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MaverickSawyer
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Whoa whoa whoa... Sunny in Scotland??? Is such a thing even possible?
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Gonna have to start hanging Falcon rockets from the rafters like TIE fighters soon.
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On a random note, here is some random visual philosophy for you:
http://orbides.org/apps/motion.html
http://orbides.org/apps/motion.html
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I started watching Space Brothers, it's free on Crunchyroll. I didn't expect it to be so silly, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. I think there's too much exposition though. For brothers, they look too dissimilar. Mutta actually looks Asian, but Hibito looks white. That and the use of Engrish, especially in America, breaks the suspension of disbelief. My complaints aren't major and the story does a good job of making me like Mutta.
The story's conflict takes place in a much less science fiction world than Planetes, for comparison. No futuristic technology has been shown so far.
The story's conflict takes place in a much less science fiction world than Planetes, for comparison. No futuristic technology has been shown so far.
So they're rebuilding him, but with modern tech. A lot has changed since 1928. That'll be quite an upgrade...
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If it gets the Science Museum more visitors, that's good. The more that's interested in science the better. Might even go along to it.
He is a scary looking robot though. I prefer Boston Dynamics...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY
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A Lilienthal glider has been examined in the German-Dutch wind tunnel to find out more about Lilienthals fatal crash.
Interestingly, the glider is not only extremely stable and easy to fly according to the researchers, but also performs as claimed according to Lilienthals own research without modern aerodynamic tools. It has a rather poor glide number of 4 (Like a parafoil), but otherwise there is little to complain about the first heavier than air flying machine.
By these results, it looks more like Lilienthals fatal crash was not caused by inherent technical problems, but rather because of poor wind conditions at that day.
http://www.dlr.de/dlr/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_read-17784/#/gallery/22963
The tested Normalsegelapparat was also the first series produced aircraft, produced nine times and sold worldwide back then.
Germany is just celebrating 125 years of human flight here, the Lilienthal glides have a higher importance here than in the USA for example.
Interestingly, the glider is not only extremely stable and easy to fly according to the researchers, but also performs as claimed according to Lilienthals own research without modern aerodynamic tools. It has a rather poor glide number of 4 (Like a parafoil), but otherwise there is little to complain about the first heavier than air flying machine.
By these results, it looks more like Lilienthals fatal crash was not caused by inherent technical problems, but rather because of poor wind conditions at that day.
http://www.dlr.de/dlr/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_read-17784/#/gallery/22963
The tested Normalsegelapparat was also the first series produced aircraft, produced nine times and sold worldwide back then.
Germany is just celebrating 125 years of human flight here, the Lilienthal glides have a higher importance here than in the USA for example.
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jedidia
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Ijon Tichy is apparently on Netflix now... how on earth did that happen? :blink:
Prof. Tarantoga sent him through time to reveal his Star Diaries to next/previous generations.
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And let's not forget how an Il-62 airliner (fairly big aircraft) was landed and transformed in a museum where Lilienthal flew.
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Well, it's next decade, if the Constellation program wasn't cancelled.
There are silly moments but there are also very dramatic and emotional moments.
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ULA selected me to win a prize pack and it just arrived... Incredibly awesome!
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Something mind-blowing and depressing at the same time:
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And if NASA had enough money.
The entire show is 99 episodes and I'm not even 10 episodes in, so there's still a lot ahead.
