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 the golden age of piracy! “1650 – 1730?” God no, the late 90’s and early 2000’s. Yarrrr, Napster and LimeWire, me matey!

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 recently got me hooked on Coke Zero, and now it’s almost all I drink. Do I keep a can on my bedside table? God no, it’s a warm 2-liter.

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 set in 2009. So Cassie’s finish wasn’t particularly fast for a human, although it looks like it could still outrun that guy with the flannel and camera, so when the robots do go rogue, he’s a goner. I’d say it was nice knowing you, but I was smart enough not to let myself get too close to any slow runners.

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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 a lot by looking at it. Mostly, that there are 8-billion people too many on this planet. “You’re welcome, Earth,” I imagine muttering aloud before mashing the big red humanity-ending button à la Thanos finger snap.

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 speed it still happens so fast! Could you imagine being able to do something so quickly? I mean besides losing all motivation to do work. That’s instantaneous.

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 the Kentucky Derby himself. Hey — it pays to have good people on your team. I imagine my bottle guy would be the sort to disappear into the nearest pub and emerge two hours later just to pass me a handful of bar nuts.