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Shuttle Cameras Yield Excellent Footage
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."
Nice to see our government is looking out for the interests of all and protecting the freedom of all to access govt. publications by putting these in a proprietary format like Windows Media Video.
In the End, like everything else in the world--I blame the American Government. I mean damn it people! If it doesn't have the world Terror or an Arab in the footage this isn't worth showing the world as news.
That video's fake, just like the 'Moon Landing'
From TFV (video):
1) where are the stars, stars should be visible in the sky
2) why does the camera image shake so much? being one with the launch vehicle, the shuffle/tank images should appear stationary
3) after unstaged separation, the stage appears to rotate around only 2 axes. Any physicist will tell you this is mathematically impossible (P way way low, same as 1-axis). Any undergrad that can spell 'Lagrangian' and 'Hamiltonian' will tell you as much. The rotation should be in 3 axes (which is something that most (all?) special effects guys either do not know, or forget)
4) clouds appear to visibly move in the Earth snapshots == FUD on this timescale
5) look at the pixelated wing. Either they use some cheap-ass camera, or the model is tiny
I can go on but you get the point, hopefully.
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.