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“Fake!” I hear you cry. That’s what I thought, especially as the above video has comments disabled, however, the next video goes some way to explaining how this could be possible. To understand how this works, take a read of the Meissner effect and diamagnetic (ism) over on Wikipedia. Essentially, when you cool something to [...]

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I must have seen this film half a dozen times and heard the soundtrack many many more than that but I’ve never really stopped to appreciate the incredible projections onto the painted gold skin in the titles. Looks truly awesome, don’t know how I missed it before. Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous

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Turn the volume down, the music is well dodgy. This video is composed of 3,418 frames taken by Spirit’s front-right hazcam played back at 24 frames per second. The images are either 1024 x1024, 512 x 512, or 256 x 256 pixels. This time-lapse covers 4.8 miles of driving over the course of 5 years, [...]