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global headtags -- adtag init -- Earn NeatoPoints! Hello, ! ( logout ) sign up | login ≡ ← Home Upcoming Submit NEW FEATURE: VOTE & EARN NEATOPOINTS! Submit your own post and vote for others' posts to earn NeatoPoints that you can redeem for T-shirts, hoodies and more over at the NeatoShop! 6 A Stroke of Luck? Franzified • 4 hours ago When this kid tried to strike a golf ball for the first time, he just made it move a few centimeters away from its original position. But on his second strike, however, something amazing happened — an event that could be considered as just dumb luck or pure talent. Watch the video on Reddit . Well, what do you think? Was this kid lucky, or is he a prodigy? (Image Credit: u/disobsidious/ Reddit) 0 6 Reviewing The Combat In Ghost of Tsushima Franzified • 4 hours ago Ghost of Tsushima is a video game released on the PS4 on July 17. The game is set in late 13th-century Japan and revolves around a man named Jin Sakai, a samurai who lives on Tsushima Island. The game is highly praised for its smooth combat. But how realistic is the game when it comes to its combat system? How strong is the playable character’s samurai stances? Japanese sword expert Daniel Ebihara takes a peek at the combat system of one of the most anticipated games this year. See his analysis of the game in this video. (Video Credit: BuzzFeed Multiplayer/ YouTube) 0 8 The Relocation of the Abu Simbel Temples Miss Cellania • 4 hours ago Ramesses II of Egypt left many architectural wonders behind, including two temples built into rock cliffs near the village of Abu Simbel. The problem was that these 3,300-year-old Egyptian treasures lay in what would become Lake Nasser when the Aswan High Dam was built. Egyptian authorities approached UNESCO for a plan to save the temples by moving them to a new location. Moving the massive solid-rock temples would not be simple. Work began in November 1963. First, a cofferdam was erected around Abu Simbel in order to gain additional time in which to work on the temples while water was collecting in the Aswan dam’s reservoir. The greatest care was needed while cutting up the stones. Power saws could not be used because they made the cuts too wide—anything wider than 8 millimeters would have been visible when the blocks were put back together. Instead, hand saws and steel wires were used to slice up the rocks into blocks each 20 to 30 tons in weight. In the end, the larger temple yielded 807 blocks and the smaller one 235. Once cut, each block was coated to protect it against splitting and fracturing during transport. The new site was located about 200 meters further inland and 65 meters higher up. Before reassembly could begin, an artificial hill was created using some 330,000 cubic meters of rock to resemble the natural stony hill against which the temples stood at the original site. Then the blocks were put back together with extreme precision, secured to one another with reinforcement bars and the joints filled with an artificial material. Care was taken to maintain the temple’s original alignment to the cardinal directions, so that the rays of the sun would continue to penetrate the sanctuary and illuminate the sculptures on the back wall during certain hours of the spring and autumn. Read how the stone temples of Abu Simbel were cut, moved, and reassembled at their new home at Amusing Planet. (Image credit: Per-Olow Anderson ) 1 7 Popcorn in Extreme Slow Motion Miss Cellania • 4 hours ago Get up close and detailed with a kernel of popcorn as it heats up. When the moisture inside turns to steam, the pressure it exerts causes the tough shell to violently burst open, so that the starch inside can freely expand. In this video, the process is seen slower and slower until you have a sequence filmed at 100,000 frames per second, which gives us a long view. We can see how the underside of the kernel is always where the rupture comes, because that's where the heat is. There's enough force to hurtle the kernel into the air as it does its thing. Oh yeah, the popcorn video is only two minutes long. -via Digg 1 8 Coffee Kings of the Old West Miss Cellania • 4 hours ago We've often said that the real winners of the California Gold Rush were not the gold prospectors, but those who sold goods and services to the prospectors and miners. That was certainly the case for 14-year-old James Folger, who arrived in California in 1850 with his older brothers Henry and Edward. James was ready to jump at an opportunity, which in his case, took the form of coffee. By the time they reached the West Coast, they were nearly broke. James agreed to earn money in the city while his older brothers traveled north to pan for gold. James had worked as a carpenter since he was 11, so it was a natural move for him to take a job with William H. Bovee, a 27- year-old transplanted New Yorker who wanted to create a spice and coffee mill. They decided to build it in the heart of San Francisco, just six blocks from the waterfront. James constructed the first wind-powered mill using sails from whaling ships abandoned in the harbor by sailors eager to get to the goldfields. Bovee’s company became the Pioneer Steam Coffee and Spice Mills. Bovee had run a coffee-roasting business in New York; even there, pre-roasted coffee had been a luxury. Since the mining country offered a huge potential market for men desperate to get easy-to-fix coffee, he figured he and young James were the men to supply it. James traveled to the goldfields in 1851, carrying samples of Pioneer Coffee, sealed in tins. He managed to make one major strike, which provided him with enough capital to set up a country store at a camp called Yankee Jim’s. Four years later, 18-year-old James sold the store for a profit, returned to San Francisco and resumed his role as a partner in Pioneer Mills. In 1859 Bovee sold his interest in the coffee company to James, who bought out the other partners and renamed the firm the James A. Folger Company. Read the rest of that story, and also how John Arbuckle Jr. made a name for himself providing coffee to cowboys in Texas and the Southwest during the rise of the cattle industry, at HistoryNet. -Thanks, WTM! (Image credit: JA Folger Co. ) 1 7 A Polychromatic Cybertruck Could Be Available Soon Franzified • 11 hours ago The excitement for Tesla’s Cybertruck has once again reignited as Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed that the color of the truck’s surface could be changed using heated colors. This alternative uses different temperatures to affect the metal’s chemical coloring, creating a spectrum of color possibilities from yellow to red and blue. It is still unclear from Musk's tweets whether the color modifications would be an aftermarket job or whether tesla could offer it themselves. We hope to hear more as the Cybertruck edges closer to production – currently slated to hit the market in late 2021. Man, that would be so cool to see on the road ! What are your thoughts about this one? (Image Credit: Twitter ) 1 6 A Proposal Unlike Any Other Franzified • 11 hours ago Nueva Ecija, Philippines — Richmond Perez, along with his girlfriend, Sandra, had been waiting to spot the comet in the night sky for five days. Eventually, the sky cleared out, and they were able to see the comet. And… As Comet NEOWISE shot across the night sky, Richmond Perez went down on one knee and asked to marry his girlfriend Sandra, and she said yes — for the second time . When they were taking photos of the comet, Sandra was surprised when her fiance proposed anew during the once in a lifetime opportunity. "Finally Lord allows us to see this once in a lifetime event. Thank you Lord for these two wonderful creation in front of my eyes," Richmond said. Now that’s a proposal unlike any other. (Image Credit: Richmond Perez/ GMA News ) 1 7 The Type of Person Who Does Not Learn From His Mistakes Franzified • 14 hours ago This person believes that he is better than others, he doesn’t take advice from ot...