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Welcome to the U.S. Air Force 46th Test Wing’s McKinley’s Climatic Laboratory at the Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. The Climatic Lab, which began testing in 1947, is the largest climate testing facility in the world, a real torture chamber for airplanes. In the laboratory, test engineers can create almost every kind of severe weather…
Dan Murrell’s supercut of every Doc and Marty in Back to the Future is a lot of fun—but I think it could have been perfect if it followed the events in the chronological order of the movies. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Unlike Maverick, Dale “Snort” Snodgrass was a real F-14 Tomcat pilot. The Tomcat pilot, according to the US Navy: He’s considered the “highest time Tomcat pilot, with over 4,800 hours and more than 1,200 arrested carrier landings.” Like Maverick, however, he did some pretty crazy stuff. Like this amazing pass here, taken during a demo…
Are movies set in reality? Of course not! Because if they were, everything would be so much harder to do. Killing zombies with head shots? No chance. Having a villain wait to kill you? Never. Easily order a drink at the bar? Come on. Watch Suricate hilariously illustrate the difference between movies and real life…
Ridiculousness. Hilarity. So many laughs and chortles and comedic gold bars appear that I can’t help but keep watching. It’s brilliant, really. Malinda Kathleen Reese took the lyrics from Frozen’s Let it Go by Idina Menzel through Chinese, Macedonian, French, Polish, Creole and a whole bunch of other languages and then back into English. Let…
World War I often gets overshadowed by World War II in the history books, which makes sense because WWII scarred our planet forever, but WWI and its aftermath was a terrible and awful moment in history that helped shaped the rest of the century (and beyond) as well. If you forgot about some stuff that…
It’s 70 degrees where I am right now but I’m shivering. I have goosebumps all over my body and my teeth are chattering and I swore I just saw my own breath. I want to put on my winter coat and scarf and earmuffs and gloves. Why? Because I just watched this frigidly beautiful video…
This is weird. One of those pages that use horrible graphical lists* to get traffic and Google juice posted an image called 10 ways to cover up a murder. It’s disturbingly interesting—especially if you’re psychopath looking to commit a murder. The really strange thing, however, is that the site pretends to be a place “to…
Here’s a crazy story. A GoPro camera falls out of a plane, travels hundreds of feet to the ground, and lands in a pig pen. Eight months later, a random person finds said GoPro, footage intact. It’s worth watching. I have so many questions about this video. Number one, is it fake? Number two, did…
If you love movies or wordplay or smart things by funny people, try and keep up with this amusing video of a couple breaking up using only movie titles as the words of their conversation. That’s right, any time they talk in the video, they’re using one of 154 different movie titles to communicate with…
This is fun. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover driving over dunes in Mars. Check out the view from the back, after going through all that sand. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Animation Domination High-Def continues with its brilliant series of scientifically accurate cartoons. Now it’s time for the Flintstones, a homo erectus family that were common cannibals. Gross and hilarious, as always. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Kotaku’s Kirk Hamilton is excited for Evolve, a game that pits four hunters against a monster, all played by humans. I don’t blame him. It looks pretty damn awesome and fun.
It’s no secret that the ocean is hiding some impressive lifeforms in its depths, but good freaking lord, these pics! These pics are incredible. Jessica Rosenkrantz snapped them on a recent expedition to Bonaire and, just, whoa. Rosenkrantz is half of generative design studio Nervous System, and got her SCUBA certification a year ago; this…
I don’t know if it’s the The Verve’s Bitter Sweet Symphony or the slow twisting motion of the quadcopter’s descent, but I really love this first scene from Viktor Mirzoyan’s aerial video over a beige Washington D.C. It made me think of how quickly everything is changing. A shot like this was unthinkable just a…
The always amazing YouTuber lavapix put an unopened can of Chef Boyardee ravioli in the path of a 2,000 degree molten lava flow. Unlike their previous Coca Cola can experiment, this one exploded throwing pasta 30 feet away. Then the lava ate all the pasta left in the can. SPLOID is a new blog about…
Some of these 3D optical illusion GIFs are really really good. Scrat—the saber-tooth squirrel from Ice Age—really achieves the effect. It’s perhaps the best of this collection. These GIFs use depth of field and graphic elements to achieve their effect, just like many classic paintings. The white lines define the plane where the screen is,…
Remember that awesome video of a ski jumper filmed with a GoPro? It just got a lot awesomerer thanks to a cup of chicken nuggets. There’s nothing that chicken nuggets can’t better. Obviously, it’s an ad for KFC, which is not an official sponsor of the Olympic Games. But I don’t care. They should make…
We know that Japanese researchers claim to have found the perfect way to eat a burger, one that guarantees perfect bites and doesn’t get you or your plate dirty. But does it really work? America—the land of the burger—had to confirm it. It works! SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on…
Clearly, you don’t have to be a military or airliner pilot to make crazy low passes. And you don’t have to be a pilot to be crazy. Just look at that guy with the beer, jumping in front of this prop plane making a pass so low that one of the wings almost touches the…
