Posted on 01/20/2010 7:57:51 AM PST by sig226
Today's apod is The Known Universe video by The American Museum of Natural History. My understanding of embedding video is that it consumes large amounts of bandwidth, so I'm just posting a link. The video has been shown on Free Republic before, but it's worth watching. Enjoy.
The Known Universe
Credit & Copyright: American Museum of Natural History
Explanation: What would it look like to travel across the known universe? To help humanity visualize this, the American Museum of Natural History has produced a modern movie featuring many visual highlights of such a trip. The video starts in Earth's Himalayan Mountains and then dramatically zooms out, showing the orbits of Earth's satellites, the Sun, the Solar System, the extent of humanities first radio signals, the Milky Way Galaxy, galaxies nearby, distant galaxies, and quasars. As the distant surface of the microwave background is finally reached, radiation is depicted that was emitted billions of light years away and less than one million years after the Big Bang. Frequently using the Digital Universe Atlas, every object in the video has been rendered to scale given the best scientific research in 2009, when the video was produced. The film has similarities to the famous Powers of Ten video that has been a favorite of many space enthusiasts for a generation.
That was Waaayyyyyyyyy cool!!!
Thanks, now I realize why the desktop backgrounder program hasn’t updated for today. I was worried that our help desk changed a setting and botched my APOD desktop.
This post may have saved my life...
re: embedding video is that it consumes large amounts of bandwidth, so I’m just posting a link
Actually when it comes to FR resources there is no posting of any graphic ‘here’. The only way to make a graphic available is to provide a link to the resource. The amount of storage and bandwidth to provide a resource is the same for FR regardless of where the resource is located.
Once a link has been clicked the transaction is strictly between the viewer’s system and the host server. FR is out of the loop for the actual operation.
Same for still photos. When a photo appears as part of a posting it is not on the FR server. It’s stored on another server and the viewing of it uses the storage and bandwidth resources of that server, not the FR server.
The difference between a link and embedding is kinda hazy sometimes. Embedding, usually, means the code to have the resource with the graphic serve it up without having to click a link. Linking, usually, means to view the graphic means having to click the line of code.
My apologies if you already know all this. Just thought it might be helpful to those who have never figured out the difference in embedding and linking. And even then, it’s a concept that can have differing descriptions!
Forcing, me, to, type, this. Yea, we are the only life out there uhuh. Ok I’m ready for my beating now.
Or theirs. :)
Absolutely beautiful! Videos like this are the reason I started playing EVE online!
Not political, but you should all enjoy this 6 minute video in the link...
Wow, great video, thanks.
What enjoy most about EVE is that you can advance without playing. The skill training system is great compared to other MMOs (I’ve played quite a few), and the overall concept of the game is excellent. I can get lost in the concept of the game for hours, and there’s a pretty decent community of professionals in the game that make it more enjoyable for someone with a life. Plus, the game is entirely too complicated for anyone with an IQ under 90, so most teenagers and whiny brat kids don’t bother.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.