Virgin Orbit is Richard Bransons space launch company. Their launch system, LauncherOne, uses a 747 to haul a more or less conventional expendable rocket into the air for launch to orbit. yesterday they flew a launch attempt, the first orbital launch attempt from the UK. Note “attempt.” It got close, but something went wring and…
Here’s your new “zombie apocalypse writing prompt:” Study using mosquitoes to deliver vaccines has Chinese researchers buzzing In an article published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications on December 16, researchers said they had developed new technology that can turn a mosquito into a flying vaccine carrier to immunise animals in the wild. Oh, goodie.…
This is from a while back, but the video is *damned* entertaining if you are into spectacular engineering failures. Mexico City: newly opened Artz Pedregal shopping mall collapses In short: Cantilever has it’s issues. Especially when, seemingly, you’re using glass window panels as compression members.
Finally saw unedited video of the recent shooting of the armed (with a toy gun as it turns out) robber in Texas. With the edited videos, you can’t tell anything about the customer’s shooting of the robber other than at least one shot in the bad guys back. But with the edited video there appear…
A couple of tweets showing the spectacular state of American cities today… Someone needs a tazin’… https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1610427328823455745 And New York City? Don’t go there. https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1610367040249790464 Here’s a fun related article: Remote Work Is Poised to Devastate America’s Cities People no longer *need* to live in big cities quite as much as they used to. The…
Who knew that someone desperately screaming “They’re killing us!” and fully meaning it… could be this hilarious? San Francisco bicycle rider has a hysterical episode over an ambulance in a bike lane. There are many such cases.pic.twitter.com/V7lq1aCl0d — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) December 30, 2022
