TO INFINITY AND BEYOND
Driving Simulator Allows You To Feel Car’s Movement By Stimulating Nerve Cells In Ear
Because what good are driving simulators if you can’t actually get motion sickness, this is a video of Youtuber Mean Gene Hacks playing physics-based driving simulator BeamNG.drive with the lateral movement of his vehicle being translated via custom code and sent to his body via Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS, “the
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The US Army Band Performs ‘The Mandalorian’ Theme
Presumably to celebrate the government admitting that it’s known for quite some time that aliens are among us (and not to commemorate Star Wars Day earlier this month), this is a video of the U.S. Army band performing The Mandalorian theme (complete with specially split masks for musicians playing wind
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Harry Potter But With American Actors Deepfaked As The Adult Characters
This is a video from Youtuber Race Archibold imagining scenes from the Harry Potter film franchise with American actors deepfaked as the adult characters instead of the original, predominately British ones. Changes include Morgan Freeman as Dumbledore, Keanu Reeves as Severus Black, Matthew McConaughey as Garrick Ollivander, Meryl Streep as
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Shot Of Bird Catching A Ride On An Airborne Branch Being Carried By Larger Bird
This is a shot captured by southeast Michigan wildlife photographer Jocelyn Anderson (links to her website with prints available) of a red-winged blackbird catching a ride on a branch being carried by a much larger osprey. Obviously, Scooter from Borderlands is into this. Some more info: “Red-winged blackbirds are fiercely
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’60 Minutes’ Segment Of Navy Pilots Discussing UFO Encounters
This is a segment from a recently aired episode of 60 Minutes in which Bill Whitaker reports on Navy pilots’ regular sightings of UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena). All this UFO talk has gained so much traction that there’s a report due to congress about it next month. Now that’s going
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Detonating Grenades Inside A 2-Inch Thick, 1,450-Pound Steel Box
This is a video of the living-the-dreamers behind Youtube channel Beyond The Press detonating homemade grenades inside a 1,450-pound, 2-inch thick steel box they had specially made for the purpose by Speweld. First they detonate a grenade with the hole in the top of the box uncovered, then with a
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‘Windyman’ Street Performer’s Impressive Frozen In Time Routine
This is a video of street performer Windyman (aka Wayne Scott) performing his pièce de résistance at Plaça de Catalunya (‘Catalonia Square’) in Barcelona. How he remains so still is beyond me, but I suspect it may involve a handful of tranquilizers. Now being able to stand after downing a
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First Person POV Footage Of High-Rise Iron Worker
Because heights don’t terrify some people like they do me, this is some first person point of view footage from an iron worker helping construct the Deloitte Tower in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. I got sweaty palms just watching. And vertigo. I’m a total mess now all thanks to this
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Vertical Takeoff Aircraft Blows Away Rubber Landing Pad Upon Takeoff
This is a video of a US Air Force Boeing/Bell CV-22B Osprey 10-0053 vertical takeoff transport blowing away the rubber helipad at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, England due to rotor wash while it’s taking off during a medical-transfer training operation. Obviously, I hope the medical dummy faired better than this
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Dare To Dream: Cooking A Levitating Hotdog
This is a video of scientific experimenter and Youtuber NightHawkinLight levitating a hotdog by suspending it in a stream of compressed air (an example of the Coandă effect) and cooking the dog via a heating coil in what is arguable the coolest fashion ever, followed distantly by those hotdog carousels
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