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The Hubble space telescope has captured “a lidless purple eye, staring back at us through space”—a star 20,000 light-years away from us that is ready to explode at any time now, according to NASA: scientists say that it is destined to go supernova. Twenty-six years ago, another star with striking similarities went supernova — SN…
This is the interior of one of the four Doomsday Planes operated by the Air Force. These planes would keep the Secretary of Defense and the top brass of the US military alive in case of massive terrorist attacks, nuclear strikes, asteroids hitting Earth, super volcano eruptions, and zombie invasions. Based at Offutt Air Force…
I hate the Porsche Panamera with a vengeance* but this video of a man melting its ice sculpture in reverse is quite pretty. I find the illusion of the ice being created from flames quite mesmerizing. * Porsches are for two people only—sorry frustrated rich parents with no taste. SPLOID is a new blog about…
Humans like to see things where there’s nothing but visual patterns. Even NASA: the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has captured an “image [that] shows the energized remains of a dead star, a structure nicknamed the Hand of God after its resemblance to a hand.” Except now it looks more like The Flaming Fist of…
Here’s a trick you can do for your next house party: fill the pool with non-Newtonian fluid and have people run across it, dance all over it, ride their bikes over it and so forth. Like, come on dude, you’re walking on water, how can you not have fun? We’ve seen the magic of non-Newtonian…
Argentina’s beaches are getting quite dangerous during the southern hemisphere’s summer. 70 people were injured by a swarm of piranhas about two weeks ago and now lightning has killed three teens and injured 22 people in a seaside spa of Villa Gesell, a coastal town in the province of Buenos Aires. Earth can be quite…
In almost every sci-fi movie worth re-watching, it seems that us humans are always less technologically advanced, dumber and only serve as a mere speed bump into an alien race eliminating humans to take over our planet and suck Earth dry of its resources. We’re always the weaker ones in alien wars. Well, what if…
Next time you take a bath ponder this: Scientists believe soap bubbles are capable of predicting “the intensity of deadly hurricanes and typhoons.” According to physicists from the University of Bordeaux, the rotation on the vortices of bubbles (i.e. the fluid that spins on the bubble’s membrane) “acts the same way as huge weather systems.”…
Pure destruction. Top Gear wanted to see exactly what happens when a train smashes into a car stuck on the railroad tracks so they set up a test of their own: they put a minivan on the tracks and pummeled it with a speeding train. It gets pretty brutal. The train was going 78mph before…
3D printers are the new must-have appliance for the modern kitchen. This year’s CES visitors were among the lucky few to taste-test the confectionary wonders of the Chefjet kitchen-ready printer (available for £3,000). From printed sugar cubes to multi-colored candies, these sweets are like delicious modern art. A jet print head is used to spray…
Looking at this new Hubble image of the Tarantula Nebula overwhelms my vision and brain. Especially when you consider this is just a fraction of the Large Magellanic Cloud, “a small satellite galaxy 170,000 light years away from the Milky Way.” From NASA: “Like lifting a giant veil, the near-infrared vision of NASA’s Hubble Space…
You probably already know about the science teacher who lost 37 pounds and dramatically reduced his cholesterol in 90 days exclusively eating McDonald’s and walking 45 minutes every day. The case Lloyd Brombach is even more dramatic. He wrote to Sploid to explain it: Loving Sploid, thanks for the daily awesomeness! I read of the…
I really really really really really really wish this 8-bit retro style video game version of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction were real. No, really. REALLY. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us in Facebook.
Psychology and the human brain are awesome. This list of 10 amazing ways to stop overeating is proof of it. 1. Use smaller plates (fooling the brain.) 2. Use your non-dominant hand to snacks (I really can’t understand that, but research shows you eat 20% less.) 3. Use tall glasses instead of short fat ones…
Ski jumping is pretty cool when you watch it from the outside, but check out this short of Anders Jacobsen training in Lillehammer, Norway, filmed with a camera hanging right in front of his face. The perspective in this real-time video is pretty awesome. But where the hell is the camera? Obviously, it’s attached to…
It’s cold out there, guys. So cold that lakes are so frozen that they look like they’re from the Moon. So cold that freaking grounds explode. But now that it’s a little less cold, the ice is melting from our frigid Earth and forming giant ice balls in our lakes. Here is the balls on…
Your underwear can save your sperm. Or at least that’s what Snowballs believes. What’s Snowballs? A type of cooling underwear that basically uses ice packs for “scrotal cooling”. Ball air conditioning, basically. It’s for the kids. The idea behind the underwear is that tests of men with fertility problems tend to “be naturally warmer by…
The future of gaming is here. For real. I know that we’ve heard it so many times that the phrase has become a tired cliché. But now, for the first time, we are seeing it: Games that can be confused with reality using devices that make our brains believe we are immersed in that reality.…
The universe is vast, seemingly infinite thing, and the Hubble Telescope is here with the latest reminder of that fact in the form of eye candy. This is the first photo from NASA’s Frontier Fields project, and it’s the deepest we’ve ever seen into space. The only thing more impressive than the image itself is…
Her name is Maîtresse Madeline. She makes bondage, domination, and sadomasochism videos (NSFW) for site Kink.com. And now she’s going to charge a single person $42,000 for one hour of webcam sex, perhaps the most expensive private sex webcam session of all time. Who is this crazy person? Did she or he spend all his…
