![]() ![]() READ MORE: ‘The Great’ Review: Hulu’s Catherine The Great Series Gets Grim, Stays Good in Season 3 The show also stars Nicholas Hoult, Adam Godley, Phoebe Fox, Gwilym Lee, Douglas Hodge, and more. In today’s episode of Bingeworthy, our TV and streaming podcast host Mike DeAngelo gets to the occasional truth with Hulu’s hit period comedy series, “The Great.” Created by Tony McNamara (“The Favourite,” “Cruella”), the show follows the sometimes true rise to power and subsequent rule of Catherine “The Great” (Elle Fanning) in a chaotic and debaucherous 18th century Russia. Remember to check out more stories, news, reviews, interviews, and more at , subscribe to our newsletter, and check out more of our Playlist Podcast interviews here. A veteran helmer of music videos, Hillcoat first broke out in the world of cinema with the brutally austere 2005 western "The Proposition," a movie many critics compared to the Cormac McCarthy novel "Blood Meridian." Interestingly enough, McCarthy agreed with these comparisons, going so far as to give the director permission to adapt his then-unreleased novel “The Road,” which Hillcoat translated to the big screen in 2009. Oh, don't worry-I still love Star Wars and this Kessel Run thing doesn't even bother me.In today’s episode of Bingeworthy, our TV and streaming podcast, guest host Joe Scott explores the lives of star-crossed lovers as well as love-crossed country music stars in the award-winning Showtime miniseries "George and Tammy."Ĭreated by Abe Sylvia ("Nurse Jackie," "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," "Hap and Leonard," and "The Affair"), all six episodes of the miniseries were directed by Australian filmmaker John Hillcoat. How about "megasec"? Or even better you could use "quantsec"-which doesn't really mean anything but sounds cool. Really, if Star Wars had a science advisor, they should have recommended some other time unit. The Millenium Falcon couldn't have made the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs-that's not even a time, even though it sounds cool. Side note: Yes, that means Han Solo was wrong. The "par" is for parallax and the "sec" is for angle. Yes, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time. What if an object was a at a distance such that it had a half-angle shift of 1 arc-second? This would have the distance of 1 parsec. Traditionally, the angular shift is reported as half of the total angle (just a note). This tiny angle was just too small to detect with the instruments of the time. Using the parallax formula above, this should give an angular shift of 1.6 x 10 -5 radians or just 3.3 arc-seconds. Alpha Centauri is about 4 light years away (or about 250 thousand times further than the Earth is from the sun). ![]() If the Earth orbits the sun (and it does), then we can work backwards and calculate the angular motion of the nearest star. The answer lies in the distance to the stars. So, what happened? Why couldn't they detect stellar parallax? Now switch your viewing eye back and forth-left, right, left, right. Notice the apparent motion of your thumb with respect to background objects. Now open your left eye and close your right eye. In particular, look at some object that is past your thumb (something in the room or something outside-it doesn't matter). Now close your left eye and look at your thumb. Here's what you do: Take your arm and hold it out in front of you with your thumb sticking up. Let's start with a super simple demo to demonstrate the effect. Or better yet, something useful-like an app that measures distances by just looking at stuff through your phone's camera.īut how does this work? What magic does Apple use so that your phone can turn a 2-D image into something that looks like it is there in real life? The answer is parallax. Like, maybe a program that adds dancing hotdogs to your screen so that they look like they are there in real life. It's called ARKit-basically, it's a part of Apple's developer package to help programmers create awesome augmented reality apps. ![]() There's something sort of cool in the next version of Apple's iOS. ![]()
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