So, earlier today, I asked you all for some of your best travel tips. The response was great, and here are several of the best answers. Be sure to follow these fine folks if you like their suggestion!
- outlawedthinking answered: Never sleep in a Hotel/Motel. Get a Van.
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DARPA seeks technology to service satellites in orbit.
DARPA is hosting a conference in June which hopes to create a dialogue within the international space community about how to cooperatively harvest and re-use, and fix valuable components on satellites in orbit.
Geosynchronous orbit is around 36,000km high, and when a satellite there fails it is moved to a ‘graveyard’ orbit where it will stay out of the way. Many of the satellites which are discarded in this way still have valuable, usable parts such as antennas or solar arrays.
A catalyst for making on-orbit re-purposing a reality is DARPA’s Phoenix program. Phoenix aims to develop and demonstrate technologies to cooperatively harvest and re-use valuable components from retired, non-working satellites in GEO to create new space systems at greatly reduced cost.
If successful, re-using existing satellite components may not only dramatically lower the cost of GEO satellite missions for Defense Department needs, but may also serve to demonstrate, through advanced techniques and technology, a model for future on-orbit servicing activities.
(via 8bitfuture)
Apple reports Q2 2012 results: $39.2 billion revenue
35 million iPhones, 12 million iPads
Amazing!
Tribute Poster - Created by Retronator
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This Tribute Poster is available at society6, and the Special Edition signed Poster printed on canvas is available at Retronator’s Etsy shop in different sizes!
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Sketchnotes of TEDxSummit sessions from C. Todd Lombardo, organizer of TEDxSomerville.
The Internet’s Population Doubled Over the Last Five Years
Royal Pingdom susses out some interesting trends about the world’s 2.27 billion Internet users:
- Africa has gone from 34 million to 140 million, a 317% increase.
- Asia has gone from 418 million to over 1 billion, a 143% increase.
- Europe has gone from 322 million to 501 million, a 56% increase.
- The Middle East has gone from 20 to 77 million, a 294% increase.
- North America has gone from 233 to 273 million, a 17% increase.
- Latin America (South & Central America) has gone from 110 to 236 million, a 114% increase.
- Oceania (including Australia) has gone from 19 to 24 million, a 27% increase.
They also note that Asia’s Internet population is almost as large* the entire Internet population was in 2007.
*My original post stated that Asia’s Internet population was almost double, not almost as large. Thanks to Anna for catching that.
(via emergentfutures)
Rare extreme wide-angle Nikkor lens goes on sale - British Journal of Photography
Well, that is wide!
First introduced in 1970 at the Photokina trade show in Cologne, Germany, the Fisheye-Nikkor 6mm f/2.8 lens offers an angle of view of 220º making it, at the time, the “world’s most extreme wide-angle lens to cover an image area of 24x36mm.
