Rocket Sled Pioneers — critical condition, but 5 days later he was back to work.
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The scary days of human testing
WONDERFUL frycook
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1930s streamlined car
WONDERFUL frycook
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How small is an atom? Fascinating TEDed animation
POSTED WONDERFUL Bibliog
My friend Dan made this kick ass animation for TEDed, explaining how small an atom actually is!
View Link [youtube.com]
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Mesmerizing Map of Live Wind Data
WONDERFUL @crisnoble
Maggie will like this one: A live, mesmerizing map of wind speed in the United States. Currently the top of hacker news so in case it wont’t load try the cahed version: http://goo.gl/7TeJM
View Link [hint.fm]
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Super slo-mo with 82yr old ping pong legend
WONDERFUL theadmiral777
Marty Reisman is an American champion table tennis player, author, and underground legend. A zeitgeist of classical table tennis, he was the 1958 and 1960 U.S. Men’s Singles Champion and the 1997 U.S. Hardbat Champion. Reisman developed his table tennis skills beginning at the age of 12 on the Lower East Side and then as a hustler in New York in the 1940′s.
View Link [vimeo.com]
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ChronoZoom: The HTML5 Time Machine
WONDERFUL pockyrevolution
ChronoZoom is a timeline for all of history. It covers all of time, from the Cosmos, Earth, Life and Humanity.
ChronoZoom started as my class project in 2009 at UC Berkeley, and has grown to a full scale project supported by Microsoft Research and Moscow State University in Russia.
It is written completely in HTML5 making extensive use of the Canvas tag.
I had the good fortune of working with Professor Walter Alvarez on this project who is most widely known for his theory that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact.We’ve just released it as a beta, this is an open source project (Apache 2.0) as well:
http://www.ChronoZoomProject.org/
UC Berkeley News Post:
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/03/14/chronozoom-a-deep-dive-into-the-history-of-everything/
Zoom through time! Thanks!
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Robonaut shakes hands
WONDERFUL frycook
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To Walk on Water: Driving over frozen Lake Baikal
WONDERFUL vuzh
Great photo set of a journey by car across the frozen-over Lake Baikal in the Irkutsk Oblast region of Siberia.
View Link [russiantowns.livejournal.com]
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Inspiration for Dr. Strangelove?
WONDERFUL frycook
Boy riding on a “bucking bronco” at an Army base open house — a U.S. Army Honest John missile.
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SUV Speeds into Philadelphia Airport Runway
WONDERFUL dadthegoalie
PHILADELPHIA — A day after an SUV crashed through a fence and sped onto a runway, causing an approaching plane to have to pull up quickly, officials said that the facility’s perimeter fencing meets federal standards but that police are investigating whether there are ways to make the airport more secure.
Kenneth Richard Mazik is being charged with disrupting operations at the airport and endangering safety there, the U.S. attorney said Friday. Mazik, of the Philadelphia suburb of Chadds Ford, drove his Jeep through a fence Thursday and sped up and down two runways at speeds of more than 100 mph before being surrounded and apprehended, police said.
SUV Speeds into Philadelphia Airport Runway
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Compressed 03: Beautiful analog effects made with ferrofluid
WONDERFUL Kim Pimmel
By using frame by frame stop motion and time lapse techniques, fluid dynamics and magnetism are transformed into majestic explosions and seething storms.
View Link [vimeo.com]
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Re-animating a 100 million year old dinosaur skeleton
WONDERFUL jeanpoole
I jumped at a super-rare chance to project video onto a dinosaur skeleton at the Australian Natural History Museum last year – a Muttaburrasaurus ( Australian dinosaur from around 100 million years ago). It was an amazing shape to bend video onto ( which was possible using software from Madmapper.com + vidvox.net ), and I’ve finally cut together some of the skeleton projection footage and uploaded. Maybe of interest?
Bonus round: a 2002 era interview with Mark Frauenfelder is now back online ( after re-patching + upgrading site recently) : http://www.skynoise.net/2002/09/26/boing-boing-interview-with-mark-frauenfelder )
View Link [vimeo.com]
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The Confused Cat
POSTED WONDERFUL frycook
Not only was the U.S. Army testing psycho-chemical agents to change human behavior patterns, but they made a promotional video about testing it on cats. The chemical changes the cat’s personality and makes the cat afraid of mice.
