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Environment: WWF – It’s a beautiful day
A new clip for the WWF to raise awareness about Global Warming. We are shown – with black humor – how people have adapted to the changes in weather patterns and natural disasters.
A couple taking a stroll with their baby during a Hurricane, campers out in the “wilderness” that has become a burning forest and the “good people” still washing their cars on the weekend even while they’re drowning in the flood.
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Pictures of the evolution of space debris
With only 800 of the once launched 6000 satellites still being operational, the pile of space debris is becoming an ever-increasing amount of inactive space hardware orbiting around the Earth.
50% of the mess that besides old satellites also includes broken…
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Environment: MTV 3650
A short film for “MTV Switch” to help raise the awareness of global warming effects. The film combines live action and animation with toy-like clouds, cars, planes moving around a globe. Cities and traffic grows until the whole globe is over-run and choked by cities and pollution filled clouds.
According to the movie there are only about 10 years (3650 days) left until the pollution will…
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Design: Create a bowl from a topographic map
Austrian Design shop FluidForms that offers individualized designs now also provides a service to create wooden bowls based on topographic maps.
To create your own bowl – for your home location or a place you like – go to their web site and in 3 quick steps you will have the design finished and can preview it in an interactive 3D viewer.
You just select the location you want by entering…
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Animation: Once Upon A Tide
Telling the story of our dependency on the oceans in beautiful calm pictures (well that’s how it starts). Great video – we like the excellently done mix of animation and real pictures…
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Space travel: Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo
Today Richard Branson’s space travel company “Virgin Galactic” has unveiled the design of its new space launch system.
Together with the new SpaceShipTwo the carrier aircraft called White Knight Two (WK2) was presented. Virgin Galactic says that WK2 is very close to completion and is expected to begin flight testing in the summer of 2008.
The carrier aircraft WK2 will get SpaceShipTwo up into the sky to about 60,000 feet (18,288 meters) where the two vessel then separate and SpaceShipTwo rockets into outer space.
For an expected ticket price of USD 200,000 six passengers and two crew members will then get about 4 1/2 minutes of zero-gravity time 68 miles (110 km) above us mere mortals before gliding back to Earth…
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