Comment Visit Lunokhod! (Score 1) 58
One of the photos in the TFA shows a Lunokhod, one of the Russian landers made in the 70's, only a few hundred kilometers away. Maybe Jade Rabbit can swing by for visit.
One of the photos in the TFA shows a Lunokhod, one of the Russian landers made in the 70's, only a few hundred kilometers away. Maybe Jade Rabbit can swing by for visit.
I found the episode of History Detectives in which the story of the Moon Museum etched chip is covered. See:
Mod parent up! I was hoping to hear about more space art projects. Does anyone know of any more?
What if it was 3D printed?
Funny you should mention that as someone was selling (somewhat imperfect) replicas on Shapeways
I'll be happy to attend said Olympics so long as I get to meet Julia Dietze
The convoluted story of Sherlock Holmes ownership was covered in a New Your Times piece a while back when the recent crop of movies came out
This story reminds of the game Mercenaries 2: World in Flames which takes place in Venezuela. The game was promptly banned a it was believed to be propaganda against Hugo Chavez, the president at the time. That was in 2006. Venezuela since banned all violent video games in 2010
Exactly what part of electronics manufacturing needs to be automated? The cheap prices and mass production of electronics we currently enjoy is partly due to widespread use of pick-and-place machines and wave soldering machines. I'm sure there are some manual steps in the assembly, but that is only the last 10 - 20% of the labor involved in manufacturing. The bulk of it has been automated for decades.
There is simply nothing I can say to anyone who hasn't done it...
I've made several hundred jumps myself. When asked to explain it, I refer to Charles Lindbergh who put it into words better than I ever could:
"...when I decided that I too must pass through the experience of a parachute jump, life rose to a higher level, to a sort of exhilarated calmness. The thought of crawling out onto the struts and wires hundreds of feet above the earth, and then giving up even that tenuous hold of safety and of substance, left me a feeling of anticipation mixed with dread, of confidence restrained by caution, of courage salted through with fear. How tightly should one hold onto life? How loosely give it rein? What gain was there for such a risk? I would have to pay in money for hurling my body into space. There would be no crowd to watch and applaud my landing. Nor was there any scientific objective to be gained. No, there was deeper reason for wanting to jump, a desire I could not explain.
It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of man — where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same instant."
Charles A. Lindbergh, 'The Spirit of St Louis,' 1953
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