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Movable Strake Front

Posted on Thu, 2011-02-10 by gravityloss

Described by Barnaby Wainfan in the nineties: And in use in 2010 (click to get huge full view): Here’s another view of the beautiful Sukhoi T-50 / PAK FA: All photos from Sukhoi.

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The Awakening of A Woman, 1929

Posted on Tue, 2011-02-01 by gravityloss

This was twelve years after the revolution and looks remarkably positive. Also a lot of the cinematographic language of today is shown. Also features the Zeiss Tessar objective.

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NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver Interview

Posted on Mon, 2011-01-31 by gravityloss

Lori Garver interview

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Short Pants, addition

Posted on Wed, 2011-01-12 by gravityloss

You piled a thousand tonnes of icy feel yet we broke them with ten thousand of steel. Rocking gentle, and violent crashes dust to dust, ashes to ashes.

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Merry christmas from an alternate universe

Posted on Sun, 2010-12-26 by gravityloss

Michael Tobis, originally by Gareth Renowden. On the uncovered fraud in NZ temperatuers, as is obvious in the graph below.. In blogging news, installed akismet so hopefully new comments will stand out from all the spam… I’ve had very little … Continue reading →

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Camera Systems

Posted on Sat, 2010-11-27 by gravityloss

Back when digital cameras started appearing around the turn of the millennium, it pretty quickly turned out that just making a digital version of an 35 mm SLR camera was not a very efficient move. The image quality with full … Continue reading →

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The Future

Posted on Sun, 2010-11-21 by gravityloss

is now. At least if you’re an astronaut. Thanks to Wayne Hale for the image.

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Running in lunar gravity

Posted on Tue, 2010-11-02 by gravityloss

You can simulate lunar gravity quite easily on Earth – just suspend a man from his center of gravity and put him on a very inclined plane. Hilarity will ensue. Sigh, embedding broke again for no reason…. I never expected … Continue reading →

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Even more on Skylon

Posted on Sat, 2010-10-30 by gravityloss

They stop airbreathing at 2 km/s. Let’s compare this to staging. Assuming an upper stage of the weight of Skylon at that point (230 t), what kind of a rocket would be required for that? With a hunch of 3000 … Continue reading →

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Why precool but not liquify – Skylon and SABRE

Posted on Fri, 2010-10-29 by gravityloss

Well, I thought maybe I could add some content. Everybody’s heard about the British Hotol follower Skylon and its airbreathing SABRE engines. What’s special about them? My understandin’s based on this excellent document from Reaction Engines explaining why the system … Continue reading →

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