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An interactive video of the Chelyabinsk asteroid event

36 pointsby jcurboover 10 years ago

7 comments

Mithalduover 10 years ago
If that&#x27;s supposed to be an advertisement for Interlude, then it&#x27;s not very effective.<p>The constant hissing is extremely annoying, in Chrome the video time bar only works in the upper few pixels (which i discovered only by accident), the skips from perspective to perspective come very surprising and it is unclear whether they skip to indoors views because they think it&#x27;s more impressive, or because all the outdoor cameras dropped dead before the impact.<p>The only interesting information i got from that page is that the impact apparently happened at ~68000 km&#x2F;h.
markbnjover 10 years ago
&quot;Get ready to interact?&quot; I don&#x27;t think the average human resident of the year 2015 needs to be prompted to think of an information display as interactive. You might need to warn them if your site _isn&#x27;t_ interactive. Anyway, two main thoughts: first, extremely annoying audio environment; second, chasing the fireball to click it to get a different view is a very odd choice of mechanism. Overall this approach, in my view, doesn&#x27;t make the information about the event easier to find, view, or understand, and that&#x27;s the only thing that really matters.
fit2ruleover 10 years ago
&quot;Things are falling from the sky - go outside and look!&quot;<p>Umm .. if ever there were a case for breakaway civilizations digging big, deep holes, and moving a bit of the species there, this statement would be it.
SideburnsOfDoomover 10 years ago
There&#x27;s another recent article on the Chelyabinsk asteroid here: <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/02/14/chelyabinsk_asteroid_impact_one_year_later.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;bad_astronomy&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;14&#x2F;chelyabi...</a>
adennerover 10 years ago
I was unable to watch from an iOS device without installing the Interlude player… thanks, but no thanks!
spuzover 10 years ago
How do I view the 20 different perspectives? Only four are available on the map that&#x27;s shown after the intro.
tempodoxover 10 years ago
That&#x27;s nice, but you shouldn&#x27;t require people to unplug any speaker cables before opening a web site.