Ran two prints today. The second one, the 4th test of the new setup, turned out to be pretty much there with just a few minor issues. The main issue I’m looking at now is getting proper coverage of the paper. For whatever reason, the cyanotyping fluid doesn’t really like the vellum paper and you…
Todays test involved mounting the UV light bar to a crude frame and just letting it run, not waving it over the print like an idjit. As you can see most of it is pretty uniform; the end of the print that was furthest from the light bar wasn’t adequately exposed. However, come the weekend…
Some interesting shots of a brief static test firing. STATIC FIRE! Ship 24 fires up as testing resumes for the test flight. Looked like a single engine firing. ➡️https://t.co/f5Sp0aaSMs pic.twitter.com/yaqGyeqa7X — Chris Bergin – NSF (@NASASpaceflight) December 15, 2022 Ship 24 completes a single-engine static fire test at Starbase in Texas pic.twitter.com/gF9beLcarX — SpaceX…
The cyanotype setup in Utah relied on direct sunlight to process the image. But the sun is difficult to find here in Illinois in December, so I decided to give technology a try. When I originally set up in 2014, this wasn’t really an option, but Amazon now has 100 watt LED UV light bars…
And so Adam Savage goes to the Royal Society In England and gets to look at not only a first edition of Newton’s “Principia,” but the actual *manuscript.* And both he and the archivist handle them with their bare hands. Shudder. There are books that *I* own that I hesitate to actually touch without cotton…
An impressive fire with an impressive explosion at a shopping mall in Moscow. I’m sure Ukrainians are just jam-packed with sympathy. It seems to be either arson or lax building standards. Or both, I imagine.
I am going forward with the return to cyanotyping. I’m gathering the supplies needed to rebuild the capability; learning some lessons from before, this setup should be a little better and a little bigger. I should be able to make prints 24 inches by up to 7 feet. It’s a bit of a chore and…
A visualization of how high a human could jump on other worlds, due to the differences in local gravity. Not included is the difficulty in jumping while wearing a space suit… And similar:
If you want to get your soul crushed, try to display a classical talent before an audience composed of modern high school kids. “Disrespect” won’t begin to cover it. So prepare to be surprised as this kid manages to get an auditorium of his classmates to fall into utter silence as he plays the theme…
