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According to designers numen/for use, this new strange space is a “a self-supporting inhabitable social sculpture,” an inflatable cube full of strings ready to be climbed by whoever gets inside. It seems to me like part of the X-Men’s Danger Room. The installation is based on production system of large geometric inflated objects. Since the…
Things keep moving at the Kennedy Space Center in preparation for the first mission of NASA’s Space Launch System and its Orion spacecraft in 2017. The crawler-transporter just passed “the first phase of an important milestone test.” The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program completed testing of new traction roller bearings on crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2),…
Doctors have found a 44-year-old fetus inside the body of an 84-year-old Brazilian woman. But surprisingly, this isn’t the first instance of a “stone baby” discovery. Above is a picture of a 40-year-old fetus, found in an 82-year-old Colombia woman last December. Here are two reasons to never get pregnant. In the case of the…
The folks over at The Daily News compiled an amazing gallery of New York City snowpocalypse photographs from past decades. It was a simpler time when snowdrifts were melted with flamethrowers, back in 1947. An abandoned train on an elevated pass in Third Avenue. Here are some firefighters trying to “free up equipment completely encrusted…
The weather is miserable through the entire Western Hemisphere—a constant avalanche of steel grey, with cold snow and rain piling up in a soup of frozen sludge that is taking everyone down. It’s time to daydream in the face of this winter torment. Here are the perfect homes for your fantasy summer paradise. 1. Universe…
I have a very hard time distinguishing Gregory Thielker’s oil paintings from reality. It’s not only that his treatment of light and texture is perfect. It’s the subject matter, which makes me feel extremely nostalgic of countless road trips, driving under the rain in silence, talking with good friends and family, or listening to some…
I don’t know what to think about this. I don’t like breeders and I don’t like cats, but these spookylycoi cats are something else. A cat that looks like a werewolf and, according to its Tennessee-based human creators, acts like a dog. I have to admit they are quite cute in their freaky ugliness. Like…
I think ice skating at Rockefeller during the holidays looks more professional than this. But hey it was Lake Placid, NY, USA in 1932 and it was only the third Winter Olympics and what they were doing was probably groundbreaking stuff. There were only 4 sports! 14 events! 17 countries! 252 athletes! It’s like going…
No? It’s okay, I couldn’t find him either. I tried really hard too but I’d just be a walking dead person by now if I stumbled across this field in real life because the sniper that’s hiding would have no problem mowing me down. He’s super close. No, not there. There. VICE posted an excellent…
Holy cow. Now this is how you take care of your body. And this is how you live your life. And this is how you maximize your potential. Meet Sam ‘Sonny’ Bryant Jr. He’s a 70-year-old bodybuilder who doesn’t look a day over 40 and has a ridiculously ripped body that puts everyone younger than…
You know how most people stay indoors when they hear a hurricane is coming? Yeah, these aren’t those people. These crazy guys go out in the ocean and chase the storm with their windsurf boards so that they can fly. Just look at the awesome dude above getting ridiculously big air. It’s like he doesn’t…
What you’re looking at is a carbon fiber drive shaft and a steel drive shaft being twisted with force until they break. As you can see in this torque test between the two, the carbon fiber shaft doesn’t budge (that’s not a still image, folks) while the steel shaft cork screws itself and becomes deformed…
I don’t know what the hell is going on here. Maybe this is the normal training of all special forces in the world. It just looks ridiculous to me. Check out the video and you tell me in the comments. Watch these with a Benny Hill soundtrack: SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…
I’d watch more Winter Olympics sports if they had Imperial AT-AT walkers firing lasers at the athletes. Non-lethal lasers, that is. Or lethal. I’d watch anyway. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
It’s still so cold throughout the Midwest and Northeast that roughly 80 percent of the Great Lakes have frozen over for the first time in decades. These incredible shots of frozen formations on the surface of Lake Superior, captured by The Cookery Maven’s Mary Dougherty, capture the region’s sense of frigid desolation. SPLOID is a…
Astronauts on board the International Space Station have been able to photograph Sochi at night, completely free of clouds. The result is this 600mm straight-down image that shows the Fisht Stadium—the bright white circle. That yellow dot is the Olympic Flame. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Hubble has captured “a striking new image [of a] star in the process of forming within the Chamaeleon cloud […] throwing off narrow streams of gas from its poles.” Looks like the wings of an angel or a scene from Star Trek, with the Enterprise about to enter the frame. The object is known as…
I don’t think the ice freezing the Northern Hemisphere now is going to start melting anytime soon, but I always wondered about this since I was a little kid and I first walked on frozen lakes in Sweden: what to do if you fall through the ice? SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…
What the hell, you Russian kids, are you absolutely insane? What’s wrong with you! Check out these dudes climbing the 650-meter tall Shanghai Tower equipped with nothing but their hands and GoPro cameras. It’s crazy. “Today we will show you how to climb on second tallest building in the world. Shanghai Tower, China,” they say…
According to the Met Office—UK’s national meteorological service—a hurricane-force superstorm similar to the catastrophic Great Storm of 1987 is about to obliterate Britain. Just look at this incredible wave towering above an entire town on the coast of Cornwall, England. It’s just the beginning. The Express says that “the Met Office has issued a rare…
