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Man, look how crazy close Blue Angels fighter jets fly together

Absurd. Like seriously. Look at this fleet of Blue Angels fighter jet planes fly in a perfect pattern in a practice session. The flight pattern they were practicing, I’m assuming here, is called “Let’s get these flying metal beasts as close as possible so that one inch of a mistake will kill us all”. I…

Sploid Casey Chan

Here’s All The Crazy Biz From Adventure Time’s Season 6 Premiere

Holy Schram! Last night’s season premiere of Aventure Time was packed to the brim with major developments and general insanity. Don’t read on if you missed it or spoilers aren’t your thing, because there will be some big-time reveals below, plus pictures. You have been warned! The first part of the episode starts off with…

Tech News Jason Krell

Experimental Music + Extraterrestrials + Earth Day

Tomorrow night, April 22, at 7pm I’m giving a guest talk at SETI, famously the acronym for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. It’s free if you’re in the neighborhood, by which I mean Mountain View, California, not our galaxy. April 22 happens to be Earth Day, and what better day than Earth Day to address…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Once Upon A Time Brings Back A Ghost Because It Has 22 Episodes To Fill

There were two big reveals on Once Upon a Time — one was pretty great, and the other was kind of OK. It’s not that I mind seeing Cora and her lips once again, but I would rather continue to watch the Wicked Witch Rebecca Mader’s chew up an entire studio lot’s worth of scenery.…

Television Meredith Woerner

What was inside the briefcase and other obscure Pulp Fiction facts

We all know that Quentin Tarantino is a petty whiny dickhead who steals all his plots from other movies, ripping off scene after scene, and recombining them into silver nitrate milkshakes. But I enjoyed Pulp Fiction anyway. If you did too, you’ll like these nine factoids—which include the real content of Marsellus Wallace’s briefcase. SPLOID…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

This creek divides the US connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans

The Panama Canal is not the only water line connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. There’s a place in Wyoming—deep in the Teton Wilderness Area of the Bridger-Teton National Forest—in which a creek splits in two. Like the canal, this creek connects the two oceans dividing North America in two parts. Yes. You read that…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Watch the first minutes of Joss Whedon’s new spooky movie In Your Eyes

And if you like what you see from the newest spooky supernatural flick from Joss Whedon’s brilliant brain, you can watch the entire movie on demand on Vimeo for 5 bucks. A great deal for those of you who want more Whedon in your life. The tagline talks about this being a story about a…

Sploid Casey Chan

Trevor Cox Knows Who They Were and What They Were Doing

This isn’t new, but it’s worth a listen, especially if you’ve (1) never participated in a soundwalk or (2) not yet read Trevor Cox’s sonic travelogue, Sonic Wonderland: A Scientific Odyssey of Sound. Cox visited the offices of the Guardian and proceeded to take the editors on a blindfolded guided tour — except he was…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

How the Teenage Stowaway Survived a Flight to Hawaii in a Wheel Well

By now, you’ve likely heard the insane story of a 16-year-old boy who survived a five-hour flight from California to Hawaii hidden in a wheel well. How the hell did his body make it through sub-zero temperatures with little oxygen? Probably by going into “suspended animation,” a strange, frozen state that’s about as close you…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Oops, Powdered Alcohol Was Actually Approved By Mistake?

You may have heard about a weird and wonderful new thing called Palcohol coming soon to a store near you. Except, psych! The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) is now saying the powdered alcohol product was approved in error—all because of a labeling discrepancy. The whole situation seems a bit bizarre. A…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

10 animals that might become extinct in the next 10 years

Chances are you won’t see these rare animals at the local zoo because their population is down to the last hundreds. In some cases, it’s much worse than that with only a couple left. Some of these animals you’ve never heard of but others on the verge of extinction are related to animals you know…

Sploid Casey Chan

Dark Sky Week

This is Dark Sky Week, an international effort to promote appreciation for dark skies and reduction in light pollution. Where are your favourite places to escape the city lights and stargaze? New York during a blackout. Photograph credit: Craig Ruttle/AP Most cities have skies so bright that except for catastrophic blackouts or coordinated lights-out during…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Fungalescence Puts the “Fun” Back in Functional Geoengineering

