ladyada - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Yes 'fun'... (Score 1) 122

by ladyada on Friday October 24, 2008 @04:03PM (#25502317) Attached to: Open Source Hardware, For Fun and For Profit

Hi Anon. I designed the wave bubble project in mid 2004 as part of my research work. While the Bubl Space project is named somewhat similarly, the wave bubble is not based on it or stolen from it or derived from it. The BublSpace project is, in fact, conceptual and never functionally existed: http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2004/08/005007.htm Whereas the wave bubble is a fully functional design, completely documented, and open source.

Virgin Galactic Shows the Finished WhiteKnight Two 212

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 28, 2008 @11:46AM from the two-is-one-more-than-one dept.

Klaus Schmidt writes "Virgin Galactic today unveiled their WhiteKnight Two mothership, called 'EVE.' It is designed to carry the smaller SpaceShip Two into space. The rollout represents another major milestone in Virgin Galactic's quest to launch the world's first private, environmentally benign, space access system for people, payload and science. Christened 'EVE' in honor of Richard Branson's mother — Sir Richard performed the official naming ceremony — WK2 is both visually remarkable and represents ground-breaking aerospace technology. It is the world's largest all carbon composite aircraft and many of its component parts have been built using composite materials for the very first time. At 140 ft, the wing span is the longest single carbon composite aviation component ever manufactured."

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