A project you can partake here. Rewriting some NASA GISS temperature record code in Python at first.
I’d go further and say things like these should not be volunteer efforts… government codes for something important like this should be open (and GISS is) with people being paid to update and keep them in good shape. Hopefully [...]
Archive for the ‘Motivation’ Category
Clear Climate Code
Posted in Climate, Motivation, NASA, Science, tagged Climate, python, GISS, Code, Clear Climate Code on Tuesday 2009.12.08 | 1 Comment »
Some Patriotism
Posted in Art, Motivation, Navelgazing, Uncategorized, tagged Ghost Love Score, Lepakko, nightwish, Turunen on Monday 2009.12.07 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday was the ninetysecond anniversary of Finland as an independent state.
I saw this band back in 1997/8 when they were on one of their first gigs in Helsinki. They played in a small old warehouse, Lepakko, that had been converted to a music hall by squatters years ago. And they were [...]
Be Careful When Starting Large Projects
Posted in Architecture, Demotivation, Motivation, NASA, RLV:s, Transportation, airplane, industry, tagged Orlyonok, WIG on Monday 2009.12.07 | Leave a Comment »
Photos of a certain large Soviet ground effect vehicle.
Would You Get On?
Posted in Humor, Motivation, industry, tagged Amusement, Robot on Saturday 2009.11.28 | Leave a Comment »
With workers like these, everything like cars should be super cheap! It isn’t, there’s a fault somewhere…
Hovering Vehicle Tilt Control, Part Zero
Posted in Homebuilt, Models, Motivation, RLV:s, Spacecraft, Suborbital, tagged VTVL, Hovering, Tilt, Feedback, PD, PID, Valve, Digital Valve on Wednesday 2009.11.25 | Leave a Comment »
Someone was asking on ARocket about where to start with building a differentially throttled hovering vehicle. Lots of advice were given by various people. I’ll show some stuff I quickly sketched back in 2007 with Simulink. It’s such an easy to use and awesome software (especially compared to a recent short battling with LabView), that [...]
Ridge Running
Posted in Motivation, airplane, tagged Gliding, Ridge Running, Sailplane, Soaring on Monday 2009.11.23 | Leave a Comment »
Is this safe? At least it shows you don’t need high horsepower for speed and exhilaration. Though you do need some for towing to get started with soaring, and as a whole this thing isn’t that cheap…
Nice Visuals
Posted in Motivation, Navelgazing, Uncategorized, tagged Birdy Nam Nam on Monday 2009.11.16 | Leave a Comment »
Note the technically correct Ekranoplan at the beginning. +1 to the makers from Gravityloss.
Twenty Years
Posted in Motivation, tagged Berlin, Berlin Wall, East Germany on Monday 2009.11.09 | Leave a Comment »
Since the Wall fell. And the whole cascading fall of the evil empire was started. Why do humans have to do such horrible things to each other? Create such a sick society? There’s a lot to be improved nowadays too. We have to constantly strive for openness and truth.
I was in [...]
The Lives of Others
Posted in Motivation, idiocracy, tagged Das Leben den Anderen, The Lives of Others on Saturday 2009.11.07 | Leave a Comment »
Man, East Germany was a horrible horrible place. I recommend this movie. Das Leben den Anderen, 2006. The repressivity and hopelesness of a totalitarian state is shown.
Jeff Greason
Posted in Architecture, Colonization, Depot, ESA, JAXA, Motivation, NASA, RLV:s, Spacecraft, industry, tagged NASA, Augustine, Depot, Greason on Thursday 2009.11.05 | Leave a Comment »
The Man. On Space Review. [EDIT: About a month ago, but I only just read it.] This is just excellent. So many things I agree with, that go against the stupid myths of spaceflight and space policy. If you read one space policy interview this year, this should be it!
“NASA is an organization that is [...]
