He chain smokes. He loves his guns. And he almost looks homeless. But he’s actually pretty damn awesome. Meet Doug Coulter. A gunsmith who’s also an amazing DIY engineer. So amazing that he’s built a nuclear fusion reactor in his basement. Yup.
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Did you know that corn kernels turn to liquid before becoming popcorn? When you heat a kernel, the sealed-in moisture liquifies its starch, the pressure builds, the kernel explodes and the liquid expands as it solidifies in a fraction of a second, resulting in the cell structure you can see above at 250x.
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Forget about Ellen Degeneres and forget about this astronaut. This is the most awesome selfie, not theirs: A Royal Danish Air Force pilot firing a live air-to-air AIM-9 Sidewinder missile form his F-16 fighter.
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According to English Russia, a Russian guy designed this car using a 3D modeling software. Then he and his friends got a Nissan Maxima "as a source for some parts" and built it. Looks like an all-terrain batmobile to me.
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Chris Burden says his amazing Metropolis II—a gigantic retrofuturistic city model where thousands of slot cars race forever—is not just a city model. Of course it’s not. It’s a goddamn amazing jesuschrist look at that city model. It looks glorious in this short by Henry & Rel.
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This Harry Potterish floating book thingamajig designed by Kiril Gitman lets you display your favorite volumes flying around your living room. Useless awesomeness.
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If you leave aside the fact that The Muppets are shilling for the world’s crappiest brand of tea, this TV commercial in which everyone in New York gets replaced by Animal from the Muppets is absolutely brilliant. Because the truth is, my friends, that everyone eventually turns into Animal in this city.
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Last Tuesday President Obama met with top engineers and Pentagon people. He publicly said: "Basically, I’m here to announce that we’re building Iron Man […] Not really. Maybe. It’s classified." People laughed, but the truth is that yes, the US military is building Iron Man, and the first prototypes are coming in this June.
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When you get hundreds of reindeers together and try to move them around, they turn into one gigantic sentient-seeming swarm that spins around together. This footage, taken from above with a drone by photographer Jan Helmer Olsen, shows the stunning spirals that are created when herding reindeers. It’s got to be dizzying for them.
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Of course, this insano knife-throwing video is not real—after all, these guys are not Russian. But the fake is so well made that you’ll swear it is real. I went through it frame by frame and you can’t notice the trick. Clever.
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