Who DIDN’T play the hell out of Street Fighter 2?? I sure did. Check out Charlie’s youtube page, just a guy I stumbled upon while on YouTube. This guy plays like a beast
This is another one of my favorite tracks by Nujabes, Scott Matelic - “To Impress The Empress”. Grab your best headphones (not those crappy earbuds for iPhones) and have a 5 minute chillout from your day.
This is the SR-71 Blackbird, another one of Skunk Work’s masterpieces. This one of the coolest planes in existence. Here are a few shorts facts about it
- Mach 3+ capabilities! It could travel at 1750mph+. If a SAM (surface-to-air missile) was detected, the evasive maneuvers were to simply accelerate and OUT.RUN. the missile. It could travel from California to Washington D.C. in 45 minutes.
- Maximum operating altitude (that we know of…) of 80,000ft. That’s 15 miles straight up. The crewmen faced two primary survival concerns while operating the Blackbird: oxygen and ejection. Humans cannot receive the necessary oxygen required to live above 43,000ft, and should they have to eject, they would be met with a blast for 450°F from the airflow.
- When it was sitting stationary, fuel would leak out of the aircraft’s body because of gaps between body plates, however this was not a design flaw but more of a design revolution. The reason for this is that the aircraft’s body heats up so much in flight due to the extreme speeds, the metal expands from the heat caused by air friction sealing the plane up nice and tight, resulting in no leaks. . By allowing the metal to expand much more than normally, the plane could reach speeds never seen before by an aircraft.
- Due to its sensors and radar on-board, mixed with its speed and operational altitude, it could observe 100,000 square miles of the Earth over the course of one hour.
Time Cloak Hides (Very Small) Events in Time
You’ve probably seen this on your dashboard today, as a few of my science buds have covered it: “Time Cloak Can Make Time Disappear!” That’s very cool stuff, but what does it mean?
You might remember a few months ago when I posted about an “invisibility cloak” technology, where beams of light are bent around an object preventing it from reflecting (becoming invisible). There’s a video here. This new “time cloak” uses a special way of slowing down certain of wavelengths of light to do the same thing. Sort of. From SciAm:
The cloak, described in the January 5 issue of Nature, relies on the fact that light of different colors moves at different speeds through certain media. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.) Using a device that they call a “time lens,” the researchers split a single-color laser beam into a spread of wavelengths, then slowed half of those wavelengths while speeding up the others. That created a very brief time gap that could be closed again before the beam reached the detector by reversing the lensing process, restoring the beam to a single, seemingly undisturbed wavelength.
Very cool, with implications for computing (good and bad). But you know what’s better? ANIMATIONS!
Click above for a great video explanation of the time cloak, put together by Rose Eveleth. Make much more sense now.
Cool idea, but just a marketing gimmick as always. Terminal velocity much? Funny thing is, it’ll probably break when it falls 3ft. out of your backpack to the ground
F-117A, Code Name ‘Have Blue’ by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works division. THE pioneer aircraft in stealth technology during the Cold War, having the radar cross section equivalent to that of a golf ball. What an awesome airplane!
If you haven’t heard of Nujabes by now, this is a good time to start getting into him! He mixes samples of audio taken from various sources and compiles them into awesome songs. This is one of my favorites, with lyrics by Shing02.
Check Nujabes out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nujabes
They’re like the unicorns of campus; some believe they exist, but to most they’re just myths
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