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.
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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.
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3. This is what vibrating guitar strings look like up close (captured using a rolling shutter effect).
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4. This is how Astronaut Koichi Wakata rides a flying carpet in space.
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5. This is what happens when you light a CD and blow on it.
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6. This is what happens when you stuff an orange full of fireworks.
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7. This is what happens when cardinal fish eat ostracod plankton. Ostracods produce bioluminescence so that the fish spits them out.
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8. This is what happens when you mix Russell pit viper snake venom with human blood.
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9. These Neodymium magnets spark when they collide in a blender.
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10. These Astronauts put a GoPro camera inside a floating ball of water in space.
NASA / Via youtube.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
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