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The Habakkuk Project
This is an illustration we recently finished for an Italian Science Magazine on a World War 2 concept to turn iceburgs into giant floating carriers. It was known as Project Habakkuk.
Interestingly enough…. the concept is not that far off from taking large celestial bodies and hollowing them out to create space faring craft… using natural objects as your structural foundation…..
Bird of Paradise
Oil on Canvas – Bird of Paradise painted from a photo taken in the far end of the back yard…. 90 cm x 90 cm…. I may already have a buyer but if you are interested…. toss me a mail and we can talk.
Comments are off for this postTunguska Impact
At around 7:17 on the morning of June 30, 1908, a man based at the trading post at Vanavara in Siberia is sitting on his front porch. In a moment, 40 miles from the center of an immense blast of unknown origin, he will be hurled from his chair and the heat will be so intense he will feel as though his shirt is on fire. The man at the trading post, and others in a largely uninhabited region of Siberia, near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, are to be accidental eyewitnesses to cosmological history.
“If you want to start a conversation with anyone in the asteroid business all you have to say is Tunguska,” said Don Yeomans, manager of the Near-Earth Object Office at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “It is the only entry of a large meteoroid we have in the modern era with first-hand accounts.”
This digital sketch was done for a European Science and Tech magazine for an article on new developments on the mystery of the Tunguska event.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1769 Thanx NASA/JPL for the info. Lots more at the link.
Comments are off for this postThe Perfect PC?
Nanotech
I have some cool links I will throw in shortly on the subject for interested parties.
They were part of a Cover spot and 2 page opening spread that was published last month.
Schrödinger’s Kat in a Box
Schrödinger’s cat is a thought experiment, often described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics being applied to everyday objects. The thought experiment presents a cat that might be alive or dead, depending on an earlier random event. In the course of developing this experiment, he coined the term Verschränkung — literally translated, entanglement.
China’s Lead in Quantum Computing
Silicon Based Life – Exobiology
All the planes have been grounded
Aint the fire inside?
Lets all go stand around it
Funny, Ive been there…
And youve been here
I happened to be listening to America at the time… Sandman…. but the piece was done for a British Science Journal on Silicon Based Life forms… Exobiology if you like.
Good article here if your are looking for a good read to kill some time….
Comments are off for this postLeading Solar Power Options…
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands: one Nation under one SUN, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.”
Comments are off for this postDigital DNA
