Skier And Snowboarder Both Land First 2340° Spins (6.5 Rotations)

Skier And Snowboarder Both Land First 2340° Spins (6.5 Rotations)

This is a video from the recent X-Games on Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colorado of Italian skier Miro Tabanelli and Japanese snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara landing the first 2340° spins. Just like the title says, that’s 6.5 rotations, or TRUE STORY: 5.5 more rotations than I completed before breaking my arm. I still have a metal plate in there. It gets hot and glows if I stand too close to the microwave.

Man Installs Flashlight In Prosthetic Eye

Man Installs Flashlight In Prosthetic Eye

After losing his left eye to cancer, machinist Brian Stanley decided to make lemonade and created a titanium prosthetic with an embedded adjustable color LED flashlight (controlled by waving an RFID ring in front of it) so he can illuminate the darkness wherever he goes (or look like a Terminator). That’s smart, because if there’s one thing I’m afraid of, it’s the dark. Brian, hold my hand. “It’s noon.” Shhhhh, now let’s swing our arms and skip in unison.

Timelapse From INSIDE A Watermelon As It Rots Over 128 Days

Timelapse From INSIDE A Watermelon As It Rots Over 128 Days

WARNING: Possibly triggering if you have trypophobia or a general aversion to nastiness.

Seen here looking like a dentist’s worst nightmare, this is a video from Photo Owl Time Lapse of a look inside a watermelon as it rots over the course of 128 days. Well, technically the watermelon collapses after 34 days, so everything after that was shot from outside as it slowly dissolves into a pool of disgustingness. That said, you pour a bottle of vodka in that mess and I guarantee my buddy Porterhouse Pete would still drink it. “You ever peed a watermelon seed before?” Boy have I — cracked a urinal! The guy I was sharing with ducked for cover!

2.5 Billion Pixel Composite Image Of The Andromeda Galaxy Taken By Hubble Space Telescope

2.5 Billion Pixel Composite Image Of The Andromeda Galaxy Taken By Hubble Space Telescope

To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in service, this is a video detailing a 2.5-billion pixel composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy, stitched together from 600 individual photos take by the telescope over ten years. Absolutely stunning (like you, or if you’re a dude: total stud). The Andromeda Galaxy is the Milky Way galaxy’s nearest galactic neighbor at 2.537 million light years away, and there’s no question one of my idiot friends is going to have a destination wedding there and expect me to pay for my own cryogenic freezing and spacefare.

Zoomable and downloadable versions (along with more info) at the Hubble site HERE, including a 1/4 res printable 992MB version.

Man Successfully Catches 40 Cup-And-Ball Toys At The Same Time

Man Successfully Catches 40 Cup-And-Ball Toys At The Same Time

These are two videos of a member of kendama (the traditional Japanese wooden toy) performance group Densho DEN-SHOW successfully cupping the balls of 40 toys simultaneously. I have also included a video of him previously doing 30. So do you think when he’s practicing for the next big feat he adds a single additional toy to the row or goes by 5’s or 10’s? Because I’d just cut straight to 100 myself. Granted I’d have to start working out to be able to lift them all, but that’s nothing a decade in the gym and some horse steroids couldn’t solve.

The Swish Machine, A 70-Step Basketball Shooting Rube Goldberg Machine

The Swish Machine, A 70-Step Basketball Shooting Rube Goldberg Machine

This is a video demonstration of Cree Ossner’s Swish Machine, a massive outdoor Rube Goldberg machine that takes almost 3 minutes to run and starts and ends with the shooting of a basketball (plus has another in the middle!). Although the end shot is more of a roll into the basket than an actual shot. Foul! “Excuse me?” EJECTION! Man, I would make a great ref. And not just because I’ve always dreamed of being a barcode. Still — getting red lasered all day long? That’s the life.