The best of 1970s doomsday documentaries
Paleo-Future Blog is now producing Paleo-Future TV, a new series about retrofuturism on film. In this latest installment, Paleo-Future blogmaster Matt Novak rounds up some of the best moments from Seventies “apocsploitation.” The shiny happy futurism of the 1950s gave way to much darker predictions for humanity in the 1970s. With energy crises, fears of…
The Moon As You’ve Never Seen It Before
This “illumination map” was constructed using over 1700 photographs of the same area of the moon’s south pole taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) over a six month period. Because the moon’s rotational axis is tilted by only 1.54 degrees (compared to Earth’s 23.5 degrees), some areas near its poles are left in…
A $670,000 X-Ray Camera That Sees Through Melting Metal
Click to viewA new high-speed X-ray video camera, now the fastest in the world, can see through molten metal and watch weld-weakening flaws form in real-time. Take a look at sample footage from the device. The $670,000 device successfully captured X-ray footage on Nov. 23 at 5,000 frames-per-second (fps), or five times faster than previous…
Invasion of the Mexican Drones!
Drug gangs are one thing. But now Mexican unmanned drones are messing with Texas. Will this aggression stand? Earlier this week, a 7-foot drone crashed into someone’s backyard in El Paso, damaging nothing. Via our friend Paul McLeary at Ares, the El Paso Times discovers its origins: no hobbyist’s toy, the drone was the property…