"Sixty-four Sights from Saturn" Movie available for download, A Saturnian Musical Celebration To Honor Paul McCartney |
"Sixty-four Sights from Saturn" Movie available for download, A Saturnian Musical Celebration To Honor Paul McCartney |
Jun 18 2006, 05:40 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 73 Joined: 14-June 05 From: Cambridge, MA Member No.: 411 |
The Cassini team has composed a tribute to Paul McCartney.
Caution! The file is 147 MB in size. Right-click on it and do a "Save Target As ..." to your local machine. Even using a broadband connection, it is a very long download! - John Sheff Cambridge, MA A SATURNIAN MUSICAL CELEBRATION TO HONOR PAUL MCCARTNEY MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE CASSINI IMAGING CENTRAL LABORATORY FOR OPERATIONS (CICLOPS) SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, BOULDER, COLORADO http://ciclops.org cpcomments@ciclops.org Preston Dyches (720) 974-5859 CICLOPS/Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo. Image Advisory: June 18, 2006 A SATURNIAN MUSICAL CELEBRATION TO HONOR PAUL MCCARTNEY On the occasion of Paul McCartney's landmark 64th birthday, the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) is releasing today an 8-minute movie as a birthday gift to the former Beatle. Sixty-four of the most dramatic and spectacular images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, including one mosaic from the European-built Huygens probe of the surface of Titan, are composed together in a cinematic voyage through the Saturn system and put to the music of the Beatles. "In their creation of new musical forms and directions, and in their expansive vision of the art of popular music, the Beatles reached heights of achievement in their brief time together that nobody has been able to surpass", said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader and the producer/director of the movie. "And being a major element in that incredible story makes Paul McCartney, in my mind, one of planet Earth's brightest stars. It makes me very happy to be able to celebrate him in this way. I hope he likes our movie." The movie `Sixty-four Sights from Saturn' is available today on the home page of http://ciclops.org. High resolution versions may be obtained by emailing cpcomments@ciclops.org. The Cassini imaging operations center (CICLOPS) is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. -end- |
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Jun 19 2006, 09:32 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 648 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Subotica Member No.: 384 |
So...has anybody downloaded this file yet???
What's the resolution (in pix)??? Any screenshots??? -------------------- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Jules H. Poincare My "Astrophotos" gallery on flickr... |
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Jun 19 2006, 01:21 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 345 Joined: 2-May 05 Member No.: 372 |
I managed to D/L it overnight, at an average transfer rate (before I went to bed) of 7 kb/s. Very odd, considering I have cable internet. The video is 640x480 pixels. No point in posting screenshots, they're all press release images. I'll start a torrent if I see enough interest, otherwise I'll upload a lower res version of the video later today.
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Jun 19 2006, 01:26 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
I managed to D/L it overnight, at an average transfer rate (before I went to bed) of 7 kb/s. Very odd, considering I have cable internet. The CICLOPS site is notorious for slow downloads, especially at times when new multimedia content is published and demand is high. One might try sidestepping the problem with a download manager that supports segmented downloads, set 4 simultaneous connections and you get a decent 30 kb/s cumulative speed. -------------------- |
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Jun 19 2006, 05:28 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
We've just set up a new agreement with amazon.com to serve out large-sized files, so I could make this available to more people more easily -- if I could download it. My computer's been chugging away for more than 2 hours and has managed to grab about 24% of it. Um3k, would there be some way I could get the file from you sooner than the 8 or 10 more hours it'll take me to download it? I could send it to Amazon and then put a link in the blog for everyone.
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Jun 19 2006, 05:33 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3241 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
so that's why the site's been slow today...
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Jun 19 2006, 06:14 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Would have made sense to have started it with a bit-torrent really.
Doug |
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Jun 19 2006, 08:45 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 345 Joined: 2-May 05 Member No.: 372 |
We've just set up a new agreement with amazon.com to serve out large-sized files, so I could make this available to more people more easily -- if I could download it. My computer's been chugging away for more than 2 hours and has managed to grab about 24% of it. Um3k, would there be some way I could get the file from you sooner than the 8 or 10 more hours it'll take me to download it? I could send it to Amazon and then put a link in the blog for everyone. --Emily I'll see if I can email it to you. |
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Jun 19 2006, 09:55 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Just a thought - would recompressing to something like an H264 codec Quicktime or a WMV help?
I'm still striving to get the damn thing. Doug |
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Jun 19 2006, 10:52 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
The email thing probably won't work, but downloading should, presently. I've got 67% of it now, and am down to 3.77 KB/sec. Still, it seems to be coming steadily. I'll have it eventually, and when I get it I'll post it to that amazon site -- should be easier for you guys after that.
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Jun 20 2006, 01:26 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 19-March 05 From: Princeton, NJ, USA Member No.: 212 |
I downloaded it last night and it took quite a few hours (>6) via cable modem. patience needed
The end result is worth it. Its quite nice. the resolution is decent but varies. there is a mix of old and very new shots, including from this month, June 2006. this may not be the absolute final version. ken PS: if you are lucky, maybe you will complete the download before your new package arrives |
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Jun 20 2006, 05:22 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
I downloaded it overnight last night (I usually get download rates between 300 and 600 KB/sec.; this thing averaged 6 KB/sec.) and just got around to looking at it.
I guess I could have wished for a little more finesse in the audio track cutting -- maybe fewer individual song snippets that lasted a little longer. But generally, there was a good "feel" between the images and the soundtrack. And the final sequence was quite well done. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Jun 20 2006, 12:30 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
My review: Mostly Harmless.
Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Jun 20 2006, 01:49 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Dare I ask - what does Paul McCartney have to do with Cassini or Saturn?
Jim Lovell's daughter in Apollo 13 was upset about the Beatles breaking up and appeared to have no interest in her father's work, but other than that.... -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jun 20 2006, 02:00 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 345 Joined: 2-May 05 Member No.: 372 |
The CICLOPS team are Beatles fans.
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