This is a video of an exhilarating trip down the 800-foot roller slide in Tabayama, Japan. It’s Japan’s longest roller slide (with a sliding surface of metal rollers like you’d imagine boxes traveling along in a factory) and opened in 1990. “The slide has no seat belts, helmets or much
This is a video of from Insider, which took a deep dive into the evolution of car chases in movies over the last 100 years, with the addition of techniques like using modified cars and chase vehicles, to undercranking the film (filming at a slower frame-rate so playback at regular
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 some dashcam footage from a man listening to the news and quietly talking $hit on the person in front of him at a drive-thru ATM when that person clearly takes his telepathic insults to heart and speeds out of the lane, launching over the car in front of
In what is arguably the best case I’ve seen made for me buying a kayak, this is a video of a group of fun-lovers speeding down an empty drainage ditch in Lion’s Bay, British Columbia and into the ocean, where they surprisingly weren’t immediately eaten by sharks. Whenever I dip
Very appropriately named Nimble the “All-American” dog (read: mixed breed, mutt) recently destroyed the competition in the 12″ class of the Masters Agility Course at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Nimble beat the times of over 350 other dogs to become the first mixed breed to win the competitions.
This is a video of “movement artist” ModernTarzan (aka Nicholas Coolridge) taking a break from swinging from the tree tops to ride a skateboard through a sewer pipe, ending in a dry water runoff/makeshift skatepark where a friend tries to matador him with a flannel shirt and everyone cheers like
Red Bull teamed up with the drone experts at Dutch Drone Gods to develop a real missile of a drone that can keep up with F1 cars in order to capture chase footage. Some more info about the project while I repeatedly fly the cheap drone I got for Christmas