A pleasing short by Paul Bush in which hundreds of motorbikes are animated frame by frame in a stop motion homage to the iconic motorcycle design and culture of the 1950s and 60s. To wit:
A rider prepares his bike and departs on an idealised journey into the countryside and into the future.
Behold: the Lotus Emira – the last petrol engined car the company will make before switching to all-electric powertrains.
The Emira’s sculpted aluminium body – a stylistic continuation of the Elise, Exige, and Evora – contains the same 3.5-litre V6 with an AMG turbocharged four as a top spec option. 0-100km/h in 4.5 seconds and a top speed of 290km/h.
Deliveries start in 2022 and the entry level model will cost around €70,000.
Mars? Pfft. Who wants to live on that boring red kip?
Come the time when extraterrestrial colonisation becomes unavoidable, why not relocate to Earth’s ‘sister planet’?
A 96% carbon dioxide atmosphere.
Mean daytime temperatures of 737 K (464 °C).
Skies filled with clouds of sulphuric acid.
What’s not to like?
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt breaks it down for your delectation.
Previously: The Day The Dinosaurs Died
Behold: the glorious Orion nebula and what it might be like to fly through it. To wit:
The exciting dynamic visualisation of the Orion Nebula is based on real astronomical data and adept movie rendering techniques. Up close and personal with a famous stellar nursery normally seen from 1,500 light-years away, the digitally modelled representation based is based on infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope. The perspective moves along a valley over a light-year wide, in the wall of the region’s giant molecular cloud. Orion’s valley ends in a cavity carved by the energetic winds and radiation of the massive central stars of the Trapezium star cluster. The entire Orion Nebula spans about 40 light years and is located in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as the Sun.
(Video: NASA, Spitzer Space Telescope, Universe of Learning; Visualisation: F. Summers (STScI) et al.; Music & License: Serenade for Strings (A. Dvořák), Advent Chamber Orch.)
A short by Ed Bulmer in which Frank recalls an awkward attempt at workplace humour.
The story was inspired by this podcast episode in which a neuroscientist explains that “every time you revisit a memory, the more inaccurate it becomes; each time becoming further distorted by your perception of events rather what actually happened”.
