This is a sitcom-long video from Hacksmith Industries of the crew attempting to set the world record for fasted speed on a snow sled. Not a snowmobile, but a previously unpowered sled trike that’s been modded with two jet engines and manages to hit 107MPH (beating the previous record of 42MPH, although the record for an unpowered downhill sled is a very respectable/incredibly deadly 83MPH). Damn! There’s no doubt in my mind that if roadrunners lived in Canada, Wyle E. Coyote would have been all over ordering one of these from ACME and immediately crashing it into a maple tree.

This is a video included in the extras of a Blu-Ray copy of Back To The Future featuring actors (Billy Zane, C. Thomas Howell, Jon Cryer, and Ben Stiller) in 1984 auditioning for the role of Marty McFly. There’s also clips of Peter DeLuise auditioning for Biff Tannen and Kyra Sedgwick for Jennifer Parker. What might have been! I think they nailed the casting though. Apparently (but not shown in the video) Jeff Goldblum, John Lithgow, Dudley Moore, Ron Silver, Robin Williams, John Cleese, Mandy Patinkin, Gene Hackman, James Woods, and Mark Mothersbaugh were all considered for Doc Brown’s role. Are you thinking what I’m thinking? “Does it involve building a time machine and repeatedly traveling back to the casting and meddling so each actor gets the part just to see how that version of the movie turns out?” Oh what, you’ve got something better to do?

This is a video highlighting the pinball machine collection of Rob Berk, the current Guinness World Record holder for most pinball machines. The official record is 1,041, but Rob says he’s up to around 1,150 since the count. Damn! Rob has been involved in the pinball community for quite some time (even launching Pinball Expo in Chicago in 1985), but says he started seriously collecting the machines during COVID, which is impressive because I didn’t collect anything during that time but extra weight. Although, just like Rob’s pinball machine collection, it’s still around and seems to be growing.

These are a couple videos from Hormuz Island off the coast of Iran in the Persian Gulf, where heavy rainfall causes the iron ochre-rich soil and sand (the result of ancient volcanic activity) to ‘bleed’ into the sea. Mother Nature, am I right? “What about her?” Totally nuts. Now — who else wants to taste that sand?!

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Seven years in the making, this is a video of BuildsByBaz’s lifesize (28-foot) replica of a Colonial Viper Mark II spaceship from Battlestar Galactica. It’s glorious. Could you imagine sitting in the cockpit of that thing making pew-pew noises to yourself? That’s what my dreams are made of. Just kidding, most of my dreams are made of being chased or all my teeth falling out, and sometimes I’ll pee a little IRL.

A bunch more build photos, videos and information at Baz’s website HERE.

This is a video of former NASA engineer Mark Rober pitting a Tesla’s camera-based autopilot feature against a Lexus’s LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging, which uses lasers to measure distances and create 3D maps) to see which operates safer. The Lexus passes all six tests (stationary child in road, running child in road, fog, rain, bright light, and Wyle E. Coyote style picture of road), while Tesla fails the fog, rain, and fake road. To demonstrate the capabilities of LiDAR, Mark sneaks a system into Disneyland’s Space Mountain (which is ridden in the dark) and maps the entire ride to show what the coaster actually looks like. What does all this mean? No clue, but I don’t trust any autopilot technology and will continue to drive using only The Force. I also occasionally let Jesus take the wheel if I’m eating.

Thanks to my dad, who agrees even the Road Runner never fell for the fake road trick.