Prior to forming Nine Inch Nails with himself in 1988, Trent Reznor played in several new wave and pop bands in the 80’s, including tickling the ol’ plastic ivories for Cleveland, Ohio based Slam Bamboo, as seen in this video. Trent was actually composing Pretty Hate Machine for himself at the time, and you don’t have to look too hard at his face to see he’s ready to spread his nine inch nail-tipped wings and fly the hell away from whatever this is.

This is a video of science experimenter and TikTok user Joemyheck using a massive lens to focus the sun’s energy on a tiny pinpoint on a rock, harnessing so much power it’s able to spawl, fracture, and melt the rock, eventually cracking it in half, forming a crack rock. Wow! Now that is some serious power. Obviously, we can’t let this lens fall into the Infinity Gauntleted hand of Thanos or he’ll probably be able to destroy all life in the universe.

Keep going for the video while I try to find one of these lenses on eBay.

@joemyheck

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♬ original sound – Joemyheck

This is a video from Youtuber NASS, who took some vintage footage of Los Angeles from the 1930’s and remastered it in high definition, boosting the frame rate to 60FPS, improving the sharpness, blur, and noise, stabilizing the images, adding color (not historically accurate), and ambient noise. The result, like a tasteful nude painted by an old master, is something you could stare at for hours. Having lived in Los Angeles for ten years, I recognize a lot of those buildings. And I definitely recognize the traffic. As a matter of fact, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if you could actually find all the cars seen in this video still stuck in traffic to this very day, only a few blocks further.

In other Tesla news, Finnish man Tuomas Katainen recently purchased a used 2013 Tesla Model S and says it ran great for around the first 1,000 miles he owned it. Then error codes started popping up and, upon having it inspected by his local Tesla dealership, was faced with a $22,600 bill to have the car’s entire battery array replaced. So what did he do? What any logically thinking person would — said hell no then channeled his inner American and blew the vehicle to pieces with 30kg (~66 pounds) of dynamite. Heck yeah! I only wish I could have been there to ride the hood into the wild blue yonder like a magic carpet.

Keep going for the video, actual exploding begins at 5:10 followed by several different angles and slow motion.

Thanks to my dad, who agrees when in doubt, just blow it to smithereens.

This is a video from Youtube channel DragTimes of a man pinning a banana to the passenger seat of his Tesla Model S Plaid as he guns it, the banana staying put through the whole quarter mile at a top force of around 1.4G’s until the car reaches its top speed of 155MPH, at which point the banana falls. You know, that banana reminds me a lot of myself the first time I rode the Gravitron at the county fair, except that banana isn’t vomiting funnel cake all over the kid riding next to it as he screams in terror.

This is a video shared by Sarah Bole of Grand Lake, Colorado of her dog Dash (a Bichon Frise?) staring down a large mountain lion through a glass door in her home. “This is my house, you overgrown stray!” I imagine Dash telepathically communicating with the feline. Also, “If you were to poop in the yard I wouldn’t mind tasting a little when Sarah isn’t looking.”