For the last few years, NASA physicist Harold White and his team have been working on the design for a faster than light speed spaceship. A recent collaboration with artist Mark Rademaker has yielded the visuals for an updated model, a ship nestled at the center of two enormous rings, which create the ‘warp bubble’.
White discusses the concept and the ship in the above video (starting at around 42:00 if you want to cut straight to the chase)
Naturally, it’s called Enterprise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jg1Qyz0Jus
No, not a spoof viral for an upcoming zombie apocalypse flick but the gleeful and terrifying promo for armament developer G2 Research’s new and highly controversial Radically Invasive Projectile, the G2 RIP, released early this year – a bullet featuring tiny knife-like ‘trocars’ that penetrate and shred flesh.
Initially marketed at women in the home as a ‘one-shot man-stopper’, it’s designed to take out ‘all vital organs’, creating a massive exit wound in the process.
(H/T: Andrew Sheridan)
Ethereal, virtually silent first-person footage of surfer Benji Brand doing his thing (first in slomo, then at normal speed) in Namibia’s Skeleton Bay.
As an exceptional example of sustained wave riding, gnarl-heads the world over are touting it as the finest first person surf video to date.
You be the judge.
The trailer for the upcoming zommer Dead Island 2, produced by Axis Animation set to “The Bomb” by Pigeon John.
Word has it, it’s an improvement on its predecessor, which also launched with an impressive trailer back in 2011.
E3 2014: Dead Island 2 is a Less Serious, More Carefree Form of Zombie Bashing (E3)
Cinefix celebrates the 10th anniversary of Mean Girls with an 8/16 bit animated video game written and directed by David Dutton.
Domino nut FlippyCat deftly links 35 separate domino cascades (each listed in the video description) together into a single wonderful sequence. Sez he:
I set out to create a domino screen link showing the many stunts from Domino Rally toy sets I’ve collected over the years. After a lot of time and effort to make these things work, this is the result!
HuffPost’s follow-up to their cinematic tribute to the ass – a supercut of the most memorable euphemisms for, you know, the thingie.
Bruce Campbell (no, not that Bruce Campbell) is a retired engineer who has transformed a decommissioned Boeing 727 fuselage into a home in the 10-acre woods he owns outside Portland Oregon. He paid $220,000 for the plane – about ten times the cost of the land on which it rests, propped up on concrete plinths.
Bruce, who lives in Japan for half the year, is currently seeking a 747 body for a similar conversion project there.
