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This accident could have been a total disaster, but fortunately it just ended with one ruined Cessna airplane, a ripped parachute, and no victims. MyFox Tampa Bay got these incredible photos of the mid-air collision between an airplane and skydiver. More photos and information here. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…
Remember that girl who showed us what foreign languages sound like to people who don’t speak them? She’s back with 14 different music genres. Enjoy! SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
We’ve seen countless action movies in which daring heroes get their gaping wounds sealed with white hot metal, but we rarely get a peek at what happens after the fact. This video from The Medicine Journal explains how it really works. Doctors use cauterization sometimes because they use it in sterile environments—so for the love…
I came across some wintertime military photographs that looked like lost frames from the Battle of Hoth, in The Empire Strikes Back. So much, in fact, that I couldn’t resist adding some laser gun turrets and AT-ATs. Check them out and post your mashups in the comments. A U.S. Air Force airman defrosts a C-130J…
Yesterday I finally saw this incredible model of Manhattan at New York’s Armory Show. Hand carved on a gigantic 9-foot-long block of marble, this thing is overwhelming when you’re in front of it. The detail is truly unbelievable. Check it out up close: The piece is not new. It’s part of a series of five…
The Awesomerer found this impossibly mesmerizing time-lapse video taken in Tokyo’s Yurikamome train. It’s also the weirdest and trippiest time-lapse video I’ve ever seen. It’s called Hyperdrive, and it looks like they are traveling in the Millennium Falcon in Tron universe. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Watching this gives me the chills. A cosmonaut floats away from the International space station, spinning out of control as the camera follows it, orbiting planet Earth for seven months before plunging into the atmosphere, burning and disintegrating. A terrifying scene that looks like the movie Gravity, but the video above is real—except no human…
Brandon Ballengée made these beautiful prints of “terminally deformed frogs found in nature” using a clearing and staining process. He then scanned the bodies with a high resolution scanner. The results are fascinating. Bellengée’s concept is fascinating too: These reliquaries are created by chemically “clearing and staining” terminally deformed frogs found in nature. This process…
I never solved the Rubik’s Cube, so when I see this dude breaking the world record for solving six cubes of increasing complexity—2×2, 3×3, 4×4, 5×5, 6×6 and 7×7—in just 6 minutes and 23 seconds, I just can think two things: “That’s insane” and “I’m useless.” SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
Game of Thrones is a complicated show with a never ending cast of characters and families and sigils and bannermen and animals and politics and power and maps and magic and breasts that it’s sometimes hard to keep up with who is fighting who and for what. This hilarious parody of Game of Thrones by…
There’s already a lot of responsibilities in being a parent. You gotta make sure your kids are fed. Make sure they bathe. Make sure they’re safe. And make sure they don’t become a menace to society. There’s only one requirement in becoming an awesome parent though and it’s this: build your kids an awesome Batpod…
Here’s an essential clue to discover the identity of the Yellow King: “My mamma said: dog face to the banana patch.” The rest is all in this video. Watch. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
There are 42 tower cranes working together to build a brand new city district for more than 20,000 people in Vienna, Austria. It’s the biggest construction site in Europe right now. But it’s not always work work work for the cranes, they get to dance in a fun light show on their off day. Watch…
It’s no Forrest Gump but this moving one armed robot is plenty good at ping pong. And may be even better than you. Watch it extend its arm to cover ground, cycle through backhand and forehand shots and hit the ball so effortlessly that it seems like an invisible human is controlling it. The DIY…
I think we can all agree that Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull is the very worst of the Indy movies, but I don’t recall it being as bad as this Everything wrong with… episode shows. No, wait, I do now. I just think seeing Indy getting married at the end was…
I just came across this cool old time-lapse video made by scientists from the US Geological Survey: The collapse of the crater floor of the Puʻu ʻŌʻō, one of the cones of the Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii. The video, filmed on March 5, 2011, “starts at 4 am and ends at 11 pm. The floor…
Pornburger is a new site that will make you drool and crave for a delicious atomic burger that would make Godzilla happy. I just want each and everyone of these burgers, like a burger bukkake. I want to stuff my face with them, I want to date them, I want to bathe in them, I…
I knew that NASA wants to send a submarine to explore the oceans of Jupiter’s moon Europa, but I never realized that Europa has more liquid water than Earth even while it’s roughly the size of our Moon. This graphic shows the shocking difference clearly, but there’s more. According to the Planet Habitability Laboratory from…
I love this tower design in Montpellier, France. Those decks are made to chill out and drink vermouth in the summer, but I can imagine flying bikes and cars taking flaying in and out, like launching/landing platforms. Its architects—Sou Fujimoto Architects, Nicolas Laisné Associés and Manal Rachdi Oxo architects—say this 17-story multipurpose tower is “inspired…
You are looking at one of the reasons why Stalin-wannabe Vladimir Putin doesn’t want to let go of Crimea: Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. Foxtrot Alpha explains why and shows us the Black Sea Feet and its weapons in detail.
