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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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. These magnets can attract cereal.

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

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

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

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