Earth - The Pale Blue Dot

This is Carl Sagan reading from his book, "The Pale Blue Dot". Director Michael Marantz shoots the timelapse for this piece, composes the music and edits.

You might just tear up watching this video.

Why do people laugh at creationists?

These are hilarious, its easy to think that some of the videos or points being made are just stating the obvious, but there are people who not only still believe in this stuff, and are so passionate about it, that they want our children to be taught creationist science in schools alongside evolution.

Why do people laugh at creationists?

The only people so stupid as to not understand the answer are the creationists themselves.

There are over 20 of these videos under the YouTube user Thunderf00t.

Watch them here

Fifty Years of Exploration

BP Oil fiasco rendered using Unreal Engine

If you are of the type of the gamer who actually keeps abreast with daily world news besides gaming then you should not be a stranger to the BP Oil fiasco. According to reports, the amount of oil spilling in to the Gulf of Mexico stands at 25,000 barrels a day. Now how much is that in terms of quantity one might ask? We have got the answer for that. We got a video from Youtube which uses the Unreal Engine to render 25,000 barrels. Check it out, its pretty interesting.

Mass physics demonstration I rendered in the UDK, simulating 25,000 barrels stacked around a pillar 15,000 feet high, and then group by group falling to the ground.

I accomplished this by using the UDK to construct the setup and then running the benchmark shortcut command to render the scene.

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Whaling deal splits countries and conservationists

A deal that could regulate whaling for the next 10 years is up for debate at the International Whaling Commission's meeting opening in Agadir, Morocco.

The proposal would see Iceland, Japan and Norway given annual quotas with hunts more tightly scrutinised, while international trade could be banned.

Some anti-whaling countries and some conservation groups support the idea, while others are implacably opposed.

Few observers are prepared to predict whether the deal will be approved.

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