Brilliant. Can we just have this guy stand up in the dome and talk a lot with the video going in the background? It's just...awesome.
post from joe
Saturday, February 25, 2012
To Understand is to Perceive Patterns
Galaxy and Dark Matter Distribution
These will do nicely for what I'm thinking are two layers of the network isomorphism. There is even video that I think we can up-rez to dome size. With something as abstract as this, distorting to fill the dome shouldn't be an issue.
If we choose to use stills instead, they are available here in multiple resolutions as well, all of which have high-res versions suitable for full-screen in the dome.
Pale Blue Dot
Carl Sagan & Flying Lotus animated type mash up.
Narration by Carl Sagan's from his book, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994).Song "Zodiac Shit" by Flying Lotus from the album Cosmogramma (2010).
Footage from Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980), Life on Earth (1979) and various other composited clips and stills.
POST LINK FROM MICHELLE
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
A Tornado On The Sun
Here's something you don't see every day: a tornado on the surface of the sun. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory posted this stunning video, which shows the sun's plasma sliding and spinning around in the star's magnetic fields for 30 hours earlier this month.
Terry Kucera, a solar physicist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, told Fox News that the tornado might be as large as the Earth itself and have gusts up to 300,000 miles per hour. By comparison, the strongest tornadoes on earth, F5 storms, clock wind speeds at a relatively paltry (though incredibly destructive) 300 mph.
The sun is an extremely active star, regularly spitting radiation and atomic particles into space. This space weather has direct impacts here on Earth, like forcing the rerouting of planes and lighting up the auroras.
Our friends at the 13.7 blog dive into how solar weather works, and if you're looking for some more stellar images of the sun, head over to the Solar Dynamic Observatory's Pick of the Week
Sunday, February 19, 2012
1962 Worls Fair Promo Film
Here's the promo film we'd like to use for the intro...
http://youtu.be/S4Iu3JEsoQY
We need to find out if we can get rights to this footage ASAP!!!!!
-toshi
http://youtu.be/S4Iu3JEsoQY
We need to find out if we can get rights to this footage ASAP!!!!!
-toshi
A city in orbit with Century 21: "Space Age Frontiers"
A city in orbit with Century 21: "Space Age Frontiers"
It's the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World's Fair, a time when the city was flying high with Space Age optimism. We're marking the occasion by revisiting The Seattle Times' souvenir edition published shortly before the fair opened April 21, 1962.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.
It's the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World's Fair, a time when the city was flying high with Space Age optimism. We're marking the occasion by revisiting The Seattle Times' souvenir edition published shortly before the fair opened April 21, 1962.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
NYTimes.com: 50 Years Later, Celebrating John Glenn's Feat
50th Anniversary: 50 Years Later, Celebrating John Glenn's Feat
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
The astronaut's first orbit of Earth - 50 years ago this month - revived national morale and hope.
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
The astronaut's first orbit of Earth - 50 years ago this month - revived national morale and hope.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Good Quote in a Great Article
"Too often we treat things as separate subjects, not realizing the interconnected nature of our reality. This mistake has made us weak and vulnerable. Over the last 70 years, we have set the stage of our own demise, we have become increasingly discontent, the quality of our relationships has fallen, and we have lost track of what really matters. Today, everything is amazing, and nobody is happy. It's time to take a step back and think about where we are going.
Let us begin the journey."
-- Federico Pistono
See http://io9.com/5885512/robots-will-steal-your-job-but-thats-okay-how-to-survive-the-coming-economic-collapse
-- Federico Pistono
See http://io9.com/5885512/robots-will-steal-your-job-but-thats-okay-how-to-survive-the-coming-economic-collapse
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