Freaky and Interesting Video Game

A totally cool, yet thought-provoking game. I love it!

“A Slower Speed of Light” is a rather unusual game created by the MIT Game Lab. It’s short and doesn’t even need to really install. Just download it, extract the folder and play. The basic idea is that as you gather a number of “orbs” you slow down the speed of light, eventually to your own rate of movement. As this happens, the screen reflects the distortion that would occur in first your vision, then space itself, as light slows down. Making the task increasingly challenging and very freaky looking.

A Slower Speed of Light

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A screenshot from the game.

Big thanks to Alex for this one, yes, you were right.

Russian Meteorite Update

Wow! Almost 1200 people were injured! Official figures say 3724 houses, 671 education institutions and dozens of social, medical, sports and recreation facilities were damaged by the blast.

The object weighed at least 10 tons and was traveling 20 Km/sec. before it hit our atmosphere! That’s over 44,000 m.p.h! That makes it the second largest space object to hit the Earth in a century! (BTW, the last one hit Russia too)

Here is a picture of one of the craters, this one in a frozen lake.