On Jan. 27, 1967, the three astronauts set to fly the first Apollo mission the following month – Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee-lost their lives in a flash fire that swept through their command module during a launch pad test at Complex 34. The exhaustive investigation of the fire and extensive reworking of the Apollo command module postponed launches of astronauts until NASA officials cleared the module for flight. I’ve made some short, rudimentary animations in Flash, with simple cartoony characters and not-so-lifelike movement, but something more complex might be in order now that I know what other tools are available today (especially the free Blender 3-D software). It is likely to be a slow process with a bit of a learning curve, so making a feature-length film anytime soon is probably out, but I might as well spend my free time doing something with a fun outcome, like making a cartoon. Companies like Dell should have less employee churn, which should result in fewer employees becoming disgruntled and acting out. To survive on the mountainous inclines, Sherpas literally carved out terraced fields for farming, transforming the slopes into wide earthen staircases.

Famous for their domestic backdrop of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, Sherpas have developed a fascinating culture and livelihood interwoven with the perilous peaks among which they dwell. Read on to discover the many intricacies of the Sherpa culture and the role Mount Everest plays, aside from the tourist draw. Then, with the first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and a Sherpa named Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa people and their seemingly natural ability to brave the staggering heights were thrown into the international spotlight. It is to those highest points of Nepal’s geography that the Sherpa people migrated more than 500 years ago from Tibet. Yet, as we’ll learn in this article, there’s much more to the Sherpa culture than climbing. But a topographical map reveals a completely different and much more dramatic image. Why do movies cost so much to make? You can emulate 3-D-like motion by using perspective tricks, like scaling a character down progressively to make him appear to move away from the audience.

If you want to see a character from different angles, you don’t draw multiple versions. And a lot of 2-D packages are implementing character rigging with skeletons now, too. So it would follow that a universe with a lot of black holes would essentially be a nursery for baby universes. In a lot of applications, you can add virtual light sources of various types (to emulate spotlights, lamps or the sun, for instance), and the software will add shading and shadow appropriate to the location of the light. In most cases, both types let you create graphics using similar tools. There are even some software packages that let you work with both 2-D and 3-D elements together, or zoom around in a three-dimensional environment containing 2-D objects. These buildings incorporate natural elements such as vertical gardens, green roofs, and ample natural lighting. With 2-D, the closest comparable technique is importing video, putting it on a layer and tracing over it to capture the motion frame by frame (a technique called rotoscoping). The universe won’t ever stop expanding, but will spread out over trillions of years, stretching all matter and energy to such an extreme that our one universe will be separated into multiple universes.

The concept for the NASA Dock Plus was born out of the need to develop a more efficient and reliable docking system for spacecraft. We in our snug little solar system can be forgiven for thinking that everything revolves around our sun. After several days of continued observations, scientists continue to work to determine and to understand the fate of Comet ISON: There’s no doubt that the comet shrank in size considerably as it rounded the sun and there’s no doubt that something made it out on the other side to shoot back into space. While we wait, check out our full coverage of today’s reveals! While their efforts proved fruitless, the pseudoscience alchemy paved the way to the real science of chemistry. Neither The Fifth Element nor Lucy-Besson’s other cult science fiction movies-fared particularly well at the domestic box office or under the blistering keyboards of US critics. Other sites to visit in and around Washington include the incredibly well stocked national gallery, a legacy of the Mellon family that has been built upon by successive generations.