TO INFINITY AND BEYOND
Captain Picard Performs Song And Dance Tribute To Gene Roddenberry
This is a video of Captain Picard performing a song and dance on the Enterprise bridge as a tribute to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. Apparently the clip was shot as a surprise for Roddenberry back in 1991, and appeared as a bonus scene in the Season 5 DVD set.
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Air Force ‘Quicksink’ Missile Can Split A Boat In Two, Send It To The Bottom Fast
In loose lips news, this is a video testing the Air Force’s new ‘Quicksink’ missile, capable of splitting even large ships in two and sending them to Davey Jones’s locker in a hurry. Wow! Thank goodness these didn’t exist when I was a pirate! “When were you a pirate?” During
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Coca-Cola Seller On Beach Gets Delicious Musical Remix
This is a video of musician The Kiffness (previously) creating a live-looping remix of a man on a Spanish beach selling Coca-Cola. It’s a tasty tropical jam. And I’m not just saying that because I’m a Coke fan, but I am. I mean I always have been, but my parents
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Ostrich Inspired Bipedal Robot Sets World Record For 100m Dash
This is a video of Cassie, a pair of robotic legs inspired by those of an ostrich, setting the world record for fastest 100m run by a two-legged robot. Cassie finishes with a time of 24.73-seconds. For reference, the current world record for a human is Usain Bolt’s 9.58 seconds
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The World’s Population, Visualized
Note: Not the whole graphic, click HERE to see the whole thing, or scroll to the bottom. This is a graphic created by VisualCapitalist depicting where all the world’s 8-billion people live, divided into the six major continents where people and not just penguins actually live (sorry, Antarctica). I learned
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That’s Still Fast!: Snapping Shrimp Filmed At 11,000 FPS
This is a video of several snapping and mantis shrimps snapping/boxing filmed at 11,000 frames/second and producing cavitation bubbles (created when the static pressure of a liquid reduces to below the liquid’s vapor pressure, leading to the formation of small vapor-filled “bubbles” in the liquid). Even filmed at such high
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Highlight Reel Of Marathon Runner’s Water Bottle Guy Doing His Thing
This is a video of marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge’s water bottle guy Claus-Henning Schulke doing everything he can to help secure Eliud’s world record 2:01:39 victory at the recent Berlin Marathon. Everything he can being giving Eliud water when he needs it, and celebrating each handoff like he just won
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Adam West Has Phone Conversation With Himself As Bruce Wayne And Batman
This is a video of Adam West from the original Batman television series having a conversation with himself over the phone as both Bruce Wayne AND Batman, as Commissioner Gordon and Chief O’Hara listen in. He does a great job, I can see why Adam got the part. Me? I
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Video Of A Typical McDonald’s 30 Years Ago, In 1992
It’s hard to believe 1992 was 30 years ago, isn’t it? Time passes in the blink of an eye (and thousands of cold ones). This is a video from a typical McDonald’s restaurant in 1992 when the fast food giant was promoting Batman Returns and the Summer Olympics were taking
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M.C. Escher Inspired LEGO Fountain With ‘Water’ Flowing Uphill
Spotted at Brickworld Chicago 2022 (my ban isn’t lifted until 2028), this M.C. Escher inspired LEGO fountain features water made of LEGO diamonds flowing uphill via LEGO-driven conveyor belts. Pretty clever. Granted it’s not the most convincing water I’ve ever seen, but we are talking about LEGO here — they’re
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