These are a couple videos of 101 sexagenarian skydivers (which sounds a lot wilder and sexier until you remember it’s just people over age 60) linking up to form a giant snowflake formation in the sky over California. The group jumped from five separate planes, and had less than a
American track and field sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson recently set a new world record in the women’s 100m (despite running in a disadvantageous outer lane) at the 2023 World Athletics Championship in Budapest with a time of 10.26 seconds, beating the previous world record by 0.02 seconds. As you may recall,
Nature: it’s brutal. Just take my life for example. It’s amazing I’m still alive. *shaking fist at the heavens* Is that all you’ve got?! This is a clip from the BBC’s Blue Planet II, featuring David Attenborough narrating the journey of a group of Sally Lightfoot Crabs on their way
These are two clips of an Evel Knievel toy doing what it does best: risking it all to entertain a crowd. The first video has Evel launching over what can only be described as a dream yard sale, and the second clip has him flying out a second story window.
World records: there’s one for everything. Even the number of empty cans stuck to your face with suction. How do I know those cans are regulation?! The newest record of 9 cans was set by 31-year old Shunichi Kanno, who beat Jamie “Canhead” Keeton’s previous record of 8. Wow, only
This is a video of pro skateboarder Tyshawn Jones performing a massive rampless ollie over Universal Music Group A&R Senior VP Steven Victor’s ~$5-million Ferrari Monza SP2. Some more details about the car while I print out a poster-sized screenshot of it and tack it to the ceiling above my
Because with enough cheap domestic beer anything is possible, this is a video of McCoy Lindquist steering his mini, metal-hulled jetboat onto land, through a campsite, and right onto its boat trailer. Impressive! Even more impressive? If he’d hit a jump in the water and landed it on the trailer.
This is a video of storm chaser Reed Timmer and several buddies speeding towards an absolutely massive tornado in Nebraska, presumably because there’s little else to do in Nebraska besides try to punch your own ticket to Oz. These guys are wild. I like how they actually capture the tornado