Finally, Green Building (MIT Bldg 54) Tetris!
[T]he way you get good engineers and scientists is by tempting them with ray guns and rocket ships.
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If you want your jet packs, read on… One of the best, and certainly the shortest, argument I’ve heard for a space program. The main spillover from a space program is not technology; it’s a wealth of engineers and scientists who wanted to design ships for space travel at 6, studied mechanical engineering at 18, and design highly efficient washing machines at 25. Rocket ships and ray guns beget efficient washing machines. That is the true value of a space program. |
ScienceCasts: Curiosity, The Stunt Double (by NASAtelevision)
A theoretician is someone who, when asked how to get from SF to Berkeley, goes on a 3h disquisition on bridge structures & design
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A made a funny. Well, funny for some people. |
Every time I start thinking of canceling Netflix, I find some engineering documentaries I haven’t seen yet… (last night’s find: Battle Tech).
Dr. Kleissl praised Aidan’s work, but added that even if Aidan had measured the right variables, “I’m certain that he will not find that his arrangement is better,” he said. “I think it’s a romantic ideal that nature has many lessons for us, and there are a few cases where this is true, but in the majority of cases we could teach nature, in a way, how to be better, faster.
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Yep, Nature has to work by evolution from earlier forms. Engineering bypasses evolution and goes straight for the optimal solution. A tip of the hard hat to lawprof Ann Althouse. |
NASA’s Orion: From Factory to Flight (by NASAtelevision)
Heavy Metal Christmas light show.
One marvels at the engineering, but decries the noise. This family must have a stormy relationship with its neighbors…
