Because what is science if not magic wearing a lab coat and fake mustache so you don’t recognize it, this is a video of science essayist Steve Mould using an additional prism and convex lens to recombine the ROYGBIV separated from one prism back into a beam of white light. That’s cool. But do you know what would be even cooler? “Let me guess, x-ray glasses.” I don’t even care about your underwear, I just want to see which lotto scratchers have winning numbers before I buy them.

This is a video from the fun/danger-loving crew DD Squad (I’m part of a small B Squad myself) using a custom built rig to launch a human at 50MPH from the rear of a truck traveling at 50MPH so that he can just stand the landing, since 50MPH – 50MPH = 0MPH. It works surprisingly well, and, unlike if I’d been involved, nobody was accidentally launched into the side of a cliff at 200MPH then crushed by an anvil Wile E. Coyote style.

This is another size comparison video from Meta Ball Studio (previously), this time visualizing the sizes of various fictional buildings (all of which Alex Honnold plans to climb) from pop culture show, movie, and video game franchises. I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly, that my apartment isn’t larger than any of these except the first three, which were Ant Man’s mobile laboratory, the Krusty Krab, and SpongeBob’s pineapple house, just to be clear. I basically live in a shoebox. Well, if shoes were sold separately.

This is the helmetcam footage from motocrosser Colby Raha as he sets the world record for longest jump on a v-twin dirt bike, with a very respectable 275-footer across the length of a surf pool. He then follows it up with a 90-foot vertical launch off a quarter pipe. Gnarly! Based on the landing though I think he could have gone for an even longer jump. But what do I know? I’m just a man who got nauseous watching before he even got to the jump.

Because who likes changing gears to make climbing hills easier anyways, this is a video of Sergii Gordieiev of Youtube channel The Q replacing a bicycle chain with a series of 3D printed gears, effectively making it a single speed. So is that an upgrade or a downgrade? I suppose that depends on who you ask, but if you ask me life is a lot like learning to ride a bike: you fall and get hurt a lot while your neighbors laugh and throw empty beer cans.

This is a video of Youtuber Matt Denton constructing an electric powered, 3D printed parts replica of the 1981 LEGO Technics Dune Buggy set 8845. It’s 10.5x larger than the original, so large Matt is able to sit in it to drive. That’s cool, but you can sit in anything if you put your mind to it. Me? I’m forever sitting in wet spots on the sofa. WAS SOMEBODY LICKING OR DID SOMEBODY PEE? I’m asking the dogs, just to be clear. At least I’m hoping I’m asking the dogs, but if my girlfriend has a Red Bull after 5PM all bets are off.