If you know anything about the history of spaceflight, you’re probably already familiar with the historic journey of USSR cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who flew around the Earth in 1961, making him the first person to ever travel beyond our planet’s atmosphere. While audio recordings of Gagarin’s observations exist, there are no video recordings except for those recently shot at the ISS following a similar plot of his trip, directed by Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, who currently lives on the space station. This video has now been matched up with Gagarin’s audio, and made into a film to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his flight, which is on April 12th. The movie will be made available on that date for free download on YouTube.
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It has been demonstrated by our most brilliant scientists that people who purchase wiper blades on a frequent basis are in fact all round much cooler on average than people who do not. You think this is stupid but you would be mistaken as the next time you hop into your car and turn on the ignition take some time to appraise just what an abject human being you really are. You used to be cool man, what became to making it in a rock and roll band or training as an astronaut somewhere along the path you lost your way and became boring. The wiper blades rule is an established fact, the less wiper blades you buy the contracted sex you have and the balder you become. In fact life becomes a thick thicket of disappointment and compromise until you are affected and surrender to a life of small mediocrity.
The wiper blade disillusion process can happen anytime but is usually most apparent in your early thirties, this is the time when you must decide on giving up on your dreams, if you had any to begin with, and taking a nice job which you hate in order to pay for a mortgage and a bunch of kids you barely stand. So get out and buy some wiper blade before you become incredibly un-cool and keel over into the foetal stance and cry yourself to sleep at night. The standard wiper blade model has come a long way before back in the forties or whatever when you last got a pair, these days they come in all sorts of cool new style which you can use to make yourself cool again. The next time you leap into the car and gun it on the open highway spare a thought for the humble wiper blade which keeps your view clear and avoid you driving into a tree at one hundred mile per hour. Imagine that, losing your life so cavalierly all for want of a lone thin strip of rubber costing less moolah than a pint of gin. You don’t want to be eating out of a straw for the last of your life nor crying into your ice bucket for the hurt you’ve caused after careening over the neighbours cat, mittens long stocking the third.
So get off your fat ass and go get a replacement wiper blade right now god damn it, all you really need to know is that the optimum ones are not produced from rubber any more, in fact, these ones are freaking lame, go out and talk to any cool hombre and he will tell you that all the cool kids drive cars with silicone replacement wiper blade attached as default. In fact if you are found by a group of gang bangers without silicone replacement wiper blade on your pimped out ride they will perhaps want to shoot you in the face. The silicone wipers is really good, you see it has a radiant ingredient, silicone, which makes every thing rose coloured and all your desires come true. Its also pretty good at cleaning the wind screen when it rains, that’s pretty good to.
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Through the power of IMAX® 3D, Hubble 3D will enable movie-goers to journey through distant galaxies to explore the grandeur and mysteries of our celestial surroundings, and accompany space-walking astronauts as they attempt the most difficult and important tasks in NASAs history. The film will offer an inspiring and unique look into the Hubble Space Telescopes legacy and highlight its profound impact on the way we view the universe and ourselves. Hubble 3D is an IMAX and Warner Bros. Pictures production, in cooperation with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The film reunites the Space Station 3D filmmaking team, led by Producer/Director Toni Myers. Hubble 3D will blast off exclusively to IMAX and IMAX 3D theatres on March 19th, 2010. Narrated by Leonardo Dicaprio….interview with astronaut mike massimino… g4tv.com
After losing thousands of spacecraft in Atari’s Lunar Lander game (or at least the Commodore 64 port) I came to realize that I probably was not cut out to be an astronaut. But deep down the dream of piloting and landing a craft on the lunar surface is still alive, and it’s been rekindled after seeing Iain Sharp’s Lunar Lander arcade cabinet, which replaces the vector graphics of the original game with real life dials, gauges and a miniature model of the lander itself.
There’s plenty of details about the arcade machine on LushProjects.com and their build blog, including how it was engineered and put together, but those of us who are just interested in the game itself will find the following video more than satisfying.
If you know anything about the history of spaceflight, you’re probably already familiar with the historic journey of USSR cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who flew around the Earth in 1961, making him the first person to ever travel beyond our planet’s atmosphere. While audio recordings of Gagarin’s observations exist, there are no video recordings except for those recently shot at the ISS following a similar plot of his trip, directed by Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, who currently lives on the space station. This video has now been matched up with Gagarin’s audio, and made into a film to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his flight, which is on April 12th. The movie will be made available on that date for free download on YouTube.
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