Árverésre megy a magyar Star Wars-relikviák Szent Grálja
Minimum 5850 dollárt, azaz több mint másfél millió forintot kell kicsengetnie annak, aki szeretné egyben – afféle sci-fi triptichonként – magáénak tudni Helényi Tibor, a 2014-ben elhunyt festőművész három leghíresebb plakátjának eredeti terveit.
This Is a Photo of an Osprey Aircraft, Not a Moody Painting
Here’s another military photo which totally looks like a painting. This picture of an Osprey tiltrotor aircraft landing on a dusty airfield in Romania may have been retouched in Photoshop, but it still looks beautiful.
How an Apocalyptic Scifi Novel Imagined the Future 122 Years Ago
La Fin du Monde (The End of the World), is a 19th century science fiction novel about a comet colliding with the Earth, followed by several million years leading up to the gradual death of the planet. The book was written by French astronomer and author Camille Flammarion, first published in 1893, and adapted into…
Chainsaw ice skating looks both fun and insanely dangerous
When I saw this video of Swedish skier Erik Sunnerheim zooming over the ice while carving with a chainsaw two thoughts popped into my mind: At first I though it was super fun and wanted to try it right away but then, all the things that could go wrong started to pile up in my brain taking the shape of a giant nope.
The restored HD video of the Atlas missile explosion is amazing to watch
The guys at AtomCentral uploaded this video depicting the failed test of the Atlas missile back in 1961. The footage—scanned to HD from the original film—shows the rocket exploding in an epic and mesmerizing slow motion that would make Michael Bay drool.
The mesmerizing ballet of container ships moving around a shipping dock
What's great about this time lapse that shows a container ship moving around a dock is that it's not doing anything special and yet, the carefully orchestrated ballet of dropping off shipping containers is almost hypnotizing to watch. You get to follow the ship from dock to dock and see other boats move around it too.