This is a video of an Emperor Palpatine toy Force lightning the shit out of Luke Skywalker via a Tesla Coil performing The Imperial March. You know the internet really gets boners for stuff like this. Me? I only get boners for one thing, and one thing only. “Footlong chili
Did you know kids being afraid of getting sucked down the bathtub drain is a real thing? Honestly I still am. This is a video of a couple tossing a large log into a whirlpool created by an under-road drain, and the whirlpool capturing the piece of wood and sucking
This is a video of ex-NASA engineer turned YouTube money maker Mark Rober (previously) setting the world record for the world’s tallest elephant toothpaste chemical reaction, mixing hydrogen peroxide, soap, and potassium iodide in a 5-ton flask with a resulting volcano that reaches a respectable altitude of 250-feet. Obviously, if
This is a 5-minute supercut of Ghostbusters writer and actor Harold Ramis as Egon Spangler nerding out in the first two movies. Which scene is your favorite? They’re all so good. I may have to watch Ghostbusters now. Well not NOW now, but like tonight. I mean I can’t right
Because nothing quite says gangster’s dreamworld like a resonant transformer producing high-voltage, low-current, high-frequency alternating-current electricity, this is a video of Coolio’s 1995 banger ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ performed by a trio of Tesla Coils. Damn, that came out in 1995? Feels like it was just yesterday, doesn’t it? “Not at all.”
This is a video of The Action Lab’s James Orgill using a vacuum chamber to increase a cup of liquid nitrogen’s evaporation (as a result of increased boiling due to the lower pressure), causing the temperature to drop until it freezes into a solid around 66 degrees above absolute zero
This is a timelapse video made by Jan van IJken of a newt zygote transforming into a tadpole over the course of six minutes. Of course in real time this would have taken much longer. Probably twenty to thirty minutes. *girlfriend whispers in ear* Okay I’ve just been informed that
This is an anamorphic portrait of Nikola Tesla created by Czech artist Patrik Proško using “washing machines, televisions, computers, radios, printers, microwaves, videos, speakers, lamps, and various electro appliances” to honor Tesla’s invention of the alternating current motor. The sculpture measures approximately 3.5m x 2.5m x 2.5m (~11.5′ x 8′