Awesome Thread

Wow, that has to be almost as good as watching the game live.


Wait, what..?

For those in the nose bleeds it's actually better, but I agree, it probably takes some attention from the game on the field.
 
Hmm... that's 50 feet high or 1524 cms, which brings it to about 1.2 cms per pixel (with margin). Considering the average distance to the screen, it's too high def for a normal human eye to make out.

It's actually 72 feet high, 162 feet wide, and hangs 90 feet off the ground.
 
Ah, got my info off of engadget... If it's 72 feet high, then the pixel is 1.8-ish cm, which is still too high def. :p
 
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaipWjZFtaM&feature=channel[/YOUTUBE]

In that case, (not that I'm affiliated with the team in any way)

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5FgVVS4L04[/YOUTUBE]

And yes, I know he clipped a cone at 3:35.
 
the huge Jumbo screen is so awesome, i'd just watch the screen and ignore the fact that there's some game going on below...
 
I posted this in the EPL thread in the Sports forum, but I think (mabye?) that it needs to go in here:
[youtube]_z-hW6-gsJw[/youtube]

I don't know what is going on, but I know that I need to see it.
 
Ah, got my info off of engadget... If it's 72 feet high, then the pixel is 1.8-ish cm, which is still too high def. :p

So it's actually the right definition, since the human eye is unable to detect any pixels.
 
I suppose, although it might still be overkill. 720p would have been just as fine.
 
1_003.jpg
 
500x_deltaheavy.jpg

After many requests and an enormous generation of interest following a post on the technology blog Gizmodo, here is the rest of the story:

This partcicular photo was taken with a film camera (to date, the last time I took an image on film) with the intent of not recoving a working camera post-launch and minimizing losses.

Knowing the forecast didn't call for rain between setup and launch time, the camera was not weather protected as is the norm, but with the hopes of doing all I could to make it withstand 1.9 million pounds of thrust, from a rocket as tall as a 24-story skyscraper, and lifting off just about 100 feet away, it was secured to the ground with three stakes and a nylon ratchet anchoring the tripod to the ground (a typical setup for a close photo: I have personally witnessed cameras thrown hundreds of feet by the fury of launches that were not properly secured).

The result on this one: a spectacular shot, a lens destroyed (though still in one piece), a camera still working and a missing trigger...

A careful search of the area finally found the sound-activated home-built trigger in the grass, stopped only by the pad's perimeter fence several hundred feet behind the camera. And yep, it still worked.
http://www.launchphotography.com/Delta_4-Heavy_DSP-23_camera.html
DSP-23_Greg_camera_before.jpg

DSP-23_Greg_camera_after.jpg


more awesomeness to be found at www.launchphotography.com
 
:blink:
 
Most awesome parrot ever. Can someone please do a comparison image between the parrots face and JCs softcore porn face.
 
Top