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Heart attack risk is greater in short people due to genetic link | Daily Mail Online

Short people at greater risk of a heart attack: 5ft person's chance of developing problems is a third higher than someone who is six inches taller

• Experts confirm the link between height and heart disease is a genetic one
• Every 2.5in change in height affects chances by as much as 13.5 percent
• Researchers looked at 200,000 individuals while conducting the new study

If you are short you are at greater risk of a heart attack – and genes are to blame, research shows.

Every 2.5in change in height affects your chances of developing coronary heart disease by 13.5 per cent.

Compared with a 5ft 6in person, for example, a 5ft person’s risk of heart problems is on average almost a third higher, while for a six-footer the risk is almost a third lower.

The discovery was made by establishing how genetic variants that affect height are also directly associated with coronary heart disease. It is the first time a study has revealed a genetic link between the two.

Professor Sir Nilesh Samani, British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiology at Leicester University, where the study was done, said it had been known for more than 60 years that there was a link between height and the risk of a heart attack.

But it had previously been thought the higher risk among short people might be linked to poor nutrition in childhood or other factors that affect growth.

Experts had assumed one possible reason was that shorter people have smaller coronary arteries which are more prone to becoming furred up earlier in life.

Sir Nilesh said: ‘We have shown that the association between shorter height and higher risk of coronary heart disease is a primary relationship and is not due to confounding factors such as nutrition or poor socio-economic conditions.’

Researchers looked at genetic data on almost 200,000 people with or without coronary heart disease.

They examined 180 genetic variants that affect height, says the New England Journal of Medicine.

They found the link between differences in height and changes in the risk of coronary heart disease. The results were broadly similar for men and women.

The study investigated whether this could be explained by an effect of a person’s height on known risk factors such as cholesterol, high blood pressure or diabetes.

But they found that an association with cholesterol and fat levels could explain only a small part of the relationship between height and the risk of heart attacks, leading researchers to conclude that shared biological processes determine the height people reach and the development of coronary heart disease.

BHF associate medical director Professor Jeremy Pearson said further research may suggest new ways to reduce the risk of heart disease.

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Que Randy Newman "Short People" song....
Oh I can't do it!!! That's so cold..

 

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A Face Transplant Removed This Deadly Bundle of Blood Vessels

This 3D scan shows a tangle of abnormal blood vessels beneath a patient’s skin. Their presence caused speech and vision problems, and were in danger of rupturing—which could have ended his life. Now, they’ve been removed during the course of a full face transplant.

During surgery performed in February, by Joan-Pere Barret and a team of 45 medical staff at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, a 27-hour operation saw the patient’s face almost entirely reconstructed. His lower face, neck, mouth, tongue and pharynx were all rebuilt, removing the blood vessel growth of over 20 years. It’s not the first successful face transplant, but it does demonstrate the medical profession’s increasing ability to completely rebuild complex biological features in the operating theater.

 

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Gravitational Lens Creates A Perfect Einstein Ring Across The Universe

Every now and then, the universe lines up just right for us puny humans on some speck of a planet in the no-where end of the galaxy to see something amazing. This is an Einstein Ring, a near-perfect manifestation of a particular variety of gravitational lensing.

Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity included descriptions of how mass can warp space-time, with one of the many theoretical consequences being the ability of masses within our universe to act as giant gravitational lenses, bending and warping light. If, by sheer chance, the intervening mass is placed in exactly the right position compared to our planet, the lens will be perfectly symmetrical in bending light from an object behind it, creating a ring. Einstein lamented that we'd never observe a ring because they'd be too small for even his most optimistic dreams for the future of telescopes, but that's because he was only considering rings created by small, star-sized lenses. When galaxies or black holes mess take on the role of lenses, they can create massive Einstein Rings that are both easier to spot and reliably gorgeous.

Galaxy SDP.81 is about 12 billion light-years away, from when our universe was still sorting out how to birth stars and develop galaxy clusters. Between us and it is a relatively-near galaxy just 4 billion light-years away that, by sheer luck, has just the right mass and distance to act as a perfect gravitational lens and amplify the light from SDP.81. This allows us an otherwise-impossible look at the star-forming galaxy, helping us gain insights into how things have changed and how they've stayed the same in the intervening eons.

