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Tech NewsSploidMarines blow up concrete walls protected only by a blanket
Watch US Marines with the 3rd Marine Logistics Group, 9th Engineer Support Battalion show how they get into buildings. The most amazing part is when they blow a concrete wall while they all stand there in line, just protected by a ballistic blanket. These guys are nuts. Watch the complete video here.
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Tech NewsSploidChristopher Lee’s last message feels like a premonitory farewell
I’m a huge fan of Sir Christopher Lee. Not only did he have a wicked sense of humor and a great life philosophy, but he was a fantastic—and very underappreciated!—actor. After I saw his first film in Hammer’s Dracula series, he visited my childhood nightmares every day. He terrified me—and I loved every bit of … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidIncredible video of an air tanker refueling a tanker against a full moon
Without a doubt, this is one of the coolest airplane videos I have ever seen. Thanks to the magic of telephoto lenses, the moon in this infrared clip looks impossibly gigantic. The fact that a KC-10 tanker is refueling another KC-10 tanker make the entire thing feel unreal—as in “I had a hard time believing … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis delicious Hungarian pasta dish looks like boiled maggots
Our friend Anna Péter, from the food blog Malackaraj, continues to delight my virtual taste buds with another gross-looking Hungarian plate. This one is a maggot-like pasta called tojásos nokedly, a plate that you eat with a lettuce salad called fejes saláta. Apparently, it’s one of Hungary’s most iconic plates. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidRobert Downey Jr. delivers real Iron Man bionic arm to armless kid
I’m a sucker for happy stories, I make no excuses. So, when I saw Alex—a seven-year-old boy who was born with a partially developed arm and loves superheroes—meeting with Tony Stark himself—played by Robert Downey Jr—my heart started to melt. Then I saw Alex in awe with his new bionic arm, I was like… Here’s … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidScientists reveal the hidden structure and size of our galaxy
Our galaxy is not what we thought it was.According the paper Rings and Radial Waves in the Disk of the Milky Way—published in the Astrophysical Journal—we should call it the Corrugated Cardboard Galaxy, as shown in the diagram above. Even more surprising: It’s 50-percent larger than previously thought. According to Heidi Jo Newberg—professor at the … Continued
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Tech NewsAppleYou Know the Apple Watch Will Be Useless Without These Battery Bracelets
Attenshun, Apple fans! Are you going to buy an Apple Watch? Shut up. I know you are. It is superfluous if you have an iPhone but fuck it—if Tim Cook can’t live without it neither can you. YOU MUST GET IT. There is only one true, big, hairy but: Battery life will suck flea-infested monkey … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWow, China builds complete 57-story skyscraper in record 19 days
Sploid reader Xian Min Zhang sent us the latest time-lapse video of the construction of his latest building: A 57-floor 2-million-square-foot (180,000-square-meter) skyscraper fully built with energy-efficient, factory-produced Lego-like blocks. He claims that they are now building these at a record three floors per day! The company keeps increasing their building speed and size of … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis is what human cannonballs see when they get launched
Human cannonballs are not launched from real cannons butspecial cannons that use either springs or compressed air. That doesn’t mean it is not risky: They suffer accelerations of 7G and can fly over a distance of 193 feet (59 meters). In fact, “more than 30 human cannonballs have died during the performance of this stunt.” … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidSpectacular video of F-18s in never-before-seen action
Our friend Lieutenant Chris Nigus—Weapons Training Officer with the Strike-Fighter Squadron VFA-27 Royal Maces—sent us his new video, which has some truly spectacular shots that I have never seen before. Like the night shot footage above—we only had photos—or this cool landing footage from a carrier’s deck camera. There are a lot more outstanding sequences … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidAmazing photos of naked people completely covered in honey (NSFW)
Beholdthe amazing photography of Black Little. This outstanding series belong to his latest monograph, called Preservation. It opens today at the Kopeikin Gallery in Culver City, California. If you are in Los Angeles, go see it. If you are not that lucky, you can see how beautiful it looks here [NSFW!] Blake Little is an … Continued
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I want to spend an eternal summer on this sailboat
This is Salt, the newest yacht concept by Lujac Desautel. It is a sailboat. It has a clean design. It is very pretty. It is not my ideal sailboat—I like classic lines—but it is the kind of ship that I imagine Steve Jobs would have wanted instead of the horror he actually got. I would … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidTwo guys race up a 27-story building and jump down from the top
Andy and Jean don’t race like we did when we were kids. They put on their parachutes, run up abandoned buildings in South Africa, and then jump back down to the finish line. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
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Yes, this photo is the best
Look at all these happy pups! LOOK AT THEM! It just makes me happy to look at those happy faces. Viva los dogs! Photos by the Barkhaus in Miami, Florida, a dog park and boarding place. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
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Just the Blue Angels doing their awesomeness
Excuse me for putting up another aerobatic shot this week, but I couldn’t resist this image posted by the US Navy. Their position in the sky seems counterintuitive, yet it is perfectly normal for them. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
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Can this picture of a frog riding a beetle be real or is it fake?
Petapixelhas republished a great article about fake nature photos written by a group of nature photographers who are denouncing the abuses of some of their colleagues. Here it is, reproduced in its entirety. It answers the question—can this picture of a frog riding a beetle be real—and much more. Above: Bullshit or Natural? “Yee-haw! Cowboy … Continued
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The USAF Thunderbirds in a perfect formation
If this hadn’t been published by the US Air Force, I would think it’s a fake and those F-16s from their Thunderbird exhibition team weren’t real but cloned and perfectly aligned in Photoshop to form a delta formation. It was shot at the Daytona International Speedway during a practice flight for the Daytona 500 February … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThese guys making Japanese rice paste are freaking nuts
I love mochi—the Japanese cakes made from rice that gets smashed into a gooey, elastic paste. I like all shapes and types, savory or sweet, is one of my favorite things to eat. I know how it is made it but I never saw them doing them by hand. Crazy. A closer angle: SPLOID is … Continued
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Spectacular new photo of a very special star
The Universe is a truly incredible place. This spectacular new photo by the Hubble space telescope—showing a young star known as V1331 Cyg, 1,800 light years away from Earth—is proof #251,603,995,874. It’s a special star. What makes V1331Cyg special is the fact that we look almost exactly at one of its poles. Usually, the view … Continued
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