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 [...]
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.
Posted in Architecture, Colonization, Depot, ESA, JAXA, Motivation, NASA, RLV:s, Spacecraft, industry, tagged Augustine, Depot, Greason, NASA 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 [...]
Posted in Climate, Energy, Motivation, Thorium, tagged Alabama, Decatur, Delta, nuclear, Thorium, ULA on Monday 2009.11.02 | Leave a Comment »
Kirk had some thoughts when touring the Delta IV factory in Alabama.
Posted in Motivation, airplane, industry, tagged aermacchi, mb326 on Saturday 2009.10.17 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Homebuilt, Lunar, Motivation, NASA, RLV:s, tagged LLC, Masten, RLV, VTVL on Wednesday 2009.10.07 | Leave a Comment »
Live stream just went up at http://qik.com/video/312581
they should be flying at 45 past whatever hour it is now in your time zone. Now on the pad loading propellants and helium.
EDIT:
And they did it! Congratulations! Also great accuracy.
The live cellphone video of the second flight was shot from quite close: http://qik.com/video/3126566
Posted in Motivation, engines, industry, tagged Kuznetsov, Liquid, NK-33, Rocket Engine, Russia, Turbopump on Saturday 2009.10.03 | 13 Comments »
It seems to be such a marvelous rocket engine. A high thrust to weight, high ISP high tolerance design that is still top of the line after sitting forty years in storage – it will be used for Orbital’s Taurus II as a first stage engine.
I drew a diagram on how the engine works internally.
It’s [...]
Posted in Motivation, Science, Uncategorized, tagged halo, lightning, photo, rain, rainbow on Tuesday 2009.09.29 | Leave a Comment »
posted by Zafar1 @ pixdaus
Posted in Journalism, Models, Motivation, NASA, tagged Apocalypse, Apophis, Asteroid, id Software, Impact, Rage on Friday 2009.09.18 | Leave a Comment »
id Software’s upcoming game Rage uses asteroid Apophis as the scene setter for a post apocalyptic world. (id is part of Zenimax now, which also owns Bethesda, who did Fallout, a similar scene but done with nuclear weapons…)
Is this even close to being realistic? No, because of multiple reasons.
You can check out the list of [...]
Posted in Motivation, RLV:s, engines, tagged 2009, Armadillo, LLC, Masten, RLV, VTVL on Thursday 2009.09.17 | Leave a Comment »
Made huge strides in the last few days. A half-L1 done. They might be able to compete with Armadillo on L2, though I’m somewhat skeptical since they’re only going to assemble the new L2 vehicle soon.
Suddenly looks like there are two viable big VTVL sounding rocket companies!
