The fans were kept informed. Even when he tried space food which he says tastes better than it looks. Is meant to trigger my memory. You know i can make choices based on our memory a. Few new ones in between to sort of get. On the menu in the heavens is comfort food from the guests home region a swabian equivalent of macaroni and cheese. The crew wont just be feasting but also working hard. Thats. To conduct almost seventy scientific experiments. More than half of them work for top in Germany Research institutes across the country of thousand experts in fields ranging from
botany to robotics will be helping with the science. Assistant is even going Along For The Ride and ai based digital assistant named simon. Schoolchildren have contributed to a special guest on board. The time capsule containing among other things wishes for the future of Eight Thousand kids. Its meant to be opened in fifty years time. But fans of space travel and astro alex wont have to wait that long for news hes planning a Press Conference from the i assessed on the twelfth of june. And. Shortly before blast off as to alex waved goodbye to his fans. As he had a how to tell message for his mother some of our view is good wishes to examine
asteroids. Ice while legs astro alex space sounds really intense and crazy but you handle it we have no problem cool and easy easy step by turn in the center of your beautiful pictures back to earth you will never get to see the real thing. In the us to see him going to the all the best for your journey and have a safe return i wish you a very pleasant trip i am very jealous of you. Have a very nice new set in mind. Take lots of pictures and i hope the food is tasty and. Talk to these excited to enjoy your time in zero gravity which sounds really cool youll be a great commander and i know youll do us proud oh it wanted to experience weightless. Yes i have an awesome time alex mentioned your Feedback Outs of fun no joy the experience and when you get that feel proud of what youve accomplished and of dismissed you are like steer our lives have a good trip its going to be great bike always a few. Bike and youre in kazakhstan home of the Worlds Largestd. W. Team arrived two days earlier so we could watch the preparations. By mean by canoe or at the Worlds Largest space power to cause more drama as its called here in the middle of the kazakhstan. Its the busiest spaceport in the world in One Hundred Sixty one yuri gagarin set off from here on the first trip by human into outer space in preparation for takeoff the rocket is brought to the launch pad by rail there is lots of Security Personnel the reason im told is the risk of espionage. And here comes the rocket. The long shot at seven oclock in the morning. But the Launch Vehicle will burn up when it falls back to earth only the small capsule with the crew inside will speed on to dock with the eye s. S. It only takes a few minutes until the spacecraft is going to go technicians and engineers check every detail up until the last moment everything has to work perfectly thomas is a retired astronaut who has come to watch obviously the launch as one of the more risky phases but its also something the crew is really looking forward to to experience these incredible forces that push the humans from the surface of this planet into orbit is remarkable that. Its pretty quick less than nine minutes from lift off until you reach the weightlessness and you are traveling with almost twenty Eight ThousandKilometers Per Hour its something to look forward to the final finishing touches everybody here is a true professional. Now we have some time left to look around at the city of baikonur just twenty kilometers from the spaceport. This is where the staff of
because of a drum that just like in soviet times behind defense then and now. Literally outsiders may only enter the challenge with a special permit. Back to the cosmic drone for a Press Conference the crew are behind a glass screen to keep away from germs and infection is the last thing they need in space. The Mission Commander is at sand against the other two are Sergei Prokofiev yes from russia and serene are on your own chancellor from the u. S. You know this you know this you guys is its always been a pleasure three which really will our families who is really well. In time in your. Mind when the weekend on triggers the rounds most dont miss me from leaving messages and know that these guys are fantastic in order to join in the. Know the
word. Before every launch a Russian Orthodox priest comes to place the rock. Its a tradition that goes back more than twenty years. The. Two hours before takeoff the three saunter calmly down cosmonauts out to the coach that will take them to the launch pad. An old song about cosmonauts by a soviet rock band players out a trip to the pioneer. Area there were three civil wars of the very last to hold before the blast off a very emotional. In that three say goodbye to their colleagues and loved ones Alexander Gas Check a pro copy and serina on your own chancellor who will be Out Of This World until december. Is also enlisted In The Name Of science manys the great lenny and is in the eighteen. Some species Travel Tens Of Thousands of calamities but many only thought it is believed that Climate Change is affecting these Migration Patterns now theyll be investigating that question from outer space. Birds are too small to be seen from space but the International Space stations Icarus Technology should allow scientists to monitor birds and other small animals from high above the earth researchers hope to gain new insight into the animals and how theyre. I gratian patterns are affected by extreme weather and Climate Change. The data could also help predict the spread of diseases such as bird flu. Sixteen years of work have gone into the Research Project the lab was transported by rocket to the
