After almost 30 years of spaceshutteling NASA brings its successful space flight program to an end. Yesterday, last launch took place.
For us, enough reasons to show and to promote alternatives of how the United States could regain or keep eruptive strength by using the unique power of advertising, advertising and – of course – advertising.
Source: Reuters
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Explanation: «It was a quiet day on the Sun. The above image shows, however, that even during off days the Sun’s surface is a busy place. Shown in ultraviolet light, the relatively cool dark regions have temperatures of thousands of degrees Celsius. Large sunspot group AR 9169 from the last solar cycle is visible as the bright area near the horizon. The bright glowing gas flowing around the sunspots has a temperature of over one million degrees Celsius. The reason for the high temperatures is unknown but thought to be related to the rapidly changing magnetic field loops that channel solar plasma. Large sunspot group AR 9169 moved across the Sun during 2000 September and decayed in a few weeks.» Quote from Astronomy Picture of the Day .
Photo Credit: TRACE Project, NASA
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Hey little boy is your rocket gone
did it go and leave you all alone
You got a bad desire
Oh oh oh you’re on fire…
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Explanation: Has a new planet been discovered? What is pictured above is a remarkable 24 hour mosaic surrounding a spot on Sounio, Greece, right here on planet Earth. Images taken at night compose the top half of the picture, with star trails lasting as long as 11 hours visible. Contrastingly, images taken during the day compose the bottom of the image, with the Sun being captured once every 15 minutes. The image center shows a Little Prince wide angle projection centered on the ground but including gravel, grass, trees, Saint John’s church, clouds, crepuscular rays, and even a signature icon of the photographer — the Temple of Poseidon. Meticulous planning as well as several transition shots and expert digital processing eventually culminated in this image documenting half of the final two days of last year.
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Night and Day above Almost Planet Sounio
Credit & Copyright: Chris Kotsiopoulos (GreekSky)
via: Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Ein Fläschchen Wasser mit Sauerbratengeschmack
Über Brausetabletten mit Speckgeschmack hatten wir bereits hier berichtet. Was sich im Neatoramashop allerdings mehr wie eine intellektuelle Spielerei ausnimmt, scheint mit Krautkrämer’s Meat Water jedoch bitterer Ernst zu werden.
Das schmackhafte Astronautenwässerchen auf fleischlicher Geschmacksbasis gibt es u.a. in folgenden Geschmacksrichtungen: Beef Jerky, Beef Stroganof, Cheese Burger, Chicken Teriyaki, Dirty Hot Dog, Fish’n Chips, Hungarian Gulash, Italian Sausage, Peking Duck, Tandoori Chicken, Texas BBQ, Wiener Schnitzel, Chicken Salad, Salmon Salad, Beef Salad, Shrimp Salad, Stuffed Quail, Bangers ‘n Mash, Venison Confit, BBQ Wings, Buffalo Wings, Pigs with Wings, Swedish Köttbullar, Italian Meatballs, Königsberger Klopse, Basic Breakfast, English Breakfast, Brunch Omelette, Pizza Prosciutto, JBBB, Liverwurst Sandwich, Gyros, Cubano, Fried Oysters, Grilled Clams, Mountain Oysters, Currywurst, Escargots, Gefilte Fish, Haggis, Irish Stew, Juicy Pork Dumpling, Moules Frites, Pork Hocks, Pulled Pork, Sauerbraten, Shrimp Pad Thai, Taco Chorizo, und viele weitere leckere Wassergeschmacksrichtungen mehr…
Bisher war ich immer versucht, den großen Lebensmitteltechnikerpreis an die Damen und Herren von Ritter Sport für ihre unfaßliche – und seit geraumer Zeit nicht mehr erhältliche – Geschmachsrichtung «Tiramisu» zu verleihen, und zwar genau dafür, daß diese Schokolade tatsächlich wie richtiges Tiramisu schmeckte; aber jetzt, da ich dieses Programm hier sehe, bin ich geneigt, besagten Preis ohne mit der Wimper zu zucken an Krautkrämer’s Meat Water zu verleihen, und zwar ungeprüft, da ich mich da trinktechnisch noch nicht so ganz rantraue….
Hier geht’s zum Interview mit Till Krautkrämer, das er mit AOL News führte.
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Click to enlage drastically | Sunrise, Moonrise | Copyright: Robert Pölzl
«Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Explanation: For many Europeans, the Sun and New Moon rose together on January 4 in a partial solar eclipse. Arriving close on the heels of the new year, it was the first of a series of four(!) partial solar eclipses due in 2011. This composite image documents the graceful celestial event in colorful morning skies over Graz, Austria. Beginning before sunrise, frames were taken to record the position and progress of the eclipse every 15 minutes. As Sun and Moon rose above the eastern horizon, the town of Graz is seen bathed in warming sunlight only partially blocked by the New Moon, spreading beneath the town’s landmark clock tower.» (Quote from NASA)
Your daily trip to your exciting astronomy picture of the day starts here.
