Apollo 11 features in a TV film which captures NASA’s early days with beautifully restored footage, making it it look like yesterday, says Chelsea Whyte in her latest column Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332391-500-apollo-11-looks-like-yesterday-in-new-tv-show-using-restored-footage/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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A New Study Uses Camera Footage To Track the Frequency of Bystander Intervention
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CityLab: It’s one of the most enduring urban myths of all: If you get in trouble, don’t count on anyone nearby to help. Research dating back to the late 1960s documents how the great majority of people who witness crimes or violent behavior refuse to intervene. Psychologists dubbed this non-response as the “bystander effect”…
Scientists Use Camera With Human-Like Vision To Capture 5,400 FPS Video
An anonymous reader quotes a report from PetaPixel: A team of scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) have figured out how to capture super slow-motion footage using what’s called an “Event Camera.” That is: a camera that sees the world in a continuous stream of information, the way humans do. Regular cameras work by capturing…
Moon Landing Footage Would Have Been Impossible to Fake. Here’s Why.
It’s been half a century since the magnificent Apollo 11 moon landing, yet some people still don’t believe it actually happened. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65911-moon-landing-footage-impossible-to-fake.html
Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot video gets makeover
A 4K remaster of the infamous footage, which is alleged to show a live Bigfoot, has been posted online. Filmed in 1967 in Northern California, the Pat… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/328962/patterson-gimlin-bigfoot-video-gets-makeover…
Film expert explains why Moon landing footage would have been impossible to fake
It’s been a half-century since the magnificent Apollo 11 moon landing, yet many people still don’t believe it actually happened. Conspiracy theories about the event dating back to the 1970s are in fact more popular than ever. A common theory is that film director Stanley Kubrick helped NASA fake the historic footage of its six successful moon landings. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-07-expert-moon-footage-impossible-fake.html…
Five reasons future space travel should explore asteroids
On the same day that the Earth survived an expected near-miss with asteroid 367943 Duende, Russian dashcams unexpectedly captured footage of a different asteroid as it slammed into the atmosphere, exploded, and injured more than 1,000 people. That day in Chelyabinsk in February 2013 reminded the world that the Earth does not exist in a bubble. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-07-future-space-explore-asteroids.html…
Super rare video of giant squid in US waters
Here be monsters. This video shows a living giant squid, captured on camera in its natural habitat for only the 2nd time in history. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/giant-squid-video-photos…
AR Recreation of Apollo 11 Mission in Celebration of 50th Anniversary of Moon Landing
edX and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library have partnered to bring an exciting experience to the edX community. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library is launching the JFK Moonshot, a first-of-its-kind augmented reality app experience. From July 16th to the 20th, the app will provide users anywhere in the…