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Usually, CinemaSins makes a hilarious video pointing out all the goofy errors and everything wrong with a popular movie and we all get a good laugh out of it. But when it comes to a classic like Back to the Future, well, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that masterpiece of cinema! Not Doc Brown’s…
Think you’re cool cause you can blow o’s when you smoke? Mother Nature has still got you beat. Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy took a little break from erupting to blow O-shaped smoke rings hundreds of feet in diameter to make every smoker and pot head in the world jealous. Just look at it. It’s…
If you’re sitting at a cubicle or inside one of those new age open offices or stuck in a dorm room or in class or anywhere there’s a computer on a table and you’re sitting in a chair, sorry. Because this is what Air Force paratroopers get to do at their job. My God it…
This rather nondescript van is being powered by something much more beastly than your usual pistons: an actual airplane turbine engine. Seriously, over in Russia they crammed a real gas turbine engine inside this van (it fills up the whole van, basically) with gigantic hoses, an humongous fuel tank and a sweet control panel. It’s…
The ferocious teeth of the Earth dragon—the sand seas of the Namibia desert as captured by South Korea’s Kompsat-2 satellite. The complete photo at high definition and its description from the European Space Agency follows: The blue and white area is the dry river bed of the Tsauchab. Black dots of vegetation are concentrated close…
The locals in the remote island of Hokkaido, Japan, call this beautiful place The Blue Pond. They should call it the The Magical Lake That Changes Color With the Mood of the Weather Gods. Or That Frosty Lake Featured in Apple iOS 7’s Stock Backgrounds. I can go either way. https://gizmodo.com/why-this-magical-lake-changes-color-with-the-weather-1464549580
It may not reach other planets, but the smelloscope from Futurama exists and it’s called the Nasal Ranger Field Olfactometer. And it seems Denver is using it to hunt down pot plantations. https://gizmodo.com/nasal-ranger-smelloscope-will-save-denver-from-stinky-1464506344
You are looking at the edge view of UGC 10288—a spiral galaxy located 100 million light-years away from Earth. UGC 10288 has been puzzling astronomers for a long time because of that weird thing coming out of it. Now, the mystery has been solved at last. New detailed radio data from the NRAO’s Jansky Very…
New images by NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites last week show an insanely huge iceberg now leaving the continent of Antarctica after cracking from the Pine Island Glacier in July. Its size is “estimated to be 21 miles by 12 miles (35 km by 20 km) in size, roughly the size of Singapore.” The according…
Have you ever heard Albert Einstein talking? In the fall of 1941, Albert Einstein gave this extraordinary reading of his essay “The Common Language of Science” to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. It’s truly fascinating. Einstein’s essay first touches on the incongruity of language and thought: Is there no thinking without the…
Not only Jean-Claude Van Damme shows a formidable form at 53 in this stunt for Volvo, but his balls are made of the same steel as the trucks’ bearings. He makes it look easy, but this obviously was a very dangerous thing to do. https://jalopnik.com/jean-claude-van-dammes-split-between-two-moving-trucks-1464285108
Using data from an all-sky image of M33—a galaxy similar to ours—scientists at the Hubble mission have reconstructed the look of the Milky Way 11 billion years ago. Here’s their description: This is an imaginary view of our young Milky Way as it may have appeared 11 billion years ago, as seen from the surface…
El Mundo (in Spanish) reports on a genius action by Libération, the French newspaper co-founded by Jean-Paul Sartre: Their latest issue was printed without images to highlight how crucial photographers are not only to understand the terrible things that happen around us, but also to make our world more beautiful.
“The coldest years now are warmer than the hottest years before 1998.” Those are the words of World Meteorological Organization secretary-general Michel Jarraud at the presentation of their latest report. The WMO report says that, looking at the data from January to September, 2013 will be the seventh warmest year in recorded climate history. The…
This sounds like a start to a horror movie, an A-plus-plus-plus internet hoax or one of the scariest things you can find in your home. A user on Imgur was horsing around in one of the rooms in his house when his little brother ran into a bookshelf. Turns out, the bookshelf could open up.…
What NASA Astronaut Rick Mastracchio sees when he bench presses—with air cylinders to provide resistance—on the ISS. Yeah, we’d work out with a view like that too.
If you ever found yourself in an herbal induced state of clarity and wondered if you could set a Guinness World Record in something ridiculous, the answer is you probably can. But then Ashrita Furman would probably break your record. Who? Ashrita Furman. He’s perhaps the greatest winner, maybe one of the greatest non-professional athlete…
Space is beautiful. Space is terrifying. IKEA is mostly just terrifying, especially when you get lost. Director Daniel Hubbard hilariously spoofed Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity by setting it inside the expansive world of IKEA. At over 346,000 square feet and absolutely no sense of direction, it sure feels endless. The parody trailer nails the IKEA shopping…
Watching Ultra HD 4K content—with 2,160 lines of vertical definition—on a Ultra HD 4K TV set is impressive. But 8K—four times the total pixels—is so incredibly realistic that it feels like you’re looking through a window into real life, as demonstrated by this film screened by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK). Its name is The…
You’ve heard of unbelievably dumb state laws before, right? Like how you can’t play dominoes on Sunday or that you can only wear slippers indoors or that you’re limited to two dildos per household. There’s tons more that don’t need to exist and they’re all ridiculous! Photographer Olivia Locher wanted to poke fun of those…
