This is a video featuring the late great astronomer Carl Sagan reading the popular excerpt from his 1994 book ‘Pale Blue Dot’, set to the classical music piece ‘Spiegel im Spiegel’ by Arvo Pärt for extra poignancy. The original photo, which features earth as seen from a distance of some

This is a video from informative Youtuber ReYOUniverso imagining if the history of life on earth were packed into a 24 hour period. If that were the case, the first fully formed cells come into existence at 4:30AM, and it takes all the way until 9:34PM for plants to emerge

This is an informative video from Peter Schmiedchen of What If? detailing how many Earths could fit inside the planets in our solar system that are larger than Earth, and how many of Earth’s moons could fit inside the planets that are smaller than Earth. I learned a lot by

This is a video from Youtube channel What If detailing the science of what life would be like on Earth if it was somehow shaped like a giant pizza slice. Apparently life would not be that great. Thank goodness it’s shaped like an entire pizza, am I right?! “Tell me

This is a video from the Biscuit Basin area of Yellowstone National Park of a hydrothermal explosion (caused when a quantity of hot water flashes to steam in a confined area) blasting boiling water, rocks, and mud into the air, sending tourists scrambling. The National Park Service has closed the

This is a video captured by drone pilot liulangCooki from Mount Everest’s base camp to its 29,000-foot summit. The whole flight took approximately 43-minutes (with stops at various camps along the way), which was timelapsed down to just 4 minutes in the video below. That’s good, because I don’t have

This is some security cam footage from a community park in the St. Louis suburb of Alton featuring a sinkhole opening up beneath an astroturf soccer field and swallowing a light pole, along with about a 100-feet circle of field. Thankfully, the field was not in use at the time

This is a video captured aboard a Varda space capsule launched by SpaceX that’s reentering the earth’s atmosphere at around Mach 25, or around 17,500MPH. That’s fast. Varda developed the W1 capsule for companies that want to test or manufacture in space (in this case, drug manufacturing in zero-gravity). The