Posted in Motivation, engines, tagged closeup, gimbal, hardware, ICBM, Titan on Wednesday 2008.06.18 | No Comments »
I forgot to mention earlier, but Jon Goff has had good stuff lately.
Also, check out a nice picture of Titan 1 gimbals (you can click for a big picture but it’s quite a slow site). I’m pretty sure this is the first stage so there is actually another engine behind the one in the picture. [...]
Posted in Architecture, Demotivation, ESA, ISRU, Motivation, NASA, RLV:s, Suborbital, tagged Armadillo, COTS, ESA, fed up, Future, NASA, RAGA, RLV, SpaceX, XCOR on Wednesday 2008.06.18 | 6 Comments »
I’m quite that just right now. It will pass. Perhaps.
There’s been some discussion in various places about both NASA and potential future launch vehicles. Everything’s just so static in a large sense. Completely hopeless. I’ll throw in the towel for now.
Almost nobody has the required long attention span or patience to make any useful progress [...]
Posted in Motivation, meta, tagged BBC, Mars, Yeasayer on Tuesday 2008.06.10 | 1 Comment »
Images from BBC, music from Yeasayer, AFAIK. I’m just linking to it. Enjoy.
Posted in Astronomy, Motivation, Science, Uncategorized, tagged exoplanet, interstellar on Sunday 2008.05.18 | No Comments »
Nowadays new exoplanets are found every week. Exoplanet blog systemic has an article from February about possible Earth-like planets around Alpha Centauri B.
What’s remarkable is the easiness with which they could be detected if some resources are spent. And if a planet like that exist, it’s one of the top destinations for future interstellar probes [...]
Posted in Motivation, meta, tagged bad software, microsoft word, Navelgazing, wordpress, WYSIWYG on Friday 2008.05.09 | No Comments »
EDIT: Thought I lost a post I wrote but found it in an unexpected place instead! So I’m cancelling this rant about autosave not working and will finish that post instead.
[rant was here but is not worth reading]
Posted in Motivation, Uncategorized, tagged Austria, parachuting, Personal helicopter, yves rossy on Saturday 2008.01.26 | No Comments »
… you strapped some small wings and jet engines in your back and jumped from a plane?
Or attached a moped engine and a chair to two small counter rotating rotors?
Nah. Can’t be done.
Posted in Astronomy, Motivation, tagged 2007 TU24, asteroids on Thursday 2008.01.24 | No Comments »
In the end of January, a 100 m class asteroid called 2007 TU24 will pass near earth, somewhat beyond moon’s distance. It’s not visible with the naked eye, but only with reasonable size amateur telescopes. JPL has more.
This was only detected in November 2007. If some other big one was headed towards earth one day, it’s possible there wouldn’t be much time for warning…
Here is [...]
Posted in Motivation, tagged glue on Tuesday 2008.01.22 | No Comments »
That lead to this blog, at least from what I’ve spotted so far:
“can glue make you high”.
Wondrous times we live, yes.
I have a not entirely serious post about hypersonics written up but I’m afraid to publish since I have so little understanding of the subject.
Posted in Astronomy, Motivation, Science, Spacecraft, Uncategorized, tagged christmas, cutaways, flight international, foton, soyuz, venera, venus, yes2 on Friday 2007.12.21 | No Comments »
I can link you some nice images:
Nicolas Pillet’s photo gallery of Soyuz / Foton-M3 & YES2. An example.
Don P. Mitchell’s restored Venus photos from Soviet Venera probe material. An example.
And finally, for the technology fetishists like me, Flight International’s generous offer of past cutaway drawings, space systems section. Or have a look at this cutie from the engine cutaways [...]
Posted in Motivation, Uncategorized, tagged Finland, Finland 90, independence, independence day on Thursday 2007.12.20 | 2 Comments »
This month, my homeland, Finland, had it’s 90th independent anniversary. A short history is in order.
