Re: Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan & Arthur C Clark - absorbing discussion from 1988
2014/07/30 15:17:37
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Got it playing in the background. It became apparent that I don't really have to watch the video after a bit.
I'm finding it very interesting how far we've progressed since this was made - heck, even the Hubble telescope hadn't been launched when this was made...
I also find it humorous that Carl never said "Billions" which, I'm guessing, was to make the numbers more accessible to laymen. Naturally, I found it interesting that, since this video was made, the U.S. debt went from "mere" billions to tens of trillions - an amount that is vastly outside of the common person's understanding.
The program Arthur is running is called "Fractint" and I used to have a company where we used that program to create posters and videos of fractals being color-cycled (the "black hole" animation you saw). These were sold to some nightclubs in the late 80's. Some of the poster fractals took over a week to create on the PC's of that time...
Hawking has a funny sense of humor.
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!