New Mexico Spaceport: Open For Business

New Mexico Spaceport
Not quite ready for the Heart of Gold or Eagle One to pay a visit right at the moment, but America’s first commercial spaceport is getting ready for business. In July they will be launching their first small commercial rocket and after that, as they say, the sky is the limit (well someone had to say it).

New Mexico Spaceport: Open For Business

Crusher, UGCV

The Crusher

To heck with UAV, UGCV is the real ticket. If you were wondering where the brains behind the DARAP Grand Challenge robots were destine to end up, it’s in a machine like the ‘Crusher’. Crusher is a 6.5 ton unmanned all terrain vehicle capable of packing loads of 8,000 pounds where it will be needed the most. It’s still years away from being a solders mechanical pack mule of choice, but when is does come into general use it should reduce the amount of casualties in convoys. That is assuming that the robots don’t decide to drive off the wrong direction due to a programming glitch.

[via neat-o-rama]

Engineers Unveil Futuristic Unmanned ‘Crusher’ Vehicle

Pinhole Camera Movies

Buell Spot

I was checking out the World Pinhole Photography Day page on Flickr today and I saw that someone is going to be using an 8mm movie camera fitted with a pinhole to take some shots. A very cool idea. Even cooler is that Flickr member (and great photographer) Nicolai_g mentioned that there is a TV commercial that was shot with a pinhole equipped movie camera. He even noted a technical discussion about the process of using a pinhole on a motion picture camera. A very fascinating read if your into a very alternative way of capturing life around you.

Here is the post that started this little post:

pinhole bolex 8mm on Flickr – Photo Sharing!