Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Yow! Tech Drool is right, these are the kits that LEGO should be selling. These are some of the best (more accurate) real world devices rendered in the hackers favorite plastic brick that I have ever seen.
[via TechDrool]
Lego Construction Site – Original Technic Models by Jennifer Clark
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!
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:
Ok, if you see any of these ideas out there tell me, ok?
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.
This is a true thing of beauty, How many people can say that they hand built a swing lens panoramic camera? If your a DIY’er you should have a look at how this was put together, the build notes are quite good.
This is just wild. The guy gets like 5000 TV channels off his dozen or so antennas. Not too shabby. This reminds be of the bit I did a while back on TV DX’ing. That used just your normal TV receiver to pull in the distant stations, but this guy is using all sots of old small dish satellite receivers to tune in the transmissions that come in as they say, ‘free to air‘. That translates as he "gets them for free ’cause no one encrypts them". 100% legal and it happens all the time. Some networks don’t even bother to encrypt anything (GASP!)
You can do this stuff yourself, all you need are some dishes and a receiver that can pickup these un-scrambled transmissions. Pretty soon you’ll be grooving to news air checks and weird foreign shows. I’d like it because I might be able to receive ThaiTV. Not only would my wife like it but it might improve my weak grasp of the Thai language a little bit more.
[via Boing Boing]