Website: Robert Pölzl
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Read the full, highly impressive, mostly entertaining, aggressively self-fulfilling story on: Modernmechanix
Die NASA hat auf unserem Planeten die Existenz von Bakterien (siehe oben) nachweisen können, die nicht nur die Nähe von Arsen ertragen können, sondern dieses Element in ihre DNS sogar fleißig einbauen und zu ihrem Vorteil nutzen. Mit dieser Erkenntnis müsse die Art und Weise, mit der wir bisher nach außerirdischem Leben suchten, völlig neu überdacht (siehe oben) werden.
Ist es ab jetzt nur noch eine Frage der Zeit bis es heißt: Marsianer für bessere Verzehrbarkeit des Menschen? Möglicherweise.
Auf dem Planeten, auf dem sich einst knappe, schlappe 6 Milliarden Erdlinge pudelwohl fühlten, Geranien gossen und sich in unregelmäßigen Abständen mit viel Liebe und Hingabe gegenseitig die Fleischmützen massierten, ist alles leblos und grau geworden. Keine Menschenseele geht mehr ans Handy. Selbst Bansky wird vermisst.
Doch auf dem Mars, da holtert und poltert es gehörig: Der lange Marsch durch die interplanetaren Instanzen hat begonnen. Hunderttausende ehemalige und hochmobile Erdenbewohner bahnen sich in zwei parallel verlaufenden Siedlertrecks ihren Weg über die Marsoberfläche in eine neue und hoffnungsfrohe Zukunft. Die Erde ist tot. Es lebe die Erde.
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We’ve got feedback from Pfizer. Since our last meeting with them we thought that we already made it. But as it seems today we’re only halfway there. First, we were asked if we could give this whole thing a bit more drive in a sensitive and gleamingful way. Following the golden rule of excecuting everything the client wants us to do – we went to the next post office, put our souls, our experiences, our abilities of aesthetic judgement, our life-insurances and, not to forget, our courage in a box, sealed it carefully with a bunch of 1p-stamps and sent it straight to South West Africa. In other words: here are the new results.
Can you keep a secret? We find this gleaming thing above a bit too suggestive. This happens to be because we strongly believe that the consumer has to make the last mental step to complete the picture we want him to see on his very own. No matter how small this small step may be…
Then we were asked if we could add a bit more natural colours to the ads. So, we did that (above) as well and destroyed by doing so this harmonic look all three ads were originally kept togehter with.
Leaving the concept of keeping a certain amount of visual equality in this campaign behind we exchanged the last draft showing the moon’s surface through this one above. We also removed the new added gleaming aspect. We think the message is already clear enough.
However, just to be completely on the safe side of our client’s understanding of eternity we created another ad pumping up the volume of the storytelling’s power of our campaign’s concept. Allow yourself a full click and take a serious look:
After accomplishing our mission we decided to go deeper into this matter, and the outer-space we already felt being surrounded with quite intensively. We met the heart of the famous Whirlpool Galaxy (M25) and tried – business as usual – to make the most out of it:
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Our one-shot-shot: A nice spread sheet allowing even the lightest human brain cells to make the correct association. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, …
We cannot wait receiving Pfizer’s feedback once more…
Recently, we’ve been invited to Pfizer presenting some of our ideas dealing and playing around with Viagra. We weren’t so sure being the right guys for things like this because the larger the companies are the less they like to share their special sense of humour with the public. Particularly not if the company is in the pharmacy business. A patient who’s laughing about his own cancer disease shall not be promoted in any way. That’s a golden rule. Certainly, there are tons of exceptions, yes, but there are millions of more tons of examples teaching us the contrary. Especially, when the company is in the pharmacy business.
The more surprised we were when our first lad, sorry, ad immediately hit the flip chart, then destroyed the coffee machine followed by a tremendously unoverhearable WROOOOOOOM. Finally it set the whole building on fire. Uncomfortable side-effect: The ad has never ever been seen again.
Comfortable side-effect: Pfizer’s staff members of the marketing department had instantly and probably their best sex ever – with each other. Hic et nunc in the conference room. And the most impressive detail: nor have they eaten our history making ad literally neither was it part of their digestion in a spritual way; they had just a look at it. That was all. Unbelievable.
The consequences of all of this were clear: we’ve got the job! And so here we are, right on the moon’s surface doing some important research for our next ads.
Unfortunately, some unpleasantly looking questions arose when the reaction on Pfizer’s side sticked to ground zero. We thought that the only association this ad above allows is that it is showing what has been left behind when a Viagra-influenced-Superdick was digging and trying to penetrate an acre of moon land (or some acres more) for a minimum period (just let’s be realistic) of 24 hours. Well, this is what we thought.
Nevertheless, we sold two out of three, so things could have gone worse.
Photography by NASA
Explore The Space!
Explore The Space!
Photo by Elias Politis
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