NationStates Jolt Archive

National Geographic's Website has a video taken by seven cameras mounted in a pod which was placed in the path of a tornado. Six of the cameras give a 360 degree panoramic view, which the seventh was pointed upward.

To view the video, you will need to sign up with National Geographic, but it's free.

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0506/feature6/multimedia.html

Actually, I just clicked on it, and it worked, and I'm not signed up.

Cool beans, however.

I liked how the camera kept cutting away just before, and when it came back to the one loooking at the tornado, it was closer, and closer.

I hope I wasn't the only one to feel tense as it got really close. :D

Actually, I just clicked on it, and it worked, and I'm not signed up.

Cool beans, however.

I liked how the camera kept cutting away just before, and when it came back to the one loooking at the tornado, it was closer, and closer.

I hope I wasn't the only one to feel tense as it got really close. :D
I have to admit that I felt a certain unwarranted dread, yes. :)

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That was so cool, more more more!

I wonder what took them so long to do something like this. It's not like tornados are a rarity in the US. Now they just need to make it that the cameras vision isn't blurred by the rain. Maybe put glas with lotos effect in front of them, which hinders the water from clinging to the glass.

Ein Deutscher']I wonder what took them so long to do something like this. It's not like tornados are a rarity in the US. Now they just need to make it that the cameras vision isn't blurred by the rain. Maybe put glas with lotos effect in front of them, which hinders the water from clinging to the glass.
Sounds good to me. I imagine they'll get around to it. Probably a matter of funding for them just now.

It's estimated that there are around 1,000 tornadoes per year in the US, most of them through the midwest. I've seen one from a distance, right here in North Carolina, but have no interest whatsoever in seeing one "up close and personal!" :D

I've seen British tornados a few times before.

Now sometimes you get a "real" tornado in Britain, in fact, it's not all that rare. But most of the time, you get tornados that really... just can't be bothered. They're not all that impressive. They're more like clouds, except that instead of going all full pelt, they reach the ground, and then just really run out of effort, perhaps disturbing the odd blade of grass, or causing a sheep to move out its way. They're really quite anticlimactic.

(and yes, it's not just an odd cloud formation :D)

Ein Deutscher']I wonder what took them so long to do something like this. It's not like tornados are a rarity in the US. Now they just need to make it that the cameras vision isn't blurred by the rain. Maybe put glas with lotos effect in front of them, which hinders the water from clinging to the glass.

Maybe some Rain-X would help.