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.

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So the lake here in Madison has frozen over and I caught the UW sports society ( which goes by the name ‘Hoofers’ ) putting up a giant head and torch in the ice.

First I assumed it was a reference to the recent ‘the day after tommorrow’ but turns out it’s more meant to referrence the original planet of the apes.

Nonetheless, I just thought this was way cool. See attached photos ( Taken with crappy iPhone camera. ) I wish I had had time to come back later when it was fully set up.

- Johannes