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Post number 9798

riffola — Fri, 31 Aug 2001 20:55:45 -0800

High Speed Photography is truly amazing. Who knew a water drop collapses like a racquetball?

By: riffola

riffola — Fri, 31 Aug 2001 20:57:11 -0800

Oops forgot to give credit to Milov credit for the link.

By: bytecode

bytecode — Fri, 31 Aug 2001 21:31:48 -0800

This is part of an interetsing trend I've been seeing lately, when something is posted on /. it tends to come up on Metafilter a few days later. Maybe its just that I'd never followed slashdot much before last week. Anyway, thats totally off topic. Those pictures are cool as hell!

By: katexmcfly

katexmcfly — Fri, 31 Aug 2001 21:48:49 -0800

If anyone can tell me the name of the video (I thought it was from National Geographic) that features the world of high-speed, macro photography (milk drop, bullet through an apple, etc.) I would be eternally grateful.

By: riffola

riffola — Fri, 31 Aug 2001 23:52:22 -0800

bytecode: I don't visit /. I just saw it at Milov's and thought it was MeFi worthy. PS: sorry about the mistakes in the post and comment. :)

By: meep

meep — Sat, 01 Sep 2001 03:38:56 -0800

hey! those are my fellow students at NCSSM! I knew Jason Martin! Not that anybody is impressed. But I do remember watching them set up a shot of imploding an old cathode ray tube. that was pretty cool. high speed photography was the only physics class i didn't take at that school. i thought them a little too destructive.

By: girlhacker

girlhacker — Sat, 01 Sep 2001 11:31:12 -0800

A few Harold Edgerton links: Edgerton Center in Nebraska and MIT's Edgerton Center.

By: kevspace

kevspace — Sat, 01 Sep 2001 12:47:40 -0800

meep: you thought the class was too destructive, so you didn't take it? I don't think I need to read your profile to know you're female. Heheh. Erm, sorry, Tim Allen Mode disengaging now...

By: meep

meep — Sun, 02 Sep 2001 02:08:14 -0800

kev: yeah yeah yeah. Still, I thought it more fun to build an optical stereo system (with corner reflectors on the ends of the physics hall, photovoltaic cells attached to the stereos, and hand-built amps) than shoot a bullet through a balloon or smash a lightbulb with a hammer. i mean - cool pics on the one hand, but then there's all that mess to clean up! i'd rather play with LEDs in liquid nitrogen any ole day.