Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 on Vimeo

Sublime: High-definition trans­fer of the 16mm film that cap­tured the launch of Apollo 11. This cam­era is turn­ing so fast that eight minutes here rep­res­ents 30 seconds of real time. There are so many engin­eer­ing tricks and insight­ful solu­tions on dis­play and this is just a piece of the launch pad.

Someone remind me — why the hell aren’t we on Mars yet?

► Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 on Vimeo

Very Much Faster Than a Speeding Bullet

Philip Palmer on Faster-Than-Light travel in sci­ence fiction.

For at this very fast speed, one’s mass will be infin­ite (i.e. even greater, so the equa­tions prove, than my mass and the dimen­sions of my arse on Boxing Day) and this makes travel of any kind difficult.

► Faster Than the Speed of Light | Orbit Books