Posted on 09/03/2015 8:59:58 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A big blue whale photo bombed a reporter's live television shot.
Then the TV host got excited, very excited.
The surprise moment was caught during Steve Backshall's live interview on BBC One for "BBC Big Blue Live." Both Backshall and whale expert Dorris Welch paused to take in the glorious moment.
"When I started my career, when I started filming wildlife just 16 years ago, if someone said go and film a blue whale I would have said they were crazy," said Backshall. "This is one of the most extraordinary things I have ever seen live."
The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on earth, measuring up to 100 feet long with a tongue weighing as much as an elephant, according to National Geographic.
The live shoot took place at Monterey Bay's National Marine Sanctuary in California. BBC One captured views of the blue whale from above in a helicopter.
After taking numerous breaths at the water's surface, the whale dove back down into the water to feed.
"Just awe inspiring. I don't mind admitting to a tear in my eye and a lump in my throat," commented Karen Forbes on BBC Earth Facebook post.
Perfect use of a fish eye.
Watch the horizon! Does it stay flat?
Oh no, you mentioned Islamorada, some Freepers will freak out every time that is posted. It means island of dwellings, but they think it’s a secret Muslim conspiracy.
I like film cameras, have a bunch of classics. But I've never used a fish eye lens. You use them?
Drop the camera angle down until it is just 1/8" or so below the top of the inset and then let the camera turn on its own.
The horizon stays flat the whole time on a "globe" Earth?.
Nope. Thus my curiosity. Besides, why would I want a distorted view of what I saw with my own eyes?
Good, then you should understand the "vanishing point"... 
The black line stays level...right?
I'm not sure what you are getting at.
If I'm driving "South..."
...the East/West horizon is still flat when it should, according to mathematical principles, be dropping off at each end if we live on a globe.
Only the perspective of the photographers has changed.
But the horizon always remains level no matter the view...as long as a fish eye lens isn't used.
Nikon coolpix P900 ultra zoom test
The math doesn't add up as the horizon is flat.
How about this one?
Nikon Coolpix P900 Super zoom test and hands on 1
And look at this! Those islands are quite a distance off. Over 6 miles away? Level all the way left to right.
Flat horizon.
Snip...Basically, if the 5200mm Prime was much more powerful, the curvature of the Earth would start to affect the results.
Well wouldn't anything 18 to 32 miles away be below the horizon anyway? You would be looking out at space, wouldn't you?
I would love to see the y axis of any pictures that camera took.
Winston made another convulsive movement. This time he did not say anything. O'Brien continued as though answering a spoken objection:
'For certain purposes, of course, that is not true. When we navigate the ocean, or when we predict an eclipse, we often find it convenient to assume that the earth goes round the sun and that the stars are millions upon millions of kilometres away. But what of it? Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy? The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?'
“A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways” (James 1:8).
Mars:
Jupiter:
Saturn:
Is that an oval or is it a circle on an isometric plane?
About that inflation:
Imagine an immense black hole. A universe’s worth of matter spiraling in, falling, falling, falling, the gravity well getting deeper and deeper, stretching space time to the breaking point.
At the breaking point the tip of the well tears free and isolates itself into a separate universe.
Everything above the tear is no longer being pulled down by that torn away mass and the very fabric of space time rebounds like a parted rubber band, all the matter plastered to the wall gets abruptly ejected. It’s speed is limited to C, BUT, the space that was confined to beyond the pre-tear event horizon also pours out, and the expansion OF space is not limited to C, as its “motion” is that of the very frame of reference expanding. Locally it’s always “below” C, but the net expansion “looks” superluminal...
LOL...one has to do that anyway as the existence of black holes is purely theoretical.
Not purely, available data indicates that spiral galaxies have them at their cores.
I’m talking IMMENSE, not merely on the order of hundreds of thousands to billions of solar masses, but containing more, much more, than all the mass of all the matter in this current universe.
We’re just the remnant, the rejected matter vomited out of that fractured gravity well.
Kinda humbling...
The exact geographic position of the South Pole (red dot). Emil ShculthessClue...the horizon.
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