IPhone 4 films final Discovery launch from 30,000 feet up.

http://thebln.com/2011/02/iphone-4-video-of-discovery-launching-on-sts-133-from-commercial-plane/

by marklittlewood • 15 years ago

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marklittlewood4• 15 years ago

I would like to point out that if it had been taken with a HTC Desire HD it would have been even better!

mambodog• 15 years ago

I would like to point out that if it had been taken with a Canon 5Dmk2 it would have been even better!

And so on, and so on, and on...

aw3c2• 15 years ago

blogspam

yread• 15 years ago

indeed, link to the original video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE_USPTmYXM

adsr3• 15 years ago

Wow, lucky guy! Did the plane follow it for a bit? I'm thinking about the remark on the speaker system at 1:28.

marklittlewood4• 15 years ago

I think it travelled about 59 miles in 2 minutes so they would have had a job!

adsr3• 15 years ago

Hm, yeah I was referring to horizontally getting closer to the action of the launch.

biggitybones• 15 years ago

Depends where the flight left from - a friend flight was kept on the ground for an extra few min to catch the launch. Or at least that was his assumption.

chopsueyar• 15 years ago

"Drinks are on the house!"

juiceandjuice• 15 years ago

It's pretty cool that this guy has an autonomous iPhone that films stuff for him.

s00pcan• 15 years ago

How is it relevant in any way that this was filmed with an iPhone?

jonknee2• 15 years ago

How do you know someone has an iPhone? They'll tell you.

ugh2• 15 years ago

What a nice populist sentiment. Also: Completely and utterly wrong.

The guy who took the video doesn’t mention his iPhone anywhere, not in the title, not in the video description.

recoiledsnake• 15 years ago

It's very relevant to getting enough attention to come on the front page and grab more votes.

DougBTX• 15 years ago

As does pointing out that you could do this without an iPhone. Clearly these are the sort of thoughts which can only be described using a qwerty keyboard, right?

ThomPete• 15 years ago

It's not but it's relevant in the perspective that fourspace says further up.

ugh2• 15 years ago

The specific device is irrelevant and so is your question.

The headline “Smartphone Films Final Discovery Launch From 30,000 Feet Up” would be just as good but complaining about the additional (albeit irrelevant) information in the real headline seems just strange.

The information in the headline that this was taken by a smartphone is certainly valuable – you immediately know that this is not about professional video footage for example from a NASA plane but amateur footage taken from a commercial airliner which is a lot cooler.

Does it really annoy you and all the people who upvoted you so much that the writer of the headline (not even the guy who took and published the video) went that small extra step and mentioned the specific model of the device used to capture the video and not just the general category? Why exactly?

mberning• 15 years ago

You don't seem to understand people that suffer from gadget inadequacy. They look at their own and other people's choices in purchasing consumer electronics as a reflection of self worth.

waterlesscloud• 15 years ago

What indicates it was an iPhone anyway? The video doesn't say that. Is there a clue in the format?

mkramlich3• 15 years ago

iPhone is web scale. That and MongoDB.

fourspace3• 15 years ago

A rocket carrying human beings going to space to live for a few days in zero gravity, viewed from an airplane carrying hundreds of humans 30,000 feet in the air, filmed on a camera that fits into your pocket.

Do we need any more proof that human beings are incredible?

aarontait3• 15 years ago

Or that fossil fuels are incredible...

jonknee2• 15 years ago

Discovery doesn't use fossil fules. The main engines are powered by oxygen and hydrogen and the solid rocket boosters are made up of ammonium perchlorate, aluminum and iron oxide.

fourspace3• 15 years ago

Fossil fuels are only incredible because humans figured out how to use them. They have no inherent value apart from our minds.

mkramlich3• 15 years ago

And yet despite all this amazing intellectual capability we seem somehow unable to balance a government budget, year after year after year. Hmmmmmm....

cal5k• 15 years ago

Everything is amazing and nobody's happy.

fourspace3• 15 years ago

There's a certain kind of person that's drawn to politics and usually they are not the enterprising productive type.

noonespecial• 15 years ago

Perhaps we should just leave it at "there are humans that can do incredible things, but most humans just sit around and argue about who should be allowed to do incredible things, who should be allowed to allow these things, and who should get credit for those things if they ever happen to get done."

In that context, the technical wizardry isn't the miracle, the miracle is that the stupid monkeys could cooperate long enough to actually get it done.

micah_moo• 15 years ago

Ya I was watching the launch on tv, then stepped outside and you could see it from the other side of Florida, I've seen a launch up in close once, to bad I was really really sick to enjoy it.

jcurbo• 15 years ago

Yeah, I've seen two launches from Tampa (including the last night launch), and you can see things pretty well. This video blows it away though, I would have loved to be on that plane.

younata• 15 years ago

I was 30 miles south of the launch. It kinda sucked, I saw the first few seconds (which was amazing), then it disappeared into clouds.

CGamesPlay• 15 years ago

I don't understand what led the author to believe that this was filmed using an iPhone 4; nor why that has anything to do with the rest of the video.

ajays• 15 years ago

I am ashamed to admit that I have too much time on my hands today. The same video, with an alternate soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXZrkqKo8NQ

softbuilder• 15 years ago

Nice. Somehow I expected "The Final Countdown" to be playing.

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IPhone 4 films final Discovery launch from 30,000 feet up.

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