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Category Archives: YouTubing
Casual Friday — Fobos-Grunt, how it was *supposed* to happen
Well, if you are at all tuned into space news, you’ve heard that the Russian space agency’s latest attempt to send a spacecraft to Mars is pretty much dead. Here’s a video (11+ minutes long) of how things were supposed to play out…
Posted in Space, Technology, YouTubing
Tagged Mars, Russia, Space, spacecraft, Technology
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The scientific tourist #199 — American Bison (a.k.a., Buffalo) grazing in Custer State Park
This week you get a slightly different bit of virtual tourism — a short video clip of American bison (a.k.a., buffalo) grazing in Custer State Park, South Dakota…
Casual Friday — watch Shenzhou-8 dock with Tiangong-1
So now China’s joined the orbital “club,” and performed it’s first rendezvous and docking of two spacecraft
Casual Friday — fun and games with superconductors
A fun bit of video demonstrating the Meissner effect — the ability of a superconductor to float over (or if you prefer, under) a magnet…
Posted in History, Physics, Technology, YouTubing
Tagged History, Physics, superconductivity, Technology
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Casual Friday — Vibrations
Ever found yourself transfixed, watching some everyday object moving in an unintuitive way? It’s OK to admit it, we all do it. In this quick bit of video from the Fluke Corporation, you get to see all sorts of objects vibrating — it’s a fun, oddly relaxing thing to watch…
Casual Friday — a global map of Saturn’s moon Titan
As Cassini has been orbiting the planet Saturn, from time to time it’s had the opportunity to fly past Titan and take a peek. Over six years, this has added up to 78 flybys, each with different viewing geometry and … Continue reading
Casual Friday — Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
I’d originally planned on posting a light but science-related video for today’s slot. But in light of the passing of Steve Jobs, thought that a more appropriate and fitting bit of video would be his commencement address at Stanford…
Casual Friday — a 3D rendered film, from 1972!
A pioneering piece of computer animation from the very early days of the technology…
Casual Friday — how big are “massive” solar flares?
The press love to use the word “massive” when talking about solar flares. They do this partly, I suppose, because they’re trying to get people’s attention. But I suspect they’re also just running to the end of what language alone can describe. So how big is a solar flare?
Casual Friday — Apollo landing sites revisited, again!
You might recall that two years back, the LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) spacecraft team released some images of Apollo lunar landing sites. But these were relatively low-resolution images, taken from about 70 miles above the surface.
Well, the LRO spacecraft (and its human support team) have done that one better, and have taken more site images from a much lower altitude — about 14 miles (22 km), roughly twice the altitude of a commercial airliner flight back on Earth. And boy, are they impressive!