Monday, May 19, 2008

What do you think this is? I bet you won't guess!

Source: National Geographic. Tyler Thomas. Click on the sidebar to see.

4 comments:

Jerry said...

I saw a program on TV earlier in the year where they used new super high speed cameras to capture things never seen before. Exploding a balloon just happened to be one of them :)

TLT said...

You cheated! :)

But I'm sure you'll agree it's pretty amazing!

Jerry said...

Absolutely!(not on the cheating)

They also shot an apple with a rifle, and brought in USC fighters to punch various parts of the body. Then they compared their camera with pre-digital high speed reels and talked about the physics of the ten thousand or so frames lost in translation. It was quite remarkable!

To be fair my first guess was a duck!

TLT said...

I guessed a rabbit or an albino porcupine :)