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Welcome back to Hell’s Club, a place “where all fictional characters meet… outside of all logic.” Which explains why there’s three copies of Jean-Claude Van Damme looking for each other. This video is the creation of Antonio Maria da Silva, whose original Hell’s Club came out last summer and garnered 5.5 million views for its…
Get your best leather on, blast some Electric Wizard, and say a quick prayer to Satan, because we’re going to bone church. The Sedlec Ossuary is a tiny Roman Catholic chapel beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in the Czech Republic. Back in the 1200s, Sedlec was considered especially pious, and therefore a very…
Luckily for Sentinel-3a, there’s no bags to pack, no TSA, and expensive satellites only fly first class. Sentinel-3a is the first of three planned Earth observation satellites that will be focused on measuring weather variation and oceanic changes. It launched from Plesetsk, Russia and made it to space without a hitch on February 16th. If…
All the satisfaction in the world exists through a tunnel boring machine that finally cracks the surface and shreds open the crap that was in its way. Here is the tunnel boring machine Alice digging through a 1.5-mile giant tunnel in New Zealand. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
In this version of driving in the future, cars use magnetic levitation and roll around on big spheres. Please put me in cryostasis until this actually exists. The Goodyear Eagle-360 concept includes a few unusual features, like a spongey substance in the tire grooves that would soften and provide greater traction during rain. Does such…
The iBOT mobility system was a stair-climbing wheelchair that could also turn into a Segway. And sadly, it no longer exists. As of 2009 the iBOT was no longer available for sale, and support for existing units was dropped about three years ago, mainly because these things cost $25,000 each and Medicare only chipped in…
Formula One racing mixes man with machine so much that both are essentially responsible for victory. That’s why F1 gives out awards to both drivers (F1 World Drivers’ Champions) and the constructors of the cars (F1 World Constructors’ Champions). The constructor is basically the automobile maker of the vehicle (think Ferrari and Mercedes and so…
Those aren’t the pedals of a particularly exotic flower, they’re the papillae inside a Loggerhead turtle’s throat. The inward-pointing papillae are covered in a thick mucus that helps filter out pieces of inedible material a Loggerhead might encounter—whether its invertebrate shells or actual trash—sort of like a miniature Sarlacc. Besides how genuinely weird their insides…
In this rare aerial footage, the coolest aircraft ever created looks even cooler. Aerospace company Northrop Grumman posted a video of its B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber, and it’s nuts. Only twenty of these things are around, so this kind of aerial footage of one in action is pretty rare. With a wingspan of 172 feet,…
Movies heavy in visual effects don’t usually age well because they’re often trapped in their own time capsule. Special effects that were supposed to be impressive become cheesy and intimidating effects that were supposed to add to the plot become laughable. Nothing kills the suspension of disbelief faster than bad visuals. But some movies like…
What is the sound of a bass without strings? No, that’s not a Zen mystery invented to challenge your preconceived notions of existence. It was a suggestion given to bassist YouTuber Davie504 by one of his subscribers. As luck would have it, the electronics in a bass can be made to function in a variety…
He doesn’t make anyone think they’re a human chicken, but Anthony Howe just might be the world’s greatest hypnotist. His wind-powered metal creations, sometimes standing as tall as 25 feet, are some of the most mesmerizing kinetic sculptures you’ll ever see. Don’t look, or you might not be able to look away. [YouTube via Laughing…
The first things people are supposed to notice in Jurassic Park are, obviously, the dinosaurs. But what would you be left with if you took the T-Rex out? Some sweeping vistas and people getting very emotional about trees. William Hirsch, the man behind the Vidsplode YouTube channel, used a little VFX trickeryto take the dinosaurs…
Self-employment is rough. One day you’re sleeping in for an extra half hour, and the next you’re staying up until 5am and realizing you haven’t seen any of your friends (or the sun) in months. Dust and dirty dishes start to pile up. You neglect the laundry. The laundry moves in with someone else. Nothing…
Your skis are strapped on and you’re holding a rope. Then the motorcycle revs and you’re off at top speed down a snowy trail. That’s the gist of skijoring—which always involves a skier, and sometimes a horse, dog, or ATV in place of a motorcycle. In snowier places, like Scandinavia, Canada, and Russia, skijor has…
Scrape out your eye boogers because even the most quotidian breakfast foods look like insane NASA photos through a thermal camera. A mug of coffee looks like a cup of lava; a toaster more closely resembles a furnace; and washing the dishes becomes an alarming proposition. It’s so damn cool, we won’t even blame the…
Look, I’m sure a large team of well-trained ropework professionals have decided that ski jumping while attached to a bungee line, attached to a zipline, is a safe thing to do. But every single part of my brain involved with self-preservation is telling me it’s a bad idea. Bun J Ride is an activity in…
360 video is often disappointing (although there are exceptions). Cinematography goes out the window. It’s a nightmare on desktop. But Corridor Digital managed to use its limitations in their favor. Here’s how I’d like to imagine this video was born: INT. OFFICE — AFTERNOON The CORRIDOR DIGITAL headquarters are hitting the usual lull around lunchtime,…
A row of dicks hanging from metal hooks could be the opening shot of a particularly gruesome horror movie, but its only one of the many eerie production stations in the RealDoll shop in San Marcos, California. Photographer Robert Benson traveled to Japan where he became interested in the spooky eroticism of sex doll factories.…
What will the Internet look like in 3016? Well, the Huffington Post will have a new name, the Galactic Security Administration will be the focus of conspiracy theorists, MindTube will tap videos right into your grey matter…and Reddit will look pretty much exactly the same. At least according to Reddit 3016, a daily-updating art project…
