Birds with human arms 😂

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Synchronized marching in white uniforms makes for a trippy visual

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The UPS guy left me a note

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Seems like gravity was taking a break for a second there

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There is a pleasing symmetry to this maneuver

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Perfectly executed bike flip

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RC car racing pit stop

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Craigslist find: claims 50 MPG with the beefy tires. Yours for only ~$14k

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Clouds rolling over the Rock of Gibraltar

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Gyroscopes can do some improbable things

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Summer skiing in the ‘80s

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Coming in from the top rope

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Aerial view of Suloszowa, a small village in Poland

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Using vertical water cannons to reduce dust and debris from building demolition

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TIL Moroccan goats like to hangout in trees

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Demolition of an entire city block in downtown New York, one floor at a time. Implosion was not an option because the site (One Vanderbilt) is across the street from Grand Central Terminal

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World record biscuit dunk

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Skiing on grass

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Hippopotamus table

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Chariot racing with dual V-twin Harley Davidsons at the 1933 Police and Fireman’s Carnival. Yes, this was in Australia

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Death Diving exists

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The extra cup of salsa that came with my takeout order

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Hospital ship next to an aircraft carrier. I had no idea how massive they are!

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Fierljeppen is the Netherlands oldest extreme sport: sprint towards the pole, climb up as high as you can, then try to jump off & land on the sand island on the other side of a waterway

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Installing hair on a doll

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Getting all the angles

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Boring machine cutting a 40-foot diameter tunnel in Miami, Florida

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The smoothest flip

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Explosive Hydroforming is a pretty cool process. You start with a large polygon looking sphere made out of curved plates, the sphere is then filled with water and a small explosive charge, and when you set off the charge, the explosive force of the water forces the sphere into shape

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This colossal anthill covers 50 square meters and goes 8 meters into the earth. Scientists calculated that the ants had removed ~40 tons of dirt to build these tunnels

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A fluffy pink and yellow moth taking flight

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Maybe maybe maybe

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The stairs at the Leaning Tower of Pisa, worn down by countless feet over the centuries

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Watch a Rangoli being drawn - color and symmetry everywhere! Rangoli is a traditional Indian art form dating back ~5,000 years. It means “an array of colours”

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Airsoft sniper gives opponent 3 chances to acknowledge hit, then tags him where he can’t ignore it

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Photo of a hiker watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Adams, about 37 miles to the east. Photo from Mt Adams by John V. Christiansen around 8:32 am local time on May 18, 1980 & published in a 1981 National Geographic magazine.

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Rollover test of self-righting boat. I work in test & evaluation engineering, and I love seeing a successful full-scale test!

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The fastest train in the world hitting 603 km per hour (374 mph), nearly half the speed of sound (~761 mph, or 1100 feet/second)

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Outlaw Jesse James was shot in the back of the head while fixing a picture hanging on his wall by Bob Ford. Ford and his brother, Charley, were pardoned for killing James, but the public viewed them as cowards. So did James’s mother, who authorized the sick burn on his headstone

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After winning the 2019 Mid-Ohio Stadium Super Truck race, rather than do some burnouts or donuts, Robbie Gordon went another way

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Ferrofluid is bizarre stuff

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Paddle boarder: “Hey look, a dolphin!”

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You’ll shoot yer eye out

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Superconducting quantum levitation on a Mobius strip

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Very impressive hang time from this aerialist

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Amazing kites

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Saw this chunky Baja on a dealer’s lot yesterday

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🔥 Hermit crabs, also known as soldier crabs, take part in a great migration en masse annually in August to mate. They travel to the beach, leave their shells and enter the water to lay eggs. After spending ~2 min. in the water, they turn around & return to land and make their way home.

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When engineering controls work: parachute fails and top fuel funny car goes straight into safety net

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40 years ago: Photo of a hiker watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Adams, about 37 miles to the east. Photo: John V. Christiansen around 8:32 AM local time on May 18, 1980. Published in a 1981 National Geographic magazine

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Automated creperie

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Super smooth transition from front to rear wheel

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LEGO machine made for bending pipe cleaners into different shapes

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Four different zoetropes

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Two-factor privacy screen

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Goodyear Blimp assembly time lapse

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An electric unicycle hitting dirt jumps

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My name is Rod and I like to party

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Found this little hellcat from planet kickass on Craigslist in Phoenix: 2002 VW Jetta TDI sedan with Jeep suspension and 29” BFG KO2 tires

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Helicopter drop off at the top of a spire

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My Carhart blanket-lined jacket. At least 15 years old and still going. Best there is for chores and the like

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Alligators are climbing fences now

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Bad job installing carpet

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River rafters in Montenegro

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Wave facility designed to generate 5 distinct wave profiles for surfing

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Who says you can’t push string?

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Shaving wood or wood shaving?

