Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton played poker with Data on Star Trek TNG.
This BBC documentary on the life of Professor Stephen Hawking is well worth a listen. RIP.
Solving the mysterious light in Blarney
Back in 2013 local school children created a “flash mob” and danced in the village square in Blarney. Local photographer Pat Falvey was on hand to capture the scene on video.
Near the start of the video he noticed a flash of light coming from a woman on the right of the frame. You might have to watch the start of it a few times as it flashes by in about 1.5 seconds. Intrigued, I took a closer look.
Using this site I watched the video frame by frame. You can see an object appear on the right:
In the next frame it’s after moving over a little bit.
And again, it has moved.
Using my advanced photography skills I cropped the location of the object to isolate it and zoom in:
I thought I could see something there now but it needed further enhancement …
OH WOW! I couldn’t believe it! I thought it was just a leaf but Blarney had been visited by the Starship Enterprise and nobody had even noticed! I was there that day and it had completely escaped my notice!
It was a seed actually. It was one of those seeds with wings. We used to call them helicopter seeds but they’re the seeds of the Maple tree apparently. You can see the seed flutter to the ground after a few frames.
Star trekkin' across the universe
Star Trekkin’ by The Firm
I can’t believe this song is 20 years old! My parents bought the original album on tape and we listened to it over and over. The other songs on the tape were more boring to my 11 year old ears but I remember they grew on me as time passed. I have no idea where the tape is now unfortunately.
What would we do without Youtube? Write original content? Gasp!
Star Trekkin’ is a song released in 1987 by a band called The Firm (not to be confused with the British rock group or the hip-hop supergroup of the same name). It is a parody of the original TV series of Star Trek.
