Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
The French Navy has two things in common with the US Navy: They have nuclear carriers (ok, only one, but they do) and they also made awesome videos with it. Jet fighter porn in superslowmotion.
You’re looking at the Grand Canyon completely flooded by clouds, “a once in a lifetime event,” according to park ranger Erin Whittaker. It didn’t only happen once, she says, but two times in only three days: The canyon gave us a second rare inversion in three days. Freezing fog dominated yesterday … by the end…
Master swordsmith Tony Swatton—who also made Wolverine’s claws and Thor’s hammer—just forged the famous Sting, the ancient elvish blade that glows blue when orcs and trolls are near. Swatton’s version can cut like the real thing and glows blue too, thanks to his amazing technical prowess. Sting was the blade used by Bilbo and Frodo…
Steve Fulop—the new mayor of Jersey City—has found two mysterious safes inside a vault of the mayor’s office. Nobody alive knows who put them there or what’s inside, including the previous mayors. Dirty money? The bones of Jimmy Hoffa? A recording of some mobsters planning the assassination of JFK? According to NJ.com,Fulop says that they…
Unlike Earth’s auroras—which only last a few hours and are quite small—NASA says that Saturn’s auroras rise “hundreds of miles above the planet’s poles, [and] can shine for days.” Watch how huge they are in relation to the planet in this video captured by Hubble: It’s hard to imagine this but, at 74,898 miles, Saturn…
Here’s a dramatic story with a happy ending to start up the week: this newly released video shows the rescue of a survivor trappedfor three days in an air pocket inside a sunken ship. The moment of the encounter with a diver sent to bring dead bodies to the surface is incredible—and so is the…
It looks like an intergalactic space-hub (or creepy carnival of souls), butthis twinkly lit cavern is actually the remains of a 17th century Romanian salt mine. Salina Turda is now a full-blown recreational attraction, complete with ferris wheel and mini-golf—if you look closely, you can even see little rowboats in the pic above—and also the…
The funny thing about these bacon-scented dryer sheets—and wall dispenser!—is that some smart entrepreneur is probably making a real version of this new prank pack in somewhere in Brooklyn. But the one I really want to be real is the NapSack. Seriously, someone make this thing. And I wouldn’t mind this travel ice cream maker…
A new photo capturedby Artyom Anikeev shows Russia’s new Sukhoi T-50 stealth fighter—the F-22 Raptor’s nemesis. According to The Aviationist, its new camouflage—inspired by a typical white tip Red Sea’s shark—will make it look “as a rhomboidal shaped aircraft, smaller than the actual airplane” from a distance. The Sukhoi T-50 isthe prototype of the PAK…
Many assumed it was dead, but NASA has published a new video showing comet ISON surviving its close encounter with our home star on November 28, 2013, getting launched by the Sun’s gravity into a new lap around the solar system. It’s cool too watch. See you soon, Silver Surfer! Here’s another awesome time-lapse of…
It’s going to be impossible to beat the glorious nerdness level in this wedding cake, which uses projectors to animate Mario on his quest to beat Donkey Kong and rescue Pauline. Unless they find a way to modify the sugar molecules to act as color displays.
It may look as computer-graphics-perfect as a frame from Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, but this image of the London skyline made of food is an actual photograph designed and taken by the masterful Carl Warner. Don’t believe it? This is how it is made: Warner has a long story of creating magical landscapes…
I can’t decide if this angular Skull Armchair designed by French artist Harold Sangouard is just gaudy or awesome, horrible or pretty, vanguardist or Louis XV/Conan the Barbarian retro, but there’s something about it that hypnotizes me. Perhaps the reminder that death is always embracing us, especially when we’re resting with our guard down. In…
Watch Hayley Ashburn and Marshall Miller climbing the Ancient Art sandstone formation in the Fishers Towers, near Moab, Utah, through the “eyes” of a GoPro Hero3+ camera. Then hold tight to your seat as they prepare themselves and jump. A general view of the towers.
Most of you will use ovens to cook your turkeys tomorrow. But most of you aren’t NASA. We asked their engineers and science writers how they would cook a turkey to perfection using their high tech gear instead of traditional methods. Here are the results: The Antenna Dish Recipe By Gary Meadows (DSCOVR Mission Systems…
George Loegering found this weird ice disk spinning in the Sheyenne River, in North Dakota, and he couldn’t imagine why and how it formed. Talking to the Associated Press, National Weather Service hydrologist Allen Schlag gave an explanation: It’s not a continuous sheet of ice. If you were to throw a grapefruit-size rock on it,…
I feel both impressed and a bit freaked out by the newest art piece by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Called Heritage, it includes 99 life-size sculptures of wild animals drinking in peace and harmony from a water pond. But perhaps the most impressive installation is Head On, which shows 99 wolves flying. Impressive indeed. If…
“Best video yet of comet ISON yet. Burn baby, burn!” says NASA about this time-lapse captured over a five-day period—November 20 to November 25—by STEREO’s Heliospheric Imager. A comet’s journey through the solar system is perilous and violent. A giant ejection of solar material from the sun could rip its tail off. Before it reaches…
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving! Tomorrow is Hanukkah! Tomorrow is Thanksgivukkah, and I can’t image any better and more delicious plate than these Thanksgivukkah Holiday Balls, even if you aren’t Jewish. https://thisiswhyyourefat.kinja.com/thanksgivukkah-holiday-balls-1461794179
Sky photographer Juan Carlos Casado has captured this beautiful time-lapse of comet ISON rising in the morning of November 22 from the Teide Observatory, in the Canary Islands, Spain.
