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Tech NewsSploidCould Pretty Much Anyone Just Make a Jackson Pollock Painting?
You know that feeling, we’ve all had it. You’re walking in a museum and stumble upon something you think is so simple, a piece that is so ridiculous that you look at it and then look at the people around you and are like, “Oh my god, I could totally do this. How is this … Continued
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Tech NewsSploid5 Fascinating Film Scenes That Show So Much with So Little
When you’re looking at movies directed by Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs) and Wong Kar-Wai (In the Mood for Love) and Francis Ford Coppola (Godfather II), you know you’re watching true masters of their craft at work. Everything matters, every detail is important. Even if you’re not well versed in filmmaking, your eyeballs are being led … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThe process of launching a nuclear missile is completely riveting
This video is more intense and more suspenseful and got me more scared than any movie I’ve watched this year. Veritasium dug into the actual process involved in launching a nuclear missile from its silo and the retro-tech combined with its quaint fail safes and cute ignition all under the backdrop of the disastrous power … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidVideo: A fascinating portrait of a steam plant’s chief engineer
Conrad Milster is the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York’s chief engineer and has been working at the power plant for over 50 years. Conrad Milster is also such a wonderful character and this short doc on his life is such a joy to watch. You get to see the old technology and gear of … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThe mind-boggling manufacturing process of electronic phone switchers
The Hello Machine is a fascinating short film directed in 1974 by Carroll Ballard. It shows the mind-boggling process of making AT&T’s Electronic Switch System mainframe by hand, a formidable machine was built after 20 years of research and spending 500 million dollars—2,4 billion in 2014 dollars! “That was 10 times its original budget,” says … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidArcheologists discover mythical Tomb of Osiris in Egypt
Archeologists have discovered an ancient tomb modeled afterthe mythical Tomb of Osiris as described by Egyptian lore in thenecropolis of Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, on the West Bank at Thebes. The complex includes a shaft that connects to multiple chambers, including one with demons holding knives. The tomb—which was built following the descriptions of the Tomb … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThe hard but charming daily lives of people who work in Antarctica
It’s hard to imagine the size and hostility of Antarctica from the comfort of our warm homes. Its overwhelming vastness feels like an alien world right here on Earth. Yet, this Wes Andersonian documentary makes it look fun to live there. These are the daily adventures of the people who work at Union Glacier, in … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis is probably the most disgusting yet most satisfying surgery ever
Acute subdural hematoma is the technical name of one of the deadliest of all head injuries. This video shows how you get rid of it, which involves opening the brain and removing the clogged blood. It’s really gross, but incredibly fascinating too. Warning: STRONG IMAGES. The video contains the whole procedure, including opening the brain. … Continued
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What the top 100 female porn stars look like in one fascinating chart
Data Looks Dope’s Max Einstein sent us his new creation: What the top 100 porn stars look like. At the top you can you can see the breast cup size. At the bottom there’s the top 100 actresses as ranked in Xvideos.com along with body measuring information according Internet Adult Film Database. Expand and zoom … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidYou must watch this fantastic explanation of how computers draw curves
All my life using Adobe Illustrator and it’s only now when I learn how it draws vector curves—technically called Bézier curves. If you are an illustrator, you will love this. If you are not, it’s fascinating anyway. In fact, it is one of the most interesting videos I’ve seen this year. Kudos to Peter Nowell … Continued
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This is exactly how big the supermoon is going to be tomorrow
Everyone’s talking about tomorrow’s supermoon—how big, bright, and beautiful it will be. It’s always the same. But how big is it going to be, exactly? This image shows how much the moon size varies in the sky from its perigee (it’s closest point to Earth) to its apogee (the furthest point from Earth.) On the … Continued
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Eight of the world’s prettiest women merged into one (perfect?) being
Sploid reader Marius Vibe merged eight of the most beautiful women in the world into a single person. The final result is intriguing, but the best part is the process itself—and the intermediate morphs. Who is more beautiful—the originals, the intermediate mixes, or the merging of them all? Marius sent us his experiment after seeing … Continued
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Jennifer Lawrence and Scarlett Johansson morphed into one person
Maybe one day—when we get an X-Men vs Avengers movie crossover—we will see Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) morphing into the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson). Until then we will have this fan morph, which looks surprisingly beautiful. Usually, these kind of morphs end being pretty terrible. Do you have any other favorite of actors or actresses? Post … Continued
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Space station cosmonauts find life in the vacuum of space
The Russian press agency ITAR-TASS is reporting something so surprising that I’m having a hard time believing it: Cosmonauts have found microorganisms on the exterior of the International Space Station. Russian scientists are shocked by this discovery and can’t really explain how it is possible. According to the chief of the Russian ISS orbital mission, … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWhy is the speed of darkness faster than the speed of light?
Michael Stevens explains why darkness moves faster than light in this new episode of Vsauce. I usually find these explainers interesting because they delve not only into multiple science disciplines but often they touch philosophical questions too. This one really blew my mind. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
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Rare photos reveal fascinating views of the Apollo 11 moon landing
You’re looking at Buzz Aldrin lifting his boot before taking the photo of the most iconic footprint in history. It’s one of the many discarded Apollo images stored in NASA’s archives. Here’s a collection of those rare, funny, intimate, and always fascinating views to celebrate the 45 anniversary of the landing on the Moon. Blurry … Continued
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Scientist find that 80 percent of all light in the Universe is missing
According to observations made by the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope, the Universe is missing 80 percent of all its light. Astronomers are completely baffled: “We still don’t know for sure what it is, but at least one thing we thought we knew about the present day universe isn’t true.” Those … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidNASA reveals the most colorful and detailed image of the Universe
NASA has unveiled “the most colorful view of the Universe” ever captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Part of a study called the Ultraviolet Coverage of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, it’s “a composite of separate exposures taken in 2003 to 2012 with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3.” Watch the … Continued
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NASA is getting ready to communicate with aliens (Update 4)
“We can say little, if anything, about what these patterns [above] signify, why they were cut into rocks, or who created them. For all intents and purposes, they might have been made by aliens.” When a new NASA book on alien communications has a paragraph like that, you better pay attention. Read the update at … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHow to create life on screen using the 12 basic principles of animation
Back in the 1930s, the young artists at Walt Disney came up with 12 basic principles to create the illusion of life on screen using animation, giving their drawings as much character and personality as real life actors. This video by Cento Lodigianiis a perfect demonstration on how these rules work. It works so perfectly … Continued
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