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Music Break: Cassini Solstice Mission Set to Nine Inch Nails “Ghosts”

Posted by mistergroonk in Just Freaking Neat, Music, Photography, Space, World on June 9, 2011

Vimeo’s Chris Abbas honors the lads and lasses working on the Cassini Solstice Mission by sexing up the images caught by Cassini with the sounds of NIN Ghosts I–IV.

Open your eyes. Darken your room and/or cubicle and absorb.

This is the perfect opportunity for a Carl Sagan quote:

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

The footage in this little film was captured by the hardworking men and women at NASA with the Cassini Imaging Science System. If you’re interested in learning more about Cassini and the on-going Cassini Solstice Mission, check it out at NASA’s website:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm

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The Ghost Cities of China as Seen by Satellite

Posted by mistergroonk in Photography, World on January 13, 2011

As reported by Business Insider:

One red flag is the vast number of vacant homes spread through China, by some estimates up to 64 million vacant homes.

We’ve tracked down satellite photos of these unnerving places, based on a report from Forensic Asia Limited. They call it a clear sign of a bubble: “There’s city after city full of empty streets and vast government buildings, some in the most inhospitable locations. It is the modern equivalent of building pyramids. With 20 new cities being built every year, we hope to be able to expand our list going forward.”

Recent statistics show that there are about 64 million apartments and houses that have remained empty during the past six months, according to Chinese media reports. On the assumption that each flat serves as a home to a typical Chinese family of three (parents and one child), the vacant properties could accommodate 200 million people, which account for more than 15% of the country’s 1.3 billion population. But instead, they remain empty. This is in part because many Chinese believe that a home is not a real home unless you own the flat.

And so people prefer buying to renting, and as a result, the rental yield is relatively low.

Many many more photos at the source.

via business insider: 1, 2

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Tuesday Tease: British Being Human Trailer Inspires Hope for Series 3 Debut

Posted by mistergroonk in Television, Trailers on January 11, 2011

Synopsis
A vampire, a werewolf and a ghost move-in together. Take 3. No really.

What We Learned:
It looks like all the old temptations are at play. But what will be the fate of Annie? Our purely harmless, burning crush on Lenora Crichlow will not be sated by her occasional ghostly blips on the nearby telly.

Why We’ll Watch:
The Being Human series has been a pleasant surprise. It’s not about the cursed using their abilities to right wrongs or protect the night. It’s about three unique individuals afflicted in such a way that they are considered monsters in the literal sense. When, in fact, their struggle to fit in, not make waves and resist their primal urges makes then all the more human. This is an easy concept to grasp. But it’s also damn near impossible to pull off with any kind of weight or sense of fun. The creators and cast of this Being Human are one of the chosen few to “get it right.”

When’s it coming?
All signs point to some time in January 2011.

Official site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/beinghuman/

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2 for Tuesday Tease: THE FOURTH KIND of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY

Posted by mistergroonk in Movies, Trailers on October 20, 2009

The pinnacle of the ever widening debate between scientific logic versus steadfast belief is found in The X-Files Revelations .

Mulder refuses to believe in miracles. He does believe in little green men walking the streets, looking for his missing sister, and doing very odd things with bees.

Sculley refuses to believe in the rubber man, the moth man, and shark men that hunger for human brains but try very hard not to eat people’s brains only to fail and give in to primal instincts in the end. She just can’t abide these things exist in her world of science. She does believe in Catechism which proves she still has lingering remnants of faith.

For us, The X-Files peaked at this character revelation. Not long after, it degenerated back into a tired monster of the week scenario. On really bad days they “deepened” the mythology with so much nonsense that we ceased to care. Luckily Revelations remains as a small beacon of thought.

Aliens and ghosts. That’s our world distilled to its base elements. Hollywood, in its infinite wisdom, continues to dip into those wells.

THE FOURTH KIND

Summary
Strange things are happening in Nome, Alaska. More people disappear there than in any other city in the state. These same people are seeing snowy owls sitting in their windows — staring. Only they are not owls. Leeloo takes a break from her duties as the Supreme Being to investigate.

Assessment
Those grey aliens scare the crap out of us. Know that if we ever see one of those little bastards staring in our window while in the warm, comfy folds of nighttime we’re grabbing the nearest stick and murder the shit out of it. Galactic relations be damned. This creepy stalker shit will not stand, man.

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