I took some videos during Denny's trip and tried to post them at the site where we've deposited our still pictures. Unfortunately, every time I try to view them, my browser crashes, so to prevent that happening to you, I've put the videos on another site. (Click the highlighted word and a new window should open).
The first is a few minutes taken on Denny's last night in Shanghai. We were sitting on the roof of the Captain's Hostel next to the HuangPu River facing east toward the Pudong area. You have to look closely, but in the black part of the sky at the beginning is a string of gold metallic kites flying over the river. They're a bit hard to see, but toward the end of the clip, they show up more clearly.
The second is a video of my trip to the Shanghai Airport on the Magnetic Levitation Train. Just like the name implies, it rides on magnets. It's super-fast and goes up to over 400km/hr. We only went up to 301, but according to my calculations in converting to miles and such, that's still over twice the speed of sound. It was a smooth ride and I didn't even notice the extreme gravitational forces produced by travelling at that speed. If you look at the end of the vid, you may see a recently arrived, dazed and confused American wondering what the hell is going on.
If you click here, you can see a video made by Jim, an ex-pat from Washington D.C. What's cool about him, among other things, is that he graduated from Case Western Reserve University. Denny and I ran into him one night, so at that point in the time-space continuum, there were three graduates of CWRU standing together in Ningbo, China. Small world and so on. . . . Anyway, it's a video of some of the people he's met here in our little burg, and if you look closely around the 1:10 mark, you may see the smiling face of one of your favorite bloggers. I'm happy to say that I know most of the people in the video and am further happy to say that they are an interesting and cool group. Plus the music is pretty neat, too.
I've also placed some links to these vids in the Links section over on the right for future use and to save you from having to find this entry if you'd like to see them again.
Enjoy!
The first is a few minutes taken on Denny's last night in Shanghai. We were sitting on the roof of the Captain's Hostel next to the HuangPu River facing east toward the Pudong area. You have to look closely, but in the black part of the sky at the beginning is a string of gold metallic kites flying over the river. They're a bit hard to see, but toward the end of the clip, they show up more clearly.
The second is a video of my trip to the Shanghai Airport on the Magnetic Levitation Train. Just like the name implies, it rides on magnets. It's super-fast and goes up to over 400km/hr. We only went up to 301, but according to my calculations in converting to miles and such, that's still over twice the speed of sound. It was a smooth ride and I didn't even notice the extreme gravitational forces produced by travelling at that speed. If you look at the end of the vid, you may see a recently arrived, dazed and confused American wondering what the hell is going on.
If you click here, you can see a video made by Jim, an ex-pat from Washington D.C. What's cool about him, among other things, is that he graduated from Case Western Reserve University. Denny and I ran into him one night, so at that point in the time-space continuum, there were three graduates of CWRU standing together in Ningbo, China. Small world and so on. . . . Anyway, it's a video of some of the people he's met here in our little burg, and if you look closely around the 1:10 mark, you may see the smiling face of one of your favorite bloggers. I'm happy to say that I know most of the people in the video and am further happy to say that they are an interesting and cool group. Plus the music is pretty neat, too.
I've also placed some links to these vids in the Links section over on the right for future use and to save you from having to find this entry if you'd like to see them again.
Enjoy!
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