250-Foot Long Hybrid Airship Will Spy Over Afghanistan Battlefields in 2011
Hybrid Airship for Afghan ISR Takes Shape
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Ancient technology preserves food
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Soviet nuclear detonator console used in the fifties and sixties
Part of the Equipment from the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site.
Via Make.
In accordance with the Pledge, I would like to recognize the work of Vera Rubin. She discovered most of the matter in the universe, an accomplishment that really should be better known.
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Today’s big event was a big change from yesterday’s: I helped staff a table for Gaeltacht Minnesota at St. Paul’s Day of Irish dance (An opportunity to help out and yet avoid Tuesday’s drunken mob scene). I don’t think I contributed much beyond moral support: MR and SH were both present most of the time, and being extroverts jumped in long before I could think of something to say whenever some visitor came by. However, I enjoyed it anyway.
A follow-up from yesterday: At the museum we saw another family from church. I talked to one of them after today’s service. His company does some work for the museum, which apparently was overwhelmed by the public response to Make: Day there. Also, they had many more requests for exhibits than they could accomodate. There may be another Make Day soon.
Introducing the Make: Talk radio show
For this first show, Friday March 6, 2009, they’ll be discussing Volume 17, the Lost Knowledge issue, of MAKE. I will be the guest, along with Jake von Slatt, the cover gentleman for the issue and creator of the wonderful Wimshurst project featured in 17. We’ll be talking about steampunk, and other lost, retro, antique technologies, and whatever else springs to mind.
We slept in this morning. I try to observe at least the beginning of Saturday as a day of rest.