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Behold this incredibly precise and totally awesome cutaway rendering of a Colt .45 pistol by Ukrainian illustrator Alex Lartsev—aka Abiator. Check out the rest of his work because it’s really amazing: Kalashnikov AK-47. Click here to see the original. A multiple grenade launcher, the Milkor MGL M32. Click here to see the original. See more…
Witness the idiocy of these crazy Russian kids being towed in sleds at really high speeds. Make sure to watch the entire video, because it really gets nuts. How fast are they going? 60mph? More? I don’t know, but for sure it’s way too much. What the hell, Russian kids—are you so bored that the…
Some people claim that they have experienced out-of-body experiences—aka “astral trips”—floating outside of their bodies and watching themselves from the outside. A team of scientists found someone who says she can do this at willand put her into a brain scanner. What they discovered was surprisingly strange. Andra M. Smith and Claude Messierwere from the…
You got 10 seconds to find it. It’s there, I promise you. But if you were just walking around or if you were this leopard’s prey, by the time you see it, it would be too late. The photo was taken by excellent photographer Art Wolfe. See more of Art Wolfe’s awesome workhere. You can…
Sure a white picket fence is part of the American dream but it’s so much cooler to have this fence of mirrors surrounding your house. It turns the boundaries of your yard invisible. It changes colors with the seasons. And it is gleaming fun to look at. Designboom says the mirrored fences are an installation…
I would so watch a French version of The Simpsons that makes fun of itself as much as this couch gag. Hopefully, it could be just as beautifully animated as this too. This couch gag was made by French director Sylvain Chomet and it has Homer eating snails, Bart brutally making his own foie gras…
Hubble has captured the destruction of a 200,000-ton asteroid in the asteroid belt for “the first time ever.” It slowly broke apart for unknown reasons, scientists say. University of California at Los Angeles’ David Jewitt, says that “this [was] a rock, and seeing it fall apart before our eyes is pretty amazing.”
Kawehi is an awesome singer and musician, capable of creating pieces like this cover of Nirvana’s Heart-Shaped Box. It’s a phenomenal rendition executed only with her voice, a step sequencer, and a MIDI keyboard. Skip a bit to get to the start of the actual song if you’re impatient or go through the whole thing…
Daily Pics and Flicks spotted this fun video of a woman using a laser pointer and a husky dog to wake up some poor sod, something that I want to do on myself (if I had a dog or a laser pointer.) SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
If you’re a NASA engineer you get to play with a lot of awesome toys, like these furious mini-rockets. They are models of the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage engines, “scaled down to just 2 percent of the actual size of the flight hardware.” [M]odels of the SLS core stage RS-25 engines and solid…
Hello and welcome to the real life Fortress of Solitude. This unbelievably beautiful cavern is inside Vatnajökull, Iceland’s biggest glacier, captured by photographer Kate Friend, who took a stunning series of shots inside this 8,000-square-kilometer ice mass. Can you believe this pic wasn’t color-corrected in Photoshop? The blues are so crisp and so clear, I…
Hubble and Chandra telescopes have captured an image of a galaxy being destroyed, torn apart by invisible cosmic forces 200 million light-years from us, in the constellation Triangulum Australe. Honestly, my brain just can’t comprehend the scale of this event. Description from Hubble: Our spiral-shaped Milky Way galaxy lives in a comparatively quiet backwater region…
Thought crocodiles and alligators were the kings of the river? Otters and pythons don’t agree at all. This image sequence from the Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Reserve—spotted by PourMeCoffee—shows an otter killing a juvenile gator. Hell yeah. Otters are not that cute when they are pissed off, right? Otter preying on alligator at Lake Woodruff…
That selfie of a Danish F-16 pilot firing a Sidewinder missile is actually a frame from a cool video. I’d rather have a perfect animated selfie in an infinite GIF loop, though, so I made this one. Here’s another shot as seen from the side. And the original video: SPLOID is a new blog about…
According to physicists, there are three, er, two and a half different theories on how a person would die if they got sucked in by a black hole: stretched like a spaghetti noodle, burnt like a toast and maybe even scrambled. Nova PBS explains that if the argument on how people would die if swallowed…
Mars One, the program that is planning to create a human settlement on Mars by 2024, has received over 200,000 applications of Earthlings who are interested in leaving their home planet forever by taking a one-way ticket to Mars. This short documentary examines a few of those people’s motivation to leave everything behind. One person…
Videos of wingsuit flights are never not awesome but this one just might be the best. And it’s not because of the snow. Though the beautifully fresh powder helps. And it’s not because Dan Vicary, the flying man in the video, zips around for three miles. Though the astonishing views certainly don’t hurt. But it’s…
Jenna Garrett at Feature Shot highlights these great portraits by Albuquerque-based photographerWes Naman, who uses transparent tape Scotch tape to deform his subjects into comical monsters. Never taking more than 10 minutes to apply his effect, Naman uses photography to stretch and squeeze everyday people into fantastically freaky creatures. SPLOID is a new blog about…
The tastebud teaser Dominique Ansel, he’s the master pastry chef who created the Cronut, has come up with another dessert so brilliant that the Internet is salivating at the mere picture of it and wondering why it didn’t exist before: a chocolate chip cookie milk shot. As in a shot of milk inside a “glass”…
The White War—a snow-bound World War I battle between Italy and Austria—claimed the lives of countless soldiers way up in the Alps. Now, melting ice is revealing frozen soldiers, some of them perfectly preserved—but not Captain America-preserved—for nearly a century. The clash lasted four years, beginning in 1915, in makeshift tunnels and trenches at a…
