Cool Non-Video Links (Quizzes, Tests, Illusions, Etc..)

[VisualStatic]

Oh, I just realized that cat hit the concrete sidewalk on the other side when he landed,  that had to hurt.....

[ThunderMonkey]

It looks fake to me.

There's a slight colorization change of the cat prior to when it hits the ground.

It may not be, but I have my reservations.

[Krensky]

It looks fake to me.

There's a slight colorization change of the cat prior to when it hits the ground.

It may not be, but I have my reservations.

I don't know. It's an animated GIF that looks like it was made from video captured from video tape of a TV broadcast of video shot with consumer video equipment twenty years ago (based on the inside edition logo), with a subject moving from a high white balance (the sky) to a low white balance (the ground/houses) background. Any of that could explain the apparent color change of the cat.

Note: I think white balance is the term, but it's been a while since I worried about such things and I wasn't a Comm major.

[ThunderMonkey]

It looks fake to me.

There's a slight colorization change of the cat prior to when it hits the ground.

It may not be, but I have my reservations.

I don't know. It's an animated GIF that looks like it was made from video captured from video tape of a TV broadcast of video shot with consumer video equipment twenty years ago (based on the inside edition logo), with a subject moving from a high white balance (the sky) to a low white balance (the ground/houses) background. Any of that could explain the apparent color change of the cat.

Note: I think white balance is the term, but it's been a while since I worried about such things and I wasn't a Comm major.

Well... if it was 20 years ago, the white balance on cameras were that quick or efficient. Besides the white balance would have impacted the shot and not just the cat itself. I need a pause button because there are a few spots in the clip I would like to slow down and just look at it frame by frame.

Until otherwise I'm still willing to give it a slight benefit of a doubt.

[Krensky]

Well... if it was 20 years ago, the white balance on cameras were that quick or efficient. Besides the white balance would have impacted the shot and not just the cat itself. I need a pause button because there are a few spots in the clip I would like to slow down and just look at it frame by frame.

Until otherwise I'm still willing to give it a slight benefit of a doubt.

Save the gif and open it in a decent graphic application. it should let you extract all the frames. There's a lot of noise and other crap in the file though, and a good bit of what looks like dithering. However zooming the image ot near full screen does show that the whole frame gets dimmer as the cat crosses the white house in the background, and there's not jumps or breaks in the movement.

[Nepenthe]

Is that thing an electric prod? 

Looks more like a loop of thick wire, or similar. The catcher was probably trying to get it around the cat's neck before carrying it back down the ladder.

Yes - but the prod would have gone a long way explaining the cat's use of "that's impossible!" as a grenade jump of sorts.

[MilitiaJim]

The Bacon Explosion is now available for purchase.  Cholesterol drugs are not included.

[glimmerrat]

'kay I feel ill now.

[Krensky]

Peacekeeper MIRV test photo:

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[Mister Andersen]

Oh, that's what it is.

[Wolverine]

Peacekeeper MIRV test photo:

All that photo needs now is a heavenly speech bubble saying 'pew pew pew'

[Krensky]

It's actually potentially useful as a handout for certain types of near future games because of the work being done regarding conventional Trident II SLBMs using unarmed Mk4 RVs with GPS guidance. Apparently the RV develops enough kinetic energy falling from space to make any sort of explosive redundant.

In real life I doubt the system will ever get deployed since you could never really use it without triggering a nuclear exchange.

[TheAuldGrump]

It's actually potentially useful as a handout for certain types of near future games because of the work being done regarding conventional Trident II SLBMs using unarmed Mk4 RVs with GPS guidance. Apparently the RV develops enough kinetic energy falling from space to make any sort of explosive redundant.

In real life I doubt the system will ever get deployed since you could never really use it without triggering a nuclear exchange.

I used that image as part of a Motivational Poster here almost exactly two years ago.

For engines of destruction those warheads do look mighty purty.

The Auld Grump

[OverNinja]

CIA offer these little diversions:

Aerial Analysis Challenge
Photo Analysis Challenge
CIA Personality Quiz

Apparently I'm a Daring Thrill-Seeker. 

Oh, there is also the obligatory propaganda. 

[Mister Andersen]

I'm a Thoughtful Observer