This is a Red Bull video of Olympic ski jumping gold medalist Ryōyū Kobayashi setting a new world ski jump record with an absolutely insane 291-meter jump. It beats the previous world record by a very respectable 37.5 meters, and was performed on a special ramp made just for the
Using remastered images captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera, Seán Doran created this absolutely breathtaking 8K trip across some craters on Mars. I just watched it on an 8K television and it was stunning. Granted I don’t own an 8K television and had
This is a video of Korean beatbox artist JCOP recreating a variety of sounds his crew makes with different objects, and then everybody going absolutely nuts with celebratory breakdancing moves after each one. My favorites are the guy behind him after the ping pong sounds at 0:15, and after the
This is a clip from BBC Earth and my main man knight Sir David Attenborough highlighting the web-slinging capabilities of Darwin’s bark spider. The spider is capable of blasting a continuous fan of webbing that catches the wind like a sail and can cross a body of water up to
This is a video of 19-year old American figure skater Ilia Malinin at the 2024 World Championships setting a new world record for highest free skate score with a very respectable 227.79, beating fellow American Nathan Chen’s previous 224.92 set at the 2019-20 Grand Prix Final. The routine, which gave
This is a precision walking demonstration by a group of Japanese high school students (this was not a club at my high school), with two groups of walkers passing through each other diagonally without running into each other and winding up a writhing pile of bodies on the gym floor.
This is a clip from the Sir David Attenborough series Frozen Planet II highlighting the life of the world’s most northern-living turtle, the painted turtle. The turtles actually freeze in the winter and their hearts stop beating (leaving only their brains operating at bare minimum), but defrost and comes back
This is some first person point of view footage of a trip down the Kalavantin Durg Trek (not to be confused with a Drug Trek, which can be equally dangerous), a set of stone mountain stairs in India that start at an elevation of 2,300-feet and feature a 700-foot sheer