AnswersThatWork Blog May 2009 - Imagine - Stretch your Imagination - Microsoft Surface, Space Shuttle, STS-125

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Thursday, 28th May 2009

Dancing Imaginations

Imagine dancing the Salsa.

Imagine dancing the Waltz.

Imagine perfection in both.

Imagine dancing either with a football.

Imagine Barcelona FC 2009.

Pep Guardiola's Barcelona FC class of 2009 waltzed and salsa'd their way around Manchester United yesterday to win the European Champions League in a style that will be remembered forever by everyone who watched it. It was poetry in motion in the Rome ampitheatre. One-Two One-Two, One-Two-Three, One-Two-Three-Four, One-Two. It was incredible. Barcelona ran Manchester United dizzy. They ran me dizzy. I constantly found myself marvelling at a wonderful passage of 6 to 7 passes, and still marvelling at them, while they were continuing with another 6 or 7 passes. Iniesta, Xavi, Messi, Eto'o, Henri, Busquets, Sylvinho, Pique, Touré, Puyol, Valdes, and substitute Keita — that's the team you all need to remember. That's the video you need to keep playing, and re-playing, and re-playing. The score was 2-0 but it could have been more. The move of the match was incredible — from start to finish it involved the entire team and it needed a brilliant save by Van der Sar to deny what would have been the best team goal of all time. Wonderful, Wonderful Stuff. Yesterday was a day when a soccer lover would say "On 27 May 2009, I remember where I was when Barcelona FC beat Manchester United 2-0 in the final of the European Champions League".

Aahhhh, Imagine the 2010 final being the same....

—— (TUT) SpaceMan

Saturday, 23rd May 2009

Stretch your Imagination

Imagine a surface which can withstand -270C (-454F) of cold one minute, and 1600C (2300F) of heat the next second.

Imagine an object which can plummet at 29,000km/hour (18,000 miles/hour) and yet gracefully roll along the ground for you to admire it.

Imagine the sheer breathtaking amazement of being in many places at the same time : Sydney Opera House, the Taj Mahal, the Great Pyramids of Egypt, the Niagara Falls, the Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River.

Imagine touching the Moon, and touching the Earth...

Space Shuttle Atlantis, flight STS-125, returns to earth tomorrow Sunday.

—— (TUT) SpaceMan

Thursday, 21st May 2009

Imagine...

Imagine a restaurant where the 6, 8, 10 of you can sit around a table and order your meal from a menu displayed through the table's surface, where you can go on to access YouTube or your mobile phone pictures through the table's surface, where you can surf the web and view and discuss wonderful remote corners of the web, all through the table's surface ?

Imagine going home and programming your entire wall to display the pictures from the party you just left ?

Imagine going to sleep on a floor which continually displays images from the best beaches around the world ?

Imagine the ceiling of your bedroom taking you through a space trip as if you were actually onboard the Space Shuttle ?

Imagine....

Imagine Microsoft Surface

—— (TUT) SpaceMan