These 15 GIFs Prove Science Is More Amazing Than Fiction

Warning: Don’t try some of these things at home.

1. This is what happens when you cut a water droplet using a superhydrophobic knife on a surface that doesn’t get wet.

Arizona State University/Sploid / Via journals.plos.org

2. This is the view from the Soyuz capsule, the spacecraft that takes astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS), as it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere.

NASA / Via youtube.com

3. This is what vibrating guitar strings look like up close (captured using a rolling shutter effect).

Andy Nicolai / Via youtube.com

4. This is how Astronaut Koichi Wakata rides a flying carpet in space.

AFP News / Via youtube.com

5. This is what happens when you light a CD and blow on it.

Science Videos / Via youtube.com

6. This is what happens when you stuff an orange full of fireworks.

Michael Hession/ Slo Mo Lab / Via youtube.com

7. This is what happens when cardinal fish eat ostracod plankton. Ostracods produce bioluminescence so that the fish spits them out.

BBC / Via bbc.co.uk

8. This is what happens when you mix Russell pit viper snake venom with human blood.

BBC / Via youtube.com

9. These Neodymium magnets spark when they collide in a blender.

Blendtec / Via youtube.com

10. These Astronauts put a GoPro camera inside a floating ball of water in space.

NASA / Via youtube.com

11. These magnets can attract cereal.

Omar Kardoudi / Via sploid.gizmodo.com

12. This is what you see when a GoPro is strapped to the back of a lioness while she’s hunting prey.

GoPro / Via youtube.com

13. This is what happens when you crack an egg 60 feet below the surface of the ocean.

Live Science / Via youtube.com

14. Airplanes look like shooting stars in this time lapse of an airport.

Milton Tan / Via youtube.com

15. This bot fly from Belize emerges from a scientist’s skin after he let them incubate inside of him.

Piotr Naskecki / Via thesmallermajority.com

Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/natashaumer/these-15-gifs-prove-science-is-more-amazing-than-fiction

RIP: Comedy legend Jonathan Winters has passed away

http://twitter.com/#!/Sullivan_Smith/status/322753394055999488

TMZ reports that Winters passed away last night. He was 87.

aw. I always liked Jonathan Winters. RIP

— Matthew Smith (@kyleo71) April 12, 2013

@TMZ: Jonathan Winters Dead at 87 http://t.co/SvGqXlBVK2 #Breaking” Ohhh RIP! So talented

— KC (@wyrkyrgyrl) April 12, 2013

RIP Mr. Comedy and collector of "Gar-Bage" … Jonathan Winters

— mcbc (@mcbc) April 12, 2013

Jonathan Winters was a comedy god when I was a kid. Everybody who does improv today should burn their B-material in his honor.

— Bigshotprof (@thebigshotprof) April 12, 2013

Fare well, Jonathan Winters. Few people made laugh harder when I was a kid.

— John Hayward (@Doc_0) April 12, 2013

Oh crap Jonathan Winters died. RIP kind sir.

— Masked Scheduler (@maskedscheduler) April 12, 2013

Dang. RT @iowahawkblog: Comedy genius. RIP. RT @TMZ Jonathan Winters Dead at 87 http://t.co/4fEPKl6ScE #Breaking

— Drew Cline (@DrewHampshire) April 12, 2013

Ah, goodbye, Jonathan Winters. You were way ahead of your time.

— Always David Hahn™ (@David_Hahn) April 12, 2013

Made me laugh as a kid in Mork and Mindy but when I got older I learned how funny he really was. R.I.P. Jonathan Winters. One of the greats.

— Mike Gianella (@MikeGianella) April 12, 2013

When he was on 'The Jack Paar Show,' #JonathanWinters would make Dad & me laugh so hard that we cried. Winters was brilliant.

— Bobby Rivers (@BobbyRiversTV) April 12, 2013

https://twitter.com/Zirgar/status/322753289089327105

TMZ is reporting Jonathan Winters is dead. Much sadness for a very funny man.

— Tom Lovett (@tomlovett01) April 12, 2013

Damn. Really sorry to hear that Jonathan Winters has passed. One of my favorite comics ever.

— Brevet Captain (@BrevetCaptain) April 12, 2013

#RIP Jonathan Winters. Comedy loses a legend.

— Orny Adams (@Ornyadams) April 12, 2013

RIP Jonathan Winters. Met him a few times, God that guy was funny! Playing the big room upstairs now!

— BIG FOOT (@BIGFOOOOT) April 12, 2013

Awww RIP Jonathan Winters.. Your comedic style will never be repeated #OneInAMillion

— Charlotte Autry (@CharlotteAutry) April 12, 2013

RIP Jonathan Winters. Remember watching you in "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World" when I was a kid. So very, very, very funny.

— David Crockett (@davidcrockett08) April 12, 2013

Our thoughts and prayers are with his loved ones. Rest in peace.

Jonathan Winters–Gas Station Scene from It's A Mad Mad World #RIP http://t.co/roy5O32ueq

— olliander (@ollieblog) April 12, 2013

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/04/12/rip-comedy-legend-jonathan-winters-has-passed-away/

David Limbaugh spots ‘good omen'; See how Dana Loesch is part of it [pic]

http://twitter.com/#!/nofrieschip/status/508973848625434625

Buzzkill!

