Video Briefly: Space Lamb Chops, Mean Tweets, Top 5 Pranks Of 2014

Brief video items of note for Lifehacker readers, including: Beyonce’s 7/11 music video, watch a lamb chop float 25,000km above the Earth, amazing Chernobyl drone footage.

  • Filmmaker Danny Cook went earlier this year to Pripyat — an abandoned city near Chernobyl, Ukraine — and captured this amazing footage with drones. It’s the closest that, hopefully, you will ever see to a post-apocalyptic city, 28 years after the catastrophe.
  • Have you ever wondered who would win in a fight between Batman and Darth Vader? Wonder no longer.
  • Click here to watch a lamb chop being launched into space because well, why not?
  • Here’s one that we’re sure Jimmy Kimmel fans have been waiting for: Celebrities Read Mean Tweets #8!
  • With all the gunfights, heist prep and car chases in Grand Theft Auto V, it can be hard to appreciate just how lovely Los Santos is. So, one player decided to stroll through the sprawling West Coast gameworld, all peaceful-like.
  • Pitch Perfect is getting a sequel. Click here for the first trailer.
  • Munchkin the Teddy Bear freaks me out. Here he is getting his daily exercise on a treadmill. Brrr…
  • Here’s the teaser trailer for the next Jurassic Park movie.
  • After three years of trying, the Nintendo 3DS console was finally hacked this week. This video explains how it was done.
  • A bunch of enterprising Aussies just launched the world’s longest zipline roller coaster and it looks terrifyingly awesome. Click here to see it in action.
  • Some people are capable of achieving incredible things. Here are some of the best examples from 2014.
  • This shiny new trailer to EVE Online, featuring the voices of actual players, is a monument to what everyone else is missing out on. Spectacular stuff.
  • While you might already know where you’re headed thanks to the GPS mapping in your phone, there’s still a place for dedicated GPS navigation units. Gizmodo explains.
  • “Imma let you finish, but Beyonce’s 7/11 is one of the best videos of all time! Of all time!”
  • Here are the top five pranks of 2014, according to YouTube channel YesFunnyYes.

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