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Let's be honest: those optimistical futurologists fifty years ago who said we'd be living on Mars by 2020 were wrong: we're still a long time away from mainstream space travel. Or long-distance space travel of any kind.
As a matter of fact, we haven't even figured out our future method of transportation here on Earth, with a lot of people still reluctant to the idea of EVs. So it looks like we're going to be stuck here on Earth for a while, so we might as well try and take care of it as best as we can.
One of the ways we can do that is through a sustainable lifestyle. The three Rs of sustainability are Reduce, Reuse and, when everything else fails, Recycle. What you are about to see is a perfect example of the second R, as an old airplane fuselage gets the chance to a second life.
And what a life it is. With only a few LEDs (OK, a hell of a lot of them) and some computers for an orchestrated choreography, the old airplane is turned into a space traveling machine that doesn't actually move one inch. Unless the truck pulling the trailer that holds the airplane sets off, which it's probably forbidden to do.
The name of the project is Porta Estel-lar and was conceived for the 2015 Mac Festival held in Barcelona, Spain. It's a trippy rendition of interstellar traveling using nothing more than well-placed strips of multi-colored LEDs, a dark atmosphere, and the human imagination.
The experience covers all moments of space exploration, from take-off to reaching the speed of light, sighting comets, planets, galaxies and then finally returning back to Earth.
Some sound effects are also employed to make the whole scene resemble even more what movies have told us this activity must be like. That means that whoever enters the Porta Estel-lar should expect anything new in terms of the interpretation of traveling through space at the speed of light, just the chance to experience all the cliches first-hand. Which isn't exactly something you can do whenever you want.
If you can't make it to Barcelona in time to experience this in person, at least make sure the room is dark, the sound is turned on and nobody around you is affected by epilepsy.
One of the ways we can do that is through a sustainable lifestyle. The three Rs of sustainability are Reduce, Reuse and, when everything else fails, Recycle. What you are about to see is a perfect example of the second R, as an old airplane fuselage gets the chance to a second life.
And what a life it is. With only a few LEDs (OK, a hell of a lot of them) and some computers for an orchestrated choreography, the old airplane is turned into a space traveling machine that doesn't actually move one inch. Unless the truck pulling the trailer that holds the airplane sets off, which it's probably forbidden to do.
The name of the project is Porta Estel-lar and was conceived for the 2015 Mac Festival held in Barcelona, Spain. It's a trippy rendition of interstellar traveling using nothing more than well-placed strips of multi-colored LEDs, a dark atmosphere, and the human imagination.
The experience covers all moments of space exploration, from take-off to reaching the speed of light, sighting comets, planets, galaxies and then finally returning back to Earth.
Some sound effects are also employed to make the whole scene resemble even more what movies have told us this activity must be like. That means that whoever enters the Porta Estel-lar should expect anything new in terms of the interpretation of traveling through space at the speed of light, just the chance to experience all the cliches first-hand. Which isn't exactly something you can do whenever you want.
If you can't make it to Barcelona in time to experience this in person, at least make sure the room is dark, the sound is turned on and nobody around you is affected by epilepsy.
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