Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Do You Think Facebook and Twitter are Examples of Innovation That Matters? Think Again!
Watch, learn what innovation and the human intellect can do. (And do NOT stop before the end!).
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Out There
If you have not run into his work previously, Chris Hadfield is a Canadian astronaut who fulfilled his childhood dream with two shuttle missions and has the talent and more importantly the personal insight to share with us what it is like. If you are not among the 21 million plus viewers, here is his cover of David Bowie's Space Oddity - it was filmed on a shuttle mission, then the music track added after he returned.
There is another video though that shows his real thoughts and values to us. It is a TED Talk and he goes into a lot of what it is like to perform this unnatural act of space flight, enjoy the unusual splendor of it all --- and then have a potentially catastrophic event happen "up there".
I dare you not to get chills during the launch sequence at 3:10, or to not think just a bit differently about things (like the universe) when he describes "looking down at the rest of everything" at 7:40.
There is another video though that shows his real thoughts and values to us. It is a TED Talk and he goes into a lot of what it is like to perform this unnatural act of space flight, enjoy the unusual splendor of it all --- and then have a potentially catastrophic event happen "up there".
I dare you not to get chills during the launch sequence at 3:10, or to not think just a bit differently about things (like the universe) when he describes "looking down at the rest of everything" at 7:40.
Monday, March 17, 2014
The Beginning...No I Mean the REAL Beginning!
This is getting close to some pretty incredible stuff. One of the basic problems/quests of astrophysics has been to discover evidence of the theorized "Big Bang" birth of the universe. It looks like now they are a big step closer (sorry any Bible-thumping "the world is only 6000 years old and probably flat" types):
If you have seen "Close Encounters of The Third Kind"...yes, this is also evidence that Einstein was "one of them".
If you have seen "Close Encounters of The Third Kind"...yes, this is also evidence that Einstein was "one of them".
Friday, January 24, 2014
Wow...Just Wow!
If you are 22 years old, you can spend your life posting meaningless crap to Facebook (or mercifully short but equally meaningless crap to Twitter), or you can spend your time doing something like this. Scroll down slowly...it goes from "that's kinda cool" at the top to "holy s__t" near the bottom.
Needless to say he has attracted a bit of attention.
Needless to say he has attracted a bit of attention.
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