Author David Limbaugh spotted what he thinks is a good omen for his book launch:

http://twitter.com/#!/DavidLimbaugh/status/508971613124308992

Ha! No good omen needed: There is already much praise for Limbaugh’s latest book, “Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel.”

http://twitter.com/#!/michellemalkin/status/508983870377959424

Awesome.

Dana Loesch is readying for her own launch:

http://twitter.com/#!/Janihall58/status/508979317150195713

Yes!

Don’t forget to watch, Twitchy readers:

http://twitter.com/#!/DLoesch/status/508975376853651456

Related:

Twitchy coverage of Dana Loesch

Twitchy coverage of David Limbaugh

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/09/08/david-limbaugh-spots-good-omen-for-his-book-launch-see-how-dana-loesch-is-part-of-it-photo/

‘Second look at child rape’ writer plays victim, says Romney insulted women

http://twitter.com/#!/CAwkward/status/373692222232752129

On Friday, the Washington Post published a morally bankrupt, stomach-turning puddle of click-bait calling for an end to the “fantasy that a high school student can’t consent to sex” with her teacher. See, writer Betsy Karasik was once a 14-year-old girl who knew other teens having “sexual relations with teachers.” And while “some feelings probably got bruised, no one I knew was horribly damaged and certainly no one died,” she insisted.

Anyway, you know who the real victim is here? Betsy Karasik, natch.

http://twitter.com/#!/PaintsNature/status/373654746730463233

http://twitter.com/#!/PaintsNature/status/373660920817262592

http://twitter.com/#!/PaintsNature/status/373706406781652992

Isn’t she brave for wading into the “shit storm,” faux victimhood on full display?

http://twitter.com/#!/PaintsNature/status/373641903985532928

Oh, we read the whole revolting thing. Should we have picked up on more nuance in an op-ed lobbying for decriminalization of child rape? Was the takeaway supposed to be something other than the normalization of sexual abuse?

Karasik will, of course, say that we’re distorting her words. Reminder: Those words appeared in a piece titled “Sex between students and teachers should not be a crime.” She now claims that title “skews the piece” — a piece that argues “consensual sexual activity between teachers and students should not be criminalized.”

http://twitter.com/#!/PaintsNature/status/373824289905995776

Really? It’s not, say, her broken moral compass that “skews the piece”? Karasik cites the example of a 54-year-old male convicted of “sexual intercourse without consent” with a female student. She was 14 years old at the time of the rape and later took her own life.

But hey, let’s let Betsy unskew:

http://twitter.com/#!/PaintsNature/status/373825307645448192

Oh, sure. Asking if there’s a better way to deal with predators than punishing them for child-rape is a much less vile approach.

WaPo has since changed the title to “The unintended consequences of laws addressing sex between teachers and students.” Presumably that’s a Betsy-approved headline.

More hole-digging clarification from Karasik:

http://twitter.com/#!/PaintsNature/status/373655750104457216

http://twitter.com/#!/PaintsNature/status/373656005835382784

She’s against “rape,” just, y’know, not if you go by the definition shared by everyone with a smidgen of decency.

http://twitter.com/#!/PaintsNature/status/373677485319135232

She also retweeted this:

http://twitter.com/#!/chicagostyle/status/373662998801297408

A 14-year-old girl can “consent” to sex with a man more than three times her age? The pedophile/sex offender lobby thanks you for your service, Betsy.

Her playing of the victim card isn’t surprising considering where she sits politically.

http://twitter.com/#!/PaintsNature/status/39095934784770048

Oh. Hell. No.

http://twitter.com/#!/PaintsNature/status/248200049685852160

Forgive us if we don’t give this gutter-dwelling lefty rape apologist the time of day when she wants to screech about a War on Women waged by Mitt Romney and the GOP. Feminists, she’s all yours.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/08/31/second-look-at-child-rape-writer-plays-the-victim-thinks-romney-insulted-women/

‘Not a cage match': Ted Cruz calls out CNBC moderators [video]

During a debate that was largely dominated by the moderators and their own opinions, Sen. Ted Cruz won huge cheers from the audience when he confronted them directly and alleged that they’re the reason the people don’t trust the media.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2015/10/28/not-a-cage-match-ted-cruz-wins-cheers-for-calling-out-cnbc-moderators-video/

Apple breaking away from Google Maps?

http://twitter.com/#!/terrinakamura/status/178503019678273536

Gizmodo:

Over the past few years, Apple’s quietly put together a heathy little stable of mapping companies. No products have come of them thus far but key acquisitions have given Apple the mapping muscle to, at the very least, power some peripheral features on its own—even if for now that still means using Google Maps as its main backbone.

Last year, Apple picked up C3 Technologies, which specializes in hyper-realistic 3D mapping. The previous two years it was Placebace, a company that customizes and overlays information on maps, and Poly9, which is a lot like Google Earth.

Those companies give Apple a solid foundation, but none really operates on the scale of Google Maps. They’re fancy carburetors, deluxe exhaust systems, but Google Maps has been the only engine really capable of driving a high-powered maps app. Until now.

Veeeeeeeeeeeeery innnnnnnnnteresting. If you’re a nerd.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/03/10/apple-breaking-away-from-google-maps/