Guy Gives Tour Of His Incredibly Impressive Star Trek And Doctor Who Themed Basement

Guy Gives Tour Of His Incredibly Impressive Star Trek And Doctor Who Themed Basement

Because when your significant other tells you that you can whatever you want as long as you keep it in the basement you hold them to their word, this is a video of Youtuber The Todd giving a tour of the Star Trek and Doctor Who themed areas of his basement he’s been constructing over the past two years and three months. The tour begins through a Star Trek style door to the transporter, then proceeds through a TARDIS, which, SURPRISE, is actually much bigger on the inside and contains a control console that’s so magnificent I’m not convinced it wouldn’t let you travel through space and time. The tour ends in Todd’s USS Enterprise bridge themed computer room, which has at least a million screens. It’s insane how impressive it all is. It’s also insane somebody who could build all this would choose to film the video vertically.

keep going for the video, and at least skip around, it really is nuts. If you’re really interested, you can see some of the individual build sections on Todd’s Youtube channel HERE.

Awww: Hamster Navigates Portal Themed Test Chambers Constructed By Owner

Awww: Hamster Navigates <em>Portal</em> Themed Test Chambers Constructed By Owner

This is a video of Captain Hamster the (you’ll never guess) hamster solving a series of very cleverly designed Portal themed test chambers constructed by his owner. Now that is a smart hamster, and he clearly has fantastic puzzle solving skills. Because personally, some of those challenge…well, let’s just say I probably wouldn’t have made it far enough to find out if the cake was a lie or not.

Artist’s 50-Hour Process Of Folding Single Sheet Of Paper Into A Samurai Warrior

Artist's 50-Hour Process Of Folding Single Sheet Of Paper Into A Samurai Warrior

Because dream it and you can achieve it, this is a video of Finnish artist Juho Könkkölä folding a single square piece of 68cm (~27-inch) “wafer-thin Wenzhou paper” into a 20cm (~8-inch) samurai warrior over the course of 50 hours (thankfully, the video is condensed to five minutes) with no cutting or ripping — only folding. For reference, one time I wrote my phone number on a bar napkin and folded it and gave it to a girl but she just spit her gum in it and threw it away. Another time I tried folding an origami crane but it didn’t have a tail or left wing. So, obviously, Juho and I should probably collaborate on our next project.

Thanks again to my dad, who, for three tips in one day (and in a row!), not only receives a gold star sticker, but dinner on me at Greenbriar the next time I can visit.

Paleontologist: First Known Preserved Dinosaur Butt Region Is ‘Perfect’, ‘Unique’

Paleontologist: First Known Preserved Dinosaur Butt Region Is 'Perfect', 'Unique'

In news that’s sure to set the paleontological world ablaze (like an asteroid!), an incredibly well preserved Psittacosaurus specimen was discovered in China, complete with cloacal vent — a hole shared by all the animal’s mechanisms responsible “for pooping, peeing, breeding and egg laying.” Kind of like if a mammal’s butt and other privates were all tucked away inside a single cavity. Some more details while I fight the urge to call it a dinosaur butthole like every other writer has, because I’m not only more mature, but also an amateur herpetologist, and you can’t just run around calling everything a butthole, roommates and frenemies excluded:

The well-preserved booty belongs to the dinosaur Psittacosaurus, a bristly tailed, Labrador-size, horn-faced dinosaur, meaning it was a relative of Triceratops. Like its famous tri-horned cousin, Psittacosaurus lived during the Cretaceous period, which lasted from about 145 million to 65 million years ago.

Although this dinosaur’s caboose shares some characteristics with the backsides of some living creatures, it’s also a one-of-a-kind opening, the researchers found. “The anatomy is unique,” study lead researcher Jakob Vinther, a paleobiologist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, told Live Science. It doesn’t quite look like the opening on birds, which are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs. It does look a bit like the back opening on a crocodile, he said, but it’s different in some ways. “It’s its own cloaca, shaped in its perfect, unique way,” Vinther said.

Fascinating. Of course I’d wait till I saw another dinosaur’s cloaca before I start calling this one perfect. Like how do you even know, you haven’t seen another one. You could find another one and be like — nope, now this new one, THIS ONE IS WAY BETTER. Then, by the time you’ve seen eight or ten you realize this one was just garbage and you can’t believe you were ever quoted calling it perfect.

Thanks again to my dad, whose tips always cover a broad spectrum of different interests.

Oh Wow: The Ol’ Cars On A Giant Seesaw Balancing Act

Oh Wow: The Ol' Cars On A Giant Seesaw Balancing Act

This is a video of what appear to be two Suzuki Sidekicks performing some sort of daring seesaw balancing act, with the white Sidekick repeatedly almost ramming the other, then immediately almost speeding off the saw in reverse. I was so nervous I had to watch the video with my hands over my eyes peeking through a crack like I just got home from work early and wasn’t sure if my roommate would be there with his girlfriend making out with the couch. “Wait — with, or ON?” I meant what I said.

Thanks to my dad, who agrees everybody should run away and join a traveling circus at least once in their life.

Mortician Rates The Realism Of Corpses In Movies

Mortician Rates The Realism Of Corpses In Movies

This is a video of Caitlin Doughty of Ask A Mortician discussing and rating the realism of corpses seen in films. Obviously, the most realistic depiction of a corpse in film has been and always will be Bernie in Weekend At Bernie’s. To this day I’m still not convinced that wasn’t a corpse. Sure Caitlin says Bernie was simultaneously too floppy in some body parts (arms and legs) and stiff in others (neck, pervert) and only gives him 2 out of 10 tombstones for realism, but everyone has their own professional opinion, including complete unprofessionals like myself. MY FACEBOOK FRIENDS WILL HEAR ABOUT THIS. The second half of the video (beginning around 13:15) is Caitlin visiting a man who’s developed a method of incorporating a person’s cremated remains into animal feed blocks (which isn’t legal everywhere) for those who want to give their body back to nature, or, presumably, dispose of evidence. “I did it first.” Hoho — Carole Baskin everybody!