Because evolution is just an r short of revolution (I don’t know I’m just spitballing here), this is a video featuring a brief evolutionary history of Theo Jansen’s wind-powered Strandbeests, culminating in footage of his most recent species. Do, uh, do these things mate? And do you think they’ll ever
This is a short but delightful video of a beachgoer being swallowed by a beach umbrella that was freed from its sandy prison by high winds. It attaches itself to that person like a facehugger! Hey, if you’re going to give birth to an alien baby, there are far worse
This is some doorbell cam footage from Athens, Alabama (I grew up a half hour from there!) of a trampoline that decided it was tired of living in somebody’s backyard having children constantly trying to break its back and took to the skies, only to come crashing down on somebody’s
This is a video of spiritual advisor, teacher of the elements, and Instagrammer Jesusthelivingsun demonstrating his ability to summon leaf tornadoes with some magical hand gestures and, in the second clip, a ninja sword. I believe in his powers too, because I’m rarely not waving my ninja sword around and
This is some drone footage captured by storm chaser and meteorologist Reed Timmer in Greenfield, Iowa of a multi-vortex tornado toppling some wind turbines and being the all around destructive force of nature that it is. So, if you were wondering what happens when a tornado meets a wind turbine,
This is a video from train conductor Eric Carlisle in Waverly, Nebraska of an EF-3 tornado (3-second gust speeds of 135-165MPH) passing directly over the locomotive and breaking the windows. The tornado managed to derail 31 cars, but, thankfully, nobody aboard was injured. Per the other person with Eric (possibly
Captured on video by NASA’s Perseverance rover near the nicknamed ‘Thorofare Ridge’ on Mars, this is a video (sped up 20X) of a dust devil some 200-feet wide, and 1.2-miles high. The pencil D dust devil was spotted traveling east to west along the ridge at approximately 12MPH, presumably on
Because who needs wind, this is a video of kite-flier Spence “Watty” Watson flying a custom kite he built for the indoor audience at the recent 2023 South Padre Island Kite Fest in Texas. How do you fly a kite indoors with no wind? You run around, because you are