This is a video of a professional arborist (read: with the appropriate safety equipment) in San Bernadino, California cutting the top off a 100-foot palm tree that was being removed to reduce its risk of falling on something in the area, and riding the makeshift catapult like a seasoned cowboy

Note: Keep your volume down but not off and watch as full-screen as possible. This is a short video capturing some very amateur baseball practice when a ball comes right at the camera and made me duck under my desk. I think part of the reason it’s so surprising is

This is a video of some of the skydivers from Skydive Spaceland Houston speeding towards earth at night while covered in LED strips and blasting 300-foot sparkler trails from their feet. That’s cool. Maybe not as cool as I am, but– “I swear if this is the detachable thumb trick

This is a video from some thrillseekers in Croatia when the tow-cable attached to the boat of their parasailing parachute snaps, sending them slowly drifting back into the ocean. They all seem pretty calm about it. I mean I know they’re harnessed to a giant parachute and this is pretty

This is a video captured from inside the cabin of an Airbus A320 as it takes off from Changi Airport in Singapore to show the changing speed (measures in km/h so it makes no sense to Americans) as it breaks the laws of physics. Honestly, I still can’t believe people

This is a video from the Noboribetsu Marine Park in Japan of a seal that has a circular ring to swim through that’s above the waterline, which works on the same principle (atmospheric pressure) as those floating pond bubbles that fish can swim up into. Per Youtube commenter agerven on

This is a video of a currently unnamed newborn female southern white rhino calf doing zoomies around her mom Jamila in their holding pen at the Aukland Zoo in New Zealand. The calf was born August 14th and marks the first rhino birth at the zoo in the last 20

This is a short video of a dad giving his son the Superman test by handing him a pressure washer with a surface cleaning attachment and seeing if he’s got the strength to hold it down. He does not. Man, I can’t even see a pressure washer without painfully recalling