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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Casual Friday — melting steel with a solar furnace
One relatively straightforward way to generate solar power is via a technology called solar thermal — mirrors are used to focus sunlight on a boiler, which then generates steam, which powers turbines, which run a generator…
Carnivalia — 10/22 – 10/28
Posted in Biology, Carnivalia, History, Humanity, Math
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The scientific tourist #44 — Pioneer 4
This week’s image is of a model of the Pioneer 4 spacecraft, on display at JPL at the time (1989) this picture was taken…
Posted in History, Sci / Tech Tourism, Space
Tagged History, moon, satellite, Space, space race
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Casual Friday — taking down a building, one floor at a time
Some time back I wandered across this interesting time-lapse movie of a new way of demolishing a tall building — one floor at a time, with all the work done at ground level…
Carnivalia — 10/15 – 10/21
Posted in Astronomy, Biology, Carnivalia, Humanity, Space
Tagged Astronomy, Biology, Carnivalia, Humanity, Space
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The scientific tourist #43 — Apollo 9 capsule
This week’s image comes to you from the San Diego Air & Space Museum — it’s the Apollo 9 Command Module…
Posted in History, Sci / Tech Tourism, Space, Technology
Tagged History, Space, Technology
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Casual Friday — Beached
Tilt-shift photography is a technique that allows a photographer to take an image of a real-life scene, but which looks like it was made from a miniature. Keith Loutit is an Australian photographer who has taken this a step further, and made time-lapse movies done in tilt-shift…
Carnivalia — 10/8 – 10/14
Posted in Astronomy, Biology, Carnivalia, Critical thinking, Humanity, Space
Tagged Astronomy, Biology, Carnivalia, Humanity, Space
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The scientific tourist #42 — behold, the gecko (ecce gecko?)
For this week’s image, I present to you a well-adapted (if poorly camouflaged) little climber…