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- jazino, on 12/28/2008, -4/+88Music is better than the video. Apparently 12 billion years needs to be shortened to around 3:30 to keep my attention.
- thegrantman, on 12/28/2008, -4/+74If you're interested in the music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCsfUXFmBDQ - bchristie, on 12/28/2008, -3/+40An excellent concept that never quite makes it. The music is strong (great bass). Some of the art/photo work is intruiging. Unfortunately, there is no narrative, or story line, that connects the shots.
Do us a favor and keep trying. The attempt is solid enough to justify the time.
Thanks. - gcnaddict, on 12/28/2008, -0/+25reminds me of a Discovery HD video of an asteroid impact:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zvCUmeoHpw
(Yes, it's in HD) - craighoxton, on 12/28/2008, -0/+19Video not available in the State of Kansas
- brandizzle, on 12/28/2008, -1/+18It reminded me of an attack one of the Final Fantasy characters would have.
- mikebritton, on 12/28/2008, -0/+15bchristie is right. The shots are beautiful, but many don't flow together in a coherent way. It has to be a natural sequence to achieve the desired result. Still, this was awesome.
dugg for FC Kahuna. - Andrewticus, on 12/28/2008, -0/+13Most stars live in the billions of years. Supermassive stars, born of the remnants of supernovas may only last a few million years, but there's no reason that a smaller main sequence star couldn't live 12 billion years.
The oldest observable star in the sky is just over 13 billion years old, after all. - foltaggio, on 12/28/2008, -2/+14Torrent: http://www.monova.org/details/1779494/FC%20Kahuna% ...
- omarst, on 12/28/2008, -2/+14the transitions between stages are really abrupt, so it didnt have any rythm or continuation
buried - jkendal4, on 12/28/2008, -1/+12gotta love the pink floyd for perfect disaster music
- drstock, on 12/28/2008, -0/+10Our sun, which is a G class star, is about 4.5 billion years old and it will go on at least 5 billion years more until going red.
- inactive, on 12/28/2008, -0/+10That was ***** awesome.
- inactive, on 12/28/2008, -1/+10You probably haven't seen Pale Blue Dot. Or else you'd have gotten over that a long time ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M - meestersteph, on 12/28/2008, -3/+12Kinda makes you feel real insignificant in the grand scheme of the universe, doesn't it? And it makes the possibility of other lifeforms existing in other galaxies VERY real. I mean c'mon, we can't really be the only intelligent beings in this universe!
- Maddoktor2, on 12/28/2008, -0/+9Machine Says Yes FTW
- Pinkertinkle, on 12/28/2008, -0/+8I wish they woulda followed one star throughout its existence instead of piecing together a montage of stellar events.
- Murdats, on 12/28/2008, -1/+9you don't impress me
- jdpafundi, on 12/28/2008, -2/+10If you liked this check out the National Geographic documentary "Journey to The Edge of The Universe." I watched it last night (hiiiiiiiiiiigh) and it was incredible. Flying through space while, well, flying through space was unbelievable.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/jour ... - twertyto, on 12/28/2008, -0/+8The level of scientific accuracy is extremely high. The structure of bow shock, the illumination of the accretion, structure of the heliopause...very, very good. Whoever made this REALLY knows their stuff. It should be kept in this original state but with explanations added at the end. I would hate to see this reduced with added explanations during the sequence of shots.
- drgmdp, on 12/28/2008, -0/+7you are an idiot
- TKidd, on 12/28/2008, -0/+6Actually that one has been photoshopped. here's the sauce. http://www.sacredground.cc/Helix%20Nebula%20Eye%20 ...
- bradleyland, on 12/29/2008, -0/+6If you're interested in similar music, Sirius 35 (Chill) plays this song a lot.
- dzhastin, on 12/29/2008, -1/+6If you're into this type of music check out Boards of Canada. You'll thank me when you do.
- rodted2, on 12/29/2008, -0/+5That's pretty cool. I hope to one day have an experience like that.
- ShadowFoxxx, on 12/29/2008, -0/+5I'm an absolute astronomy freak. What an awesome video to show the detail of a cycle of a star! G-type anyway. ;)
I remember when I was in Hawai'i, I convinced my mum to have us go to the Mauna Kea Observatories as a once-in-a-lifetime event. We took the 1000$+ tour and arrived at the summit during when the sun was settling down onto the horizon. The sunset was astonishing. I highly recommend it if you're going to the Big Island.
