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An interactive video of the Chelyabinsk asteroid event

36 points by jcurbo 12y ago

SideburnsOfDoom 12y ago
There's another recent article on the Chelyabinsk asteroid here: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/02/14/chelyabinsk_asteroid_impact_one_year_later.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/02/14/chelyabi...
fit2rule 12y ago
"Things are falling from the sky - go outside and look!" 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.
spuz 12y ago
How do I view the 20 different perspectives? Only four are available on the map that's shown after the intro.
Mithaldu 12y ago
If that's supposed to be an advertisement for Interlude, then it's not very effective. 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's more impressive, or because all the outdoor cameras dropped dead before the impact. The only interesting information i got from that page is that the impact apparently happened at ~68000 km/h.
tempodox 12y ago
That's nice, but you shouldn't require people to unplug any speaker cables before opening a web site.
adenner 12y ago
I was unable to watch from an iOS device without installing the Interlude player… thanks, but no thanks!
markbnj 12y ago
"Get ready to interact?" I don'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'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't make the information about the event easier to find, view, or understand, and that's the only thing that really matters.

36 points by jcurbo 12y ago

There's another recent article on the Chelyabinsk asteroid here: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/02/14/chelyabinsk_asteroid_impact_one_year_later.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/02/14/chelyabi...

fit2rule 12y ago

"Things are falling from the sky - go outside and look!" 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.

spuz 12y ago

How do I view the 20 different perspectives? Only four are available on the map that's shown after the intro.

Mithaldu 12y ago

If that's supposed to be an advertisement for Interlude, then it's not very effective. 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's more impressive, or because all the outdoor cameras dropped dead before the impact. The only interesting information i got from that page is that the impact apparently happened at ~68000 km/h.

tempodox 12y ago

That's nice, but you shouldn't require people to unplug any speaker cables before opening a web site.

adenner 12y ago

I was unable to watch from an iOS device without installing the Interlude player… thanks, but no thanks!

markbnj 12y ago

"Get ready to interact?" I don'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'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't make the information about the event easier to find, view, or understand, and that's the only thing that really matters.