Awesome Videos

“The Meat Planet was formed 15 billion years ago, when an early god exploded or something at 40,000 mph.” Darren Cullen & Mark Tolson remixed Carl Sagan’s lines from Cosmos to create this hilarious profile of The Meat Planet.

A laser pointer times 10,000, this incredibly powerful 5 Kilowatt device by TWI can be used for making quick work of metal demolition and decommissioning work. Now if we can just get one with a backpack power supply…

Star Wars’ March Madness is a fan voting character tournament. Until 3/17, you can Predict the Madness by creating your own bracket. The most accurate brackets get a chance to win a prize from Sideshow Collectibles.

Caffeine Creations baked and ate a cake while hooked up to a TENS machine – a gadget that’s supposed to relieve pain via low intensity electrocution. Its medical value is dubious, but its comedic value? Proven. Captions available.

An adaptation of Mike Lacher’s legendary tale… about the time he fixed his girlfriend’s grandparent’s Internet connection. Narrated by none other than H. Jon Benjamin (Archer, Bob’s Burgers) and animated by Jesse Benjamin.

Seinfeld is known as the “show about nothing.” However, LJ Frezza must have misheard it, because he turned the sitcom into a show about no one. Seinfeld meets 28 Days Later in this hilarious, sad, and creepy supercut.

Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee is challenging enough to play on a musical instrument, so when we stumbled onto opera singer Malena Ernman performing the song with her voice, we were speechless.

Infiniti Red Bull Racing drivers Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo go over the adjustments they made to their Formula One car in response to the 2014 rule changes, which focus on fuel efficiency and safety.

(NSFW: Language) You’ll come close to wetting yourself more than once as these drivers, riders, pedestrians and other lucky souls each come within inches of certain doom, yet somehow manage to avoid their fates.

A fascinating look at the Leidenfrost effect, in which heated water droplets move towards each other and coalesce, as well as scenarios in which water droplets can actually climb uphill, or even be self-propelled along a pre-arranged path.

YouTuber MonsieurCaron recreated The Simpsons’ couch gag three times in this stop-motion animation. He mixed and matched pieces and minifigures from the LEGO The Simpsons set and The LEGO Movie sets to create the mashup.

While it’s a sound that owes a ton of credit to Stevie Wonder and Zapp & Roger, we have to say we’re extremely impressed with this funky demo of a talkbox with a Moog Little Phatty synth by Steveland Swatkins of Excellent Gentlemen.

James Risner put together 241 model train cars powered by nine model train engines to create this mesmerizing – and noisy! – spiral. Forget about Soft Kitty; this should be Sheldon’s goodnight lullaby.

(NSFW: Language) The Eclectic Method samples the memorable chest thumping chant scenes in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. It’s just another feather in the cap of Matthew McConaughey. HMMM HMMM!

Mental Floss’ John Green fills us in on a variety of tidbits and odd facts behind the kids’ shows we all know and love. They really should bring Schoolhouse Rock back – with actual rock bands. And Whoopass Girls was a great name.

You find yourself walking at the same exact speed as another person on the sidewalk, and something just feels off. In their short film, Daniel Koren and Vania Heymann do a brilliant job capturing this inner thought many of us share.

Youtuber Stuntbear puts our first-world whining into perspective, contrasting actual complaints from Domino’s Pizza Australia’s Facebook page with images of real problems we should care about. It’s funny, but also quite depressing.

YouTuber Ben C was looking at pictures of a swimsuit model when he realized that she seemed to be ready to get the party goin’ on the dance floor. Memorize the steps, summon Technotronic and pump up the jam.

Want to hang out with Arnold and crush stuff in his M47 Patton? Each $10+ donation to After School All-Stars via Omaze earns you a raffle ticket. The winner gets a trip to LA to unwind with Schwarzenegger. Contest ends 3/14.

(NSFW: Language) Simple Misfits avenged decent drivers all around the world. He looked for double-parked cars and sprayed non-permanent paint on them. Then he recorded the offenders’ reactions with a parabolic mic.

A man tries to correct his half-shaved beard after his electric razor runs out of juice, turning to an unconventional resource to correct the common grooming mishap. An amusing CGI animated short by Florent Rubio and Xin Zhao.

Creation clashes with destruction in this amazing stop-motion video made by Oh Yeah Wow. It serves a music video for Elliot The Bull’s single Colourblind. Whether or not you like the song, the animation is top notch.

(Gross) Travis Newaza made his opponent quit at a jiu-jitsu competition, but not because of a throw or a submission hold. Travis accidentally (?) passed gas while his ass was right by his opponent’s face. So… did he advance?