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The forgetful mindless mob that is the internet is making viral these images of animals in the womb from the 2011 National Geographic program of the same name. I don’t blame her, because they are so impressive they should go viral on a monthly basis. The images were created for Animals in the Womb using…
Make sure you keep Lisa’s ears close to her eyes and nose but also make sure the nose line is perfect and overlapping the eye. Also, don’t forget to keep a streamlined curve to the face and keep the eyes round. This is important! Lisa Simpson, an iconic cartoon character as there is, is instantly…
If you’re just strolling down the street or driving in your car, you’d never notice anything weird with this house in Raleigh, North Carolina. It looks like a house is supposed to look. You can imagine the family that lives there and the weekday dinners they throw for the neighborhood. You can imagine the kids…
Strap yourself in your chair. Put down the coffee mug. And make sure you have an empty stomach because you’re about to take a ride in a flying roller coaster. Or well, the closest thing there is to a flying roller coaster. The video below gives you the backseat cockpit view of an ultra low…
Adorable. We’ve seen dogs ride skateboards before and though it’s extremely cute when they’re pawing the ground to lunge forward and crashing into walls, they’re not really busting tricks with the board. This cat though? It does its feline version of ollies and skateboard grinds. You can see the cat, named Didga, jump over dogs…
Wouldn’t it be cool if birds left visible trails behind them, like jets tracing the sky with smoke? That’s exactly the effect of Rhode Island School of Design professor Dennis Hlynsky achieves in his mesmerizing videos posted today at This Is Colossal. The concept is simple: set up a stationary camera and shoot some birds…
The revelation at the end of Fight Club that Tyler Durden was merely a figment of the narrator’s imagination blew more minds than that self-inflicted gunshot wound. But what if you could watch the movie without Brad Pitt’s character being there at all? Richard Trammell shows us exactly that in this brilliantly edited fight scene,…
Imagine looking up on your daily commute and catching this crazy visual trickery in the sky! Yesterday, Youtube user melkiy582 captured a massive halo of light was seen around the sun on the horizon in Moscow—a cool atmospheric phenomenon known by an even cooler name: Sundog. The scientific title for the pair of bright spots…
While not as spectacular as Adam Magyar’s Stainless shorts, this new video technique is quite neat. Aaron Grime used Photoshop to blend regular footage at a 1/50th shutter speed into a new 24 frames per second with a 1-second shutter speed film. The result is, as he says, eerie: https://gizmodo.com/watch-time-getting-frozen-in-these-hypnotizing-subway-s-1499019579 What is done here is…
Rosetta—the first man-made spaceship designed to intercept and land on an comet—is alive and well. It just sent its first signal to the world after going into sleep mode 31 months ago. Scientists were anxious, hoping that the computer and the interplanetary probe would alright. All systems: nominal. The space probe—launched by the European Space…
This is Turkish sculptor Selçuk Yılmaz and one of his most impressive works: A 1:1 reproduction of a lion weld from 4,000 hand-cut metal scraps. Check out the closeups to fully appreciate Selçuk’s outstanding skills. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook.
Weird historical artifact of the day: This is not a dog excrement, it’s a T-1151 Dog Doo Transmitter from the collection of the National Museum of the US Air Force. It looks gross, but it was incredibly useful during the Vietnam War. Developed by the United States military intelligence in the 1970s, the poop transmitter…
Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have taken the first image ever (on the left) of the Cosmic Web that binds the Universe together. I use capitals because if there’s a Cosmic Web that connects all galaxies through the Universe, it should be capitalized. In a research paper published in Nature this Sunday,…
This visualization reminds me of one of those chicken embryo development illustrations in biology school books. Except five hundred and thirty-five thousand two hundred and forty-four times cooler. Give or take. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook.
A group of Scottish scientists were recently awarded a £250,000 grant to build an infrared laser device to seek out new life (i.e. small, earth-like planets that orbit stars) and new civilizations (planets capable of containing life), and boldly explore where no man has gone before (basically distant planetary systems). It’s going to be the…
Air travel did have a Golden Age. There was more space, classier interiors and bolder designs. You don’t even have to go back to the 50s and 60s to see that. Here are some of the actual cabin interiors for the Boeing 747s in the 1970s. They are awesome. https://gizmodo.com/when-airplane-stewardesses-were-all-glamour-and-sex-app-5316705 The idea of the Boeing…
Flickr user hala065 brings us these otherworldly images of a beach in the Maldives that glows with millions of pinpoints of glowing blue. The light from these bioluminescent phytoplankton looks like a fantastic starry sky somewhere deep in the universe. It’s mesmerizing. First spotted by Colossal, these phenomenal photographs show how the glowing phytoplankton light…
Rio de Janeiro, which has been getting lit up with lightning storms this week, just got hit with another one—and this one struck the city’s famous 125-foot tall Christ the Redeemer statue on top of the Corcovado mountain. A lightning bolt broke off a few fingers on his right hand. According to the National Institute…
Probably the most insane fight sequence of Pacific Rim was when a Jaeger fought a Kaiju in the streets of Hong Kong. The entire city was destroyed, glass shards flew everywhere, neon lights were exploding, streets were being crushed, shipping containers somehow were involved and the whole battle was just beyond epic. Here’s how ILM…
From BBC’s Penguin – Sky in the Huddle, comes this adorable footage taken by John Dowder of a bird of prey, the Striated Caracara, stealing a hidden camera inside a Penguin egg and taking it for a fly to film an entire Penguin colony. The bird made sure to get the camera angle just right…