While the image is distorted — SDP.81 is certainly not a perfectly circular galaxy resembling Sauron's Eye or the death-mark out of The Ring — it's distorted in a very specific way we can detangle with a bit of inversion mathematics applied to geometry and optics, allowing astronomers to recover the galaxy's original appearance. The end result is the capacity to image the original galaxy in truly outrageous detail for something so faint and so far away. The ALMA observatory press release explains in terrestrial terms:

For these observations, ALMA achieved an astounding maximum resolution of 23 milliarcseconds, which is about the same as seeing the rim of a basketball hoop atop the Eiffel Tower from the observing deck of the Empire State Building.

 

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Crazy angle of a US Navy helicopter on a guided-missile cruiser

The horizon in this picture is totally straight and normal but the helicopter and the USS Anzio ship are, well, totally angled and not. That makes for a really cool picture that makes it look like the world is bent all out of order. But it's just another day in the life of the US Navy.

US Navy:

Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Keron King signals the pilots of an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter attached to the Vipers of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 48 during preflight preparations aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio (CG 68). Anzio is en route to Scotland to participate in Joint Warrior, a United Kingdom-led semi-annual multinational cooperative training exercise.

 

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How Washington State Could Turn Aircraft Carriers Into Bridges

Washington State just received federal funds to study a totally unique toll bridge concept, one made out of decommissioned US Navy Super Carriers. The bridge would consist of two or three carriers and would link Bremerton and Port Orchard, Washington, spanning the Sinclair Inlet.

The project is headed up by Washington State Representative Jesse Young:

"I know that people from around the world would come to drive across the deck of an aircraft carrier bridge, number one... Number two, it's the right thing to do from my standpoint because this is giving a testimony and a legacy memorial to our greatest generation."

Three carriers connected end to end would complete the span, but two carriers would work well with ramps emanating from each shore and sloping up to the carrier's decks.

One of the biggest things standing in the way of the "carrier bridge" is availability of the ships themselves. Although multiple carriers are in reserve or awaiting disposal at the nearby Bremerton naval base, the Navy says none of them are available for such a project.

The two main ships eyed for the project are the USS Independence and the USS Kitty Hawk.The Independence is set to be towed to Texas for recycling this year and the Kitty Hawk is slated to remain in reserve until the Navy's newest carrier, the USS Gerald R Ford, is fully operational. Additionally, Navy policy for the big ships final fate states that they can only be used as museum ships or for disposal/recycling.

The $90k federally funded feasibility study will have to be submitted by December of this year and from there it will be a fight to keep the idea in the state transportation budget and evolve its funding from there on a federal level.

Reaction from the local public for the outside-the-box transportation solution is said to be positive but there are clearly many obstacles in its way. Yet for a state that loves to recycle and has a long naval heritage, anything is possible.

 

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We Definitely Shouldn't Have Taught Robots How To Sword Fight

Japan’s Namiki Laboratory is known for its robotic arms and high-speed vision systems that can move and react faster than a human being can. That’s the neat part. The scary part is that for some reason the researchers there have decided that teaching their creations to effectively fight with swords was a good idea. Have we not learned from those Terminator movies how this will end?

Using a pair of high-speed cameras working to give the arm stereo vision, the robot is able to recognize the position and movements of a human opponent, as well as its own sword. Once the human starts to attack the robot uses custom algorithms to calculate the possible trajectories of its opponent’s sword and then plots an effective defensive motion to protect itself using its own weapon.

And as you can see in the video, even in the lab the arm is very, very skilled at fending off human attackers. Which means that one day our robot usurpers won’t even need guns to wipe us out. Great.




Russia Is Outlawing Celebrity Memes

Russia likes outlawing things. Last year, they got rid of cussing in all forms of media, and even did away with any film that “threatened national unity.” With such unchecked restrictions on freedom of expression, it was only a matter of time before they came for our memes.

According to Roskomnadzor and spotted by Global Voices, it’s now illegal to use a celebrity in a meme that has nothing to do with that celebrity—meaning basically every celebrity meme ever made.

