Sunday Things - catchup edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Thursday October 3 2013
Oh hello. This still on? Apologies for the extended silence - no real excuse, beyond being busy with loads of stuff at work and in my spare time. Working on a personal Flickr-replacement for one. With that vague justification, have some links!
Box - some kind of Aperture Laboratories space-folding super-experiment? Effectively an advert for some super-fancy motion control robotic arms. Possibly used on Gravity.
Yes, there seems to be a hole in Curiosity's left front wheel, and no, that's not a problem - absolutely nothing to worry about. That Mars Science Laboratory robot can run just fine on oval wheels, square wheels or just the titanium spokes, thanks to some seriously torque-y motors. It's really been motoring recently. Also, while NASA is partially closed, JPL's still going!
Digital Grotesque - 3D printed architecture. Giger meets gothic, pretty much.
Real-life Jebediah Kerman - most definitely in possession of the Right Stuff, sadly he never made it to orbit due to a severe back injury.
Bonus Buran Corner:
- The life and death of Buran, the USSR shuttle built on faulty assumptions - nice summary of the one-flight Soviet marvel. Why did the USSR need a Shuttle? Well, the Americans had one, and presumably they knew what they were doing. (Spoilers: they didn't.)
- Buran - nice compendium of Buran, Energia and Polyus footage. With inexplicable techno. unf unf unf unf unf
- Energia: The Last Big Rocket - Buran was just a payload. Giant wall of text about the underlying launch system, including why it was so important to the aforementioned MSL Curiosity...
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1. Hey!
Posted by phuzz at 2:40AM, Friday October 4 2013
Wait a minute, that video at the top isn't about space, what's going on? ;)