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Cell Phone Deep Fry

January 8, 2008 4:32pm

#2: "Hope you at least took the batteries out first..."

I too want an answer to this.

Eerily graceful Indian traffic merging

January 5, 2008 7:48pm

#11: Old movies (I mean silent movies) do usually appear to be played back too fast, but it wasn't done to save film.

Mostly, it was because camera/projector speeds weren't truly standardized up until sync sound was introduced, so a myriad of camera speeds were used. 16 or 18 fps was rather common, and the fast motion effect wasn't an issue until projectors started being run at 24fps exclusively... lots of 16mm projectors still have variable speeds.

Plus, Many earlier cameras were hand-cranked, making things even more erratic.

just fyi.

Digital Africa DJ mix from DJ Spooky

November 22, 2007 12:52pm

"If computers were like Africa, it would be backward, in permanent crisis, underfed, diseased, smelly, in need of constant aid from the outside, corrupt, impoverished and susceptible to political engineering from entities wanting only to exploit it and its people."

You obviously don't run Vista.

High-definition video of the moon

November 9, 2007 4:15pm

Ill Lich:

No. From Wikipedia:

What's left on the moon (from Apollo) are lander bases, and they're about 9.5 meters across. So at best, Selene will give you one gray pixel that you can point to and say, "that's Apollo." Maybe they can get a picture of a long shadow, but even that will only be two or three pixels.

The resolution is estimated at about 12m per pixel.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:SELENE )

Also, the Apollo 15 lander was spotted by the Clementine probe in 2001.

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/apollo15_touchdown_photos_010427.html
http://www.tass-survey.org/richmond/answers/lunar_lander.html

However, if the original photos are faked, then why can't more photos be faked? With conspiracy theories such as the moon landing, finding evidence that disproves it only increases the complexity of the conspiracy, to no end.

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