space station. Purpose built antennas equipped with the technology will be mounted in august back on earth researchers have fitted thousands of birds with sensors similar to tiny backpacks these will send data on their Movements Temperature Moisture and the effect of Magnetic Fields up into space the birds will act as environmental monitors the scientists are also planning to attract Insects Worms and shoals of fish all from outer space. Did you know that time can take different depending on your speed of motion if one twin were to go on the space flight shed be younger than her own siblings and return at least according to the Theory Of Relativity. Higher of ten that wanted to know more. Why is einsteins Theory Of Relativity so famous. Relativity together with quantum theory form the basis of modern physics. Theory of relativity describes the composition of the universe and how it developed and its not much like how every day experience of the world time is relative and Light Doesnt Travel in Straight Lines and only appears to fall from a tree. The theory says that gravity is the force of attraction but objects exert upon each other and that massive objects distort time and space and that was very new. Einstein came up with the Famous Formula equals Mc Squared Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. It says that mass of energy are two forms of the same thing. And it helps us understand how the sun works Nuclear Fusion causes the release of energy. Times theory explains the release of energy in an atomic bomb which makes use of Nuclear FissionThermo Nuclear bombs also involved Nuclear Fusion. Scientists dream of harnessing that for peaceful purposes to develop power plants that release energy the way the sun does. G. P. S. Only works because relativity has been factored in to correct for time flowing faster for the satellites in orbit. Otherwise the all cost saturn up would fail so relativity is not just an abstract theory it plays a very real road in our modern high tech lives. If outlet is right why our big brother made it. Do you have
a question then just ask him a challenge will save you a small surprise send us your question by Hit Text Message to force mail we have to hear from you. Find us at d. F. W. Dot com Slash Science or drop us a nine activity under schools site tech. Facebook d. W. Science. Theoretical physics is a complex subject that makes it all the more amusing that one of its heroes has become such a Cultural IconAlbert Einstein. Animates his a new tricks book germany has brought the scientific genius back to life. An elderly gentleman is exasperated with modern technology. Someone who certainly never had a smartphone. If god has created to grow his primary very well to make it understanding easy for us. Albert einstein resurrected in digital form ponders the mysteries of the universe. Its part of a project launched by the Animation Institute at the film academy button button back theyre trying to overcome one of the major hurdles in animation creating a natural and convincing human face. In digital animation one of the trickiest aspects is that the more human an animated figure appears the more difficult it is to create a frantic looking facial expressions and emotions thats because were all experts in interpret in facial expressions so we notice right away when something looks right all seems off. To create
an authentic looking digital image the researchers first analyzed many pictures of Albert Einstein. These two dimensional photographs were then used to create a three d. Model. The next hurdle is taking the digital image and breathing life into it. Through capturing einsteins spirit at least somewhat its really tricky we did tons of research and tried to model our character on images that were more than just the Mad Professor with crazy hair we wanted to create a realistic character like something out of a documentary. Next they made busts of Albert Einstein without the Trademark Mustache they analyze the areas around the eyes and mouth that are most important in communicating emotion. They also documented the effects of light and shadow. Moving these methods they mapped out einsteins face even more precisely than they could on a computer. Before. Then came another
