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 Tuesday 27 May 2013
  
  Not everything that matters can
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Amazing - The Antikythera Mechanism

 

The Antikythera Mechanism - 2D
The Antikythera Mechanism - 2D

More than 21 centuries ago, a mechanism of fabulous ingenuity was created in Greece, a device capable of indicating exactly how the sky would look for decades to come.

 

Incredibly it was able to show the position of the moon and sun, lunar phases and even eclipses.

 

But this invention would be drowned in the sea and its secret forgotten for two thousand years.

 

The accompanying video is a tribute from Swiss clock-maker Hublot and film-maker Philippe Nicolet to this device, known as the Antikythera Mechanism, or the world's "first computer".

 

The fragments of the Mechanism were discovered in 1901 by sponge divers near the island of Antikythera. It is kept since then at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece.

 

For more than a century, researchers were trying to understand its functions. Now, with the use of the latest technology, it is possible understand the mechanism and finally create a modern day replica.

 

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Quirky Quips by David Cummings

 

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

 
 

It Pays To Plan Ahead
 

MEGAWOOSH - Bruno Kammerl jumps
MEGAWOOSH - Bruno Kammerl jumps

The attached clip shows just how important it is to plan ahead.

 

And shows how, when you do, you can be spectacularly successful.

 

Here we see how German engineer Bruno Kammeri came up with a special type of neoprene material dubbed Softslide that his web site describes as "almost frictionless.

 

Kammerl's goal was to build the longest and most exciting waterslide in the world to demonstrate its effectiveness.

 

He started off with some tests, published videos about it on YouTube, and publicly searched for investors. Then an "influential sponsor" came along and made it possible to test the slide in the German Alps, which led to the video shown here.

 

Well that's the story we're told, but now we see why it is so important to plan ahead.

 

The video was in fact part of a viral marketing campaign by Microsoft Germany and it went on to receive over 6,000,000 hits.

 

Was it a good promotion for Microsoft Office? Who knows? Was it a successful viral video? You bet.

 

To see how it was planned ahead Click Here

 

The Marvels of Modern Science

 

Gabriel Fahrenheit Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was born on 24 May 1686 and died on 16 September 1736.

 

He was a Dutch-German-Polish physicist, engineer, and glass blower who is best known for inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer (1714), and for developing a temperature scale now named after him.

 

A pretty amazing career and it's also pretty amazing that after all the years that have passed, and the fact that there are no contemporary pictures, we can nevertheless see what he probably looked like.

 

Because now, scientists in Poland have created a computer portrait of the 18th century physicist using images of his relatives.

 

Jerzy Proficz from the Gdansk University of Technology said on Tuesday a team of three scientists built a computer application to create the most probable likeness of historical figures.

 

Using historical data, descriptions of the features and images of relatives, they created the portrait of Fahrenheit, of whom no reliable likenesses exist.

 

His lasting claim to fame is that the mercury thermometer and a temperature scale now named after him that is still in use in the United States, Britain and Canada.

 

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The Four Yorkshire Men Sketch
  
AT LAST THE 1948 SHOW - Brooke-Taylor, Chapman, Cleese, Feldman - Four Yorkshiremen
AT LAST THE 1948 SHOW - Brooke-Taylor, Chapman, Cleese, Feldman - Four Yorkshiremen

Prompted by our "How Times Change" cartoon (see below) we promptly received an email from Yorkshire pointing out that owning a fat TV was a luxury.

 

He pointed out that that when he was young no one even had a TV.

 

(We assume Sam is a male, despite knowing the perils of assuming)

 

To prove his point he attached a link to a (Black & White) clip from "At Last The 1948" show; a worthy predecessor to the Monty Python series.

 

The clip features Graham Chapman, Tim Brook-Taylor, John Cleese and Marty Feldman and the producer was David Frost. Easy to see how Python came to be.

 

If you are ever tempted to think you had things tough we advise you check out this video clip. Just Click Here

 

How Times Change

  
How Times Change
  
Bring Back The Memories  

 

Swing Time - Rogers and Astaire

Swing Time -

Rogers and Astaire

Fred Astaire was born Frederick Austerlitz on May 10 1899 and had broken into Broadway by 1917.

 

He went on to become one of America's favourite entertainers as a stage dancer, choreographer, singer, musician and actor.

 

His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films.

 

Gene Kelly, another major innovator in filmed dance, said that "the history of dance on film begins with Astaire".

 

Beyond film and television, many classical dancers and choreographers, Rudolf Nureyev, Sammy Davis, Jr., Michael Jackson, Gregory Hines, Mikhail Baryshnikov, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins among them, also acknowledged his importance and influence.

 

He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers*, with whom he made ten films.

 

* Those who wish to steal his thunder say Ginger did everything did, but in high heels and backwards.

 

For dazzling dancing  Click Here 

 

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