Showing posts with label space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

A Great Week for Old Technology

It seems that ships are again sailing the ocean using wind power. The inventor claims that his kites can reduce fuel consumption of most merchant ships by 10-35%. That's awesome.

Even more bizarre is the Mach 20 paper airplane that a Japanese origami expert wants to throw from the International Space Station. Really, you can't make this stuff up.

Friday, January 25, 2008

Hang onto your towel

Burt Rutan and his business partner announced the design of SpaceShipTwo. Very cool! Oddly, his business partner is apparently Zaphod Beeblebrox...