tricky part we had to find an actor whose Appearance Harmonized well with al digital. Exist when we insert our digital face over the actors. We wanted to be the best possible match. And that proved to be quite challenging. Certain physical features of the act so we worked with was likely different from the material we did as a reference point. The next step was the most important one creating an authentic looking digital faith. For a viewer even a tiny unnatural looking movement can appear disconcerting or creepy. The researchers developed Animation Software to help until recently digitally generated movements were always linear. But now muscle groups can be animated using complex nonLinear Motion which looks much more natural. So the motion of the lips is no
longer linear like on the left instead like on the right it can follow a curve more like a human face. When the human actor and they digitally generated face are finally merged the result looks astonishingly real. Find me. She would be. Only human. Touch and the nation on national and but so. Often we get value we did a careful evaluation of user groups and surveys and found out that our approach to generating facial movement did far better. The Standard Approach with Linear Motion did was about two thirds of respondents said our face looked more lifelike and real. Pentagon released. Inspired by photographs of Albert Einsteintaken in the one Nine Hundred Fifty s. The researchers have succeeded in creating a digital work of art. The animated Albert Einstein is a mostly convincing this new Animation Technique offers all sorts of possibilities for example in documentary films. Our einstein could be used in the future to for example in a recent t. V. Documentary about einstein he was portrayed by a real actor but of course the actor didnt look exactly like him so you could imagine taking our einstein face and projecting it onto the actor and the space to exist einsteins of course. The researchers produced a three part mini Series Starring there Albert Einstein the famous physicist ponders the nature of humanity chats about relativity and tries to get the hang of a smartphone. Hes not just visually realistic he captures einsteins spirit just
as theyd hoped it. Would be done soon fifteen to three films are a tribute to Albert Einstein to him as a person and to his lifes work. We also wanted to show whats technologically feasible biased. I have his eyes here hes the real Albert Einstein would surely have appraised at close to his digital double and that deriving a formula that gives the answer to lifes most important question its surprisingly simple. All you need is al. Unclothed zero time. Square root. All. And thats all you need. A good meal also will miss the high even in outer space. On the other uses theyve
already carried out experiments in growing their own vegetables maybe one day on longer missions theyll be able to enjoy a fresh praties. Back on this new forms of founding a Listening Test even in new york city where land is at a premium. New york is a vertical City Real Estate prices are soaring to new heights and its among the worlds most expensive cities so space here would appear far too expensive to grow vegetables. At the solution lie underground in this Manhattan Basement a start up and growing produce for high end restaurants doctrinaires believe that Indoor Farming could be the first step to selfsufficiency for the metropolis your chronic farm measures just fifty square metres the plants grow on shelves which
more than doubles the growing area. So this is a growing close to two hundred different color mary hubs annabelle flowers of micrograms and so on every shelf of every part of this room thats something different. Thanks to Energy Efficient l. E. D. Lights the indoor farm is environmentally friendly the plants need just five percent as much water as in conventional farming and they are subject to weather conditions for growing seasons the system that farm one is based on just in time production are harvested so theyre delivered on the exact dates chosen by Clients Everything we grow has to order so that chef has told us i want some. Thing on a particular day and we grow it specially for that so we know exactly how long it takes to grow so that we can determine when should we plant and what we should plant. The Company Founder is originally from australia farm one is not his first startup blank spent seven years in tokyo where he started
a Software Company but its true passion is food he launched farm one with his savings and crowdfunding two years ago this is called a public solace and this is a sour plant you might use this any time you might use lemon juice or then again its that. Farm one attaches great importance to purity he grows without pesticides or genetically modified seeds. Ladybugs are used to keep pests in check. So we use all plant based Bio Digesting Nutrients and some fish waste and some of that waste so its called an organic nutrient solution its not a mixture of chemical fertilizers its something that a plant can really up so old and enjoy. Nearly six hundred different edible plants have been grown at the indoor farm the start up likes to experiment with the sort of being grown here will be ready for harvest in three weeks. So is it possible to
provide the city of new york with vegetables grown exclusively with Indoor Farming. Thats probably not possible to all of the food needs of this kind of city with Indoor Farming but i think that we can make a big difference and i think that we can stop so much importat