Shadow Graphics

If you enjoy watching the discovery channel, history channel, etc. you have probably at one point or another seen a documentary or two on asteroid collisions. Sadly most of the times the depiction of what such a collision with earth would actually look like is hardly breathtaking, and you don’t grasp the scope of just how big and powerful of an event this would be.

A few years back I found a video of an asteroid crashing into the earth that did a really nice job of showing, very nicely rendered, just what such a collision would look like, but it was very low quality, and with Japanese naration and subtitles.

However today I found that someone had uploaded the original footage, in HD on youtube, and to top it off, there’s pink floyd’s “the great gig in the sky” playing in the background.

I strongly encourage for you to click the little ^ arrow in the bottom right, and select HD, then watch it in full screen. It’s breathtaking:

For Those of you that are curious about what’s happening, here’s the original footage with the original english narration, from the discovery channel special: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTKau14cvQ4