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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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Images of the week: Trees around the world
This post starts a weekly series where we will select images on different subjects from various sources on the web. This week we’re a bit short on time so we just browsed our image archives…
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Time: Melting and collapsing iceberg videos
While watching calving icebergs or glaciers always has been kind of spectacular for most people, these days with continuously shrinking polar ice caps something might be different.
Watch the videos to see how even a “small piece” or iceberg collapsing can cause gigantic waves or a tsunami…
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