So why the sudden meme-ageddon? Supposedly it’s all because of this thing:

So that’s Russian singer Valeri Syutkin, whose songs are all about romance. Kind of like the Nicholas Sparks of romantic Russian ballads. But “BBPE,” according to Global Voices’ Kevin Rothrock, is an acronym of the phrase “Bei Babu po Ebalu” meaning “Smack the Bit** in the Face” from a 2005 song with famously derisive lyrics. I won’t pretend to understand Russian humor, but clearly the jarring juxtaposition is the joke.

But the Kremlin isn’t laughing, a court ruled in Moscow that the meme damaged Syutkin’s privacy, which prompted the Kremlin to supposedly pass the law. Here’s the specific language per Google Translate:

Violation of legislation on personal data in relation to public figures includes...Use the photo as a public person impersonation popular Internet meme, unrelated to the identity of “celebrity.” The methods of processing of personal data violate the requirements of the legislation on personal data and defaming the honor, dignity and business reputation of the public persons. Roscomnadzor refers to the administration of resources with the demand to remove illegal information, if it does not - to sue.

But it’s possible—and likely—there is more going on beneath the surface, because memes have often been used to voice political dissent. Last year, memes used during the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were able to sneak by national censors in China. So really restricting memes by protecting “privacy” is really only part of the conversation, if really even the conversation at all. This one example could attack of whole swatch of image-based online humor and even outlaw political memes, such as the very popular Putin Riding a _____ meme.

One of the best ways to respond to such obvious freedom of speech restrictions is with a meme of your own.

*I've decided to respond to this in the following way:

 

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Oculus Rift Consumer Version Release Date To Happen This Winter 2015 As CONFIRMED By Palmer Luckey; Earliest Launch Date Alleged For November! : Trending News : KDramaStars

The Oculus VR CEO, Palmer Luckey has revealed that the Oculus Rift consumer version release date is expected to be on Winter 2015.

"Speaking to The Telegraph, as reported by VR Focus, Lucky estimated a winter 2015 launch for the first consumer version of the VR headset" wrote Gamenguide.

Previously, TechAndPrince has reported that the Oculus Rift consumer version release date is reportedly going to be on late November 2015.

"Palmer Luckey said the rift would be available by Winter. My sources can confirm that the rift can be bought on November," wrote TechAndPrince.

Previously, Palmer Luckey has stated that the Oculus Rift consumer version would have huge improvements over the previous beta version of the Oculus Rift, "DK2", as he notes that there would be significant improvements to the VR headset regarding resolution and over-all smoothness of the VR experience.

"Co-founder Palmer Luckey also stated that the consumer system's resolution would get a 'significant increase' over the DK2's 1080p display, with a refresh rate that will hit 90Hz or higher" quotes Techradar.

Meanwhile, Palmer Luckey and Nate Micthell revealed that the Oculus Rift consumer version could be priced around the $200 to $400 range.

"Company co-founders Palmer Luckey and Nate Micthell stated they want to keep the hardware in the $200-$400 range; something similar to the prices of current development kit models. The DK2 model, specifically, sells for $350" wrote Game Rant.
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This Spider Catches Prey With a Web of Electrically Charged Silk

Not all spider silk is created equal. Some spiders spin webs of wet, sticky silk. Others like theUloborus spider have fluffy webs made of nanoscale filaments. But those fluffy webs are just as good at catching prey, likely thanks to their electrostatic charge.

In a new paper published in Current Biology, scientists have figured out how the Uloborusspider spins its electrically charged web. The silk actually emerges as liquid from the spider's silk glands. As the spider pulls on the silk, it sets into a solid thread. But that's not all. Science'sMonique Brouillette explains the rest:

In order to endow the fibers with an electrostatic charge, the spider pulls them over a comblike plate located on its hind legs. (This also gives the thread its wool-like appearance.) The technique is not unlike the so-called hackling of flax stems over a metal brush in order to soften and prepare them for thread-spinning, but in the spider's case it also gives them a charge. The electrostatic fibers are thought to attract prey to the web in the same way a towel pulled from the dryer is able to attract stray socks.

