publication of Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto, still colonize our imaginations today. What better way to celebrate the anniversary than by mixing yourself a Silver Bullet or Nosferatini and settling in…

Scientists Discover Area Of Brain Responsible For Loving Johnny Cash

Brains are funny things. Injure them or mess with them, and people change — they change personalities, they change languages, and sometimes, they change their opinions on the Man in Black, Johnny Cash. We know this because a journal in Frontier in Behavioural Neuroscience discusses a man who received an electrical implant in his brain…