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Archive for August, 2008

Bringer of the Second Nuclear Age

Posted in Architecture, Climate, ISRU, Science, Thorium, tagged , , , , , , on Monday 2008.08.18 | 7 Comments »

Thorium Molten Salt Reactors – A Really Short Intro
Thorium is about thrice as abundant compared to Uranium. And countless times more abundant than the U-235 Uranium isotope that is used mostly by modern nuclear reactors.
You can use Thorium, Th-232, as the sole fuel in a special nuclear reactor, which first turns the Thorium into Uranium, [...]

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Respect

Posted in Climate, Models, Motivation, Science, meta, tagged , on Monday 2008.08.18 | Leave a Comment »

Continuing on the theme of science, policy and think tank input, Nexus 6 has an extremely good concise reference to the subject.

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A few videos

Posted in Models, RLV:s, engines, tagged , on Sunday 2008.08.17 | Leave a Comment »

A few RC airplane videos from Slowflyer at Metacafe (wordpress doesn’t allow embedding Metacafe stuff):
Pulsejet
Fast jet
Scale F-20 jet
Quad rotor platform
There’s some lightning outside. Visible on instruments too. I am about 60 km or one sector to the right of the center of the map.

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Slide Into Idiocracy

Posted in Astronomy, Climate, Science, Uncategorized, tagged , , on Sunday 2008.08.17 | 3 Comments »

“On the internet, everybody is an expert.” “Knowledge seems to correlate inversely with confidence.” And many other one-liners proven true in a godawful blogpost. Jennifer Marohasy has been a policy advisor for the Australian government, a prominent think tank member and an invited person to talk at many places. And here she attempts to refute [...]

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A More Summery Theme

Posted in Motivation, meta on Saturday 2008.08.16 | Leave a Comment »

There have been lots of hawks around this year.
Hopefully get to update the title photo more often in the future. I still don’t own a digital camera, so whenever I get my hands onto one, I take lots of photos.
I also have quite a few film rolls that I haven’t developed yet. Actually a friend [...]

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Standard Missile Kill Vehicle Hovering In A Hangar

Posted in Uncategorized on Monday 2008.08.11 | Leave a Comment »

Standard Missile’s kill vehicle has rock-solid hover and twitch-like attitude changes. And it uses solid propellants. I don’t know how they are throttled. This is the same missile that was recently used to shoot down a satellite. (Link from John Dom at arocket…)

I’m still in vacation mood, so more serious posts [...]

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SpaceX’s Third Attempt

Posted in Architecture, Models, RLV:s, tagged , , , , , , , on Sunday 2008.08.03 | 1 Comment »

The first stage worked flawlessly but the staging malfunctioned. I wasn’t watching, but went to bed at 4 am local time after waiting through some launch delays, thinking that it’d take forever anyway, and of course the launch was right after.
What’s always been a mystery to me, if SpaceX is selling their Falcon 1 rocket [...]

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