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NRL Invents CubeSat Release Mechanism

I like the simplicity of this, and the inventor mindset the exercise represents: NRL Invents CubeSat Release Mechanism To Deploy Solar Panels, Tethers

It’s a good motivation to me to do more monkeying around with ideas like this.

 

October 24th, 2014 | Tags: , , | Category: Science & Engineering, Space Technology | Comments are closed

Raspberry Pi Goes Social Justice Wanker

I guess that Pi Camera I picked up yesterday will be going back to MicroCenter:

Let us be clear, you few loud angry folks. We’re not under/misinformed or blinkered: we think you’re WRONG. End of. #StopGamerGate2014

— Raspberry Pi (@Raspberry_Pi) October 15, 2014

I’m not a gamer, so until now the #GamerGate thing didn’t […]

October 20th, 2014 | Tags: , | Category: Economics, politics, Science & Engineering | Comments are closed

Humans may only survive 68 days on Mars

Humans may only survive 68 days on Mars.

Tl;dr: Mars One has ten years to come up with Mars-workable versions of common industrial processes and improve the capabilities of 3D printing and desktop machining.

Speaking of the latter – I went to the Maker Faire in Loveland last weekend, and ran into these guys, who […]

October 14th, 2014 | Tags: , , , | Category: Science & Engineering, Settlement, Space Technology | Comments are closed

Braced for Voter Fraud in Colorado

For those who haven’t been paying attention to the out-of-control Democrat-ruled legislature in Colorado over the past two years, it hasn’t only been gun-grab laws they’ve been ramming through: Braced for Voter Fraud in Colorado.

How Coloradans can’t see what the Democrats here are up to is beyond me. It’s not like the Democrats really […]

October 13th, 2014 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Colorado Politics, politics | Comments are closed

Sierra Nevada Teams With Stratolaunch

This looks interesting: Spurned by NASA, Sierra Nevada Teams With Stratolaunch

I’ve been joking since the announcement all SNC needs is to find a dot-com billionaire of its own, and apparently they have (albeit indirectly in this case).

 

October 2nd, 2014 | Category: Space Commerce | Comments are closed