December 29, 2006

"Oh No, Not Again." ***

Via the Blowhards comes this sick-making but nonetheless fascinating video from a camera mounted on one of the booster rockets of the shuttle Atlantis as it (the booster, that is) plummets a loooooooong way down.

I've seen one of these before. This one is particularly cool because you can see the other booster falling for a long time. On the other hand, there seems to be a gap just before the end - one second you're still way above the clouds and the next you're looking at 'chute.

I can't decide if the accompanying audio is actually a recording of noises within the booster itself or else just some kind of funky New Age score.

(*** Ten points for identifying the quote.)

UPDATE: I was having some trouble with the link and tried to repaste it. If it still doesn't work, go to the Blowhard link instead.

I also think the sound really is of the booster itself. But with music what it is these days, who can tell for sure?

I also wonder whether the "gap" I mentioned isn't just caused by the camera suddenly being jerked around when the 'chutes let go.

Posted by Robert at December 29, 2006 01:44 PM | TrackBack
Comments

The flowerpot, over Magrathea. (sp?)

Posted by: Russ at December 29, 2006 01:54 PM

I can give you half credit - full marks if you say what specifically was in the flowerpot.

Posted by: Robbo the LB at December 29, 2006 01:58 PM

...flowers...?

Posted by: McGehee at December 29, 2006 04:33 PM

Geraniums, IIRC.

Posted by: Russ at December 29, 2006 04:48 PM

Yes, but weren't the flowers a reincarnation of something that kept trying to kill Arthur Dent?

Posted by: dillene at December 29, 2006 11:07 PM

Excellent, team, although technically it was Arthur Dent who kept killing the thing - it only sought revenge in its last reincarnation.

Now, for game, set and match:

- What was the being's name?

- What did his kill-Arthur-Dent form look like?

- Where did he take Arthur Dent to be killed and what was its most prominant feature?

Posted by: Robbo the LB at December 30, 2006 08:30 AM

Sorry, wrong quotation source (Interesting when the quoter doesn't even get the correct quotee). It's actually Anakin Skywalker when his lightsaber gets cut in half on the assembly line on Geonosis in Attack of the Clones. Nothing about spacecraft could connect with geraniums.

It's not that hard to get this stuff right. Sheesh.

Posted by: Hucbald at December 31, 2006 03:06 PM