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Casual Friday — Video Puzzle
Nothing super-educational about this Casual Friday. Just a fun and really impressive fan video for the song “We are Young” by Fun., starring 4 iPhones and an army of handlers…
The scientific tourist #222 — Apollo 9 Command Module
On display at the San Diego Air and 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: Space shuttle Discovery’s last flight
And this time, it was a passenger. As anybody that follows the U.S. space program is likely aware of, the space shuttle Discovery (the shuttle with the most missions under its… belt) was taken on the back of a 747 to its final home at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia (suburban Washington, D.C). On the way there, it made a historic flyover above the U.S. Capital…
4/15/1912 – 4/15/2012 — a Titanic century
Given that today’s the 100th anniversary of the loss of the Titanic, I was originally planning on writing a blog post to mark the occasion. But of course the internet is already plastered with other material marking the anniversary — so I thought it’d make more sense to just link to some items of particular note. So here goes…
Casual Friday — the Transition ® to flying cars
Actually, it’s a driveable airplane, more than a flying car — but either way the Transition ® street-legal airplane is an interesting approach to everybody’s favorite why-can’t-I-buy-one-yet technology…
Casual Friday — Riding the Booster, remixed
Courtesy of Skywalker Sound (the folks that did the audio for the Star Wars movies), here’s a remastered look at (listen to?) a Space Shuttle’s solid booster’s flight from lift-off to splashdown…
Casual Friday — Skydiving from 71,581 feet (21,818 meters)
So yesterday (March 15), Felix Baumgartner dove out of a helium-balloon-borne capsule, becoming one of only three people to have jumped from above 70,000 feet…
Casual Friday — how to keep the space shuttle flying
It’s easy — just use Legos! Here’s video from a balloon-lofted shuttle flight to the stratosphere…
Casual Friday — Robot Quadrotors perform the James Bond theme
In what’s got to be one of the least-likely applications of robotic flight, the University of Pennsylvania’s quadrotors play the James Bond theme (direct link): From the YouTube writeup: Flying robot quadrotors perform the James Bond Theme by playing various … Continue reading
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Tagged quadrotor, robotics, Technology
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The scientific tourist #208 — A6M7 Zero fighter
Posted in History, Sci / Tech Tourism, Technology
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