The Flimmer project is aimed at “developing flying UUV techniques and technologies for long-range air delivery of UUVs and investigating configurations for mixed-mode use of bio-inspired fins in both water and air environments.”
Tag: video
Project Sunroof
i’m really excited about this. solar is mostly held back by inefficiencies of installation and planning, not the actual cells these days. i hope this expands worldwide as fast as possible.
Project Sunroof uses information that’s in Google Maps to figure out how much sun falls on a roof and takes into account stuff like the angle of the roof, the weather, and obstructions like trees and chimneys. Then it uses those measurements to figure out how many panels you’d probably need and how much you could save on your electric bill, including solar incentives in your area
Puppy Rave
that looks like a fun rave.
A symphony of failure
James Mickens gives us a light-hearted survey of the bleak, hideous security present and why things are going to get much, much – much – worse in the future.
Selfdriving advantage
Error-Prone is cute little game of chaos and carnage made for 26 people to play around 1 keyboard. The end result illustrates perfectly how self driving cars are vastly superior to their human counterparts in terms of traffic grid lock, efficiency and avoiding road accidents. A screen shows 26 autonomous cars driving in a loop—one for each letter of the alphabet. Up to that many humans can take control of the cars by pressing the corresponding letter. But doing so is the first step in the inevitable path toward traffic flow inefficiency, at best, and a massive pileup, at worst.
West Bank Drugs
The 1000 person band
from now on, all bands should have 1000 members. why not?
EnChroma
it’s 2015, where we have the technology to fix color blindness, but still shoot videos vertically. can’t explain that.
Is now the time to restore art?
the process of restoration is fascinating, but raises the question of why now. both in archaeology as well as art restoration, future methods will be superior, so should we not do anything, for fear of messing things up?
Pluto
That flyby was far too quick.
2015-07-17: Animated Flyover
2015-07-24: Pluto’s atmosphere
Taken when New Horizons was about 2m kilometers past Pluto, when the tiny rock and ice world was very nearly between the spacecraft and the Sun. New Horizons looked over its shoulder, back at Pluto, to capture this breathtaking picture. The ring of light you are seeing? That’s Pluto’s atmosphere! Light passing through that cold, thin, nitrogen gas gets scattered, bent, and we see it as a halo surrounding the night side of Pluto.
2015-09-20: very nice Pluto picture.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 