World Wide Telescope
Robert Scoble soll geweint haben, als er das World Wide Telescope von Microsoft zum ersten Mal sah. World Wide Was? World Wide Telescope, eine Internet-Anwendung, die es erlaubt, alle bekannten Bilder des Universums der größten und besten Teleskope der Welt miteinander zu verknüpfen - und das nahtlos. Hier geht es wohlgemerkt nicht nur um Zoom-Faktoren, hier geht es um Perspektiven, die sich heuristisch die Hand geben. Das ist der große, der wesentliche Unterschied zu allem, was bisher da war.
Robert Scoble im O-Ton: "We picked a point of light inside the big dipper. Zoom. Zoom. Zoom. Zoom. Holy shit, it’s two galaxies colliding. It looked like a star. Zoom. Zoom. Zoom. Now the magic happened. Curtis Wong said: “let’s switch to a different telescope and see what these two galaxies colliding are spitting out.” He clicked a button and we saw a completely different view of the same colliding galaxies. This time we weren’t looking at visible light, but at something else. I think it might have been infrared, or maybe a look at other kinds of radiation being kicked out. He had about 10 of the world’s telescopes to look at. ... So, why cry over a telescope? Because I just saw the world I live in, er, excuse me, the universe I live in in a new way that I never had imagined before."
Für alle, die es nicht glauben wollen, gibt´s hier ein Video - und bereits im Frühjahr einen kostenlosen Download im Web.
Video: TED Talk: Worldwide Telescope
Robert Scoble im O-Ton: "We picked a point of light inside the big dipper. Zoom. Zoom. Zoom. Zoom. Holy shit, it’s two galaxies colliding. It looked like a star. Zoom. Zoom. Zoom. Now the magic happened. Curtis Wong said: “let’s switch to a different telescope and see what these two galaxies colliding are spitting out.” He clicked a button and we saw a completely different view of the same colliding galaxies. This time we weren’t looking at visible light, but at something else. I think it might have been infrared, or maybe a look at other kinds of radiation being kicked out. He had about 10 of the world’s telescopes to look at. ... So, why cry over a telescope? Because I just saw the world I live in, er, excuse me, the universe I live in in a new way that I never had imagined before."
Für alle, die es nicht glauben wollen, gibt´s hier ein Video - und bereits im Frühjahr einen kostenlosen Download im Web.
Video: TED Talk: Worldwide Telescope
coyote05 - 1. Mrz, 22:29



