This is a video of NASA’s giant Super Guppy turboprop plane landing in Huntsville, Alabama (where I grew up), carrying the heat shield for the Artemis I Orion spacecraft. The massive, bulbous plane features a cargo area measuring 25′ x 25′ x 110′, with the entire plane hinging open behind

Because all work and no play makes Jack basically me, this is a video of a man dismounting a roof by using two long straight poles and a shovel under his ass to slide back down to the ground after finishing his work up there. Very clever. Although what I

This is a video of a clever tabby cat named Cheeto tricking its English mastiff brother Larry into a gated pen, then casually closing the gate and escaping through a gap in the bars, locking the big dog inside. Larry, you fool! You can forget about playing poker with the

Because not everybody has the Hulk-like strength of yours truly, this is a satisfying video of a machine created by JP Botelho that was designed to straighten bent rebar. Is rebar that’s been previously bent as structurally sound as rebar that hasn’t been? I have no clue, do I look

This is a video of Tom Scott riding the elevator at the New Town Hall in Hannover, Germany, an elevator that follows the 17-degree curvature of the cupola dome to the observation tower at the top. The elevator was originally constructed in 1913, and gutted and fitted with a new

Note: the website is a little wonky right now while it’s getting fixed, feel free to smack it with a hammer for me. This is a clip from BBC Earth narrated by the one and only David Attenborough highlighting bears furiously rubbing and grinding against trees to help shed their

This is a video of Joseph of Joseph’s Machines (previously) demonstrating the elaborate alarm clock and human car wash was he constructed to get him out of bed, washed, dressed, and out the door in just under two minutes. That’s impressive. For reference, it generally takes me about six hours

Figuring it still has lives to spare, this is a short video of a clever kitty demonstrating its ability to unplug an automatic food dispenser without the plug falling out of the outlet, then plugging it back in so it dispenses some brown and crunchy. I feel like an automatic