Trainer Uses Fake Skeleton To Get Horse Accustomed To Riders
This is a video of horse trainer Rebecca using a fake skeleton atop mare Bon Jovi (that’s no steel horse!) to get the horse accustomed to riders, and demonstrate to students how to properly ride a mount. Could she have used a crash test dummy instead? Probably, but those things
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Adding Robotic Googly Eyes To Self-Driving Cars Make Them Safer
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have found that adding robotic googly eyes that turn to gaze at pedestrians the car has identified help make them safer, by letting humans know the car has recognized them and (hopefully) won’t run them over. Plus the cars look way friendlier too —
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How Cars Are Destroyed For Movies
This is a video highlighting the work of JEM FX, a visual effects company that specializes in the destruction of vehicles in movies. A lot of their work involves structurally weakening vehicles (e.g. cutting the support pillars of a car’s roof) so that they get damaged the way they want
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NASA Smacks Asteroid With Spacecraft In First Ever Test Of Planetary Defense
Note: If you search for NASA DART on Google you get an Easter Egg. NASA successfully smacked an asteroid with a spacecraft traveling at 14,000 MPH in an attempt to alter its trajectory in a first-ever test of planetary defense, should an asteroid ever be discovered that’s on a collision
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Trail Cam Captures Mountain Lion Playing With Log Swing
This is a video from a trail cam in Colorado of a mountain lion playing with a log swing. Both the camera and swing were set up by local Thaddeus Wells with the hopes of recording some video of bear cubs swinging. No word if he’s managed to capture that
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Circle Of 25 Furbies Have A Conversation
Presumably a group therapy session to promote healing from all the ill will shown toward them throughout the years, this is a video of 25 Furbies all having a conversation. What are they saying? No clue, but I assume it involves overthrowing humanity. Can’t say I blame them *minimizes ‘overthrow
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Woopsie: Dog Jumping For Ball Gets Breast Instead
This is a video of Koda the blue heeler jumping for a ball but getting a mouthful of boob instead. As far as aim goes, that was pretty bad. I can’t imagine Koda doing a great job of catching treats if this is the best she can do with a
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Setting As Many Archery World Records As Possible
This is a video of the fun-loving Aussies of Youtube channel How Ridiculous teaming up with archery trick-shot expert James Dean to see how many archery related Guinness World Records they can set, complete with some amazing curve shots that change direction multiple times. You know, I was always good
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