Nasa's Voyager 1 is the farthest manmade object ever sent from Earth. Launched in 1977, it is now 11 billion miles away and has entered the 'magnetic highway'- the point at which it leaves our solar system. Shame Sir Patrick Moore (RIP) will not be around to discover what lies beyond.
In 1990, Voyager turned around to look back towards us, and took a photo of the Earth, a shot where our planet is so small it appears as a Pale Blue Dot. (Have a look below, that's not dust on your screen in that light brown sun beam)
This became the title of a bestselling book by Carl Sagan, and this stunning animation uses his words.
Fairly obvious how most of this is done, but fantastic sleight of hand and comedy madness all the same. Yann Frisch won the 'FISM' this year, the World Championships of Magic. It was held in Blackpool. In July. Never knew something like that existed. Why wasn't it on TV? Maybe it was.
Paul Daniels also does some cup and ball juggling. "Say Yes Paul".
Thought the original video was hilarious anyway, but this just adds that *little bit* more. Imagine having to learn that weird dance routine in the first place, it just doesn't make any sense, go anywhere and say anything, does it? Oh, apart from the bit where she flashes her ringless finger / hand in the chorus.
Yes, call me old, but those odd-middle-eight-dance-routines that Janet Jackson started in the late 80's have seemingly influenced everyone in that female-singer-but-look-I-can-dance genre, and they have always been shite, and Beyonce has extended that to a full length video of nonsense.
Without the timing of those poor dancers alongside the 'star', those professional dancers that have also spent hours learning these weird bobbins moves, a solo '
performer doing this sort of routine in a local disco would look like someone in need of restraint / help / a bit of a talking too, along the lines of 'can you please stop showing off' or 'have you taken your medication'.
Thanks to mrandrist on B3ta.com for sharing earlier today - yes it's a bit old, but I'd not seen it before.
An animation of cloud free photographs taken by a satellite on Earth's dark side, knitted together to reveal our globe radiating its fragile light into the darkness of space.
Or Laws Of Motion & Gravity vs. a comically involved, complicated invention, laboriously contrived to perform a simple operation, usually involving a chain reaction.
All makes sense at around 30secs.
Here is Red Bull's version. **Warning** Includes Free Running.
