Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch in 500fps HD

So.. take the most powerful liquid fuel rocket motors ever built, load them with over 5 million pounds of rocket propellant kerosene, and film the ignition sequence in 500 frames-per-second of mind-boggling, Matrix-like bullet time.

Next, watch the results over, and over, and over, and envy the people who get to do this every other month for a living! :-/

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo.

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Camera shutter speed and chopper blades

Pretty cool trick- if you know how to change your camera's shutter speed.

Reminds me of a printing press stroboscope demo I watched nearly a decade ago..

A stroboscope is an instrument for observing moving bodies by making them visible intermittently and thereby giving them the optical illusion of being stationary. A stroboscope may operate by illuminating the object with brilliant flashes of light or by imposing an intermittent shutter between the viewer and the object.

For me, that little definition eventually led to the discovery of timing belts and how they use a similar kit for cars...

Eisenhower interstate system

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that 1 mile in every 5 must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in emergency situations.

Octopus

"Unfortunately, the octopus seems to have fallen into the bad habit of relying on a narrator to convey the story. Like Tarantino before him, however, his juxtaposition of pop music with unsettling imagery is inspired."

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