Always wonderful to see us exploring our universe.
Happy Thanksgiving
Boston Layer-Lapse
Man Dives into an Exploding Volcano
This seems ill-advised…
OK Go: “This Too Shall Pass” – The Most Amazing Rube Goldberg Machine
Amazing engineering here. I don’t think multiple takes were an option on this.
[Discovered via Damien Teague]
Tokyo Time Lapse
I love my little mountain town but appreciate the existence of bustling metropolises like this:
make sure to watch full screen.
[Found via @DSCEO]
Dreamliner Flying Like a Fighter Jet
This is a great vid to watch prior to boarding a 14hr international flight.
Maybe I will watch World War Z next…
[via Vice Motherboard]
Drone Footage Inside Erupting Volcano
F9R Flight Test
Rocket takes off and lands.
Equality Artifacts and Image Quality
In support of the right to marry the one you love, today the equals sign swept facebook, and a teachable moment about lossy image compression has come in its wake. The first The image started as a perfect set of squares. Here’s what the SFR of a perfect edge looks like:
I don’t have the original image, I had to recreate this in GIMP. From the very first person that uploaded this, the image began to degrade. Continue reading Equality Artifacts and Image Quality