NASA Captures Rocket Flames Like No One Has Seen Before With A New Camera
Recently thousands of spectators have gathered to witness the test of a new booster (QM-2) for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) – the most powerful rocket booster engine in the making. What they probably didn’t know is that another major test was taking place in the same place.
The booster test was a perfect opportunity to try out the High Dynamic Range Stereo X (HiDyRS-X) – a revolutionary new camera system that allows capturing extremely bright objects without darkening the rest of the image. It works by taking multiple slow motion videos of different exposures simultaneously and then combining them into one high-quality clip.
It has provided scientists with images that were never captured before, giving an insight into extremely hostile environments. So hostile in fact, that the rocket blast actually blew off the power supply for the camera just a couple of seconds after ignition.
The system is a result of NASA’s Early Career Initiative, which allows young engineers to lead projects and develop hardware alongside the professionals of the industry.
(h/t: nasa , gizmodo )
Regular camera
High Dynamic Range Stereo X
Watch it in motion:
Andrius
In cahoots with the secret orde… With nobody. In cahoots with nobody.
This Guy Made Real-Life Thor Hammer That Only He Can Lift
Thor’s hammer Mjolnir has an awesome anti-theft device in that it can’t be lifted by the unworthy. A fan recreated this feature with his own hammer. Not having access to the magic of the Norse gods, he opted to use electromagnets (salvaged from a microwave) and a thumbprint scanner. If anyone who doesn’t have their print recorded tries to lift the pseudo-Mjolnir, they can’t – as long as the hammer stays on a metal surface!
The hammer doesn’t return to the wielder’s arm and won’t get stuck to non-metal surface – we probably need about 20 years of technological and nerd engineer evolution for those features. The hammer was made by YouTube user “Sufficiently Advanced” (Allen Pan). The name is a reference to the third law of British sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
More info: youtube.com (h/t: wired )
Many have tried to lift Mjolnir…
…but none succeeded!
Only the worthy – or the hammer’s creator Allen Pan – can pick it up!
The magic rests mainly in a salvaged microwave electromagnet and a thumbprint scanner.
See why only the worthy can lift Mjolnir, Hammer Of Thor:
Martynas Klimas
Writes like a mad dervish, rolls to dodge responsibility, might have bitten the Moon once.
