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Straight up for 121,000 feet:
Rather dramatic and interesting YouTube video of a **serious** amateur rocket launch: set youtube at HD if you can, it’s worth it Thanks to Dave Ihnat for the link!
http://hackaday.com/2011/10/10/22-miles-straight-up-in-90-seconds/
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Drei, Zwei, Ein:
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
Berlin TV tower - lift off from Fabian Tischer on Vimeo.
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Worst DefSec in history dies:
No, I’m talking about Robert McNamara, one of my particular historical nemeses, considering the number of important things that he messed up, destroyed or ruined. Not to mention the uncountable dead.
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Wooooooooosh:
April 25th, a 1/10th scale model Saturn V with a cubed crudload of rocket engine punch is ready to take off and become the largest ‘model’ rocket ever flown…
Placed together side by side in the aft end of the forty-inch wide rocket, the motor tubes that will house all of these rocket engines look small and insignificant. But these nine motors will ( Read more... ) -
Space Weather and then some:
000 NOUS43 KJKL 140445 PNSJKL KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-141030- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY1145 PM EST FRI FEB 13 2009 ( Read more... ) -
Bad ideas:
- Plopping three grown animals in your lap for a ‘family picture’ and not expecting trouble…
- Attempting to make a laptop microfilm reader for the Apollo astronauts.
- Sending out GI Joe to hunt down squirrels.
- Arguing over goodies with a marmot. Any marmot.
- Collecting a vast number of cereal boxes, so just in case you’ve forgotten what a box of ‘the one ( Read more... )
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So what’s the priority?
The NYT has a good editorial this morning that summarizes the problem we have vis-a-vis the Russians; the upsets over the crash between Georgia and Russia have screwed with our long term arrnagements over access to the International Space Station. Very soon, the Shuttle is getting retired, and the only real access for at least five years will be ( Read more... )
