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NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day is this view of the October 8 lunar eclipse taken by Yuri Beletsky at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. The shadow of the Earth cutting through, the glow, the misty sea that fades into the sky itself—so otherworldly and ethereal. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…
Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne would feel at home inside DARPA’sGXV-T missile-dodging superbuggy. This video shows how the Pentagon’s research arm wants the cockpit to be: Closed, with high-definition touch screens providing wide-angle visibility and displaying combat information in augmented reality. It’s really impressive. A closed cockpit that would use visualization technologies to provide high-definition,…
The guys at Cinefix reviewed some of the most famous horror films in history to try to figure out what is it that makes us enjoy them so much. At first glance, the fact of getting pleasure by being terrified seems uncanny, but apparently there’s a scientific explanation for that behavior and here it is:…
Paris. One of the most beautiful places in the world. They call it the city of light, and, above all, the city of love. I always had a really good time when I visited Paris. It might not be on my top ten cities to go party, but who cares when the food is so…
Some guys—Tom and Ed according to the name of the Youtube channel—just uploaded these two videos where they add their voices to existing moon footage. I hope they continue with the saga because these made me laugh hard. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Wow. This is actually really cool. Jimmy DiResta found an old anvil from an antique store and restored it to its previous glory. The finished restored anvil looks fantastic but it’s the entire process that’s got me slack jawed. All the sparkles and whirring and refining and polishing makes restoring look like a form of…
Hong Kong is one of those crazy future cities in the world where buildings kiss the sky and people are stacked on top of people and streets hide alleys which hide labyrinths which hide awesome. It’s great. It’s also great for climbing to the top of a skyscraper to hijack a billboard. These guys proved…
This German genius has created one of the most awesome inventions in recent memory, one that will bring incredible voice to humanity: A fully automated paper airplane machine gun. Yes, people: A machine gun that folds plain paper sheets into airplanes and then fire them across the sky. He fully designed it and then 3D…
Man, was I ever excited when I saw that McDonald’s Monopoly was back this year! I had a blast looking at the Roll Up the Rim stats last year, and hoped I could do the same for Monopoly this year. Then I was pretty disappointed to realize that Business Insider had done their own analysis,…
Bridges to normal humans are things that make life easier because they connect things that, well, don’t connect. We get on it and we get to the other side. Bridges to this professional stuntman are obstacles meant for epic stunts, like riding a motorcycle on top of one of the bridge’s arch beam! And somehow,…
If the patty looks like meat, if it bleeds like meat and if it sizzles like meat… the patty can somehow be a plant-based vegetarian burger, just like the cheeseburger above. It’s called the Impossible Cheeseburger and it’s completely made from plants. You don’t even have to eat a veggie burger to know that most…
Being a Queen fan since I was little kid, I had my doubts about anyone covering 20 Queen songs in one single 60-second song and making any sense. I stand corrected: This medley is brilliant, smoothly morphing one song into each other while keeping every single hit recognizable. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…
I didn’t have a clue that Kinetic Sand existed. This Swedish invention is made of 98-percent sand and two-percent sorcery, so it sticks to itself and nothing else, allowing you to cut it clean. And then it feels like it moves on its own, which is creepy. Like some weird matter that is alive. My…
NASA has published a cool video showing how the first test of Orion—the spaceship that will take us to the Moon and Mars—will be. The Orion spaceship will be launched on top of a Delta rocket on December 4. As the flight test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft nears, the agency released Wednesday a video —…
Fascinating interactive data visualization byInformation Is Beautiful Studiofor BBC Future: All the flight incidents from 2014 to 1993 in one single graphic—436 in total. The size of the circles correspond to the number of fatalities. Particularly interesting is the chart on the top right. It clearly shows that air travel has gotten much safer since…
I’ve never seen one of these ISS spacewalk fly-throughs. NASA TV always shows close-up views of their work, but this visualization of the yesterday’s spacewalk narrated by NASA Spacewalk Officer Jaclyn Kagey puts everything in perspective. It is a very hard, tedious, and dangerous “home improvement” work. Just keep in mind that these guys are…
When I first saw this ad I spent a while scratching my head wondering how could they train an orangutan to do the stuff this one does. After digging a bit into it I learned that they didn’t trained it at all. It was entirely made with CGI by The Mill, one of the best…
I’ve seen hundreds of PSAs warning about the dangers of smoking and, to be honest, I forgot most of them after 30 seconds. That’s why I think this short animation film should be made into one ASAP. It gets the message across perfectly—and the end made me laugh out loud. The short is written, directed,…
Filminute is an international film festivalthat challenges filmmakers from all over the world to make engaging one-minute movies. You might think 60 seconds are not enough to make you laugh, cry or even scare you to death. This year’s winner—directed by Spanish filmmaker Ignacio F. Rodó—will prove you wrong. Check out the rest of the…
To promote the launch of the newest BBC Music channel, the network gathered an exclusive cast of musicians—including Pharell, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, and more—to sing The Beach Boys’ classic God Only Knows. The video also displays some spectacular settings like jungles with tigers and hot air balloons. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…
