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Science thread - anything interesting?

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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeSep 19th 2012
    You mean the thing from Men In Black 3!?
  2. The similarity is uncanny but the photo from the movie has a distinct nose that clearly distinguishes it as a different species. wink
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeSep 19th 2012
    Anyone have info on the curiosity video? is it fake or real? i mean with the extra fps and sound?
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeSep 19th 2012 edited
    oops, edit.

    http://godlessgeekblog.blogspot.gr/2012 … scent.html

    This version of Curiosity's descent and landing was created by film maker Bard Canning, using HD stills from Curiosity's Mars Descent Imager (MARDI), as well as hundreds of motion tracking shots; which basically just means digitally moving and zooming the camera to make up for missing frames, in order to increase the video's frame rate from a blistering 4 FPS to 30. The images in the film were enhanced and color corrected for the sake of quality, and the sound, obviously, was added for effect. Go HERE, For a more detailed explanation of the work that went into making this render of Curiosity's landing on Mars.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpjkaxeM … e=youtu.be

    Video is real, enhanced with real still but sfx is fake. Added for effect. Shame, it would be amazing if it had real sound although i believe it would be very hard for any microphone's membrane to withstand entering a planet's atmosphere.
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  5. Demetris wrote
    Anyone have info on the curiosity video? is it fake or real? i mean with the extra fps and sound?

    I posted the following towards the bottom of the previous page:

    "As far as I understand it, yes the first part is real (the descent) but the audio effects have been added. The images after landing are just hi-res photos that have had artificial "panning shot" perspectives added (as well as the obligatory audio track)."

    Did you miss it or do you want more information?
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeSep 19th 2012
    FalkirkBairn wrote
    Demetris wrote
    Anyone have info on the curiosity video? is it fake or real? i mean with the extra fps and sound?

    I posted the following towards the bottom of the previous page:

    "As far as I understand it, yes the first part is real (the descent) but the audio effects have been added. The images after landing are just hi-res photos that have had artificial "panning shot" perspectives added (as well as the obligatory audio track)."

    Did you miss it or do you want more information?


    Sorry dear Alan, i missed it! shame
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      CommentAuthorBregje
    • CommentTimeSep 24th 2012
  8. For those of you who enjoy a bit of shocked chemistry:

    Mercury thiocyanate decomposition

    http://youtu.be/FaC4MqxUnFw
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeSep 24th 2012
    Where can I get some?
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  10. I bet you can't get it in kids' chemistry sets nowadays, that's for sure.
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeSep 24th 2012
    FalkirkBairn wrote
    I bet you can't get it in kids' chemistry sets nowadays, that's for sure.


    I remember when you could buy test tubes and all sorts of chemicals in hobby shops.
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  12. We bought a chemistry set once - just the once - for David a few years back. We bought it on the strength of memories of being able to do things with these sets.

    Now, there's so much H&S that all the fun has been taken out of them. And people wonder why kids are not enthused by science.

    Now, where is my Sigma-Aldrich catalogue so I can get me some proper chemicals!
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  13. Did anyone watch Felix Baumgarten step out of his capsule? He dropped like a stone! But what a landing! Like stepping off a bus.
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      CommentAuthorStavroula
    • CommentTimeOct 14th 2012
    Yes I watched it! It was amazing! smile
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2012
    Just saw it. The idea to make that step, what a frightening sight! But his only option.

    Quite an achievement I think. Very cool.
    Kazoo
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      CommentAuthorplindboe
    • CommentTimeNov 4th 2012
    Sniff, my local landmark is gone. Spectacular video though. It happened just an hour ago and I was out to see it.

    Peter shocked
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeNov 4th 2012
    Wow! Better than a firework display punk
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  18. plindboe wrote
    Sniff, my local landmark is gone. Spectacular video though. It happened just an hour ago and I was out to see it.

    Peter shocked

    What was surprising was that, at 108 metres high, it was the second-tallest building in Denmark! Is that right?
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeNov 4th 2012 edited
    The highest must be a windmill then. Or a tree.
    Kazoo
  20. How could you be so flippant, Bregt? It's a hospital.

    wink
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      CommentAuthorplindboe
    • CommentTimeNov 4th 2012
    FalkirkBairn wrote
    What was surprising was that, at 108 metres high, it was the second-tallest building in Denmark! Is that right?


    Yep. We have rather strict requirements on the heights of new buildings in danish cities. I guess it makes sense as a giant skyscraper in the middle of this would kind of ruin the look.

    I'm sure being a small country also has something to do with it. Also, being densely populated, I guess it's difficult building something big without bothering alot of people, who will protest such plans loudly.

    I do wish we could have at least one skyscraper though. I do find them fascinating.

    Peter smile
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2012
    Get notified via NASA when it's a good time to log online and see your house from the International Space Station live!

    http://spotthestation.nasa.gov
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  23. Demetris wrote
    Get notified via NASA when it's a good time to log online and see your house from the International Space Station live!

    http://spotthestation.nasa.gov

    Cool. I got signed up. I want to at least give it a try to spot it every so often...
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeNov 19th 2012
    ct scanner without the cover! omg http://9gag.com/gag/5877851
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  25. It's just a Transformer, in disguise of course.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeNov 20th 2012
    Hehe it reminded me of those too.
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeNov 28th 2012
    Some awesome pictures of Saturns north pole, including the massive hexagon cloud! I've seen that hexagon before, but this one is a beautiful shot.
    http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-la … e-raw.html
    Kazoo
  28. NASA making big "one for the record books" announcement Friday, 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT), following a big dust storm they had been tracking.

    No way the major "one for the record books" announcement is about, "Hey! Lok at these awsome phots and video of the dust storm! OMG!!!". I have to conclude, unless they're that dumb to make such a statement of "one for the record books", that the storm has uncovered something/things. I'll rule out remnents of buildings or structures, as surely this would be worded as something far, far more huge, and say they likely found fossilized bones that the storm uncovered, of some animal from a long, long time ago.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2012
    Nasa has been working with Vangelis for 10 years now in a super duper top secret project, since Mythodea...
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2012
    Really? uhm
    Kazoo

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