Category Archives: Physics

Fukushima im Film

Deutsche Welle: Doris Dörrie zu Fukushima: “Es hat sich überhaupt nichts geändert”.

“Ihren neuen Film “Grüße aus Fukushima” drehte die Regisseurin in Japan – nur wenige Kilometer von dem Reaktor entfernt. Im Interview spricht Doris Dörrie über ihre Erlebnisse am Filmset und über Verlust und Neuanfang.”

Ausschnitte aus dem Film gibt es hier zu sehen:

Grüße aus Fukushima.

“Vor fünf Jahren verwüsteten ein Erdbeben und ein Tsunami das Atomkraftwerk in Fukushima. Die Folge: ein Super-GAU. Regisseurin Doris Dörrie hat der Katastrophe ein filmisches Denkmal gesetzt.”

Und der Filmtrailer bei YouTube.

Am 14. Januar 2016 war die Regisseurin Doris Dörrie zu Gast bei Mensch Otto (Direktlink zur mp3-Datei des Podcasts, ca. 38 MB).

Fukushima – five years on

Strangely, there don’t seem to be any postings on the Fukushima nuclear disaster on my weblog. It happened five years and three days ago.

Instead of accumulating links here myself I’m linking to MetaFilter yet again, where user Fizz has posted a lot of links to great articles worth reading:

MetaFilter: “Of course, there’s still a nuclear site with three damaged reactors.“

Behind the scenes

I posted about OK Go‘s recent video Upside Down & Inside Out a few weeks ago, but today I re-read the MetaFilter thread and discovered the Upside Down & Inside Out FAQ and credits for the video. I like their explanation of weightlessness on a parabolic flight, which is better than what one finds in most textbooks.

I also enjoyed OK Go Singer Passes Out During Music Video Shoot. See The Footage on Guff even though the title is a bit over the top. Scroll all the way down for the eight-minute video of the last day of shooting.

Space Flight

Victoria University of Wellington: Alexander Gerst – Why We Fly To Space. (YouTube, 1:18:15)

“Victoria University of Wellington alum, geophysicist, and astronaut Dr Alexander Gerst speaks about his six-month mission as part of the International Space Station crew from May to November 2014, and why we go to space.”

The movie Zero Gravity – Mission in Space (YouTube channel with trailers in English and German, behind-the-scenes) about “[t]he space adventure of ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman” was released on March 3.

Bonus-Link: Alexander Gerst lässt Papierflieger und Propeller in der ISS fliegen.

View from the ISS

Boston Globe The Big Picture: Scott Kelly’s year in space.

“NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is scheduled to return to Earth tonight after a 340-day mission aboard the International Space Station, where he participated in research on how the human body reacts and adapts to long-duration spaceflight. He also captured views of our planet that unify science and art, sharing them on social media for the earthbound to follow. Even President Barack Obama kept an eye on Kelly’s accounts, asking him on Twitter, “Do you ever look out the window and just freak out?“ to which Kelly replied, “I don’t freak out about anything, Mr. President. Except getting a Twitter question from you.“ Abstract and out of this world, here’s Earth from an astronaut’s perspective.”