Above: Producing an indigo colored plasma by radiating an indium alloy. This is a video of Youtuber/electrical mad scientist StyroPyro constructing and experimenting with a 20,000 watt microwave oven, roughly 20x more powerful than the one above your stove. It can fully cook a frozen Hot Pocket in 10 seconds,
This is a video from Slow Mo Guys Gav and Dan, who teamed up with funlovers Aussies Brett and Scott of How Ridiculous (when Youtube worlds collide!) to fire a bowling ball out of a cannon at 400MPH and directly into a realistic ballistics head, complete with skull. After watching
This is a video of Rube Goldberg machinist Joseph Herscher (previously) demonstrating his Ultimate Snooze Machine 2.0, a machine that repeatedly smacks and whacks a Casetify protected iPhone on its way to getting Joseph out of bed. The machine itself is beautifully crafted, and works flawlessly. I wonder how many
Tom BetGeorge (previously), who owns and operates Magical Light Shows is back at it with his synchronized home Halloween light and music display for 2024. It looks like this year every window has an LED display. That’s nuts. And, I think I speak for every kid in the neighborhood when
Because Halloween is time for smashing pumpkins (Billy Corgan, let’s ride!), this is a video of hippos at the Cincinnati Zoo chomping pumpkins whole. There’s also some footage of painted dogs (aka African wild dogs, not dogs that have been painted — playing poker or otherwise) enjoying some pumpkin fun.
These are several videos highlighting Norway’s Preikestolen (aka Pulpit Rock), a naturally formed granite overhang with a sheer drop of 604-meters (1,982 feet). The rock attracts some 300,000 visitors each year, and was formed 10,000 years ago in the most recent Ice Age. And, unlike US tourist attractions, the overhang
This is a video of Slow Mo Guys Gav and Dan hanging out with Scott of Kentucky Ballistics and firing his 950 JDJ Fat Mac, the largest sporting rifle in the world (and 1 of only 3 produced). The gun weighs 50 pounds, produces 300 pounds of recoil, and fires
A drone show in China recently set the Guinness World Record for “largest aerial image formed by drones,” using a staggering 7,598 drones to create massive images in the sky. The show was a joint effort between Zhujian Planning Media and the DAMODA Intelligent Control Technology Company and took place