When you watch the video, you may be able to catch onto the initial illusion, but I would like to know where the initial subject went to?
Check it out...great demo for a non existent tech!
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Friday, September 13, 2013
Great Transporter Illusion
Recently in a mall in the UK, a couple of illusionists performed a transporter illusion. The act was to help promote the new Star Trek movie, "Into Darkness"
When you watch the video, you may be able to catch onto the initial illusion, but I would like to know where the initial subject went to?
Check it out...great demo for a non existent tech!
When you watch the video, you may be able to catch onto the initial illusion, but I would like to know where the initial subject went to?
Check it out...great demo for a non existent tech!
Young Wonder - A Short Film by Director James Wilkes
In this totally imaginitive short film young brothers play in the woods, their imaginations running wild. Without giving to much away, director Wilkes gives us thrilling visual effects and creative storytelling which makes for an unforgettable trip into the mind of a young boy.
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Confirmed: Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System!!
Professor of physics at the University of Iowa, Donald A. Gurnett, confirmed Thursday that Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has left the solar system.
At present, Voyager 1 is 11.7 billion miles from Earth and traveling at 38,000 miles per hour which makes it one of the fastest spacecraft ever flown.
But the point of contention has been has it or will it soon break through the heliosphere which is made up of particles from the sun that surround the whole solar system. However Gurnett's paper in the journal Science states categorically that the event happened Aug. 25, 2012.
Read the complete NewYork Times article HERE and a Multimedia file HERE
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Film of Virgin Galactic's Space Ship 2's Second Test Flight
On Sept. 5 at 8am, Virgin's White Knight 2 took off carrying Space Ship 2 for it's second powered test flight.
At 46,000 feet, pilots Mark Stucky and Clint Nichols released Space Ship 2 and fired their rocket engine, for a 20 second burn, a short time later.
During the burn they climbed to 69000 feet and attained a speed of 1.43 mach.
This flight was to test the engine of course but another facet of the unusual craft they wanted to put through it's paces was the movable tail section, which can be moved through 65 degrees of motion. The purpose of which is to allow the ship to reenter the denser atmosphere and give the pilots a much easier controlled vehicle as it descends. Where the tail can be rotated back to it's launch position for landing.
Virgin is still looking towards 2014 to begin flying passenger using a fleet of five Spaceship 2 type vehicles.
At 46,000 feet, pilots Mark Stucky and Clint Nichols released Space Ship 2 and fired their rocket engine, for a 20 second burn, a short time later.
During the burn they climbed to 69000 feet and attained a speed of 1.43 mach.
This flight was to test the engine of course but another facet of the unusual craft they wanted to put through it's paces was the movable tail section, which can be moved through 65 degrees of motion. The purpose of which is to allow the ship to reenter the denser atmosphere and give the pilots a much easier controlled vehicle as it descends. Where the tail can be rotated back to it's launch position for landing.
Virgin is still looking towards 2014 to begin flying passenger using a fleet of five Spaceship 2 type vehicles.
NASA Has an Instagram Site!
Hey, I was just reading Kim Komando's site for some quick news and found this neat link.
Seems NASA has started an Instagram account and is letting the general public have access.
I have taken a quick look and there are some really nice photos over there. I would have to admit they seem to be as good as any you would find on any of NASA's own sites, but if Instagram is your thing or if it is easier just to go to the Instagram site, then you are golden here.
Check it out - HERE
Seems NASA has started an Instagram account and is letting the general public have access.
I have taken a quick look and there are some really nice photos over there. I would have to admit they seem to be as good as any you would find on any of NASA's own sites, but if Instagram is your thing or if it is easier just to go to the Instagram site, then you are golden here.
Check it out - HERE
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