Because what good is a vehicle if you can’t make it explode for a crowd, this is a video of some guy in a souped-up diesel truck going pedal to the metal on a dyno (dynamometer, used for measuring the torque and RPM of a vehicle) and blowing his engine,
This is some doorbell cam footage from a home in Dorset, England of high winds causing the side of a building to partially collapse right in front of a man walking down the street. The man appears to be entirely unfazed by the incident, which left rubble right at his
This is a disgustingly satisfying video from Insider detailing a job performed by Illinois-based air-duct cleaning company Duct Heroes in which CEO Ahmad Adas and his team clean at least 47 years of dust accumulation out of a home’s vents. Ahmad suspects the home, which is over 100 years old,
This is a video discussing and demonstrating a method for rendering a much more photorealistic version of Grand Theft Auto V using an artificial intelligence powered convolution network that produces images frame-by-frame at speeds fast enough to be run at interactive (read: playable) rates. Some more info that’s so far
Note: Just watch the video, if you aren’t impressed by thirty seconds you’re unimpressible. This is a video of the first place sparring routine at the 13th World Wushu Championships in 2015 as choreographed and performed by Xiao Wu and Long Long Shi with an insane empty hand versus spear
this is a video of Stuart Wiggins of Youtube channel The China Traveller attempting to climb the staircase to the village of Atulie’er, which sits 800-meters (2,624 feet, ~half a mile) vertically on a mountaintop, accessible only by 2,556 steps constructed of tubular steel (each step consisting of two parallel
This is a visual comparison of known tsunami wave heights, culminating with the Lituya Bay, Alaska mega tsunami that measured over 520m (1,700+ feet) high. Holy smokes! That particular tsunami was caused by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that triggered a rockslide, quickly depositing some 90-million tons of rock into Lituya
Because having an emergency exit strategy in place is an important part of survival (and not pooping your pants at the restaurant table while on a date), this is a video of Tom Scott being treated to a tour of a giant wind turbine, as well as getting to experience