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A Simple and Convenient Synthesis of Pseudoephedrine From N-Methylamphetamine
WONDERFUL SFSlim
My favorite journal, Journal of Apocryphal Chemistry, has just published an interesting article. The authors, O. Hai and I. B. Hakkenshit, describe a synthesis of pseudoephedrine from readily available crystal meth. Pseudoephedrine is the decongestant in Sudafed, which used to be out on stores shelves. Now if you want to buy it you have to show your drivers license at a pharmacy. This synthesis should make it much easier to get this useful medicine.
“We have demonstrated here a simple series of
transformations which allow pseudoephedrine to be obtained
in a more straightforward manner than is the current norm.
We expect that the simultaneous trends of restricting
pseudoephedrine sales while N-methylamphetamine becomes
less expensive and of higher purity will make the methods
presented here increasingly attractive.”View Link [scribd.com]
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Kitty Kitty: Ode to a Brain Parasite?
WONDERFUL medaglia
A short film inspired by Toxoplasmosis, the real-life disease known to alter human behavior. Kitty Kitty is about love, cats and brain parasites. Official selection in the Palm Springs Int’l Film Festival, Dead By Dawn Festival, Rhode Island Int’l Film Festival, part of Vodo.net’s Otherworlds showase and more.
View Link [youtu.be]
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Vertical wind tunnel
WONDERFUL frycook
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One word: Blinky
WONDERFUL Gawain Lavers
Photographs of variously mutated brown trout were relegated to an appendix of a scientific study commissioned by the J. R. Simplot Company, whose mining operations have polluted nearby creeks in southern Idaho. The trout were the offspring of local fish caught in the wild that had been spawned in the laboratory. Some had two heads; others had facial, fin and egg deformities.
Perhaps a dinner party for Mr. J. R. Simplot is in order?
View Link [nytimes.com]
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Sonic Boom — the sound of security
WONDERFUL frycook
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1982 AT&T Archives film on UNIX features an All-Star Team of OS Developers
WONDERFUL Dan R
“The Unix System,” a 1982 film produced by Bell Labs, is a highlight reel of UNIX’s key features, presented by many of the people who were essential to the development of UNIX. From Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (who also created the C programming language), to Brain Kernighan and Alfred Aho, the lineup of speakers is akin to a video showing basketball tips from Jordan, Bird, Magic and Ewing. For anyone who has ever done any sort of computer programming, it’s a must-watch.
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U.S. Air Force Open House Commercial – 1950
WONDERFUL frycook
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Prone Pilot Seat for Future Rocket Planes
WONDERFUL frycook
We never did get our rocket planes. R&D for a prone pilot seat for future rocket planes at Wright Field centrifuge in early 1950s.
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Dat Nose, a short video of the XB-70 Valkyrie
WONDERFUL frycook
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Dinosaurs + Fossils + Confused Bikini Models = The Internet’s New Strangest Site
WONDERFUL frycook
View Link [io9.com]
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There’s no tomorrow
WONDERFUL polapix
Dermot from http://www.Idleworm.com has finished his animated documentary about resource depletion & the impossibility of infinite growth on a finite planet. Highly informative and enjoyable.
View Link [youtube.com]
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Search continues for secret stamp honoring John Glenn’s historic spaceflight
WONDERFUL collectSPACE
Fifty years ago Monday (Feb. 20), John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, relied on ground stations located across the planet to communicate with his control team. But after his Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, safely splashed down, it was another type of station that took over tracking his historic mission: U.S. post offices.
For the first and only time in the country’s postal history, the United States Post Office Department — since 1971, the U.S. Postal Service — surprised the public with the release of a secret stamp celebrating Glenn’s successful mission. The 4-cent “Project Mercury” postage stamp was revealed and immediately put on sale in 305 post offices within an hour of Glenn’s triumphant return to Earth at 2:43 p.m. EST (1943 GMT) on Feb. 20, 1962.
Half a century later, collectors are still searching for those first-day-of-issue stamps…
To this day, as many as 20 of the original 305 cities that received the secret shipments of the “Project Mercury” stamp are still missing examples of first day of issue postmarked envelopes.
Also, anniversary interview — John Glenn, first American in orbit, reflects on his flight’s 50-year legacy: http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-021712a.html
View Link [collectspace.com]