Mauna Kea: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/mko/
Proof pictures: http://shadowfoxxx.deviantart.com/art/Observatory- ... , http://shadowfoxxx.deviantart.com/art/Mauna-Kea-Or ...
Anyway, after that, we (the tour) went star gazing. There were thousands of stars, like what you would see if you were out in the middle of the western desert. The amateur astronomers brought out their telescopes and pointed it to certain objects in the night sky. They were explaining the constellations, like the Southern Cross and the Big Dipper (I think). Apparently Hawai'i is one of the few places on Earth where you can see the two of them in the same sky.
So I looked into one of the telescopes and I saw NGC 4631, or, the Whale Galaxy and I just about flipped out. Even though it was small, I could see it clearly. Then, I looked into another one and I saw Saturn! I remember I made a big fuss about it because I was looking at it in real-time -- it was right there and I could see what it was doing (it might not have been much, but hey). I wasn't seeing it in a book or on TV, I was seeing it with my own eyes. I felt so awed by the whole event...
We are so small compared with everything else, you tend to get lost in that concept. Mankind will always look up at the night sky in wonder. - mattletron, on 12/29/2008, -0/+5Hahahaha, you win.
- mattletron, on 12/28/2008, -0/+4Hahaha, totally. Except that it would need to be about twice as long ;)
- SteamGear, on 12/29/2008, -0/+4Thanks!
- danconia, on 12/28/2008, -0/+4There is nothing insignificant about us. Just because other life forms probably (more like definitely) exist doesn't make us any less significant if you ask me.
- blueRAP, on 12/28/2008, -0/+4That was Beautiful
- 16x9, on 12/28/2008, -0/+4The Social Security system isn't setup for people with those kinds of ambitions. ;)
- inactive, on 12/28/2008, -0/+4I wish I could live 12 billion years just to witness this amazing event.
- ibgarrett, on 12/28/2008, -0/+4Documentaries? Ha! We had to watch slide shows with a record player and it was always the teachers pet who got to manually advance the slide when the record "beeped"...
- Troy64, on 12/28/2008, -1/+5and I didn't have the patients for 6 minutes.
- Kristijan12, on 12/28/2008, -0/+4Who says we are.
More realistic point of view would be:
we can't be alone in our galaxy. - BryanJK, on 12/29/2008, -0/+4thanks :3
- geodescent, on 12/28/2008, -0/+4I was hoping for a continuous shot so I could see all the stages from one angle
- lmbb20, on 12/29/2008, -0/+3Does that song always play during the lifetime of every star?
- dzhastin, on 12/29/2008, -1/+4your mom didn't impress me
- TSK05, on 12/29/2008, -0/+3Because that's the lifetime of a G-type star. You can calculate it as such: Lifetime = total energy the sun will be able to get / luminosity. The detailed calculation would involve calculus because luminosity varies significantly (and even more detailed, so do other things). For the simple calculation, I did it out here: http://digg.com/space/5_Cosmic_Events_That_Could_K ...
- twertyto, on 12/28/2008, -0/+3Not based on the speed of light. It's based on the mass of the object forming which determines the rate of fusion for the star (how long it will take to burn through its available nuclear fuel).
- Artic89, on 12/28/2008, -0/+3Where's the HD version:(
- andytronic, on 03/25/2009, -0/+3...and takes just as long as some of them!
- cambob76, on 12/28/2008, -1/+4I'm not sure you make sense, but I dugg you anyway.
- JamesBondJr, on 12/28/2008, -0/+3but the movie made up for it
- samirms, on 12/28/2008, -0/+3Wake me up when its 12 billion years in 1 minute.
- christoast, on 12/29/2008, -0/+3wat
- jbiggamer, on 12/28/2008, -0/+3Because 12 billion years is better than 11 billion years.
- wracker92, on 12/28/2008, -0/+3It's a collection of CG astronomical sequences mashed up together. The person that assembled the clips together tried to do their best to show the life cycle of a G-type star but unless they produce the animation his/herself it's going to be choppy, just like what bchristie noticed.
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