On Monday, October 7th, Grasshopper completed its highest leap to date, rising to 744m altitude. The view above is taken from a single camera hexacopter, getting closer to the stage than in any previous flight.
I love how all the Youtube comments are people saying "SHOPPED."
Grasshopper 744m Test
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Tags: mad science, mpegs, space, the future
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Thorunn Arnadottir:
Blush:
Blush is a very important organ of the house. Regulates the temperature and keeps it warm and alive. Blue when cold, but blushes with red when warm.
The radiator, painted with thermochromatic paint, gradually turns red from top to bottom when it is heating up.
Also, The Devil's Pet:
Sweet little kittens are transformed in a fire. Crawling from the ashes come forth grinning metallic devils with sharp claws and fire blazing in their eyes.
The new Fukushima Mascot:
Fukuppy.The city wishes to refurbish its image as a dynamic, forward-looking, productive place. To that end, the Fukushima Industries Corporation (a leading manufacturer of commercial freezer refrigerators and showcase freezers) has devised a new mascot.
Tags: corporations, doomed
This is the best headline I've read in a long time:
Space-Born Jellyfish Hate Life On Earth.I mean really. Just savor that headline. Let it wash over you. Feel its turbulence.
Jellyfish tell up from down through calcium sulfate crystals that ring the bottom edge of their mushroom-like bodies. The crystals are housed in little pockets lined with hair cells, and when the jellyfish moves, the crystals roll around, signaling to the brain which way is up by stimulating those hair cells. The pockets seemed to develop normally in space, but the astro-jellies later had trouble figuring out how to swim around in normal gravity. They had abnormal pulsing and movement when returned to Earth compared to non-astronaut jellyfish.
Humans sense gravity and acceleration using otoliths, calcium crystals in the inner ear (similar to those jellyfish have) which move sensitive hair cells to tell the brain which way gravity is pulling. So if the jellyfish had trouble developing their gravity senses in space, it's likely human space babies would get major vertigo too.
Tags: doomed, mad science, mutants, space, tentacles, the future
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