Orbit 360F

Lomo Orbit 360F

There’s a new Lomo camera in town and it looks stranger than the old ones. Kind of a strange ‘bridge’ camera if anyone remembers those. This one has a motor drive so you don’t have to wear your thumb out. It also sports a waist level finder for easier shots when you need to be way down low or above the crowd. Here are a list of the specs:

  • Lens: Aspherical, 50mm/4.5
  • Aperture: f/4.5, f/6.8, f/15 Exposure: Charming weather-symbol guided
  • Flash: Built-in electronic flash or standard hotshoe mount
  • Focus: fixed and focus free
  • Standard tripod thread, integrated nylon wriststrap
  • Motor drive with special rewind feature for multi exposures

Orbit 360F

An Explosion on the Moon

Moon Boom! 

On November 7th of this year scientists that were testing a telescope managed to spot an impact on the moon. This sort of this has been seen a few times before, mostly during heavy meteor showers such as the Leonids. 

NASA scientists have observed an explosion on the moon. The blast, equal in energy to about 70 kg of TNT, occurred near the edge of Mare Imbrium (the Sea of Rains) on Nov. 7, 2005, when a 12-centimeter-wide meteoroid slammed into the ground traveling 27 km/s.

Well that’s the cover story that ‘they’ want you to believe. What actually happened is that the UN Space Forces launched a covert strike on the hidden Nazi moon base that is located on the far side. The German research into rocket science was more successful than the scientists that we ‘liberated’ let on. Our German scientists were not the ‘best of the best’ as we would have like to have believes, not by a long shot. The real researchers were able to perfect the  methods of heavy lifting needed to place large installations in space. While this was happening, a core group of technicians, scientists, and military personal that were not loyal to the party line split off an formed their own black space program towards the end of WWII. In the turmoil of the coming end of the Third Reich, they used the cover of bombing raids and the explosions of ‘sabotaged’ factories as cover while they launched their group into space and ultimately to the moon where they established a base on the far side. Over the decades the UN has detected strange signals emanating from this remote but thriving base and fear the worst; the coming of the Fourth Reich. The bright flash that these astronomers witnessed was not an impact of a chunk of rock but the explosion of a failed attempt to wipe out the moon base. The missile was deflected by a force dome or other device that protects the undoubtly evil citizens of the Nazi moon base. Fear the coming of the space Nazi invasion fleet, it’s only a matter of time until they strike!

NASA – An Explosion on the Moon

3mm Thick Paper Clock

Flex LCD 

Ok, a little big for you wrist but it would be perfect for the computer room. I love all the ePaper applications that are being thought up these days. However, they need a few more:

  • Flags: Just the thing for countries that have short cycle time on what party is currently in power.
  • Bumper Stickers: Vote for the loser and don’t want to be ridiculed by your friends?
  • Envelopes: Make them out of Tyvek and you have re-usable mailers. Download whatever address you need and your set.
  • CD/DVD Jewele Cases: Not the case itself but the liners. I hate having to make new listings of what is on the media. It would be bliss if the case could be synced up to the burning software (hell, make the top surface of the media out of this stuff. On the other hand it might spin the eInk balls to the outer edge when it spins)
  • Post-It Notes: 3M, get on this one.

Ok, if you see any of these ideas out there tell me, ok?

3mm thick paper clock

Basics of Space Flight From JPL

It’s one thing to say you like space stuff but it’s another to actually read up on how things in space work. Even a casual glance through this guide will answer a lot of common space questions. How do spacecraft talk to the ground? Why do things orbit stuff? Just what does a spacecraft do when it’s in the ‘cruse phase’? All of this stuff is in here and bunches more.

Basics of Space Flight