This is a video showcasing the mad ups of Riley Smith, a guy who’s 5’9″ with an astounding 50″ vertical leap, allowing him to easily dunk, and jump so high he can hit his head on the basketball hoop. That is impressive. For reference, I’m 6’1″ and just tried to
This is a video from Youtuber and match chain reactionist The S launching a cardboard UFO with the help of a 25,000 match chain reaction. It really was glorious to watch, particularly all the matches flying towards the camera in slow motion. I felt like I was right there! I
Note: The whole photo can be seen HERE. This is the closest photo captured of the sun to date, taken by the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter satellite from a distance of 77-million kilometers. It features thousands of small solar flares scientists have nicknamed campfires. Some more info while I
Because upscaling to 4K, 60FPS is clearly the new CSI zoom and enhance, this is a video from the Apollo 16 moon mission of a ridealong in the lunar rover to Station 4, Stone Mountain (the Cinco Crater) that’s been given the treatment. For reference, the original footage was 16mm
This is a video of a bunch of kite landboarding tricks. Kite landboarding is like kite surfing, but takes place over land (typically hard-pack beach) with a sort of offroad skateboarding longboard with bindings that you just slip your foot through so the board can be removed in air for
This is a short video of a paradise tree snake (Chrysopelea paradisi) with strips of reflective tape around its body launching itself off a tree branch and traveling some 30-feet horizontally while in the air, thanks to a complex series of undulations. Some more info while I undulate all sexy-like
This is a video from Perryville, Missouri of Jake climbing a near-vertical wall in his rock bouncer. What’s a rock bouncer? Apparently not the world’s shittiest piece of playground equipment. Some more info while I wish pieces didn’t break off my car every time I run over a curb: Jake
This is ‘All My Rockets That Didn’t Work’, a compilation video created by Youtuber and model rocketeer BPS.space of all their model rocket crashes over the years. I think this video serves as a very powerful reminder that, even when faced with repeated failures, some people just don’t know when