30.9.08
Knocking Down 30,000 Dominoes
You can do more with dominoes than just knock them down, you know. You can stack them into walls, and then knock the walls down like dominoes.
29.9.08
SPACEX SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES FALCON 1 TO ORBIT
HAWTHORNE, CA – Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) announces that Flight 4 of the Falcon 1 launch vehicle has successfully launched and achieved Earth orbit. With this key milestone, Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to orbit the Earth.
"This is a great day for SpaceX and the culmination of an enormous amount of work by a great team," said Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX. "The data shows we achieved a super precise orbit insertion—middle of the bull's-eye — and then went on to coast and restart the second stage, which was icing on the cake."
Falcon 1, designed from the ground up by SpaceX, lifted off at 4:15 p.m. (PDT) / 23:15 (UTC) from the Reagan Test Site (RTS) on Omelek Island at the U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA) in the Central Pacific, about 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii.
Preliminary data indicates that Falcon 1 achieved an elliptical orbit of 500 km by 700 km, 9.2 degrees inclination—exactly as targeted.
Falcon 1 carried into orbit a payload mass simulator of approximately 165 kg (364 lbs), designed and built by SpaceX, specifically for this mission. Consisting of a hexagonal aluminum alloy chamber 1.5 meters (5 feet) tall, the payload remains attached to the second stage as it orbits Earth.
This was the fourth launch of the Falcon 1 launch vehicle and second flight for the new SpaceX-developed Merlin 1C regeneratively-cooled engine. A "hold before liftoff" system was used to enhance reliability by permitting all launch systems to be verified as functioning nominally before launch was initiated. A single SpaceX-developed Kestrel engine powered the Falcon 1 second stage.
For more information about the Falcon family of vehicles, and to watch the archived video of the Falcon 1, Flight 4 launch, visit the SpaceX website at www.spacex.com
An interview with the founder of the company about this mission can be found here.
27.9.08
26.9.08
A whole new perspective on guitar tapping!
25.9.08
Wearable Motorcycle
24.9.08
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Money on the Move
22.9.08
The Speed Vest
The Speed Vest is experimental clothing designed to create an environment in which bicyclists are respected as equal users of the roadway.
It increases motorists' awareness of both cyclists and speed limits by displaying the bicyclist's speed in bright 6" electroluminescent digits on the bicyclists back.
The Speed Vest is currently being tested in Minneapolis & St. Paul as an advocacy tool to promote an image of bicycling as fast, safe transporation.
Contact: info@speedvest.com
It increases motorists' awareness of both cyclists and speed limits by displaying the bicyclist's speed in bright 6" electroluminescent digits on the bicyclists back.
The Speed Vest is currently being tested in Minneapolis & St. Paul as an advocacy tool to promote an image of bicycling as fast, safe transporation.
Contact: info@speedvest.com
21.9.08
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Born to be Wild!
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16.9.08
Cell-phone Video Projector
This is without question the smallest video projector I've ever seen.
There are competitors:
and this one lets you plug your iPod in directly:
There are competitors:
and this one lets you plug your iPod in directly:
From the Church Sound Guy
15.9.08
Polar Bear vs. a Pack of Sled Dogs
14.9.08
Speedboat Submarine
13.9.08
The Delivery
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Beer Basics
Get out of your Miller/Bud/Coors rut and try something with some taste for a change. Here’s a little tidbit from the Grocery School video series with Sarah East. She explains all you need to know about buying and trying different styles of beer. Ales, lagers, porters, stouts, pale ales and light beers are all explained here succinctly and briefly. Hang on to this as a reference.
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