I saw this once before. Blew my mind then. They’ve since updated it. I’m still in awe.
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Returning from the Edge of Space, A Tribute to Felix Baumgartner
Felix Baumgartner is slated to do a 120,000 foot skydive from the edge of space on Sunday, through the Red Bull Stratos Program. An attempt on Tuesday was cancelled due to weather. It’s an inspiring feat– defying gravity to get to the edge of space and shirking common sense by jumping out of a perfectly good… balloon.
While Baumgartner is at it, he will be breaking the sound barrier, going mach speed– like Chuck Yeager without the X-1. Incidentally, Yeager broke the sound barrier October 14, 1947. Baumgartner may potentially be doing it again sans aircraft October 14, 2012. As Matt Scott puts it: “To infinity and beyond… and back again…”
Randall Whiteis
I recently discovered illustrator Randall Whiteis while waxing nostalgic about the anime Ghost in the Shell. Here are a few of his wonderful pieces. Randall’s blog, and more of his…
SIMNET goes online in 1987
This is a video displaying the capabilities of SIMNET which was a multi-user military simulator that went online in 1987. A few interesting quotes from the latter half of the video should have you thinking about the future of virtual reality systems.
“…you’ll be able to create anything, from a synthetic battlefield to a synthetic factory, all using the same core technology.”
“Anything that you can conceive of can be put on a network.”
“…all the way down to the guy bringing lunch out to the troops.
PostHuman – An Animated Short
I came across this animated short film directed by Cole Drumb and produced by Jennifer Wai-Yin Luk. PostHuman follows Terrence and his dog Nine in an adrenalized future of espionage,…
Richard Feynman – Ode To A Flower
From the BBC Interview for Horizon ‘The Pleasure of Finding Things Out‘. Animated by Fraser Davidson.