TO INFINITY AND BEYOND
Luke Skywalker Lightsaber And Severed Hand Prop Sell For $4.69 Million
Because there will always be a Star Wars nerd fan out there with ungodly amounts of money to spend (hire me), the Luke Skywalker lightsaber and severed hand prop used in The Empire Strikes Back recently sold at auction for $4.69-million ($3.75-million + a 25% buyer’s premium). It is the
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37-Minute Song Names Every County In The United States (All 3,244)
Thankful I didn’t have to learn to recite the whole thing in middle school, this is a 37-minute long song from Geography Nerds that sings every county or county equivalent (parishes, boroughs, independent cities) in the United States. All 3,244 of them. It also includes 429 repeats (some multiple times),
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Hasbro Releasing Official Scooby-Doo Mystery Machine Transformer
Because it was only a short matter of time until Hasbro sniffed out the couple bucks in my wallet, Hasbro Pulse is releasing the Transformers Scooby Doo Mysterious Prime & Automutt ($57 pre-order, ships September 1st). In robot form Mysterious Prime stands approximately 6″ tall and includes interchangeable heads for
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Gus The T-Rex Sells At Auction For Staggering $50.1 Million
In news that makes me really regret not winning the lotto last night (I knew I should have played), one of the largest and most complete t-rex fossils was recently sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $50.1 million to an anonymous phone bidder (crazy how professional I can make myself
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Building And Razing A 123,456 Domino Maze (Including A 29,193 Domino 3D Pyramid!)
Very carefully set up by Youtuber Sprice Machines and eight other domino building fanatics (dominuts), this is video of the construction and destruction of a 123,456 piece domino maze, ending with a 29,193 domino pyramid (35 x 35 base, set the Guinness World Record for most dominoes toppled in a
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Star Wars Themed Drone Light Show
Using over 2,000 drones, Seoul My Soul orchestrated a Star Wars light show above Seoul, South Korea. Highlights include the Star Wars logo, Millennium Falcon, TIE Fighter cockpit with animated flight, R2-D2 and BB-8, Luke Skywalker and his dad, and the Mandalorian and Grogu. Perhaps the most impressive display though
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Jet-Powered Pirate  Ship  Dinghy
Note: Watch your volume, jet engine. Because some people have all the fun, Robert “Crazy Rocketman” Maddox is back at it, this time as his seafaring alter-ego Crazy Pirate Captain Bob as he pilots a pulsejet powered dinghy. It’s glorious. Could you imagine if you went back in time to
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Hikers Startled By Erupting Volcano Raining Red-Hot Lava Rocks
Because one does not simply walk into Mordor, this is a video of hikers ascending Mt Doom and getting pelted with red-hot lava rocks as the volcano actively erupts. You think this was right after Frodo disposed of the One Ring? At least the dog was smart enough to get
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Isaac 1, An $8,000 Personal Laundry-Folding Robot
Crazy, I was just complaining about how much I hate folding laundry in the last post, and what should appear but a laundry-folding robot! I’m going to buy a lotto ticket. Or, more accurately, $80 in losing scratch-offs. This is a video demonstration of Isaac 1, a housekeeping robot developed
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Rage Against The (Washing) Machine
Because some people have harebrained ideas before bed and take note so they can wake up and start making them reality (I just laugh at how poorly my brain works after 8PM then knock the lamp off the nightstand and go to bed), this is a video created by Dustin
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