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A wonderful IMAX evening, and let me just say, without spoiling any of the story line pre-release, that the word “stay” in the movie is the perfect setup for the Sentinel Mission.
Astronaut Ed Edward Lu opened with a story of how they would sit on the shuttle roof flying upside down and backwards — a glass-bottom boat screaming across the panoply of thunderstorms crackling like muted fireworks below, while eating freeze-dried spaghetti and waxing philosophic about the fate of the Earth.
The Interstellar movie itself sprinkled so many 2001 Space Odyssey allusions that it makes my head spin. Perhaps it’s inevitable with a long movie that ends with a trippy sunsplashed jaunt of awe and wonder, but the soundtrack remix, obelisk bot, docking to spinning station, and gas-giant flyby (swap Saturn for Jupiter) drove the point home. But it continued right on to the cover image from Arthur C Clarke’s subsequent novel Rendezvous with Rama.
The opening previews were the Trial by Fire promo for the Orion capsule and the B612 Impact Video on how the nuclear test ban treaty sensors have detected 26 explosions over the past 13 years, ranging in energy from 1 to 600 kilotons, and all of them from outer space.
Sentinel Mission will enable us to defend Earth from catastrophic impacts by detecting the possible threats and modeling their trajectories for the next 50-100 years, allowing plenty of time for deflection of dangerous paths.
Interstellar is a fantastic movie. I love the way it explores the depths of time dilation. And the Endurance is a cool unique looking ship.
I saw a lego version of the Ranger in the link below and thought I'd see if I could make one like his. I think it turned out okay. I put and opening hatch on the back and also gave it landing gear.
.lxf file
www.dropbox.com/s/ui40qmsvi2vgzb1/Ranger.lxf?dl=0
link
www.flickr.com/photos/jp_velociraptor/16339532836/in/phot...
They say the flap of a butterfly's wings can set off a tornado on the other side of the world. But what happens when a butterfly flaps its wings in the depths of space?
More information: www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1410a/
Credit:
NASA, ESA, and R. Sahai (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
I spent today working on texture and realism, going back over the airbrushed work with a flat wide brush and white paint, nothing complex but it immediately subdues the cartoony airbrush shading into something more textured, worn out.
This is a fun challenge in restraint compared with Star Wars models where everything is filthy to excess...I've been looking carefully at the Space Shuttle panelling for reference.
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS imaged from Oxfordshire, UK before dawn on 21st November 2025. My husband Mark captured 3 minute exposures with our 8" Ritchey-Chretien telescope and an Altair Hypercam 294C. I calibrated and aligned all 25 FITS files in Deep Sky Stacker, processed them in Lightroom and used them to produce the timelapse showing the comet's movement over a1hr 50min period starting at 04:18 UT
THE INTERSTELLAR PASSAGE
You're probably wondering how he can go back and forth between these two worlds as well?
Good question.
If I had to compare to simplify the thing: it's a bit similar to the Stargate, a kind of cosmic airlock between two worlds, invisible, imperceptible.
I do not really realize when it happens.
Sometimes an animal follows me without I realize it.
And when this happens, it happens then one of the most amazing things that we are the possibility of seeing in its life: the Zorgonaut transmutation, or how a Zorg animal arriving on your planet is undergoing mutagenic combination in another animal, its DNA is combined by the interstellar passage in else that would be your equivalent of an imaginary animal. For Zorgonauts there's no doubt that these are the animals that have combined Zorg via the passage. Today your lack of imagination makes you believe that mermaids, griffins dragons centaurs minotaurs etc ... are merely fabrications, and you bring to believe in evolution according to Darwin.
So my last visit and my last return through the "door", a Cobrafe followed me and the passage was born a GIRABRA
LE PASSAGE INTERSIDERAL
Vous vous demandez certainement comment peut il aller et venir entre ces 2 mondes ainsi ?
Bonne question.
Si je devais comparer pour vous simplifier la chose : c’est un peu comparable à la porte des étoiles, une sorte de sas cosmique entre les 2 univers, invisible, imperceptible.
Je ne me rends vraiment pas compte quand cela se produit.
Quelques fois un animal me suit sans que je ne m’en rende compte.
