I’ve always wanted to go skydiving, but I have a fairly accurate perspective of my own ability to stave off mortal terror. What happens when you vomit out your spleen in sheer terror while plummeting miles down to earth at a rate of 32 miles per second per second? I’m not entirely sure, but I’m pretty sure the throw-up never even gets out of your throat..

This is just totally awesome. Surrounding their simulator with blue plastic to simulate the sky, then spraying it with white spray paint to simulate clouds, these Japanese geeks then used an overhanging projector hooked up to a laptop to project a Google Earth skyview upon the ground.

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Reference: www.geek.com

Dated 2010-12-23