OREO Separator Machine
It is astonishing that technology that was unthinkable in manufacturing 50 years ago is now so cheap and so easy to do that you can play around with it. Also, the dream of the 90s is alive in Portland.
Physics
More about the Van Allen Belts than you really wanted to know
Question:
Is it impossible to travel to the Moon, because of the Van Allen Belt?
From: Peter Wingerter
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Area: Astronomy
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Is there any truth to the rumor? Is it impossible to travel
Scientist + Liquid Nitrogen + Ping Pong Balls
More Neil Armstrong Test Pilot Stories
Jerry Pournelle has a couple more good stories about Neil Armstrong's piloting ability:
And of course they all had the right stuff, and they knew it, and they knew that Armstrong had more of it than most. During the Apollo Lander Simulation flight – the trainer was dubbed the
g-loading for pilots and astronauts
With the passing of Neil Armstrong, Charles Murray gives us this anecdote about Gemini 8:
Jerry began to reminisce about Gemini 8, Neil Armstrong’s previous space flight. Armstrong and his copilot, David Scott, had rendezvoused and docked with an Agena rocket as part of the rehearsal for techniques that
Science Jobs
The Washington Post has an article on the disparity between our public policy goal of churning out lots of new science PhDs, and the not very well kept secret that many PhDs are unable to find work in their fields.
There are some really good points here. The life sciences