"Bless this man for his bravery and selflessness!" Unlike you cowardly worthless civilian pieces of trash, this man is willing to risk his life and job to go...
... I don't think there is any shortage of people who are willing to jump on a rocket to go colonize whatever space rock you point it at, including plenty of...
CS: Thanks for replying which allows me to put-off responding to Fenn's "Chip-on-my-shoulder"; post till later :o) ... I believe that your correct though I...
... Agreed. Sending the wrong people for initial colonization efforts could be a PR disaster in addition to being a huge waste of equipment, time, effort and...
... only ... and ... Free-delivery from you 'local' dealer, THAT could be a sticking point I'm thinking ;o) Or we COULD just buy a couple dozen of these...
Found a collection video clips from the Yuri's Night at NASA Ames on YouTube. Here are some of the better ones. Yuri's Night (Ames Research Center CA April...
For consideration: "There are an estimated 74,993 dams in America, blocking 600,000 miles of what had once been free flowing rivers, nearly one dam built for...
It was suggested recently that I add a PayPal donation button to the TMP2 site to help with collecting support for art commissions but I've run into some...
... I can't offer any solutions for the banking problem, but as for visibility, a few months ago I was writing a chipin clone that I called 'openpay' as a way...
First it was the "cell-phone" to imitate the ST communicator, now that tech leap has lead to a functional "Tri-corder" imaging system available where ever ...
Seriously, I was looking for some paper models far a friend, (he does miniature war games and the stuff by Games Workshop just costs to damn much) and I found...
I came across this item recently on the Born Rich site -which generally deals in the laughable excesses of the wealthy but also covers some quite interesting...
An interesting article on the misconceptions of Industrial Age and economic history and another example of someone arriving at the conclusions of the...
The Solar Energy company Sunrgi has announced that it has tested a system using solar concentrators, (yes I know the picture in the blog article is probably...
Eric, I am starting to assemble a group to submit an entry into the Buckminster Fuller Challenge for next year. If you would provide me with your email...
http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/uno-the-segway-motorcycle.html Looks like the realization of my proposed Foomobile Utilicar micro-car idea may be just a...
Some excellent images of terraced rice farming in the Philippines that demonstrate the kind of landscapes I was trying to describe for the 'tectonic' approach...
Have been working on some schematic diagrams of stages of Aquarius development lately and found this interesting analog to what I was envisioning for the...
Hi Eric, All: Eric, Long time no talk to.. :-) (at the moment due to a hostile buyout, I am no longer involved in LTA. However, my new work is much more...
I think I posted this link to a paper models site before: _http://www.geocities.com/codex34/index.html_ (http://www.geocities.com/ codex34/index.html) Which I...
I found the paper on the inflatable heliostat that I'd mentioned previously: _http://builditsolar.com/Projects/InflaHeliostat/InflaHeliostatReport.PDF_ ...
While admitting that bigger is usually better in a crash, (to an extent, as noted below it depends on how much homework and design effort the designers and...
Sure, it's far out, or far future.... or is it? :o) http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/060308_exotic_drive.html Research Warps into Hyperdrive By...
By the way Leon, refreshing my memory please, what exactly IS the BFC and what type projects (if we can ask) are you doing? (And how, haven't heard from you in...
This is an article that has passed with little notice except where noted by the different sides of the "Global Warming Is Man's Fault" argument, dismissed ...
Randy, Here is where I have been and where I hope to go. As stated in their literature "The Buckminster Fuller Challenge is an annual contest seeking solutions...
