They actually appear to be from a old french automotive magazine called "Calandres", which translates to "Grills".
While it may not be the most explosive demolition, the new technique of dismantling like the Grand Prince Hotel in Japan is quite interesting.
It was, that picture is of it when it was between Yarmouth, NS and Bar Harbour, ME.
They used the V10 TDI version, which makes ~553 lb-ft of torque, which is significantly higher then the ~400 lb-ft that pulled the shuttle. The 747 was also a modified one that was used in a Bond movie so the weight is likely very different from a "stock" 747.
Meant to include the video of the effect of breaking on the creation of traffic jams.
The biggest effect of driver-less cars would be a significant reduction in traffic jams. Most traffic jams are caused by peoples driving habits or inattentiveness (fender-benders, rubbernecking, etc.).
Think of it like this.
A better way to think of the above image is that the shaded section is film being pulled at a constant rate across the slit that would only see the finish line.
In Canada basically everyone uses propane or natural gas for their grills. I am interested in trying out the whole charcoal grilling thing, but don't want to outlay a large amount of money for a supplies and a grill.
1 bad projectionist, or a slip up by a good one is all it takes to ruin a print.
Yeah, it was common practice at my theatre for the whoever was doing matinee's to thread the first few movies for the night person.
Things that can got wrong with film:
The films are locked via an xml key that is emailed to the theatre that corresponds to a specific copy of the print and is time locked so they can only be played for a specific length of time.
I worked as a projectionist at a theatre that contained both digital and 35mm film up until about a year ago. The digital films come on a single harddrive, and are anywhere from 100GB up. (Avatar 3D was around 300GB I think) . They were uncompressed files, I am not sure what the specific format the file was in but…