Research » Blog Archive. Get Lost in This Stunning Drone Footage From Antarctica. Kalle Ljung’s Antarctica video looks like it was filmed with a helicopter and wildly expensive gyro-stabilized camera. But the photographer used a consumer drone and GoPro to create a majestic piece of cinematography that makes you see the antarctic anew. “I really tried to capture the big picture of what it was like down there,” the Swede says.
“I wanted to show the beauty but also the loneliness.” Ljung, a photographer and gearhead, initially visited Antarctica with his 73-year-old father, who is spending three years sailing around the world. The two met in Argentina and crossed the Drake Passage in dad’s 46-foot sailboat. He used a 3-axis H3-3D gimbal to create the glorious footage and had a monitor attached to his controller that showed a live view from the GoPro HERO3+ Black Edition. The drone captured sweeping shots of the arctic landscape, full of mountainous glaciers and shifting shades of blue. Will humanity ever reach the stars? A Soyuz TMA-14M capsule is seen above the clouds as it descends beneath a parachute before landing southeast of Dzhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan in this March 12, 2015 picture provided by NASA.
REUTERS/Bill Ingalls/NASA/Handout via Reuters It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but it’s starting to look as if Einstein might just have been right about that speed of light thing. From apparently superluminal radio sources in deep space, to the neutrinos that were supposed to be arriving ahead of schedule at the Grand Sasso experiment in Italy, every apparent exception to Einstein’s ultimate speed law has turned out to be a phantom. Even in the quantum realm, where entangled particles seem to communicate with each other instantaneously across any distance, no useful information is shared at anything other than the speed of light. This is a particular blow if you happen to enjoy the galaxy-spanning fantasies of Star Trek, Star Wars and the like. On the other hand, we won’t know until we look.
Ask A Physicist To Speak At Your Funeral. You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy is created in the universe and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, ever vibration, every BTU of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid the energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got. And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it.
And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue in the heat of our own lives.
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