Awesome Videos

We’ve seen a laser vaporize rubber off of metal. Here’s another mesmerizing display of the beam’s mighty cleaning power. Watch as Laser Age’s machine makes grime disappear from a baking tray, leaving no residue behind.

In this supercut of footage of the late, great astrophysicist Carl Sagan, we’re reminded just how small we are by the seemingly countless times he said million, billion, trillion, or quadrillion during the 13-episode run of the original Cosmos.

This kid managed to get his head stuck between the bars of a gate. A man tries to help the kid get free by gently pulling him back, but has no luck. But the kid came up with a, shall we say, more straightforward solution.

This street performer starts out with a solid demonstration of his pickle-tub drumming skills, but amps things up to percussion level 9000 when he busts out a lightning-fast, single-handed drumroll at the end.

Stuntman Damien Walters shows off more of his incredible athleticism, gymnastic skills and the giant size of his balls in this compilation he posted to celebrate hitting 500,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

Oklahoma City Thunder centers Nick Collison and Steven Adams recently showed off their secret handshake on TV. It’s not filled with dozens of daps or complicated sequences. In fact, it’s just the opposite. KD seems used to it.

Artist Michael Grab creates beautiful, yet temporary sculptures by precariously balancing found stones upon one another. In this soothing and hypnotic video, he revisits some of the sculptures he created in 2014.

Tower climber Kevin Schmidt scales a 1500ft inactive TV tower in Salem, South Dakota, then takes a well-deserved selfie at the top. Amazing footage by PrairieAerial. Imagine if you left something you needed at the bottom.

YouTuber Miran Dilberovic captures the past year in Formula One with this intense highlight reel. See the thrills, skills, heartbreaks, escapes, winners and losers of F1 2014 set to Ctrl-Z’s remix of Dies Irae.

Madman Joerg Sprave is back with another insane weapon build. This time, he’s taken four cap-firing revolvers and mounted them to a spinning rig powered by a drill. We can only imagine the carnage if he did this with actual revolvers.

To demonstrate the abilities of the 2015 Cherokee, Jeep sent unsuspecting drivers in downtown Vancouver through a street they dressed to look like a mountainous off-road path, complete with boulders, a stream, and wolves.

Are you sick of Shaq’s corny Gold Bond commercials? This remix will put them in a new light. YouTuber Davy Force worked his magic on the ads and turned them into “a liquidy meltoid vidiboil.”

In darts, the fastest way to get the required points is with just nine darts. This rare feat is akin to a perfect bowling game. At the 2013 World Darts Championship, Michael Van Gerwen nearly did it twice in a row. While drinking beer.

University of Toronto professor Stephen Morris shows how a domino has the potential energy to knock down a domino bigger than itself. String 13 dominoes together, and a 5mm-tall domino can ultimately topple a giant 100lb. slab.

YouTuber Blake Platt shares this public humiliation of a Disney park goer who dared challenge Gaston to a push-up contest. And what is Gaston if not strong and douchey? At least he didn’t challenge Beast to a fight.

Carsandwater took one of those giant-size gummi bears and shot it with a 12-gauge shotgun. Then he froze it with liquid nitrogen and tried again. Why? Internet. We think Mythbusters should start using these instead of ballistic gel dummies.

We’re not sure what’s going on with this kitty, but she seems to have a bit of a problem climbing up onto the bed. Of course if your cat is one of those who likes to claw your eyeballs out while you’re sleeping, this isn’t the worst thing.

Director Nuno Barbosa shot this mind-bending video by projection mapping video of musician Emmy Curl back onto herself. The whole video was shot in a single take, without post production. Body paintings by João Tiago Fernandes.

(NSFW) Kevin Lee’s analysis of videos that analyze movies. He bit off more than he could chew though, and his use of sensitive footage is distracting. Still, it’s proof of how the Internet is enabling new forms of critique and teaching.

Ronnie Russell became only the 24th person to achieve a perfect game of bowling on national TV. Ronnie pulled it off at the semifinals of the PBA Chameleon Championship, but ended up losing in the finals to DJ Archer.

(NSFW: Language) Counter-Strike livestreamer Tarik got the surprise of his life in a recent match. You don’t have to be a CS player to understand how doomed he was. One of his opponents even claims it wasn’t purely intentional.

Football fans will remember this year’s Cotton Bowl for its unlikely ending. But the rest of the world will know that game as the one where they saw a man’s soul leave his body. We sincerely hope Baylor kicker Chris Callahan is okay.

The Price is Right closed 2014 with two contestants who clearly had no right to be on the show. Watch as dumb and dumber here guess what an iPhone 6 costs. They must have thought, “It must cost more than that swanky hammock!”