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photon · 01-24-2009, 02:15 PM

Just watched the "documentary" from the history channel, it was painful credulous schlock but they ultimately did talk to some rational people and generated perfect "rod" shots in front of a normal camera / high speed camera setup and you can clearly see a rod in the normal camera, and you can clearly see a bug flapping its wings in the high speed camera.

Basically they stretched a 5 minute "how'd they do that" video into an hour by talking to rod researchers all over the world, giving them their 50 minutes of fame, building models and putting them into wind tunnels, etc etc, and then added the 5 minutes of reality at the end.

Yay education?

Save me mythbusters, you're my only hope.

01-24-2009, 02:15 PM	#45
photon The new goggles also do nothing. Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Calgary Exp:	Just watched the "documentary" from the history channel, it was painful credulous schlock but they ultimately did talk to some rational people and generated perfect "rod" shots in front of a normal camera / high speed camera setup and you can clearly see a rod in the normal camera, and you can clearly see a bug flapping its wings in the high speed camera. Basically they stretched a 5 minute "how'd they do that" video into an hour by talking to rod researchers all over the world, giving them their 50 minutes of fame, building models and putting them into wind tunnels, etc etc, and then added the 5 minutes of reality at the end. Yay education? Save me mythbusters, you're my only hope. __________________ Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.