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Shuttle Cameras Yield Excellent Footage 275

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the mr-griffin's-wild-ride dept.
Jivecat writes "All those extra cameras NASA has added to the Space Shuttle to watch for debris impacts have yielded what may be the coolest Shuttle launch footage ever. The forward-facing view from the right-hand SRB shows, at about the 2:58 mark, booster separation and Discovery zooming away. Other views are available at the main mission site."
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  • Re:Nice to see... (Score:2, Insightful)

    by 1stpreacher ( 848239 ) on Monday July 10, 2006 @03:14PM (#15693023)
    agreed, I never understood why these guys choose the formats they do. Why not a simple mpg? (Honestly - why?)

  • Conspiracy theorists (Score:4, Insightful)

    by citking ( 551907 ) <jay AT citking DOT net> on Monday July 10, 2006 @03:23PM (#15693099) Homepage
    Try THAT on a sound stage in a desert!!

    Beautiful video. I imagine the part after it separates would be awesome drunk.

  • Re:Nice to see... (Score:2, Insightful)

    by GreggBz ( 777373 ) on Monday July 10, 2006 @03:28PM (#15693134) Homepage
    I swear people here whine so much about NASA it's unbelievable.

    I'm convinced that the mind boggling variety of publicly available NASA footage, pictures and video will never be enough for some. You can watch live NASA tv in Realplayer, Quicktime, Windows Media, or Browse to Yahoo and watch it with their flash player.

    As the geek I am, NASA is one of the few govermental agencies that I cherrish. If I want to know something about some planet, any planet, it's probabbly thanks to the work that NASA has done.

  • I love how you complain about the use of WMV (Score:3, Insightful)

    by artifex2004 ( 766107 ) on Monday July 10, 2006 @03:36PM (#15693187) Journal
    And then you tout Theora to solve the problem. Are there even 500,000 people in the world who use Theora?

    Let's try something like, oh, I don't know, MPEG-2 maybe?

  • Rant: Streaming Video Blows Goats (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Tackhead ( 54550 ) on Monday July 10, 2006 @04:00PM (#15693350)
    > For the one video linked, I'm amazed it didn't get slashdotted immediately.

    If I could just download the copy of /right_forward_srb_camera.wmv being mirrored through (funky.dns.tricks.akamaistream.net), it would probably have stayed up longer.

    But a certain DRM-infected media player doesn't welcome the SaveAs menu overlord. After all, how dare anyone think of downloading something (at whatever bitrate their client, or the overloaded server, might support) to your hard drive where you could play it back at your leisure, when you can just download the same content, asking the central server for permission over and over again, every time you wanted to see something?

    Streaming video blows goats. The video's probably in the public domain. Put up a goddamn downloadable .MOV, .MPG, or yes, even a .WMV link. But enough of the streaming video, and don't even get me started on a site that requires a Javashit popup to load the goddamn .asx file that points to the streaming video in the first place. Web design ain't rocket science -- it's EASIER than rocket science. Last time I checked, there were a few folks at NASA who have the requisite skills, right?

    To give credit to rocket scientists who do get it, check out how the JPL folks working on the Cassini mission [nasa.gov] handle videos. You know before you click, not just what format it's in, but how big it's gonna be, and you get to save everything to disk.

    Earth to NASA: Dump the streaming video, at least for public domain content.

  • Re:Nice to see... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by badboy_tw2002 ( 524611 ) on Monday July 10, 2006 @04:41PM (#15693644)
    How a large majority of the people visiting the site are probalby using windows, and therefore probably can view the video. And if they can instantly satisfy those requests without the user needing special software, then that's a large majority of the people taken care of instead of none. Of course, they could have just used mpeg which would have helped everyone. And I love how you argue "added expenses" and say that a library might be too far a way when you probably spent a good amount of money on the computer itself. What about a homeless man, isn't he entitled to watch the shuttle launch videos as well? By not dragging a TV down to his corner and letting him look at it, the government is requiring special access (access to a computer) to get at the information!

  • Wow. (Score:4, Insightful)

    by BaronSprite ( 651436 ) on Monday July 10, 2006 @05:00PM (#15693793) Homepage
    Shorter then any hollywood film I've seen, and it moved me more then any film I've ever seen. The launch probably cost the same. If this isn't proof of the results a small percentage of our bomb making taxes can provide, I don't think you're a sane person.

  • Re:excellent webcam quality (Score:3, Insightful)

    by rbarreira ( 836272 ) on Monday July 10, 2006 @05:16PM (#15693890) Homepage
    Slashdot: giving you hilarious displays of proud and loud ignorance since....

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