Spider silk, as you almost certainly know, is remarkable for its strength and lightness. Understanding how different types of spider silks are made could yield some insights on polymers used in industrial applications. Or hopefully, applications in making a real-life electric Spider Man.




The Photographer Who Took This Picture Barely Escaped With His Life

Pakistani nature photographer Atif Saeed managed to capture this stunning shot of a lion — just before it leapt at him.

This photograph was snapped by Atif Saeed (Facebook, Flickr) at a safari zoo park near Lahore. He got out of his jeep to take the photo, but the sound of the lens's whizzing caught the lion's attention. Saeed figures the big cat got as close as 10 feet, before he was able to reach the safety of his jeep.

Once safely inside his vehicle, Saeed started to laugh about what had happened. But after some retrospection he came to realize just how close he came to death — and vowed to never do anything quite as reckless again.

 

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Holy Crap, This Octopus is Taking Pictures of Its Visitors

Octopuses are known to be very intelligent creatures, but one octopus in New Zealand is outclassing all of her peers by taking photographs of her aquarium visitors. World, meet Rambo, the very first trained octopus photographer, or octographer, as we now say.

Rambo’s newfound skills are the result of a partnership between Sony and the Sea Life Aquarium in Auckland. A Sony TX30 compact camera is attached to the outside of her tank, and Rambo was trained to press the camera’s red shutter button when visitors stand in front of a special backdrop. Um, awesome.

The possibilities this raises are mind boggling. Octographers that help marine researchers by snapping undersea photos for us? Octopuses trained to conduct covert marine surveillance? Maybe I’m getting a bit carried away here, but...who knows! Between their killer camouflage, intelligence, and newly demonstrated photography abilities, cephalopods are shaping up to be damn good spies.

 

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From Space, Swirls Of Sea Ice Are Seen Drifting Off The Antarctic Coast

This natural-color image of sea ice off East Antarctica's Princess Astrid Coast was acquired April 5 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite.Via NASA, here's a bit more about what's depicted in this striking photograph:

White areas close to the continent are sea ice, while white areas in the northeast corner of the image are clouds. One way to better distinguish ice from clouds is with false-color imagery. In the false-color view of the scene here, ice is blue and clouds are white.

The image was acquired after Antarctic sea ice had passed its annual minimum extent (reached on February 20, 2015), and had resumed expansion toward its maximum extent (usually reached in September).

 

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Google Gets Into Battery Arms Race - WSJ

Research team working on projects to improve lithium-ion and solid-state batteries

Google Inc. has joined the search for better batteries to power its expansion into consumer electronics and other hardware.

In late 2012, a team led by former Apple Inc. battery expert Dr. Ramesh Bhardwaj began testing batteries developed by others for use in Google devices. About a year later, the group expanded to look at battery technologies that Google might develop itself, according to people familiar with the matter.

The group, part of the Google X research lab, is small, with just four members. A Google spokeswoman declined to comment or to make Dr. Bhardwaj available.


Google in recent years has moved into industries such as transportation, health care, robotics and communications, designing physical devices that require efficient batteries. Chief Executive Larry Page told analysts in 2013 that battery life for mobile devices is a “huge issue” with “real potential to invent new and better experiences.”

Dr. Bhardwaj has told industry executives that Google has at least 20 battery-dependent projects. The company’s latest self-driving car runs on batteries recharged by electricity. The first version of Google’s Glass Internet-connected eyewear suffered from short battery life, which the company hopes to improve. An effort to use nanoparticles to diagnose diseases relies on a small battery-powered monitoring device.


“Google wants to control more of their own destiny in various places along the hardware supply chain,” said Lior Susan, head of hardware strategy at venture-capital firm Formation 8. “Their moves into drones, cars and other hardware all require better batteries.”

Google joins many technology companies trying to improve batteries, including Apple, Tesla Motors Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. These efforts have so far produced only incremental gains, a contrast for tech companies accustomed to regular, dramatic leaps in the efficiency of semiconductors.

Emerging battery technologies promise bigger gains. Solid-state, thin-film batteries transmit a current across a solid, rather than liquid, making them smaller and safer. Such batteries can be produced in thin, flexible layers, useful for small mobile devices. But it isn’t clear whether they can be mass produced cheaply, said Venkat Srinivasan, a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

At Google, Dr. Bhardwaj’s group is trying to advance current lithium-ion technology and the cutting-edge solid-state batteries for consumer devices, such as Glass and Google’s glucose-measuring contact lens, according to the people familiar with the matter.

