Gustav Brock
Gustav at cactus.dk
Sat Feb 23 07:21:53 CST 2008
Hi Arthur The transporter, yes, a remarkable piece of movie animation! Contact is one of my favourite movies - I was fascinated by the simple method of transmitting a series of prime figures as the proof of the transmitter to be intelligent. It is indeed in my small collection of DVD movies. So I could easily pull a part of the soundtrack ... and your clients would love when your app fails!? As a side note on weird happenings and findings, this morning I listened to a broadcast with a scientist researching the inner behaviour of our Earth. He played back an ultra subsonic soundtrack recorded in an old quiet mine in Germany for three months last year covering the last big earth quake. However, to be audible, it was transposed 19 octaves(!) to a duration of about 15 seconds, and the earth quake and its echo sounded like a stroke on a rusty bell. From this, he told, you could hear that the resonance frequence of the Earth is very close to the tone A - a coincidence? Who knows. If that wasn't enough, he played back the recording transposed 21 octaves and now you could hear a warbled summing tone - actually the deformation of the surface of the Earth of about 1 m caused by the moon during the rotation of the Earth. Too much on a Saturday morning. /gustav >>> fuller.artful at gmail.com 23-02-2008 02:57 >>> I would soooo love to figure out how to play that whenever a program crashes. Wouldn't that be great as the intro to an error handler? The innocent client using your app, diligently working away, when suddenly... It just needs a soundtrack, maybe from the movie Contact when the transporter breaks up. Arthur On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > Hi all > > Today it was a storm here, and a 40m diameter windmill collapsed due to > malfunctioning brakes. > A neighbour catched it on video (flash player needed): > > http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/video/index.php/nodeId-10546306.html > > This happens extremely rarely with modern windmills. > No people were hurt.