This is the office chair created by Japanese natural stone workshop Factory-M after founder Koichi Hasegawa discovered a massive seat-shaped chunk of amethyst for sale during a trip to the United States. It, uh, it definitely makes a statement. One not about comfort. The chair weighs around 218-pounds and features
Because we deserve exactly what the dinosaurs got, here are a couple doorbell cam videos of a beautiful meteor streaking across the Texas sky. You know, I’ve streaked across Texas myself before. Honestly I can’t recommend it — crazy hot, penis got super sunburnt.
This is a video from explainer of things Tom Scott taking a tour of and discussing the last aerial ropeway in England, one built in the 1920’s that’s operated by Claughton Brickworks in Lancashire. The ropeway is about 1.5-miles long, hauls 300-tons of shale every day, and does it all
This is a video captured by Eagle, Idaho resident and stargazer Jordan Ragsdale of a blazing meteor that briefly lights up the 11PM night sky even brighter than daylight. Pretty wild, right? Of course that wasn’t really a meteor, that was aliens. And it makes sense they’d want to land
This is a video documenting Mr. Tiger’s creation of an apartment in the side of a rock mountain, slowly excavating the space then customizing it to his liking. The result is most impressive. Way nicer than my basement apartment, and probably with fewer bugs. You know I called my landlord
This is a video of British rock climber/possible faun Johnny Dawes demonstrating his no-hands climbing technique, first on a relatively small stone slab, then on a much larger and higher climb. He’s definitely got the skills. AND the tweed suit I 100% expected to see as soon as I read
Because who can ever get enough visual asteroid size comparison videos, this is another from MetaBallStudio featuring a bunch of different sized asteroids, some real, some fictional, but all pale in comparison to the size of Uranus. Literally — the largest asteroid in the video is the fictional Texas-sized one
This is a shot of the dual Cookie Monster faces that were revealed after California geologist Mike Bowers split a volcanic agate rock in half that he found in the Rio Grande dol sul region of Brazil. I mean, there’s no question — that’s the monster of cookies. After posting