The idea might have come from Von Neumann’s famous probes, but the execution is pure Fungalescence. Our company prides itself on creating worlds that aren’t just livable, but also beautiful. That’s why our terraforming spores will make your colony the envy of everyone in your local volume of space. This illustration is by Canadian concept…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Watch a Parade of Trains Celebrate L.A. Union Station’s 1939 Opening

Built shortly before the dawn of the Jet Age, L.A.’s Union Station has been called the Last Great American Railway Station—one final monument to rail transportation’s heyday. Judging by a newly digitized color film, the city celebrated its grand opening on May 3, 1939, with appropriate fanfare. Nearly half a million Angelenos came out for…

Tech News Nathan Masters

Salem‘s Witches Are Sexily Shocking, But Its Puritans Are Wicked, Too

When we learned that Brannon Braga was returning to television drama with a fantasy show about the Salem witch trials, we had high hopes. And Salem is off to a fun and demented start, imagining that the American colonial witch hysteria involved real witches, while keeping its questions about good and evil complicated. Although Salem…

Television Lauren Davis

Everything You Need to Know to Catch This Week’s Lyrid Meteor Shower

This year’s Lyrid meteor shower is expected to peak between midnight and dawn on Tuesday, April 22 (and possibly Wednesday, April 23d). Here’s what you need to know to spot as many meteors as possible. Above: The 2012 Lyrid meteor shower, as seen from aboard the International Space Station. The flashes of white light are…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Just What Does It Take To Captain The Starship Enterprise?

The Enterprise has been boldly sailing out into the unknown for almost 50 years now, under the watchful eye of a small group of commanders. But what is it that makes a captain a good fit to take charge of the Federation’s favorite vessel? In response to this post on the ins-and-outs of diplomatic workings,…

io9 Ria Misra

Discover The Origin Of The X-Files In 1940s-Set Year Zero Comic

Mulder and Scully weren’t the first. A brand-new 5-issue comic miniseries will look at the creation of the FBI’s “X-Files” office back in the ’40s, and the beginnings of a mystery that stretches through the decades. Here’s the official description from IDW: In the 1940s, a shadowy informant known as “Mr. Xero” directed the FBI…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

Disclosure and Sam Smith – Latch

Now I’ve got you in my space, I won’t let go of you/Got you shackled in my embrace, I’m latchin’ onto you. This song is slightly creepy. If someone said that to you without context or the banging Disclosure beat to boost it, you’d be like no way, dude. But this track is incredibly infectious,…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Monster Machines For Delicate Equipment

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array consists of 66 individual radio telescopes that can be moved to zoom in on a patch of sky. But how do they move those 100-ton beasts around the desert? Otto, the red-railed transport crawler. Twin transporter Lore has green rails. Image credit: José Velásquez/ESO A telescope array functions by coordinating…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Man, look how crazy close Blue Angels fighter jets fly together

Here’s All The Crazy Biz From Adventure Time’s Season 6 Premiere

Experimental Music + Extraterrestrials + Earth Day

Once Upon A Time Brings Back A Ghost Because It Has 22 Episodes To Fill

What was inside the briefcase and other obscure Pulp Fiction facts

This creek divides the US connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans

Watch the first minutes of Joss Whedon’s new spooky movie In Your Eyes

Trevor Cox Knows Who They Were and What They Were Doing

How the Teenage Stowaway Survived a Flight to Hawaii in a Wheel Well

Oops, Powdered Alcohol Was Actually Approved By Mistake?

10 animals that might become extinct in the next 10 years

Dark Sky Week

Fungalescence Puts the “Fun” Back in Functional Geoengineering

Watch a Parade of Trains Celebrate L.A. Union Station’s 1939 Opening

Salem‘s Witches Are Sexily Shocking, But Its Puritans Are Wicked, Too

Everything You Need to Know to Catch This Week’s Lyrid Meteor Shower

Just What Does It Take To Captain The Starship Enterprise?

Discover The Origin Of The X-Files In 1940s-Set Year Zero Comic

Disclosure and Sam Smith – Latch

Monster Machines For Delicate Equipment

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