Presumably having burnt all his bridges with boat-owning friends, this is a video of Youtuber BCmtb water skiing down a drainage ditch into the ocean (previously: kayakers going down one). In his own words, which thankfully were not last ones, “Let’s hope I can make these corners.” Our collective hope

This is a visualization created by Red Side comparing the speed of the fastest manmade vehicles and other objects in different categories (e.g. fastest motorcycle, fastest jet aircraft, fastest space probe). It provides both 1st and 3rd person views, and begins with the fastest vehicles ever driven on Mars, the

This is a comparison video from Red Side (previously), this time comparing the top speeds of various species of birds (whether walking or running). It begins with the slow 2.4MPH march of the penguin, and works its way all the way up to 242MPH dive of the peregrine falcon. Damn,

This is a visualization imagining you’re a beam of light departing New York City, traveling the circumference of the Earth, and returning to New York City. How long does it take? Well since the speed of light is approximately 300,000km/s and the Earth is about 40,075km in circumference, it takes

This is some dashcam footage form sunny Scottsdale, Arizona of a speeder in a Jeep trying to weave their way through traffic at an unsafe speed and getting their just desserts. Or, since this is Scottsdale we’re talking about, their just deserts. Get it? Because Scottsdale is in the desert.

This is a video of pianist Hayato Sumino (aka Cateen) performing Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Flight Of The Bumblebee’ on a toy piano, at an ever increasing tempo, from 160BPM all the way to a blistering 250BPM. For reference, the original is typically played between 144 and 160BPM. In his own words