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| What's the Vegas betting line on little flying robots? The world may soon be enthralled. (Image courtesy zbrella.com.) |
W.O.R.D. To The Copters, We Came To Race Them Proper
Drones! They're doing it all these days! Creating artistic light show / circuses, patrolling borders, airlifting contraceptives to oppressed women, and so much more. Now, our little flying friends have entered the next logical phase of what happens when humanity finds something agile, competitive and able to be technologically souped-up: we're racing them.
Super News For Supersonic Flight: NASA's Working On A New Prize For The Skies
It's been an exciting week for aerospace! Yesterday, astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned from 340 days on the International Space Station, Virgin Galactic announced their new space plane just a few days previous, and on Monday, the world got a very special Leap Day present indeed: news that a new NASA-commissioned plane could, in a few years, be leaping wide oceans in a single, supersonic bound...
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| SHOTGUN. NASA's on a speculative supersonic spin... (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
Space Station Sunday: Three Cheers For The One-Year Crew!
Happy Sunday, space fans! It's been another outstanding week in orbit, and an exciting week ahead. Here's what was up!
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| The One-Year Crew enjoys a few more micro-gravity backflips before they're much more difficult on Earth. (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
The Opportunity Of Unity: Virgin Galactic Has A New Spaceplane On The Horizon
With the imminent return of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly from his near-yearlong post on the International Space Station, humanity has once again become publicly aware of how cool it is for people to exist in space. Now, entrepreneur Richard Branson is set to up the ante by sending up a new spaceship...and anyone who can pay the price can be a passenger.
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| SPACE. PLANE. YES. (Image courtesy arstechnica.com.) |
Wash 'N Roll: New Prototype "Bike Washing Machine" Launders Via Your Legwork
Chores are never pleasant, but what if you could get more than one of them done at the same time, get exercise, AND help the environment as you did so? With this new invention, you'll be feeling good, looking good, and doing good, all at once...
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| What's next, a rowing machine whose flywheels spin a clothes dryer? (Please steal that idea and make it real, Chinese students.) (Image courtesy thehomesteadguru.com.) |
Seek Guidance (Through Traffic) From Morgan Freeman's Voice
The demand is simple: you need to go places, which likely requires directions. Those directions can be read off of a boring old map, or a guy who once played God can liltingly illuminate them for you.
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| "Get busy ridin', or get busy dyin'." (Image courtesy buzzfeed.com.) |
Space Station Sunday: Two Dropoffs Before Next Liftoff
Good afternoon, space fans! What wonders were worked on this week, hundreds of miles above our heads?
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| It's all about solar: the station's solar arrays soak up the rays. (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
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