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Orionid Meteor Shower Last Saturday Morning (HD Timelapse Video)
Orionid Meteor Shower Last Saturday Morning (HD Timelapse Video) The Orionid Meteor Shower this year was a bit of a dud. I was shooting up at 11,000 feet in the White Mountains and ran my camera for about 4 hours, from 10:40pm Friday until 2:50am, well after the moon came up. To see how a much more active meteor shower looks, here's one of my Perseid Meteor Shower videos from the same location, displayed on the Discover Magazine blog, best viewed full screen: Perseids, Writ Large http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/08/25/perseids-writ-large/ I have a number of posts on my blog www.MyPhotoGuides.com * related to night shooting and timelapse videos. Here's one of the more recent ones building on those pasts posts: Create a Timelapse Video of a Meteor Shower http://activesole.blogspot.com/2011/08/create-timelapse-video-of-meteor-shower.html I'm curious to see how an HD 720P video gets displayed on G+. I have a ton of timelapse footage that I haven't foun...
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ReplyDeleteJohan, Good point, but the ark was too small for the millions of species of plants, so there must have been a force field around them. Any science fiction fan can figure that one out! What I can't figure out is why the bible says the sun travels around the earth, which is explained by some people by saying that that can be true from our point of reference, but clearly that point of reference requires the galaxies 14 billion light years away to greatly exceed the speed of light to travel around us every day, which physics (god's rules) apparently does not allow. So if god did inspire the wording of the bible, surely that blatant error of the sun travelling around the earth (and the apparent impossibility of other galaxies doing the same) seems to be a clue not to take the bible too seriously or perhaps not to trust too deeply people who have dramatically changed their interpretation of the source material over the past 2000 years. The Crusades, the widespread burning of women (as "witches") in Europe, the Spanish Inquisition, the sacrificing of animals to appease/please god (Why did he change his mind on that point, shouldn't churches be serving lamb and goat every week?), there's so much I have yet to understand. I sure do find peace though in nature, in "god's creation", whether that's by some miraculous process or the product of my brain's own endorphins and dopamine as I hike out into it carrying a copious quantity of camera gear on my back.
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