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- Skitals, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Um, is there something wrong with my calculations?
"The 23-minute show contains segments that required 90 hours of supercomputer calculation for each on-screen second"
23 minutes x 60 seconds in a minute x 90 hours per second / 24 hours in a day / 365 days in a year = 14 years of supercomputer calculations.
Sounds like someone is inflating some numbers to make it sound uberimpressive. - teh_toaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Coral is still chugging along. Right-click > Save Link As:
http://www.dmns.org.nyud.net:8090/video/blackHolesBB.wmv - xportz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Unless they used 14 supercomputers - not to mention they say "some segments" required 90 minutes - not the entire film.
- Jaxor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Bam! Digg Effect!
++DIG! - PAStheLoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0pff .. no link to video :C
- wthulhu, on 08/29/2009, -0/+0video's down, but i like the idea.
- Jarasmen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Meh, I tought I could download that game :(
- crazyman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is awesome. I always wondered wha tit could be like in a black hole.
- tominator1983, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There's another link to the trailer on this page:
http://www.dmns.org/main/en/
You can also see screenshots here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/science/28prof.html?_r=1&oref=slogin - jjustice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Haven't watched it yet but if there's any scientific reality to this then it might be the coolest thing in a long time! Those descriptions and illustrations in the kids science books about black holes never made that much sense to me. Do you remember the one with the thimble with a black hole in it, on a seesaw with elephants on the other side, and it outweighs them? That was mindboggling ;-)
- CadMasterAdam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0slickline
- CadMasterAdam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0'She's going down captain!'
- OperationIvy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0pretty sick as we also just went over this in physics today
+digg+- - XxN3RDC0R3xX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dude.. THAT is fscking awesome.
It looks like a preview to a longer movie. That is seriously awesome. - cryonix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i downloaded it but it just played the first three seconds of the video then stops. did the same when i tried to stream it. anyone else having simular problems?
- XxN3RDC0R3xX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, you can use more than one supercomputer.
- ZacamCheron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Registering with the NYTimes - FTL. Thanks teh_toaster for putting up a direct link.
Being only a trailer - FTL, but now I definitely want to see this. - andreo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What's it like to be swallowed by a black hole? I can give them the phone number of my ex-girlfriend. They can run simulations on her.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Screw the trailer, I wanna see the whole damn thing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nothing great. It's a trailer...
- gnalakalaciath5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0awesome, wouldn't be all that fun going in a canoe though...
wonder where/when you can see it? - kl9470spin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol, interesting.. though the video does not work for me.. diggeffect mayb?
- Kestral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice trailer. All I want to know is: how can I see the whole damn movie without going to Colorado.
- bedwyr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Liam Neeson AND Black Holes???
Definitely +digg - orangetiki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This looks like the stuff they play on projectors in nightclubs. And what the heck is the fifth dimension? Isn't that where Buckaroo Bonzai fights off the aliens who drink battery acid?
- nonchallant0819, on 03/28/2008, -0/+0This is a great story... found this one through http://www.google.com
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http://www.TopNotchCarpentry.com - Visceral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Will this video simulate my body getting ripped apart molecule by molecule by the massive gravity differential? Will Liam tell me what my Midichlorian count is?"
You assume it's a static hole. Rotating holes don't have this problem. - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Apparently entering a black hole looks like Kubrick's 2001 "trip" sequence, judging from the stills. I wonder if Kubrick took 90 hours to render each frame, too...
- MikeCampo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Damn, too bad that the site is almost dead.
- Dufresne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0pretty sweet
I wish i could understand it better - RobotCitizen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Will this video simulate my body getting ripped apart molecule by molecule by the massive gravity differential? Will Liam tell me what my Midichlorian count is?
- whiskeymb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I took a class that the professor taught. He used the simulartor a lot in class and it was a great tool to help us vizualize what would theoretically happen. Please digg this up!!! These kinds of tools can really help teach a student about a difficult subject.
- orangetiki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0but it WOULD be interesting to see this at an IMAX theater
- davidkain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Boku Digg. Even if it isn't realistic, the pictures and links to previous articles are well worth it.
- silvertrigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A big +digg from me for posting this. My 4 year has been nagging me for the last 2 weeks about black holes and my internet searches have been quite unfruitful in this area. I'll be showing this to him tonight before bed.... sure to make for some interesting dreams :-).
Thanks again. - Midnightbrewer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The whole "90 minutes per second on a supercomputer" bit sounds a bit überimpressive, I agree. Remember the days that Apple advertised the G4 as a supercomputer? So they could be rendering on PCs from two years ago and qualify. Oh, and don't forget that they used that new-fangled OpenGL from SGI and that this is the stuff video games are made of! Ugh. I feel like I'm back in 1995. The real calculation time probably came not from the physics, but from rendering the images large enough to appear crisp and clear on the planeterium dome.
Anyway, I'd love to see it; pity Denver is so far from Osaka. - isny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Old - I saw this in 1979. Just watch out for Maximillian.
- john117, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's nothing compared to "Black Holes 7: Sexy Sistaz In Heat."
- mckinnej, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0andreo: What's it like to be swallowed by a black hole? I can give them the phone number of my ex-girlfriend. They can run simulations on her.
ROTFLMAO! - MonkeyMonk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In...Through...and Beyond!!
/Still wanna hang with VINCENT and Old Bob. - Surreal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Too bad it has been confirmed that black holes are not dimensional rifts in space. So, this has NO scientific reality.
- stoops, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It's almost as good as having sex. just my two cents.
- appidydafoo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Link to a blog linking to an NYT article. Marked as spam.
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