In a February presentation to an industry conference, Dr. Bhardwaj described how solid-state, thin-film batteries could be used in smartphones and other mobile devices that are thinner, bendable, wearable and even implantable in the human body.

For a wearable device like Glass, he said, the batteries could help power energy-intensive features like video. For the contact lens, the technology is safer because it doesn’t use flammable electrolyte liquid, Dr. Bhardwaj’s presentation explained.

Other teams at Google are working with Chicago-based AllCell Technologies LLC on more potent batteries for four hardware projects, including Project Loon, the company’s effort to beam Internet signals from high-altitude balloons, people familiar with the matter said.

A Project Loon video from late 2013 shows Google engineers bundling AllCell batteries into the system’s power pack. Lithium-ion batteries perform poorly in the subfreezing temperatures of the stratosphere, where Loon balloons float. AllCell wraps lithium-ion batteries in a wax and graphite material that quickly absorbs heat and spreads it evenly, extending their life. Google is experimenting with specially formulated materials for better cold-temperature performance, Jim Morash, a Project Loon engineer said in the video.

 

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This Mountain On Mars Is Leaking

As the midsummer Sun beats down on the southern mountains of Mars, bringing daytime temperatures soaring up to a balmy 25ºC (77ºF), some of their slopes become darkened with long, rusty stains that may be the result of water seeping out from just below the surface.

The image above, captured by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Feb. 20, shows mountain peaks within the 150-km (93-mile) -wide Hale Crater. Made from data acquired in visible and near infrared wavelengths the long stains are very evident, running down steep slopes below the rocky cliffs.

These dark lines, called recurring slope lineae (RSL) by planetary scientists, are some of the best visual evidence we have of liquid water existing on Mars today – although if RSL are the result of water it’s nothing you’d want to fill your astro-canteen with; based on the first appearances of these features in early Martian spring any water responsible for them would have to be extremely high in salt content.

According to HiRISE Principal Investigator Alfred McEwen “[t]he RSL in Hale have an unusually “reddish” color compared to most RSL, perhaps due to oxidized iron compounds, like rust.”

See a full image scan of the region here, and watch an animation of RSL evolution (in another location) over the course of a Martian season here.

Hale Crater itself is likely no stranger to liquid water. Its geology strongly suggests the presence of water at the time of its formation at least 3.5 billion years ago in the form of subsurface ice (with more potentially supplied by its cosmic progenitor) that was melted en masse at the time of impact. Today carved channels and gullies branch within and around the Hale region, evidence of enormous amounts of water that must have flowed from the site after the crater was created. (Source.)

The crater is named after George Ellery Hale, an astronomer from Chicago who determined in 1908 that sunspots are the result of magnetic activity.

Read more on the University of Arizona’s HiRISE site here.

 

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Apple Watch models sell out in 10 minutes - Business Insider


All models of the Apple Watch sold out just hours after preorders officially started.

But, a new note from Apple analyst Gene Munster at Piper Jaffray suggests it only took minutes for certain versions to sell out.

It appears that based on our observations and media reports, launch day supply (April 24th) was largely sold out within the first 10 to 30 minutes depending on model. Most lead times now suggest a 4-6 week or June/July ship date. Overall we view this as an indication of solid demand paired with very limited supply, with supply being the most significant limiting factor. We continue to expect modest sales in the June quarter (2.3m units) as demand ramps over time, with Dec-16 a breakout period. We maintain our Overweight rating and $160 price target.

Strong initial demand for the Apple Watch isn't terribly surprising. Apple's built-in fan base, combined with its earned reputation for excellence all but guarantees an initial surge of sales.

Indeed, days before pre-orders started, Apple's SVP of retail, Angela Ahrendts, warned: "Based on the tremendous interest from people visiting our stores, as well as the number of customers who have gone to the Apple Online Store to mark their favorite Apple Watch ahead of availability, we expect that strong customer demand will exceed our supply at launch.”

