Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Canon and the robot: A high-rez fable
There is a race to obtain the largest possible digital photography and you have seen quite a number of them in our record images theme here. Today, Gerald Donovan, a Dubai-based photographer has associated the best photo robot and a Canon EOS 7D D-SLR camera. This contraption allowed to automatically shoot nearly a million (!)…
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High temperatures, low temperatures
Here, we don’t even speak about Summer or Winter; This is not about global warming either. The Rasmussen College presents us a great poster sweeping the widest possible range of temperatures to allow us to travel through universe’s thermal diversity. I hope they will sell the poster somewhere.
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If you want 25 answers
photo credit: Marco Bellucci So, as suggested, you used Yahoo! Answers to grab the attention of Yahoo! users (and Yahoo! search engine) and of people who have questions to ask. So, you thought that this was the end of it? Of course not. Even if Yahoo! has a great legion of followers (specially in the…
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The Scale of the Universe
A nice Flash animation that you can play with to get a grasp of the dimensional diversity of our universe. Fly from portion of a yocto-meter to many yotta-meters.
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Helicopter crash test
You already saw fine impressive car crash tests on Roumazeilles.net, but did you know that NASA recently dropped a helicopter from 35 feet high in order to check how it will sustain the shock? YouTube link
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Electron Microscopy and Music
Vinyl records are a thing of the past, mostly. But it’s still very nice to see how they look when you zoom in with an Electron Microscope. Reckon has a gallery of images that show the finely engraved grooves of a vinyl record. It also shows this video of how a vinyl record was made.…
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Guitar playing in Botswana
Who said there was only one way to play the guitar? You Tube link The guitar player, Ronnie Moipolai, lives in Kopong a village 50 km North of Gaborone, Botswana’s capital.
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Mark Twain
Exactly one century ago, died Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[3] better-known by his pen name Mark Twain. So, why not celebrate this with a few tidbits about him? For example, the only known video showing Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) at home with his two daughters Clara and Jean: YouTube link…