After a jarring last-second abortion on Saturday which was later blamed on a faulty engine valve, the SpaceX’s rocket launch has been rescheduled to take place in the wee morning hours on Tuesday, May 22nd at 3:44 am Eastern Time. If you’re interested enough to be awake at that time of day, you can watch the (hopefully successful already) launch on the livestream above. Until then, the feed will be playing various videos from NASA TV that you can check out. The upside is that those videos will definitely be happening. The downside? They don’t necessarily include real-time footage of jets of flame. You’ll have to wake up early to catch that.

Larry “Spiderman“ McBride rode into the record books last Friday when he made a quarter mile run on his Lawless Electric Rocket bike in 6.94 seconds at a staggering 201.37 miles per hour. The super fast run not only set a record for fastest electric motorcycle — a category I didn’t know existed prior to this morning — but also a record for electric vehicles overall.

Electric vehicles have a tendency to be really, really quiet. On the one hand, that’s sort of awesome, but on the other hand, it can be incredibly dangerous to have heavy, silent machines darting around at high speeds. That’s why most electric vehicles have safety sounds, simulated engine noises that alert people of its presence and just make it sound like less of a toy. Domino’s, instead of opting for standard motor noises for one of its electric scooters, decided to do something just slightly different that is not only funny, but gets their name out too. I’ll let you find out what it is for yourself.

Things have been a bit crazy with the Daytona 500 this year. First rains delayed the race a day, and then last night driver Juan Pablo Montoya slammed into a jet dryer triggering an enormous fire which delayed the race for several hours. Now, if you’re like me you probably had never heard of a jet dryer was until last night. Well, wonder no more friends.

I’ve found that the best YouTube videos are the ones that provoke visceral reactions of terror. With that in mind, this video is an instant classic.  Uploaded by davidjellis, this video provides a first person view of a white-knuckle, no brakes trip down an alpine coaster. It’s worth mentioning that this car has brakes, but in an attempt to be as awesome and reckless and possible, our brave pilot isn’t using them. Hold onto your seats, this is a wild one.

There are tons of varieties of electric cars, from the DeLorean to the Roberts, but now there is also one that is microscopic. Syuzanna Harutyunyan, of University of Groningen, and her team have been working on the smallest electric car ever and seem to have pulled it off by manipulating a molecule’s tendancy to rearrange itself for maximum energy efficiency. Basically, through using this process, Harutyunyan and her team were able to create little electric wheel-like things that will run when powered by electricity.

Just a few days ago, the European Space Agency (ESA) accepted a proposal for the Solar Orbiter project. The project involves the construction of complexly heat-shielded probe due to be launched sometime in 2017. On its orbit around the sun,  it’ll come as close as 42 million km, a record-breaking proximity. While it’s largely an ESA undertaking, NASA will be lending a helping hand, providing a few of the components for the probe and the rocket that’ll take it into orbit.

The project rose up out of the ESA’s Cosmic Vision initiative, which plans missions as far as 10 years into the future. The various candidates were subject to four years of debate and consideration before the Solar Orbiter was chosen as a successful one. Considering the probe will have a 1 billion euro price tag, every second of that debate was probably worthwhile.

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It’s a comfortable faux-leather two-seater in a vague maroon with a coffee table, bowl of fruit, cup of coffee, and an oversized book. It also tops out at around 163 km/h (101 mph), because it’s the world’s fastest couch, which received its official lap time last week in Australia.

Incredibly, there is an established world record for the world’s fastest couch set by the UK’s Marek Turowsk in 2008. The Australian motorized chesterfield handily surpassed that record, and completely crushed Akron, OH’s jet-powered bar stool’s 40 mph record. The project’s leader, Paul McKinnon, told the Herald Sun in a surely bemused tone:

“With race cars, you can use the aerodynamic body kit … but with the couch, it was a matter of just doing what we could. We tried to break the airflow with the coffee table.”

Last year we told you about a car that runs entirely on coffee. Since then, while we’ve been writing about caffine-chugging bacteria and other, somewhat dubious, uses for your coffeemaker, the car-puccino’s creators were not content. The U.K. team have created an all new car, and this one just set a world record for the fastest gasification vehicle.

Like the previous model, this car was made in conjunction with the BBC program Bang Goes the Theory by engineer Martin Bacon and Durham England’s Teesdale Conservation Volunteers. This new iteration of the coffee car tops out at 66.5 mph, snatching the previous speed record from a wood chip powered vehicle. That car, from Beaver Energy, topped out at 43mph. The record breaking run is sure to turn some heads as the buzz around alternative energy vehicles reaches a fevered pitch.

To get this Rover SD1 to go on nothing but coffee grounds, the vehicle needs a few modifications.

In what seems to be a slap in the face towards fossil fuels, the Exige 270E Tri-fuel sports car runs on three things: chocolate, cheese, and wine. As catchy as that is, it’s actually a somewhat deceptive marketing ploy. This sexy looking car designed by Lotus Engineering actually runs on ethanol, technically, but it derives that ethanol from the aforementioned products and can use that ethanol to go from 0-60 in under 4 seconds.

So it runs on chocolate, cheese, and wine in the same way that your normal car runs on dead dinosaurs. Still, it makes for an interesting angle on ethanol and the myriad ways to produce it that don’t involve, you know, boring into the earth and robbing her of both her innocence and natural beauty. In regard to these three products, ethanol is typically made from whey, from the cheese-making process; surplus chocolate (as if); and low-grade wine. Still, I prefer to use those things to fuel my body, but maybe that’s just me.