History. In 1620, the mayflower traveled from plymouth, england, to america. And the pilgrims settled the Plymouth Colony on the coast of massachusetts. We talked to robert stone about the virtual mayflower project, which uses Virtual Reality to recreate the ship and harbor from which it set sail, using avatars and 360degree images of the Virtual World, professor stone describes what life might have been like for the pilgrims and crew. Some historic features we will see in the virtual rendering are the 17thcentury report called the barbie can century port called the barbican, plymouth castle, and a ship that was set to sail with the mayflower to america but was deemed on seaworthy and returned to port. Prof. Stone virtual 1620 has been a labor of love, to use virtual to bring a part of , plymouth, in the west of the country, back to life. So people who live there can experience what is like for the pilgrims in their traumatic journey across the atlantic in 1620. What was the last thing
So people who live there can experience what is like for the pilgrims in their traumatic journey across the atlantic in 1620. What was the last thing they saw before they got on this leaky, creaky ship . And made their way out into the treacherous atlantic, centuries ago . We are going to jump in and take a look at some of those 360s. Prof. Stone where we arent the moment, it is known as the smart key. If you move to the right you can make out the speedwell. We will leave it looking sorry for herself leaving part in the harbor, where there were ship repairs going on. The structure you are seeing now where these fine people having a chat, this is reminiscent of an old fish market, so a lot of the fish would be brought and filletted, that would be done here. Ships would be moored and delivering their fish to those who would box it up and put onto wagons or taken directly to stores outside the buildings behind us. We have tried to make it look much clearer. You can see that it is quite di
Tsunamis deadly waves that have the power to destroy entire cities in a matter of moments. There was little Public Awareness about them until december 26th 2004. That was the day a gigantic tsunami in the indian ocean killed more than 230000 people images illustrating the pools of this natural phenomenon shocked the world. 7 years later in 2011 a Nuclear Power plant in fukushima japan exploded after being engulfed by an earthquake generated tsunami. Since these tragedies scientists rushed to the scene redoubling efforts to determine what causes these killer waves. Because that knowledge can save lives its clear that tsunamis can strike any region of the planet urbanize ation has made coastal communities even more vulnerable. Can Tsunami Research protects them. On friday september 28th 2018 an earthquake followed by a tsunami devastated an area of the bay of palu on the indonesian island of slow way sea. Within minutes 4000 people. Lost their lives 79000. 00 had to be evacuated how coul
Witness says the crowds in the roads near the beach were caught totally off guard by the way no warning sounded here. Our Investigation Continues at the Tsunami Monitoring Center in the indonesian capital jakarta. This control tower monitors seismic activity across indonesia including the bay of palau. Seismologists here can detect any undersea earthquake in real time advanced algorithms allow them to simulate the formation of a tsunami and warn coastal communities before the 1st wave hits since its introduction in 2008 the system has issued 22 alerts saving countless lives why then did palu fail to receive a warning on september 28th 2018. In a scene he was the seismologist on judy that night. I guess that. The earthquake in palo registered a magnitude of 7 for 2 minutes then just afterward the magnitude rose to 7. 7. I instantly ran into the toss table where we simulate tsunamis yagami more dealings and i mean the center in jakarta registered an earthquake 80 kilometers north of palm
Tolan people demonstrate for a 7th straight day against and near total ban on abortion we take a look at the widening protest movement for womens rights there. Im nickel for lishka to have you with us germany closes down at least partially german chancellor Angela Merkel has announced a limited National Lockdown for most of november the goal is to stop an out of control rise in corona virus infections which have hit a new one day record of more than 16000 bars gyms and theaters will shut next monday while schools and shops will stay open. The deserted streets of the spring are about to become all too familiar again in germany for 4 weeks from november 2nd the entire country will be under a partial lockdown faced with another record high of daily coronavirus cases on wednesday chancellor Angela Merkel in the country 16 state premiers quickly found consensus theres a. Lot of it today is a difficult day for policymakers i have to emphasise that because i know how much were asking of peopl