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It’s a good thing I found Michael Paukner’s work yesterday or otherwise you’d be at a total loss for where the next solar eclipse paths are leading up to 2025. You also wouldn’t know how many satellites every country has up in space or where all the oldest trees are in the world. It’s a really good thing I found his work.
Forward thinkers are the most amazing of people. One of the most amazing of which was Arthur C. Clarke, the late science fiction author who penned 2001: A Space Odyssey. Not only was he a forward thinking man, he apparently could tell the future as well.
Mondays tend to be a slow start to the week for everyone. It turns out that even the lightning videos online move slow. Check out this crazy cool slow motion timelapse of the birth and death of several lightning bolts in a thunderstorm.
Projecting video and visual effects on a wall is one thing. But projecting a game of Pong, which also interacts with the shapes of your wall, all while using a Virtual Reality glove is just plain amazing.
It’s not easy to get a man in to space. The hardest part is making sure our fragile human bodies don’t explode. NASA did just that over years of research and development. The book Spacesuits: The Smithsonian National Space and Air Collection is about the collection and preservation of NASA’s space suit design work. See a selection of images from the book after the jump.
Thanks to Tesla electrical power lines are slightly less intrusive than they would have been if that Thomas Edison fella had gotten his way. Nikola Tesla was an all around electrical badass. His research and discoveries with electricity paved the way for the world we know today. Sadly though, he’s one of the least known early electrical researchers. Thanks to this handy dandy little video though, you too can now thank Tesla for all he did for us. Happy (belated (it was Saturday) ) birthday Nikola!
Hopefully you’re not sick of me posting about the Space Shuttle yet because I’m only getting started. The above image is a sad one for me. It is of the final External Tank produced for STS-134. It rolled of of the New Orleans assembly line to the tear filled eyes of many workers who are now winding down their jobs on the line, some of which have been there for the 37 years of production.
I was reading about how the aging in Back to The Future II was way off, when I thought I’d look around and see if anyone has gotten around to making a hoverboard yet. Turns out artist Nils Guadagnin created this pseudo-working replica using technology by CreaLev. Though you won’t be using this thing to roll around the street any time soon, it is cool to see it floating on its own in the installation, which you can after the jump. The demo video of the window mannequin is also a cool proof of concept by CreaLev.
Human beings as the shapes that form sculptures is no new idea, but the space that they occupy when moving seems to be. Raphael Perret used the sort of motion capture technology used by filmmakers to produce these great motion sculptures. The sculptures themselves are beautiful especially when paired with the movements themselves which you can see video of after the jump.
Apparently if you’re unhappy with your weight, you can simply travel to southern India where the Earth’s gravitational pull is less than it is in say Mobile, Alabama. According to the GOCE, or Gravity Field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer satellite launched by the Europeans the earth’s gravity fluctuates based on numerous different factors. See the BBC’s wonderful writeup to learn a thing or two about the cool science behind the project.
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