paul magee

3: Planet Elsewhere: The Globe: Shelved

160911.12:59

"But the daytime imagery shows only a tiny fraction of the Universe, since in the daytime you are only seeing a hemisphere around you extending perhaps 50 miles in radius and 10 miles high. The Sun and Moon are the only celestial objects you can see beyond this."

With the binocular video one eye will slowly occlude as the other clears. Each eye will go from looking light years into the past, to a few milliseconds - or rather 53370 nanoseconds, assuming a vacuum and a whole bunch of other stuff not least my ability to do basic arithmetic.

The globe's starting point was to turn the rest of the universe into an object. It doesn't, thats fine. However its not going anywhere interesting and so it has been shelved.

2: Planet Elsewhere: The Globe

020811.17:34

Back-projecting the video feeds onto the two separate hemispheres of a globe, turning the rest of the universe into an object. It might look something like this:

1: Planet Elsewhere: The Proposal

200611.18:35

With Planet Elsewhere you look in all directions out into the universe at once. Two all-sky cameras at antipodes point directly up towards the stars at precisely the same time. In its simplest form the video feeds will be shown together on a single screen. There may also be an object.