A team of Danish volunteers has built a rocket capable of carrying a human into space, and will be launching it in a week’s time. The project, which has been funded entirely by donations and sponsorship, is led by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen.
Yup, Danes in space! Best of luck to the chaps.
Posts under ‘Cool!’
The Viking spirit lives on!
Going Ballistic!
An F-22 Raptor and F-15 Eagle from the U.S. Air Force Weapons School’s 433rd Weapons Squadron pull into a vertical climb over the Nevada Test and Training Range July 16, 2010. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald). Click here for full-size.
Interesting that the Raptor seems to be shedding a hell of a lot [...]
Skynet nouveau est arrivé!
Defence firm BAE Systems today officially unveiled its first ever high-tech unmanned stealth jet.
The Taranis, named after the Celtic god of thunder, is about the same size as a Hawk jet and is equipped with stealth equipment and an ‘autonomous’ artificial intelligence system.
The plane will test the possibility of developing the first ever autonomous [...]
Synthia
So has Craig Ventor finally made the first steps into artificial life?
I don’t know because I only understand a bit of molecular biology and stuff.
But this looks like it’s going to be fun…
Of course, the usual suspects have crawled out of their yurts to raise Cain over geniis out of bottles, Pandora’s box, and [...]
Word of the day
sesquipedalianism \ses-kwi-PEED-l-iz-uhm\ , adjective;
1.Given to using long words.
2.(Of a word) containing many syllables.
Cool!
Is there anything it can’t do…
Fuck the election! This is cool…
And if that don’t float your boat…
The Lego Difference Engine.
Ain’t life cool when we can just play?
Miranda has a fan
About 1:06 in. What can I say? Bankers are human too.
Rolling Thunder
Offset this…
H/T Sunfish
All I want for Christmas…
Not that I want it with Richard “Mack” Machowitz who is clearly a bum-hole pirate and chutney ferret of the first water.
I just want the gun so I can blow the fuck out of things I don’t like. Of which there are many.
PS - I have been sickly recently and that meant a [...]
Journalism
I have to congratulate her, although I got to say the concentration on her sex actually detracts from it all, in my humble opinion:
MOLECULAR biologist Elizabeth Blackburn has become the first Australian woman to win a Nobel prize.
Professor Blackburn - whose pioneering work on telomeres, the protective caps on the ends of chromosomes, has opened [...]
Advice of the Day
If you are an Islamic terrorist don’t mess with Indian farmers when their daughter is in the house…
Militants often demand food and lodging in nearby villages.
When they forced their way into Miss Kausar’s home, her father Noor Mohammad refused their demands and was attacked.
His daughter was hiding under a bed when she heard him [...]
Space Hijackers
Eleven G20 campaigners are being prosecuted for impersonating police officers despite some being half-dressed and wielding toy machineguns.
Do these ladies look like cops to you?
The protesters, who call themselves the Space Hijackers, claim today it was obvious they were taking part in an April Fool’s Day joke as world leaders met in London on 1 [...]
Recognition at last
Woo Hoo!!!!!
We’ve been BANNED.
Yes.
Really.
Seems we, along with Samizdata, are just that bit too violent for some poor dainty yanks!!!
As we say in Australia when in receipt of pleasurable information – Whacko.
Whacko the diddleyo.
According to Random Nuclear Strikes we, and those ever so nice people over at Samizdata, have been banned by his employer because our [...]
World’s Smallest Aerospace Business
Farmer Wu Zhongyuan, 22, sits in his self-made helicopter in Jiuxian county, Henan province, China on August 1, 2009. The local government later halted Wu’s plan to fly the helicopter out of safety concerns. The aircraft, powered by a 150cc engine, took Wu two months to build and cost more than 10,000 yuan ($1,460), China [...]
Laura Dekker
The world record-breaking journey, which had her parents’ approval, would have taken Laura Dekker out of the classroom next week and through some of the world’s most dangerous waters for the next two years.
But judges in Utrecht ordered the state child care authorities to take responsibility for the teenager over the next two months while [...]