Munster believes demand for the Apple Watch will likely increase now that in-store demos have started at Apple's retail locations. People now have the chance to play with the watch and decide if they want to buy it, as opposed to the past few months when potential customers were basing their impressions of the watch mostly on what they've seen on Apple's website and in the media.

Despite the initial flurry of activity, it's still tough to get a read on how many Apple has really sold.

It seems that Apple is having trouble making the watch. After all, when it announced the watch last September, it said it would release it in "Early 2015." Initial reports suggested Apple was aiming for February. But, Apple officially announced a launch date of April 24.

Based on Munster's report, only a limited number of people are going to get the watch at the end of April. It seems most people will get the watch in mid-May, or June, which is a full nine months after Apple announced the watch.

 

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3DR's New Solo Drone Promises Airborne Footage Without a Learning Curve

Flying drones isn’t easy—which is why I recommend a cheap one to start. It gets even harder if you’re trying to control a camera at the same time you’re flying around. But drone pioneer 3D Robotics believes it has a fix: the new 3DR Solo. You just show it what kind of shot you want... and it’ll do the flying for you.

I’m not kidding. I couldn’t believe it either. So last week, I drove to the company’s offices in Berkeley, California so I could see this sucker in action. I couldn’t try everything, but I came away impressed anyhow.

For 3D Robotics, the Solo represents a lot of firsts. It’s the first 3DR drone that should be totally ready to fly out of the box. It’s the first 3DR drone with a slick, consumer-facing design—from Astro Studios, no less—which should definitely set it apart from the DJI Phantom and its endless parade of drone clones. It’s the first 3DR drone to have a bespoke controller, which comes with a nifty pause button for panic attacks: one tap, and the drone just stops in its tracks.


Oh, and it’s got a top-mounted battery bay that could one day hold larger battery packs... a bottom expansion port for accessories as wild an an optical flow sensor (for indoor stability) and a ballistic parachute... and dualARM Cortex A9 processors inside. Swappable motor pods, too.

But the real breakthrough could be what 3D Robotics is calling “Smart Shots”—the ability to record three-dimensional camera maneuvers in midair.

The first two Smart Shots are simple enough. There’s “Orbit,” which can have the drone spin around an object while facing it for a 360-degree action shot; and “Selfie,” where you press a button to have the drone back up, up and away.


But the real showstopper is “Cable Cam,” where you can literally set waypoints in 3D space—then press a button on a connected phone or tablet to automatically fly between them, recording all the while.

You know what else helps with that? The 3DR Solo is also the first drone to have full control over a GoPro camera. Thanks to an exclusive partnership with GoPro, the Solo can beam down a live feed to a connected smartphone—and from there, to the cloud—while controlling all the GoPro’s settings on the fly from an app. There’s even a micro-HDMI out on the controller to hook up to a monitor or first-person view glasses.

Of course, to get the most out of your GoPro, you’ll also want 3DR’s motorized gimbal for stability—an additional $400 purchase.



3DR’s controller was clearly designed with the gimbal in mind. It’s got a special rocker switch on the left to adjust the camera’s angle, two preset buttons on the right to quickly transition between camera modes, and a jog dial that controls how quickly those transitions occur. There’s even an integrated display with readouts for the gimbal’s current position—in addition to this handy phone/tablet holder so you can view live footage.

 

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This Time Lapse Of A Nuclear Fast Attack Sub Entering Dry Dock Is Sweet

This time lapse, shot at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego, of the Los Angeles class nuclear fast attack sub USS San Francisco entering drydock is pretty awesome. Not only do you get to see how they bring in one these amazing machines for repairs, but you also see some pretty cool ship traffic in the background.

I can see a cruise ship, a Joint High-Speed vessel, some destroyers, a car carrier, the brand new USS America, and a bunch of civilian boats in the video. Not to mention a gaggle of security vessels and a couple of force protection helicopters to attend to all the heavy military gear coming and going from San Diego Bay. Just across the channel in the distance from where this was shot sits the sprawling Naval Air Station North Island and beyond that beautiful Coronado.

San Diego is a great city, I love spending time there, and if you have a thing for military hardware or transportation it is a daily candy store of sights to behold.