World's Tallest Bridge Goes Up in China with the Help of Some Rockets (1)
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In China, they're currently working on the Siduhe Grand Bridge, what will be the tallest bridge in the world when completed. How tall is it? Well, let's just say that you could put the Empire State Building in the valley below it and it wouldn't touch the bridge, with a whopping 360 feet of overhead. So how do you get cables across a chasm that large to build a bridge with? Rockets, of course.
World's Tallest Bridge Goes Up in China with the Help of Some Rockets [Engineering] (61)
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In China, they're currently working on the Siduhe Grand Bridge, what will be the tallest bridge in the world when completed. How tall is it? Well, let's just say that you could put the Empire State Building in the valley below it and it wouldn't touch the bridge, with a whopping 360 feet of overhead. So how do you get cables across a chasm that large to build a bridge with? Rockets, of course. They ...
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Darnell Clayton said:
Using rockets to build bridges? Only in China.
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harleycw said:
More building projects should start with rockets.
Rocket Grenade Smashed to Bits In Flight By Quick Kill Defense System [Explosions] (8)
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We've written about the sci-fi sounding Army's Future Combat System before, but the Army's just demonstrated a successful test of one of its components: the Quick Kill vehicle defense system. Check it out: the Raytheon system uses an electronically-scanned radar array to detect an incoming anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade, then vertically launches a countermeasure missile that blows the round to smithereens in mid-flight, saving the RPG's intended target. It's a very simple test setup, and, of ...
The Voice New Testament (1)
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By Brian McLaren: When Chris Seay invited me to be part of this project, my first thought was, “Don’t we have more than enough Bible translations already?” I confess to being a little cynical about “The In-Line Skater and Skateboarder’s Bible” and “The Nuclear Weapons Manufacturers’ Bible” and that sort of thing. But it turns out Chris is a hard guy to say no to. (Remember, he wrote a book on the Sopranos.) First, he ...
Happy Birthday Saturn V, Still The Biggest Rocket of All (1)
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November 9, 1967, T-minus 8.9 seconds: Thousands of gallons of kerosene and liquid oxygen begin coursing through the giant centre F1 rocket engine: The Saturn V's ignition sequence has begun. Next, two outer engines are lit, followed 300 milliseconds later by the other two, ignited in pairs to avoid toppling the 364-foot rocket above. Nine seconds after all five engines go to full thrust, the first Saturn V rocket begins to lift from the launchpad, ...
FireStatus: Update Twitter, FaceBook and FriendFeed Right From Firefox (6)
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FireStatus is a new Firefox 3 extension that allows you easily send status updates to multiple social networks and micro-blogs such as Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed right from your browser. More services will be added to this roster in the future. Once you have downloaded and installed the browser addon you can add your username and password for the services and get started. You will be able to post links and notes to your social ...
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shame I don't use any social networks then. Frienfeed only by default. Tweetdeck for twitter and that's about it.
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ESA Reveals Next-Gen Reentry Pod, Makes NASA's Plans Look Kinda Low-Tech [Space] (2)
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This is ESA's video unveiling of its Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, a test-bed for a next-generation reentry pod. The IXV is due to rocket aloft on Europe's new small Vega launcher in 2012 and test out a range of systems for a "proper" future vehicle. Ditching the simplicity and limitations of the now old-fashioned conical-pod-with-heat-shield design, it's a lifting-body shape with a thermal protection system somewhat like the Shuttle's. The wingless pod is steered by aerodynamic ...
Michael denies Jackson 5 reunion (1)
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Singer Michael Jackson denies that he is to take part in a reunion tour with his brothers in the Jackson 5.
NASA-TV Streams HD Film to Celebrate 50 Years in Space [Nasa] (7)
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50 years ago this month NASA rocketed into existence, and to celebrate this fact NASA-TV is streaming its special retrospective show "50 Years of Exploration: The Golden Anniversary of NASA" in HD format today at 1pm and 8pm EDT (and again tomorrow at 10am and 2pm). Check it out: it's presented by none other than Neil Armstrong, and it'll remind you how frickin' astonishing the achievements of the Agency are, despite its recent rockety woes. ...
Google Reader now shows you how good (or bad) you are at reading (25)
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Keeping up with multiple RSS feeds can be tough. Yeah it's really simple, but that syndication bit is what always gets me. Google has introduced a fresh way to analyze both when blogs you subscribe to are posting and when (and if) you're actually reading them. The data is represented with simple colored bars, with the blue being post time and the red as the time you typically get your reading done. You can dig ...
NASA's Ares 1 Rocket in Trouble Again: Could Crash Into Launch Tower [Nasa] (3)
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NASA's Ares 1 rocket may be facing another large technological hurdle before it can take part in the future lunar missions: it's apparently in danger of banging into its own launch tower if the wind is up. Actually, the wind needs only be a gentle-sounding 12.7mph from the south-east to cause problems, and it's all to do with how the rocket's solid fuel motor causes it to "hop" on ignition, before it powers upwards. Computer ...
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Here is "Charles Barkley on a mobile" calling my morning show on 1560 and dissing the Rockets. Powered by Podbean.com...Shared by Jeremy Botter (0)Contribute comment
