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Control Lightshow Over Dublin Sky From A Webpage
nev4 writes "Ireland is celebrating their EU presidency for 2004 with an interactive lightshow over Dublin. The project, Vectorial Elevation, allows people to control the 22 searchlights (154,000 watts, can be seen for a 15km radius) shining over Dublin by submitting a design on the project's website. The designs are queued and a new design is displayed every 14 seconds from dusk to dawn (GMT +1). You can see an aerial view of the city and the current design via live webcam or browse snapshots of previous designs. The tool for submitting deisgns also contains a 3D model of the city that you can pan around or "walk-through". Once you submit your design, you can opt to receive an e-mail when it is being displayed; when I submitted mine there was no one in the queue, so it was displayed immediately."
...and you have the first lifesize Missile Commander game.
No way this will abused at all... I look forward to seeing goatse in all its glory displayed over Dublin.
The local In-House Astronomer at Univ of Dublin must love this thing...
"We are celebrating our EU presidency for 2004, and all we got is our web cam Slashdotted."
Poor fellows.So if you would stop pointing it at my flat, that would be appreciated.
An annoyed Dublin resident.
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This week's crossword puzzle prize is a brand new set of crayons.
And I can say they're pretty amazing - the range is much more than 15km (I saw them visiting a friend from Leixlip over 25km away). They make this city beautiful - The messages were uncensored initially, but then the authorities smartned up - to an extent! :) Try submitting something in a different language..
This is not a pleasant sight if you are interested in preserving the night sky.
Once again the environment suffers to satisfy the vanity of politicians.
The night sky should be dark as this allows wildlife to not be disturbed, we save energy reducing CO2 emmissions and the next generation of kids might just get interested in astronomy and science in general.
http://www.dark-skies.org/
Aside from this - yes of course its pretty - but I'd like it to be limited up to 12 midnight, and only use sodium light which can be filtered out.
Clear dark and steady skies
Torcuill
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while true ; do echo this is my sig; done
Wait until the spammers find out. Then you'll see on the sky:
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And the next spam message will not say any more "AS SEEN ON NATIONAL TV", but "AS SEEN ON NATIONAL SKY".
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
"All your searchlights are belong to us"
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Could some sensitive clod convert these to American Units please ? What does 15km and 154000 watts mean in miles and libraries of congress ?
why?
I expect because he is a Brit.
You wouldn't believe how biased the press in the UK is with regards to anything European. It really is sad. Most of the British do not have access to impartial information about Europe. And it's not just the "red-top" newspapers, it's so called "quality" papers such as The Times and The Telegraph. They only ever print negative stories about anything European, and some things are so distorted that they amount to lies and propoganda.
I find it a real shame because I genuinely used to believe that Britain jouralists had a strong sense of integrity and impartiality. Not any more.
(I'm British too but I travel a lot in Europe and my business involves trade between different EU countries.)
http://www.darksky.org/
http://spaceweather.com/
Isn't this similar to the blinkenlights project?
What an apalling waste of energy. Just think of all the Guinness that could be brewed with that much electricity!
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