What’s more fascinating than the ultralight free fliers in Phil Kibbe’s documentary Float? The people who dedicate their lives to making them.
Our planet recently made another fantastic journey around the sun. What better way to celebrate than to take a look at the marvellous mechanical contraptions we’ve created to visualise our solar system’s celestial dance.
The computers haven’t been built yet, so it’s not going to happen for a while—but the Living Earth Simulator will be a “knowledge collider” capable of modelling our entire planet when/if it gets off the fantasy drawing board.
I was doing some research for an upcoming article when, among the flight jackets and $US100,000 Omega Apollo 11 wristwatches, I found that you can buy your own 1:1 replica of the space shuttle.
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You know what’s cool? Launching 965 model rockets at once. You know what’s cooler? Launching 3130 model rockets at once. Boy Scout Jacob Smith honoured the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts by blowing away the previous world record.
Researchers at the National Physics Laboratory in the U.K. have modeled what they believe to be the perfect human ear. It will replace the “flawed” one created by the International Electrotechnical Commission in 1990. Perfect headphones for everyone!
