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I’m supposed to know better. Fog is a phenomenon of weather. It’s a low cloud hanging near the ground. It’s shrouded moisture. It’s not a haunting ghost. It’s not from another planet. But why does this hypnotic time lapse of fog rolling through the Rocky Mountains from Richard Gottardo feel so supernatural? Or at least,…
The Aviationist’s reader Bjørn Broten found these two shots of the Exint, a pod designed to carry special forces and wounded soldiers in and out the battlefield—attached to the wing of Harrier jets or Apache helicopters. Imagine that ride. People were joking yesterday, but if you want to see how this may feel,take a look…
Where we’re going, we don’t need roads… we need a zipline, thought these intrepid Russians. Because, in order to cross a violent river without a bridge nearby, crazy Russians thought it would be smart to strap their car to a zipline and let it fly by to the other side. I guess. I don’t know…
…and try not to pass out. Because I almost passed out watching the muscles being stretched and imagining the pain. Extreme bungee jumping, they call it. WARNING: this video is not for squeamish people (like me.) And yes, it was recorded in Russia. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us in Facebook.
NASA has just delivered theOrion spacecraft’s heat shield to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Look at it getting loaded into their Super Guppy, a special cargo plane used by the agency to carry oversized parts. It just looks like a giant FedEx package. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us in…
If there’s an authority on which are the best photographs of people, nature and places every year that is, without a doubt, theNational Geographic Photo Contest, now in its 2013 edition. I don’t even care about the winners because the selected entries are all equally incredible. I’ve picked my favorite nine. “The fennec, or desert…
Bad news for the seashell sellers and pepper picklers among us; you’ve officially been de-throned. MIT researchers have found the hardest, most frustrating tongue twister to ever grace our lips: “Pad kid poured curd pulled cold.” Oy. Before they could come up with such tongue-numbing verbiage, though, the researchers spent hours upon hours pouring through…
Watching how one hundred years of dog breeding “improvement” actually ruined perfectly beautiful, athletic, and useful dogs, turning them into a caricature of themselves full of health problems, is really sad. Just look at the deformation endured by the bull terrier above these lines. Science of Dogs collected these old photos from Breeds of All…
No music. No flashy moves. No missile launches. And yet this video is still incredible. It’s just flying sequence after flying sequence of Russian Air Force MiG-31s cruising through the sky. Filmed by GoPro cameras strapped to a MiG, this footage is probably the closest we’ll ever get to flying a fighter jet. Seeing the…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured the first high definition video of the mysterious Saturn hexagon. It shows some fascinating details and features never observed before. But now, more than even, it looks like some kind of living alien organism looked through a microscope—except it’s not, because this monster is wider than two Earths. According to…
How do you understand something you can barely see, never visited and is light years away from us? By being really, really smart at connecting dots. In this video, NASA explains its process in figuring out what alien planets are like with the limited information it has. It’s like being able to create a clear…
Because riding a bicycle down a steep mountain road after it just rained isn’t crazy enough, Eskil Ronningsbakken wanted to up the crazy by doing the whole ride backwards. So yes, he was balancing himself, steering, braking, making sharp turns, veering away from cars and zooming down the mountain while facing the completely opposite direction…
The beautiful Milky Way is above us and around us but is also actually in our coffee cups too. What? Just watch Modernist Cuisine pour creamer into coffee in super slow motion, it’s like watching another galaxy form or something. Life should have a slow motion mode so we can appreciate the little things. SPLOID…
It’s cold and miserable out there. And the office is not much better. I would rather be in a cave. This cave, in the Praia de Benagil, in the Algarve, Portugal. What an incredible place. Although, truth be told, it’d be cold in the Algarve too. Not super cold, but too cold to tan right…
China is known for its delicious rice wine, and while Korea’s mice wine sounds very similar, its made with extra ingredients that sound downright disgusting. What you see floating at the bottom of those bottles are actually dead baby mice, which supposedly imbue the drink with medicinal properties. According to the folks at Always Foodie,…
Each of the photos in this collection took weeks—some even months—of preparation. They were prepared and shot by a JeeYoung Lee, a Korean artist who just has a camera, a ridiculously tiny 11.8 x 13.4 x 7.8-foot studio and lots of patience and talent to build her dreamscapes. From the gallery’s site (in French): For…
Behold the Prelude! She’s now floating in the sea after leaving its South Korean dry dock for the first time. The ship is larger than the Empire State Building and it will be used for Shell’s liquified natural gas operations in Western Australia.
Someone from the adventure travel agency G-Adventures left a GoPro camera on the ground, in front of some penguins.Then this happened. Penguins are such adorable creatures when they are not eating your head. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us in Facebook.
This is the Muir Glacier in Alaska, shot in August, 1941 and August, 2004. It’s only one example in NASA’s new Images of Change app. Seeing the unbelievable effect of just a few decades of climate change in the following before and after photos is a sad and sobering experience. Northwestern Glacier, Alaska, August 1940—August…
Some days I lose all faith in humanity: DNAinfo reports on the finding of a taxidermic deer in a trashcan in Washington Heights, a New York City neighborhood in northern Manhattan, on the corner 159th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. The deer was stuffed upright into the garbage, with its front legs curled into a resting…