Et quand cela se produit il se passe alors une des choses les plus incroyables que l’on est la possibilité de voir dans sa vie : la transmutation Zorgonautienne, ou comment un animal de Zorg en arrivant sur votre planète se voit subir une combinaison mutagène en un autre animal, son ADN se combine de par le passage intersidéral en autre chose qui serait pour vous l’équivalent d’un animal imaginaire. Pour les Zorgonautes cela ne fait aucun doute que ce sont des animaux de Zorg qui se sont combinés en empruntant le passage . Aujourd hui votre manque d’imagination vous fait croire que les sirènes, les dragons les griffons les centaures les minotaures etc… ne sont qu’ affabulations , et vous a amenez à croire en l’ évolution selon Darwin.
Ainsi ma dernière visite et mon dernier retour par « la porte », un Cobrafe m’a suivi et le passage a vu naître un GIRABRA
The Broqek are a humanoid species that competes with the Koruse for the Energon supplies in the universe. Originating from the same sector of space as the Koruse, the Broqek have a very different mentality. While the Koruse are technological masters - preferring to build complex robotic shells for themselves, the Broqek instead forcefully adapt animals to do their bidding.
The Broquek use variety of armoured bi and quadrupedal animals on terrestrial surfaces, and use large interstellar creatures to travel through space.
The Broqek are an isolated species - rarely found outside areas of Energon deposits - so their technology level is not well known. In particular the means of Faster Than Light travel inside non FTL creatures is currently unknown.
Due to the close proximity and need for Energon, Broquek commonly clash with the Koruse, as one has the mentality to strip Energon clean, while the other regard the Energon pools as sacred - and should only be used by the pure.
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft has made it possible for scientists to construct the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system and its location in the Milky Way galaxy. The new view will change the way researchers view and study the interaction between our galaxy and sun. The sky map was produced with data that two detectors on the spacecraft collected during six months of observations. The detectors measured and counted particles scientists refer to as energetic neutral atoms.
The energetic neutral atoms are created in an area of our solar system known as the interstellar boundary region. This region is where charged particles from the sun, called the solar wind, flow outward far beyond the orbits of the planets and collide with material between stars. The energetic neutral atoms travel inward toward the sun from interstellar space at velocities ranging from 100,000 mph to more than 2.4 million mph. This interstellar boundary emits no light that can be collected by conventional telescopes.
Full story:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ibex/allsky_map.html
Animation, detailed caption and color scale information:
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003600/a003635/
Credit: NASA/GSFC/SwRI/SVS
Strait out of camera!
Combine a dark room, a ceiling fan, some tape, some string, an LED, an old fiber optic lamp, a weird homemade lens filter, a camera, and a penny... and this is what you get.
I woke up hours late so I missed the brighter appearance of the Milky Way, but it still shows in the photo, though very faintly.
This is Mt. Pulag on a moonless, cloudless night, with me being 2,700 meters closer to the stars.
The sea of clouds cover the distant cities of Baguio and beyond.
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An attempt at low light shooting with long exposure.
Incidentally it became an interesting comparison of the 2 Panasonic kit lenses.
The 12-32 is very sharp, but with a somewhat flat rendering. Working against a strong highlight it explodes into a big sunstar which I don't mind, but unfortunately this comes with the rather nasty-looking and persistent green flare visible in the center of the image.
Era da tempo che non mi avvicinavo così tanto ad un palco.
Era da tempo che non mi eclissavo dietro ad un assolo di chitarra o ad un riff di basso.
Io ero lì. O almeno credo...un crescendo, sempre più rapido, sempre più intenso...le mani diventano fredde, l'aria diventa fredda...
...L'odore dei fumi, gli strilli degli strumenti, i musicisti in estasi. Quasi un orgasmo.
Poi la tastiera ti risucchia via , lontanissimo...quel riff ipnotico, di una chitarra... Ed io ero ancora lì, o almeno credo. Ora si lamentano, si contorcono, la musica sembra fluida, liquida, inconsistente..
In lontananza.. il tintinnio di una batteria, ti sveglia. Un sussulto, ho quasi paura, è come sentirsi nudi.
Nudi in un teatro. Anzi, no. è proprio come non avere più corpo.
4 years later, I finally returned to finish up the Ranger. All the shaping is done, just waiting on some bricklink orders to get everything in the right color. The brick-built solutions I came up with for the windows left me unsatisfied so I'll be printing some stickers to mask them in.
A short brickfilm featuring the model will hopefully be done by early July. Thanks for looking.
Help back this awesome poster project -
www.kickstarter.com/projects/126776535/interstellar-limit...