Story Created:
May 16, 2008
Story Updated:
May 16, 2008
Stuff From The Satellite 5/16/08
Vince Vitrano
Katie DeLong
A guy with a jet-pack, and a robot conducting an orchestra.
It all happened this week.
That’s some of the stuff TODAY’S TMJ4’s Vince Vitrano found this week on the satellite.
This week we saw a lot of video that made us ask the same question: what the heck was that?
For example, what the heck is that? It turns out to be a guy strapped to jet-powered wings. He dropped from an airplane and went for the flight of his life over the Alps. He did it for nine minutes and then parachuted safely to earth.
If he flew over a remote area of Norway, he might have seen this. Few people have. That's the last herd of wild reindeer in Europe. Development and climate changes are taking away their domain.
Wow. What's that? More accurately, what are those?
They are sardines and they're the big attraction at an aquarium in Japan. Thousands of them put on a show like this when they detect a predator.
That is the largest cow in the United Kingdom. It stands six-feet six inches tall and it weighs more than a ton. Its owners claim it got that big naturally, without the use of steer-oids.
Finally, look at that. A robot conducted the Detroit symphony orchestra this week. It conducted "The Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha.