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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.
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…
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…
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…
Christmas is over, wrapping paper has been destroyed, batteries were scourged up and bellies are bigger than usual but we still have a bit of the holiday season to enjoy. It’s always nice to look back at the year that just was but even better to see how far we’ve come too. These pictures show…
Latte art is great for making you feel a little bit special in the beginning of the day and absolutely necessary for any hashtag coffee Instagram post but it turns out, latte art also makes for a cute way to tell a stop motion animation love story too. Follow along this spot that uses 1,000…
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…
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…
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…
I could spend hours sitting next to this woman, watching her making rice paper roll sheets. And then fill those rice papers with noodles, cilantro, shrimps, hoisin sauce, cook them in a steamer, and eat them with an ice cold beer. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Editor Jacob T. Swinney put together this video with the best cinematography of 2014. The list only includes movies that have been released theatrically in the US, like Interstellar, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Nymphomaniac, and many more. Here is the whole list: Interstellar Nightcrawler Locke Godzilla Under the Skin Birdman Snowpiercer Foxcatcher Inherent Vice Fury…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I’m halfway certain that there is sorcery from Middle Earth involved in building this humungous chain. But it’s pure human ingenuity. The chain is meant to be used on Shell’s Prelude project (a floating liquefied natural gas platform) which is basically some ginormous platform that’s permanently moored offshore. The whole video is interesting but Reddit…
Sure, a cosmonaut on Chat Roulette just wants to see bewbs just like the rest of the screen tanned Internet but at least he has the power to run satellites and make you feel like you’re not alone. This lovable short film, Russian Roulette, tells a cute story of a girl cruising Chat Roulette until…
My, this is beautiful. Artists Friedrich van Schoor and Tarek Mawad teamed up in this projection map installation to create a ‘bioluminescent forest’. The entire forest glows with light, from the mushrooms to the trees to the leaves to the grounds to the insects. The darkness is transformed into a magical place. And a very,…
It was 77 degrees in LA today which is what qualifies as Christmas here. Who needs a white Christmas, the sprawling city of Los Angeles sure doesn’t need pea coats or functional (not fashionable) scarves or snow shovels or visible breath to celebrate Christmas. Paddle boards and a beach will do just fine. Brian Hawkins,…
This year’s Oxford University season’s greetings explores different Christmas items throught the lens of a microscope. From the hard fur of a reindeer to the iconic Santa’s wool cap. Not surprisingly, everything looks gorgeous under the microscope. Christmas too. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
