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LEGO Bricks Are Surprisingly Resistant to Slow Motion Explosions

Those crazy Slow-Mo guys are destroying anything they can possibly get their hands on this week. Today, it’s a house made from LEGO. And though explosions are almost always a delicious visual treat,...

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American Farms Can’t Seem to Keep Their Pig Shit from Exploding

Pig farming is tough, foul-smelling, and dirty work. Turns out, that’s the good part of it. See, since 2009 the American pig farming industry has been struck with an explosive pork poop problem—in that...

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Watch China’s Longest-Ever Raised Motorway Demolition Fall Like Dominoes

Given the fevered pace of China’s infrastructure development, 16 years is ancient. That’s why the two-lane concrete Zhuan-yang viaduct running through the town of Wuhan, Hubei in central China had to...

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How to Make Your Own Self-Destructing Laptop That Blows Up

When a laptop or a phone blows up it’s usually because of some dangerous exploding battery. But what if you want to make a laptop self destruct and blow up on its own? You’ll have to make something...

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This Slow-Mo Test Tube Explosion Barks Like a Guard Dog of Fire

It’s one thing when a dog barks; it’s another one entirely when a giant pipe full of fire does it. And it’s even better in slow motion. “The Barking Dog” is a pretty standard science experiement you...

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Watch Your Step: London’s Pavements Are Literally Exploding Beneath Our Feet

It seems our streets are no longer safe. But it’s not the muggers and murderers we have to worry about, it’s the pavements themselves. According to figures obtained by the BBC, the number of...

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Microwaving a Highlighter Is So Dumb But Looks So Impossibly Cool

Ever wonder what happens when you nuke a highlighter? Neither have we, but Redditor opticreason has us all covered with an incredible mid-splosion shot that’ll make you want to go ruin your microwave....

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That Massive Russian Rocket Explosion Was Caused by Stupid Dense Humans

Last week a Russian rocket called Proton-M exploded over a spaceport in Kazakhstan just seconds after it launched. Turns out, we can blame some dumb humans for the blast—investigators found that the...

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Here’s a Scary Lightning Strike Exploding Some Power Lines

Remember how your mum/dad/legal guardian/leader of your gang of street urchins used to tell you not to stand near telephone poles in a storm? Yeah, there was a reason for that. And as you can see in...

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Behold the Molten Glory of Thermite in Slow Motion

Thermite is one of the most ridiculously dangerous and completely awesome pyro concoctions out there. We’ve already seen it completely devour a laptop, and what could be better than that? Thermite...

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An Alleged Samsung Galaxy S4 Explosion Completely Destroyed This Apartment

It’s one thing if your phone bursts into flames and cooks up your leg-meat real bad, but that’s nothing compared to losing your whole apartment in an inferno. That’s exactly what a Hong Kong man claims...

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Inflatable Mattress Explosion Trashes Man’s House

A German man treated himself to an inflatable mattress upon moving into a new house, only to discover his advanced new sleeping solution had a puncture. He then bought one of those spay aerosol things...

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Watch a Red Hot Nickel Ball Destroy a Box of Crayons

Watching the Red Hot Nickel Ball destroy various materials just never gets old. So here’s a Red Hot Ball of Nickel turning a box of crayons into a rainbow of destruction. The spectacle pretty much...

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Why Don’t All Gadget Teardowns End In an Explosion?

We’ve seen your typical, sterile, tiny-screwdriver-filled teardown of Nvidia’s Shield that showed there’s actually a lot crammed in there. But Nvidia decided to do a teardown of its own that’s just a...

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Watch These Giant Bubbles Exploding in Slow Motion

There are few better sentences than one that includes the words “giant”, “bubbles”, “exploding” and “slow motion”. Well, there’s one thing better: a video that fits that sentence. Put together by Joey...

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Blowing Up Pumpkins with C4 and Detonating Cords Seems Way More Fun

What do you call the Halloween equivalent of being a Christmas Grinch? Because whatever it is, that’s what I am now. Gone are the happy days of trick or treating and dressing up in clever costumes and...

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Blowing Up a Building In Slo-Mo Is a Great Way To Start the Month

Is there a better way to ring in November than watching a controlled explosion? Sure there is, if said explosion was captured by a Phantom Flex high-speed camera at 2,500 fps. The Slow Mo Guys are back...

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Super Sad Guy Watches Hindenburg Show, and Tries To Blow His House Up

Gotta feel bad for this guy: a Pennsylvania man who’d hit some very hard times wanted to end it all in a fiery blaze after watching a TV show about the Hindenburg crash. He’s still alive, but the...

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6 Chemical Reaction GIFs That Will Make You a Smarter Person

Remember how much fun your secondary school chemistry class was? Neither do we. But that may be because there weren’t enough explosions. Well, nowadays, the internet can fix that problem in a jiffy—or...

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These Slo-Mo Ornament Explosions Are Like Christmas Fireworks

The 5th of November is great, but every holiday is improved by explosions. Every. Holiday. And slow motion? Even better. So here, for your post-Yuletide pleasure, are some Christmas baubles blowing up...

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