Sunday Things - science and engineering edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday July 1 2012
Almost a month of the blog-thing. How's it going? Plenty of people reading, not so many commenting. Like it or not, I'm going to continue! BWUAHAHAHA, etc.
Deep Blue Sea - splendid imagery of our nearest star by Alan Friedman, sun-photographer extraordinaire. Extra: He has a blog!
Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition winners - weird and wonderful micrographs from across the world. I think their microscopes must be a little better than mine...
Airbus A380 - from construction of infrastructure to test flights. Extra: Mark Power has plenty of other projects to look at too.
Continuing from last week's Mars-landing videos: How Curiosity Will Land on Mars, part one and part two. Extra: detailed JPL paper (PDF) on the landing.
Bonus Soviet Links From Non-Soviet Friends corner:
- More Soyuz survival training - including the triple-barreled Soyuz Space Gun, presumably for fending off Soviet Space-Bears in the wilderness. via isoma
- Underground communications centre - straight out of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and/or my list of holiday destinations. via locworks
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2. Microscopes
Posted by Cargo Cult at 12:25AM, Sunday July 8 2012
I've just about got a dSLR to align with the eyepiece of my old microscope - via the precariously angular use of a tripod. I managed to take a massively close-up picture of a beer bottle-cap before nudging things out of alignment again. Oops.
Also, hi Blandford, whoever you are!
Mars update: final part of the Curiosity landing series - http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2012/07060700-how-curiosity-land-part-3.html - complete with SKYCRANE.
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1. Wow, the microscope pictures
Posted by Blandford at 11:51AM, Sunday July 1 2012
The microscope pictures are absolutely mental.
I think #4 could be a great cover for an ambient-drone album?
Also, hi Adam!