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This Russian bushcraft instructor has an amazing trick up his sleeve: he can open a tin can with his bare hands. And this video shows you how you can do it, too. Sure, there are other ways to get into your food without an opener, but this one requires nothing more than your hands, some…
The smog situation in China is getting even worse, with pollution levels as high as 30 times the limits set by the World Health Organization.Check out this image taken in late December, 2013 by NASA’s Terra satellite. You can’t barely see anything because of the crap floating in the air. It gets even worse at…
The folks fromElysium Weddingstook this neat picture of a snow-covered New York City from an airplane. You can see Manhattan in the middle, with Queens and a bit of Brooklyn on the top right corner and New Jersey on the bottom left corner. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us in Facebook.
Hercules, Ion, evil polar vortexes and Disney movie marketing—the winter has come and United States is freezing. Scientists expect temperatures not recorded in two decades, as low as -30F (-34C). Here you can see it happening from space using NASA’s Aqua and Terrasatellites. The “deep freeze” situation is dangerous, with the National Weather Service describing…
I don’t know why but I find this video of a crab trying to steal a GoPro camera so funny. I blame the overdose of anime in my young years and my subsequent inclination to anthropomorphize everything in sight. Just look at the little buddy pretending that nothing is going on and then trying to…
Kottke found this horrifying six second video by Paglo,a Vine user from Cholula, in Mexico. It looks like a bunch of hairs, some ridiculous abandoned mustache on a plastic container, but wait until he touches it with his finger and try no to recoil and/or scream with what happens next: The caption means: “Super pubic…
Hey look, it’s an actor looking at some computer code in a movie. He must be really smart! He must be a computer hacker! He must be able to take over the world with just his keyboard! Not quite. The code used in movies is usually nothing but some mumbo jumbo on WordPress or Wikipedia.…
A regular old skateboard isn’t fun enough for you? What about nine skateboards attached to each other to form a complete circle skateboard? It’s the goofiest way to move on wheels since your chance of falling off is infinitely more likely and well, just look at the damn thing. Skateboarder Mark Gonzales and the Krooked…
What a fantastic mind trip. This tree appears to be magically hovering over its tree trunk. What kind of sorcery allows this? Art. Daniel Siering and Mario Shu wrapped a tree in a plastic sheet and then painted the sheet to look like the tree’s background. The visual effect makes the background look perfectly seamless.…
Look at these grey circles. They look bent, right? Like somebody put a ring in a vice and squeezed it? Actually, it’s just an incredible optical illusion courtesy of @SciencePorn. Both circles are perfectly round. Really. No really. If you squint hard at the image, you can see the rings come their true, circular selves.…
Here’s how to make your resignation as a city councilman as memorable as possible (non-shameful division): write your whole resignation letter in Klingon. Trekkie and former city councilman David Waddell did exactly that, telling his mayor “chaq DaHjaj QaQ jaj paj”, which apparently means ‘perhaps today is a good day to resign.’ Waddell, who was…
Borderline supermen have been making crazy dives at the Earth since long before Felix Baumgarnter took a fall from space. Here are a pair of back-in-the-day badasses in a 1941 “Death Dive Race” to the ground. And looking back on it today they still seem as ballsy as ever.
In case there was any doubt, the engineers at JPL did an amazing job: Just look at how the the Mars Curiosity Rover deals with the red planet’s bumpy terrainin this time-lapse GIF, taken from the Left Navcam pointed down at the wheels in motion.
How do you top a couple that recreates movie scenes with their adorable baby? By recreating famous scenes with a dog. Yeah, it’s beautiful inspired work that should make us all want to grab our pet best friend in a warm embrace like Gosling did to McAdams. Redditor user mmsspp is the awesome guy in…
One more time. Even if you wear earplugs, turn off the radio and stay away from noisy clubs, you know Daft Punk’s song ‘One More Time’. It’s one of those songs that seems to be inserted into the memory of every human who has existed since the year 2000. Here, EDM producer Sadowick Production reveals…
We’re not preparing to fight the aliens. This isn’t a scene from Independence Day 2. It’s just a throwback photo of 25—yes, twenty five—Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk black stealth fighter jets celebrating its 25th anniversary back in 2006. What a beautifully intimidating celebration of power it was. According to The Aviationist, the jets flew over Heritage…
It sounds brutal and horrible and cruel but it’s actually kind of adorable. In the video, you see a sailfish—perhaps one of the most fascinating creatures of the ocean—chase down fish bait attached to a boat and try to smack the bait silly with its spear-like bill. The sailfish doesn’t succeed but he goes a…
To celebrate the New Year, Dubai decided to break the Guinness World Record for world’s largest fireworks show. Because of course the world’s largest fireworks show would be in Dubai. They put the best show on every year. Might as well put on the biggest too. Dubai exploded over 500,000 fireworks in just 6 minutes…
Splooge, fold, press. Splooge, fold, press. Splooge, fold, press. The machines making Pop-Tarts are so mesmerizing. You just can’t take your eyes off the black magic that is creating addictive processed food. My brain invents its own soundtrack when I see it go on and on and on in the GIF, which was spotted on…
The new aircraft engine design by French engine manufacturer Snecma seems broken, but it may solve many of the problems generated by modern aviation “reducing fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and engine noise.”