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In 2018 the Barton 1792 Distillery in Kentucky collapsed, destroying ~9,000 barrels of bourbon. Each barrel contains about 53 gallons (200 liters) of liquor, making the total loss more than 470,000 gallons (1.8 million liters) of bourbon

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Work smarter, not harder

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It’s called a Volkspod: a 79cc VW engine inside a modified first generation Beetle fender

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Watch the vibrant colors emerge as these glass items cool down from red hot

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These “snow circles” by artist Sonja Hinrichsen were created in three hours with a team of five people in snow shoes

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Harvesting the fruit of the Jabuticaba tree

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A tiny forest is growing on this rooftop

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Eating is a necessity but cooking is an art

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This is a rather wholesome bumper sticker and one I happily obeyed

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Installing hair on a doll

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Time lapse footage of lava flowing

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Man builds roller coaster in backyard with a full loop

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Giant octopus kites

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Very cool electric foil boat “SeaBubbles” aimed at water taxi market

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The clear space in between these cloud layers

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Imagine having this setup for quarantine

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Freerunning across oddly shaped cement pieces

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Drive-in movie theater in South Bend, Indiana in 1954

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Two rivers coming together

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Expandable camper inside van. Interesting use of the available space

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Just watch the pen

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Toothpick-shooting crossbow with impressive accuracy

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A custom bicycle made to travel on railroad tracks

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Electric mountain bike for wheelchair bound riders

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Balance, precision, and skill...lots of skill

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The sport of “Death Diving” exists

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This smart conveyor system can move and spin objects in multiple directions to arrange them for packing

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Promotional image from Lufthansa's first Boeing 747-200 delivery in 1972 demonstrating the amount of freight that can be loaded into the airplane

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Watching some tennis this weekend. There’s some very cool engineering and measurement technology behind the ball tracking system for in/out calls.

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Dance like nobody’s watching

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Golf boards instead of golf carts. This doesn’t look like a good idea based on the average golfers I’ve seen

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Water, food coloring and antacid take in microgravity

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Ukrainian pastry artist Dinara Kasko creates algorithmically modeled individual cakes

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The mountains are calling and I must go. - a Subaru owner, probably

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We can see how our faces form in the womb using scans taken of a developing embryo

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Whoever you are, I enjoyed eyeballing your Crosstrek. Well done!

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The look on his faces says it all

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Rainbow Leaf Beetle - one of the few insects on the endangered list

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Space Needle

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Which way is up?

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Maybe maybe maybe

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He just tosses the drone overboard and gets an epic shot. Nice catch on the return, too!

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Simple visual explanation of radians

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A dual sport rider taking advantage of a severely damaged road

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Night skiing done right

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This is the Gwangyang Steel Works in Gwangyang, South Korea - the largest facility of its kind in the world. This image is 2 miles (3.2 km) from top to bottom

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Slotted it right in there

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Time lapse of a container ship coming into port and taking on more cargo

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~100 billion tons of water twice a day: The Hopewell Rocks in the Bay of Fundy have one of the highest average tides in the world - up to 16 metres (52 ft)

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Reducing risk with robots: Disney has been developing robots for some of the more dangerous stunts in a show or scene

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Onyx XT - Just put the cargo basket and spare on

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Levitating a frog using a 10 tesla magnetic coil

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🔥Yellowstone National Park’s Grand Prismatic Spring - the deep blue waters at the core are too hot to sustain life

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The Price of Freedom: each gold star represents 100 American service personnel who died or remain missing in World War 2

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Lenticular frosting & color changing cake

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The fruit of the Jabuticaba tree grows directly on the trunk of the tree. The tree is known for its purplish-black, white-pulped fruits which can be eaten raw or be used to make jellies, jams, juice or wine

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[I ate] Traditional Indian sweets

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This is probably my favorite B2 photo

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Watching this ibuprofen capsule dissolve

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Recently, a Douglas DC-6 heading from Fairbanks, AK to Candle, AK with 3 people on board, was on approach to Candle’s runway when the aircraft struck a berm causing damage to the landing gear. The aircraft continued the landing.

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🔥 Rainbow Leaf Beetle - one of the few insects on the endangered list

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🔥 Massive tornado touching down

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Explosive Hydroforming is a pretty cool process. You start with a large polygon looking sphere made out of curved plates, the sphere is then filled with water and a small explosive charge, and when you set off the charge, the explosive force of the water forces the sphere into shape

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Collected some tiny sand dunes on my Outback trunk lid during a long dirt road wander

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Deep sea oil rig in a storm

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This Lego ad from 1981 is exactly right

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Pouring a dozen cups of coffee in about 10 seconds

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Instant balcony where there was none

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Superconducting quantum levitation on a Mobius strip

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The casual mastery of Danny MacAskill is awesome

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Went from green to a satin black wrap with matte black chrome delete - 2020 Outback Onyx XT

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Epic dismount and excellent landing

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High road low road race from Bruce Yeany. I found it to be a cool demonstration of average horizontal velocity.

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In 1954 Ann Hodges was hit by a meteorite. Here she shows the giant bruise on her side & hip after she was struck. She is the only confirmed person in history to have been hit by a meteorite. It crashed through her roof, ricocheted off some furniture and hit her where she was napping under a blanket

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Flexible 3D-printed structures infused with magnetic nanoparticles that shape-shift when exposed to magnetic fields

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Ocean rescue

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Cool shot

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Pregnant seahorse Dads

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Precision gyroscope

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The way this conveyor system moves and spins boxes

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