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Earth On Film

Prepare yourselves for the most epic footage ever.

This is what happens when you take the dude that made BBC's Planet Earth (Alastair Fothergill) and arm him with Disney money. The pictures are extraordinary, Disney’s Earth was released yesterday in America to coincide with Earth Day. Not sure when it’s out in the UK but fingers crossed it’s soon. I recommend clicking the HD option...

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Categories Film Tags BBC Disney

By Moscow on 23/4/09

Run The Numbers

Chris Jordan’s photographic art exposes the detritus of mass consumption.

In what he calls ‘evidence of a slow-motion apocalypse’, Chris Jordan captures the shipping ports and industrial yards of America in a macabre but beautiful way. The shocking scale of western consumption is intensely provocative when seen through his lens. It’s pretty disgusting, all told, and his art does as good a guilt-tripping job as any anti-consumerist propaganda I’ve ever seen.

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Categories Politics Photography Tags Photography Art

By Moscow on 15/4/09

W.m.d

Fry the lot of ‘em, with the Weapon of Mosquito Destruction.

A quarter-century ago, American rocket scientists proposed the “Star Wars” defense system to knock Cold War Soviet missiles from the skies with laser beams. Some of the same scientists are now aiming their lasers at another airborne threat: the mosquito.

Lead scientist Jordin Kare says that the laser will be able to sweep an area and "toast millions of mosquitoes in a few minutes." Responding to questions about any potential harm the laser could pose to the eco-system, Kare said: “There is no such thing as a good mosquito, there’s nothing that feeds exclusively on them. No one would miss mosquitoes.”

It fires at mosquitoes once it detects the audio frequency created by the beating of its wings (very cool). The laser then burns them on the spot. This is not a sci-fi fantasy, the project aims to prevent the spread of malaria.

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Categories General Tags Technology Science

By Moscow on 1/4/09