TO INFINITY AND BEYOND
Full Juvenile Triceratops Fossil Going Up For Auction
In news that makes me wish I was a millionaire (full disclosure: all news makes me with I was a millionaire), Trey the juvenile triceratops fossil is scheduled to go up for auction beginning March 17th. The roughly three-quarters grown specimen will be sold by digital auction house Joopiter, and
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Royal Caribbean Cruises Builds World’s Largest Swim-Up Bar
Because overindulgence is the name of the cruise game, Royal Caribbean is building the world’s largest swim-up bar. Part of the company’s Royal Beach Club on its private Paradise Island, the bar features over 100 seats in the pool. Damn, that’s a lot of seats! That is also a lot
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Turning A Tesla Coil Into A Plasma Death Ray
Electricity: it’s terrifying. And to prove that point, this is a video of electrical engineer Greg Leyh turning one of his giant Tesla coils (because who can have just one?) into a targeted high-voltage plasma cannon. It’s like a mini Death Star. He then tests the ray on a model
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Handheld Revolver Style Model Rocket Launcher
Seen here looking like a great candidate for being the last thing a person ever sees, this is a video of Youtuber Current Concept designing, 3D printing, and testing a 3-barrel revolver that shoots model rockets. Now THIS — this is the exact sort of dangerous fun I aspire to
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Artist Dresses And Dances Like Trash Blowing In The Wind
Because it takes all kinds, this is a video of artist Shoji Yamasaki dressed like, and dancing like, random pieces of trash blowing in the wind. Oh man, I’ve known my fair share of pieces of trash in life, and none of them danced like this. Most of them moved
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First Person POV Luge Footage
Note: Flashing lights. This is a video of Italian Olympic luger Leon Felderer speeding down the track in Lillehammer, Norway at speeds up to 86MPH with nothing between him and the track but some spandex, a sled, and a prayer. I can’t even begin to tell you how many times
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A Dust Devil Full Of Tumbleweeds
This is a video captured by Douglas Barillas of a dust devil blowing a bunch of tumbleweeds around in the sky of Lake Los Angeles, California. I guess they’re not tumbleweeds anymore, they’re *putting on cool guy shades* flyweeds. Damn, I haven’t put on those cool guy shades on in
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Riding An Omnidirectional Motorball
You may recall (although I won’t fault you if you don’t) engineer James Bruton previously building an omnidirectional motorbike on two balls. But do you know what’s better than two balls? “Three balls?” Agreed, but James decided to go the less is more route anyways and made an omnidirectional motorball
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Giant Tortoises Return To Galapagos Island Where Previously Extinct
158 juvenile giant tortoises were recently reintroduced to Floreana Island in Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago, where the local subspecies went extinct in the 1840s thanks to being easy pickings for sailors on long voyages to keep fresh meat at sea. Those sailors are lucky the Ninja Turtles weren’t around back then.
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Toto’s ‘Africa’ But The Lyrics Are All The Countries In Africa
Because sometimes it’s easy to forget this is the internet and not just a dark cave filled with influencers and depression, this is another musical edit by There I Ruined It (previously) featuring Toto’s ‘Africa’, but the lyrics are listing all 54 countries in Africa. It’s a banger and geography
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