We realize there's only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cell phone footage of people arguing on live television. This is why every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today:

This is a thing of beauty, and it changed the way we think about the world. Heck, we don't even like college football (seriously, we're inside most of the week to bring you posts and enjoy Saturdays outdoors while we still can) but we'd make a sacrifice and do all that tailgating stuff just to see a marching band turn itself into a DeLorean (the Back to the Future car) at around the 7:30 mark: 

In case you were wondering, kids watching the boring presidential debate (pick one, any one) is infinitely more enthralling than the actual debate: 

And as Tastefully Offensive points out,  so is this baby koala climbing up someone's leg:

Finally, here is a robot created by people who are probably much smarter than us. "The CHARLI series humanoid robot is developed as a research platform to study bipedal walking and autonomous behaviors for humanoid robots," which is all fancy schmancy scientific speak for, "Watch, we can make it do Gangnam Style!!!"

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Alexander Abad-Santos