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Some of the things you wanted to know about the historical shapes of continents but were afraid to ask...

infinite intimation — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:42:53 -0800

Earth Birth between 13 billion years ago and 250 million years after the current year [aka The Future]. a video showing the birth of our earth 13 billion 700 million years ago (13.700.000.000) when the universe was only a white dot in the dark and how our earth will be within 250 million years after (250.000.000) after our actual year. This video can be watched in the Science Natural Museum of Barcelona. [note you can see the back of the earth in the mirror.]

2061

zarq — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:58:52 -0800

On November 22, 2011, TEDxBrussels held an all day event whose theme was: "A Day in the Deep Future." Speakers were asked to try and contemplate what life will be like for mankind in 50 years. Overview. The Talks: (Playlist) * Paddy Ashdown (British politician and diplomat): Why the world will never be the same & what we should do about it * Eileen Bartholomew (Senior Director Life Sciences at X PRIZE Foundation): The XPrize Foundation of 2061 * John Bohannon (Dancer, biologist and journalist): Dance Your PhD * Lorenz Bogaert (Online media entrepreneur): The European Dream * David Brin (Astrophysicist and science fiction author): Target 2061: Reinventing Civilization Across Half a Century * Kushal Chakrabarti (Founder of Vittana, turning global education into opportunity): Literacy is not enough * Leila Janah (Founder of Samasource, giving digital opportunity to impoverished people): The microwork revolution * Peter Cochrane (Futurologist, researcher and engineer): Not HAL9000 * David Cuartielles (Microchip inventor, co-founder of Arduino): Open Source Hardware * David Ewing Duncan (Journalist, Author, Medical Technologist): When I'm 164 * Sebastien de Halleux (Belgian engineer, Co-Founder of Playfish): Games the Next Billion will play * Alain De Taeye (Co-founder of Tele Atlas): Five Minutes into the Future * David Deutsch (Quantum Physicist): The Unknowable & how to prepare for it * Hasan Elahi (Interdisciplinary media activist, privacy artist): Hiding in Plain Sight * Peter Fenwick (Neuropsychiatrist): The Art of Dying Well * Carl Flink and Edward Oroyan (Choreographers and Artists): Black Label Movement - Zero Gravity Dance * Ken Haase (Engineer-scientist-philosopher): The Singularity is Here * Kaliya Hamlin (Identity Researcher): Identity, the Contexts of the Future * Charles Hazlewood (Conductor and advocate for access to orchestral music): Music of the Future * Andrew Hessel (Biologist and Author): Making Worlds * Peter Hinssen (Thought leader, the impact of technology on society): The Tiger and the Rock * Mikko H. Hypponen (Chief research officer at F-Secure Corporation in Finland): Defending the Net * Julie Meyer (Founder and CEO of Ariadne Capital, Founder - Entrepreneur Country, Managing Partner - Ariadne Capital Entrepreneurs Fund [ACE]): Entrepreneurs 2061 * Marc Millis (NASA deep space expert): Space Flight Predictions: After AI & Transhumanism * Raul Rojas (Specialist in artificial neural networks) Cars that Think * Rudy Rucker (Founder of the cyberpunk literary movement): Beyond Machines: The Year 3000 * Henrik Scharfe (Director at the Center for Computer-mediated Epistemology): Geminoid-DK * John Shirley (American fantasist, author of BioShock Rapture): False Singularities... * Rob Spence (Eyeborg and enhanced human): Eyeborg, the Enhanced Self * Luc Steels (Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory): The Robot Culture * Jack Tuszynski (Computational biophysician): From eDx to eRx The digital future of personalized diagnostics and pharmaceuticals * Jacques Vallee (Computer scientist and ufologist, Mars mapping for NASA): A Theory of Everything (else)...

"...all I could think was wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful and yet again, wonderful"

Bora Horza Gobuchul — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:41:39 -0800

Between August and October this year the crew of the ISS used a special low-light HD camera to visually capture the earth as it passed beneath them. The result, edited together by Michael König and set to music, is jaw-droppingly spectacular.

It may be redundant to tell you to set Vimeo to full-screen mode before playing, but do so - you won't regret it. Post intended as something of a sequel to this. Some related channels on Vimeo: The World In HD, HDTime, Slow Motion & Timelapse Theatre.

ver·tig·i·nous

Bora Horza Gobuchul — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:38:53 -0800

How does it feel to fly over planet Earth from the perspective of the ISS? A timelapse movie by James Drake, compiled from pictures drawn from the incredible Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Place the video in HD and fullscreen for the full effect. via The thin green-brown arc seen above the Earth is aerosol haze: particles suspended in the high atmosphere that are invisible from the ground but made manifest when viewed edge-on from orbit. Naturally, the ISS orbits the Earth at a more sedate pace than this movie: about 90× slower.