Mar 25, 2007 12:06 am feel free to talk about any gadgets you're into. gadgets are great.
your favorite non-musical gadgets: anyone own night-vision goggles?
Posted on Mar 24, 2007 10:08 pm
fortymile
Member Since: Jan 18, 2003
i'm turning into a real gadget head. it all started with my ipod, which led to a garmin gps. now i seem to want night vision goggles for some damn reason!
is anyone familiar with them, at all? maybe hunters or campers here?
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Mar 25, 2007 12:06 am feel free to talk about any gadgets you're into. gadgets are great.
Mar 25, 2007 12:36 am heh ... my grandma bought a set of 'night' vision goggles at a flea market... they just tinted everything green... :)
My gagetry tends to evolve into masterpieces... namely my video camera... While shooting the DV feature a couple years ago this is how it ran:
(useing easy to understand verbage)
The camera... a retired S-VHS news crew camera...aka analog... the video was outputed into an analog to firewire converter...which fed an iBook G4 into iMovie... The sound was my daw... ALL OF IT was run off of 2 inverters powered by 3 deep cycle batteries... yes that was the 'portable rig' ...
I just finished shooting my first paying gig and I just shot strait S-VHS but had 5 12v alarm batteries to power everything... including a 100w DC light...
Mar 25, 2007 12:45 am lol nice,
i'ev done more getto stuff tho ;) XD
im into the porduction 2 lol
Mar 25, 2007 03:59 am those weren't the real thing, then! real night vision goggles would be amazing and i must have a pair.
i might have mentioned this here before, too, but i think this is cool, if anyone's into astronomy:
www.amazon.com/Celestron-...m/dp/B000CNPAAA
Mar 25, 2007 09:30 am lol ya io was for a while, got software and everything lol
Mar 25, 2007 10:55 am Binoculars are good for looking at the night sky but holding them still is difficult so try tapeing them to a ball then put the ball onto a bucket on a table to get steady vision.Not tried it yet but sounds like it would work.You won't see the lakes or ocean on titan like Cassini( via google )but our moon is impressive.
Mar 25, 2007 04:52 pm hujambo have you ever found andromeda through binoculars? thats an amazing thing to find. it's pretty large (you'll see it said that it takes up as much space in our sky as the full moon) but is so dim that it's almost never perceptible with the eye. train binocs on it, though, and you see this ghostly smear of light--which is a whole friggin' galaxy! crazy thing to go seek out and find. feels really cool when you find it and realize what you're seeing.
but yeah that gadget i mentioned up above is more than bincos or a scope. it uses GPS, some positional sensors, and internal star maps to label stars and objects you point it at, in real time in the viewpiece.
Mar 27, 2007 06:07 am Yes,seen it.I've got a 3" reflector telescope, its ok but that gadget looks great.A friend of mine has a motorized telescope that finds planets and stuff by itself.Some other things I've seen are the crab nebula in orion,stripes/redspot on Jupiter and its moons,Saturn Mars Mercury and Venus which is that bright it can still be seen in the morning with blue sky,but despite this mostly its only a cresent!Comets,and our moon/stars/milky way and other galaxies.The piccy's taken by the Hubble telescope are fantastic so I look at stuff on the JPL site these days.Also I've been following the progress of the Cassini mission since it took off in 1997.
Mar 27, 2007 06:26 am yeah i waited for cassini to arrive for eight years or whatever it was. literally thinking about it several times per year. that microphone on board the huygens probe was a neat thing. wish it could have recorded after touchdown, while stationary, but if it did, i didn't hear that. first audio ever from another planet.
Mar 27, 2007 07:04 am Yeah,all I heard was the wind rushing past the mike and the sonar pulses being fired at the ground when it landed to gather info.Its a weird place alright and is as big as a planet.The flyby's are discovering lots about it but some of the video's dont play still loads of piccy's.
Mar 29, 2007 02:24 pm Digital Rebel XT.
I love taking pictures and that camera is fantastic. Got a cpl lenses, one being a wide angle to get that fisheye look. Had one of the band members GF take some pictures of our last show, they turned out pretty cool!
Mar 29, 2007 04:39 pm Astronomy rocks! I need a good telly.
I've heard talk about a probe that's supposed to bore a hole through the ice on Europa? I think that would be a wiser investment than a manned mission to Mars, myself.
Mar 29, 2007 06:58 pm The Europa thing from what i can tell is just talk. We dont know how think the ICe is, could be a foot, could be 400 miles. You know. so I cant see that happening anytime soon. Definatly not before a manned mission to mars, what would be AWESOME in my opinion. not that we would learn tons, but just to say we have made the step to interplanitary travel.
i dunno, Europa would be awesome, i just dont think its possbilbe at this stage.
-Melty
Mar 29, 2007 07:03 pm at the bar we have this werid "game" thing that asks you 20 yes/no questions and then it tell you what you were thinking of...it's freaky, i forget what it's called though.
Mar 29, 2007 07:55 pm yeah that's the bugger! we've stumped it a few times though.
Mar 29, 2007 08:03 pm i was thinking 'balanced cable' and it guessed 'guitar cable'...but that was close enough...took it 28 questions though.
28. Have you been on television? Sometimes.
27. I guessed that it was a mute? Wrong.
26. Do you appear in movies? Irrelevant.
25. Can you be easily found at a music store? Yes.
24. I guessed that it was an arrangement? Wrong.
23. Were you popular in the '90s? Irrelevant.
22. I guessed that it was a capo? Wrong.
21. Were you born before 1975? Irrelevant.
20. I guessed that it was a music stand? Wrong.
19. Are you made of wood? No.
18. Do you make a sound? No.
17. I guessed that it was a tuner? Wrong.
16. Were you active 100 years ago? Yes.
15. Do you play Alternative music? No.
14. Do you often reinvent yourself? No.
13. Do you come in different sizes? Yes.
12. Do people use their hands to play you? No.
11. Can you be held in someone's hand? Yes.
10. Are you carried in a case? No.
9. Were you popular in the '60s? No.
8. Are you popular with women? No.
7. Are you physically very large? No.
6. Do you have dreadlocks? No.
5. Are you an instrument? No.
4. Can something be put into you? No.
3. Do you require electricity? Yes.
2. Are you made of metal? Yes.
1. It is classified as Thing.
Mar 29, 2007 10:50 pm the europa lander was scheduled to launch in a decade or so. it was called the jupiter icy moons orbiter and was slated to carry a probe which would land on europa and release another probe into the ice which woud heat up while sitting on the ice, by nuclear means. slowly it would thus bore a hole through the ice. it would stay connected to the surface unit which would serve as a relay to the orbiter above. once through the ice, a small free-swimming submersible was to be released.
a lot of planning had already been done, though it was in the early stages still. but it would have definitely happened (and still will, eventually: europa is the best bet for life in the solar system and probably has the only other true water ocean in the solar system, beneath the ice). but bush refocused on the moon and mars, and thus many 'science' missions have been canned.
JIMO and the terrestrial planet finder scope were hard losses for me! i'm more into robotic exploration right now. there's so much to learn.
Mar 29, 2007 10:54 pm 20 questions could not get 'c sharp'
maybe i used it wrong
Mar 31, 2007 08:53 pm I just tried it on using myself as the person. It couldn't come up with it in 35 questions so I quit.
As for a gadget that isn't music related. I'll have to think about that.
Mar 31, 2007 10:01 pm Quote:
4. Can something be put into you? No.
Be honest now.
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