Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Cosmos...Again

Make it so, Number One!!

Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts COSMOS

This leaves me wondering when Michio Kaku  is going to get his own show. I love that guy!

Bill Nye, Newton's Apple, and 3 2 1 Contact weren't slouches by a long shot, but if I'd had science teachers like Sagan, deGrasse Tyson, and Kaku who knows...maybe I'd have volunteered to be among the first to colonize Mars.

Instead I chose to study history, anthropology, archaeology, and sociology which lead me to look down/backwards/inwards instead of up/forward/outward. But comparing those fields is astounding when you realize the same species that did cave paintings and persecuted scientific "heretics" also launched the Hubble telescope and now wear Google glasses.

PS My chosen fields of study and many a movie teach us that the first colonists always have a terrible time of it!

Thursday, July 4, 2013

1 hour Eve Online Ship Gallery

I'm always looking to get my geek on with some cool ships to drool over. Found some.

Eve Ships Video

It's a phenomenal video, set to great music, all put together using 3 workstations. Most impressive.

Update: Because so many people had commented on the above video asking for better scale comparisons, the videographer went and made this one.

The Minmatar are still by far my favorites, followed closely by the Gallente.