These Literal Suicide Machines Exist Only To Destroy Themselves

It’s one thing to build the most useless machine, but artist Thijs Rijkers takes things one big step further; his machines actively destroy themselves.

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What Happens When You Drop a Red Hot Nickel Ball Onto Aerogel

Red hot nickel ball of fire meet your toughest opponent yet: aerogel. In fact, aerogel is such an amazing material and excellent insulator that the eternal flame of the nickel ball does absolutely nothing to it. Like, seriously. It affects the aerogel as much as the normal air around it (or in it too?). But hey. We’re in the business of seeing destruction and in order to destroy aerogel, the nickel ball brought in reinforcements in the form of an hydrogen and oxygen flame. Everything burns eventually. [Cars and Water]

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Windows 8.1: The Complete Video Walkthrough

Windows 8.1 is a bunch of small changes that make for a big improvement over Windows 8. You can read our full review here, but Windows 8.1 doesn’t really hit home until you use it, or at least see it in action.

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Fire-Breathing Human Is Even Crazier in GoPro Bullet Time

Here we have 24 GoPros recording at high speed, strategically arranged around a fire-breathing daredevil. When the footage is slowed down and spliced together, you get a sweet bullet-time effect—without using a bunch of crazy professional cameras.

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Watch an Artist Turn Thousands of Photos Into a Single Imaginary Moment

New York-based artist Pelle Cass turns thousands of images into beautiful time-lapse photographs for his series Selected People. It kind of feels like trick photography, but it takes a discerning eye, a quick trigger finger, and a lot of editing. Here’s how he does it.

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What Happens When You Drop a Red Hot Nickel Ball in a Bowl of Pop Rocks

The allure of Pop Rocks is undeniable. Sure, the whole "fireworks in your mouth" thing is a gimmick, but it’s an awesome one. You know what else is an awesome gimmick? Everybody’s favorite Red Hot Nickel Ball.

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How Life Would Look If the Moon Was as Close to Earth as the ISS

Even though it might not look like much when it’s so far away, the Moon is pretty huge. In fact, if it was a little closer—as close as the ISS for example—it would monopolize the entire sky.

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Learn the Chemical Secrets of Fire in Glorious Slow Motion

Learn the Chemical Secrets of Fire in Glorious Slow Motion

There’s nothing quite like the destructive beauty of fire. And that crimson chemical reaction is even better in slow motion.

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Stan Lee Explains the Ludicrous “Science” Behind Superheroes

Superheroes don’t make a lot of scientific sense. They’re better than science; that’s half the fun. But you’ve gotta try and keep a little believability in there, and Stan Lee explains exactly how to do it.

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Watch Music Make Paint Dance Like You’ve Never Seen Before

Music is an experience, they say. A great song can serve as a time machine to send you to a particular moment, a specific feeling, a certain memory. You might hear music but you can also see it, feel it and touch it. Touch it? Well, yeah, if you’re filling a speaker with paint to make music dance in breathtaking slow motion.

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