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We collected the most interesting videos of the week for you: what the colonization of Mars will look like, what Musk knows about rocket science, as well as a one-minute drone video that conquered Hollywood (and a separate bowling alley)
What will the exploration of Mars look like?
The international design company HASSELL, whose studios are located in 13 countries, made a video about how NASA’s Mars mission will go.
The video used footage of Mars and infographics to show how scientists and engineers could protect mission participants from radiation and aggressive environments and in what conditions they would live.
This video made it to the top 3 of the NASA 3D Printing Centennial Challenge. Its participants were given the task of telling visually about NASA’s mission to explore Mars. In particular, about how you can design a human habitat and deliver it to Mars using offline XNUMXD printing technologies.
HASSELL, in partnership with civil engineer Eckersley O’Callaghan, have developed an outer shell that can be built by fully autonomous robots using natural regolith from Mars.
NASA announced its Martian mission back in 2015. The agency has already successfully launched the Perseverance robotic vehicle, which is studying the soil and atmosphere of Mars. NASA plans to send the first crew to the planet in the 2030s.
Musk teaches how to build rockets
Elon Musk was asked to talk about what rocket science is. It turned out quite interesting and not at all abstruse.
The founder of SpaceX told how rockets are designed, what aerodynamics is and why it is so important, how rocket stages are arranged, what happens at the start and why you have to land spaceships in the ocean.
Musk has been called an entrepreneur, inventor and investor, but he considers himself first and foremost an engineer. As you can see from this video – not in vain.
Drone filmed a video that is being discussed in Hollywood
In Hollywood, they are discussing a viral video that was filmed at Rally Studios using a drone.
In the video, a drone flies from the street into a bowling alley and flies over the lanes. The video was filmed in one frame, without editing and other processing. It looks so masterly that even professional filmmakers were impressed. Experts explain: in order to pilot a drone so skillfully, you need to train a lot. At the same time, you can’t make a mistake even by a millimeter – otherwise you would have to cut out unsuccessful frames, and there are (seemingly) no traces of gluing on the video.
The authors claim that it took them 10-12 attempts to complete the perfect double. To shoot such a professional camera, you need a cool cameraman and special equipment for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Perhaps now film producers will look at a cheaper alternative. Director James Gunn has already invited the Rally Studios team to come to London to film Guardians of the Galaxy 3.
Facebook Augmented Reality Bracelet
Facebook’s Virtual and Augmented Reality Lab showed off an unusual AR bracelet.
It reads the signals that the brain sends to the fingers and uses them to input information. To create a realistic effect, the bracelet vibrates when touching objects in augmented reality.
Previously, Facebook Reality Lab introduced the concept of a human-computer interface. It will work with the help of AR and smart assistants who understand the context of what is happening. This will become possible in the next ten years. It looks even more tempting than a neural interface with a chip from Musk.
How ice glaciers are melting in Iceland
The documentary short film “After the Ice” clearly shows how the Icelandic glaciers are shrinking over the years.
The film was produced with the support of the Icelandic Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources and made it to the semi-finals of the Ecology Short Film Festival in London. The authors used material from the Icelandic National Land Survey archive (dating back to the 1940s) and compared it with today’s surveys of six glaciers in the Hafnarfjordur region in the southeast of the island. They believe that the Icelandic glaciers are the best example of how climate change due to greenhouse gases is changing our planet.