Being alive right now is incredible, and sometimes the present is stranger than fiction.
For instance, this four-alarm fire in Chicago a few weeks back at a factory that makes fire
extinguishers.
Or this new liquid-based 3D printing process that is straight out of a James Cameron film
and a hundred times faster than modern 3D printing.
Or how about this doctor on the left who saved the life of a three-pound premature baby boy?
That boy grows up to be the firefighter on the right who saves the life of the doctor
thirty years later.
This planet is filled with everyday wonders like this tiny town in western France that
is turned into an island by a supertide once every eighteen years.
So mark your calendars for 2033.
There's just so many different ways to see the world.
This garden is photographed in infrared.
It looks really odd, but if you think about it, if infrared was the only way that we
could see, this would look strange.
Thanks to some genius with a stabilizing filter, we can finally tell that it's just some guy
in an apesuit.
Or is it?
If you do ever happen to get struck by lightning and survive, you might wind up with a great
scar like this as a souvenir.
This is the edge of a Viking suburb from a thousand years ago.
This is the edge of a Las Vegas suburb in 2015.
And this, this is just somewhere on earth looking astonishing.
Let's take it back to France.
There is a pollution problem in Paris, so the mayor made the subways free with zero
hesitation.
Costa Rica, on the other hand, has run its entire country on renewable energy for seventy-five
days straight, giving us a peek into the future and bringing joy to its citizens.
This is Elon Musk, an inventor who says that driving will be illegal in a decade.
And I say, the sooner the better, whatever we can do to prevent this.
No one is looking at the road anymore.
It's a lion and a cat scan.
And on March 28, two cosmonauts and one astronaut took off to be in space for an entire year.
And lift off, the year in space starts now, Kelly Cornyenko-Pedaka on their way towards
the International Space Station.
Check out these heroes.
They're going five thousand miles an hour, and this guy gives a thumbs up.
Geez, what was I doing on March 28?
It's the beginning of spring, 2015.
