Enjoy this new YouTube video explaining the Idea of enhancing pyramid security by leaving a newly constructed pyramid (magnificent outside and inside and a great mystery that common folk would love to visit) wide open to the devout public…
What is this Mystery Tool…? My first thought was that it was just an older version of the classic post-hole digger that I used for years… Boy, was I wrong.
This video makes the “speculative” case that Musk’s Boring Company is also a technological "stepping stone" to fulfill his mission of getting humans to Mars and making us a multi-planet species.
Amazing use of "Crowdfunding" in this astonishing article… worth the read!
Words of wisdom from Elon Musk’s US Air Force presentation.
Funny, strange, and pretty hard-to-believe stories about testing of Jet Engines and Atlas Rockets…
This video was a big eye-opener to me regarding Chinese highway construction.
I have been following the development of a new approach to launching spacecraft.
Regarding the photo technique of making something look like a small replica of itself ... here is a picture of the type of camera that is used ... a bellows-box camera.
The nautical term “Self Bailing” should give you guys great comfort…
I saw an interview between Elon Musk and a SpaceX blogger in which he expounded on his “Musk's Engineering Philosophy."
A Barnes Earth Sensor was spotted by an eagle-eyed Rory and George on their recent school trip to the Air & Space Museum in DC…
This enormous “machine” is under construction today in France under a multi-decade consortium of nations (including the USA) to develop a totally clean, totally safe source of electrical power to save the planet from global warming….
Motorola, the big leader in the early days of mobile phones (think: brick with a ringer) had a big production facility in Phoenix.
A “Zero Point” or “Null Island” buoy we passed by on our trip….
Engineering and public works on display in Belfast, Maine
The following is worth reading. A very candid, informal report of what it is like to fly a 747 with a Space Shuttle bolted to the top!
When I saw it, I was very skeptical .... thinking this was a fabulous internet fake .... but even SNOPES says it is real.
The F-111 was in full-scale production on a mile long assembly line in Fort Worth when I was monitoring that program in the corporate offices of General Dynamics in NYC.
Mark Pratt's brother flew one of these aircraft in Vietnam and sent him this true story.
Here we have a guy with an acetylene torch completely cutting an old ship into pieces that can be hauled away by truck….
All about a bid two years ago to build a monumental civic works architectural project along a dusty, scrappy, nearly abandoned mile and a half of San Jose California’s ugly dry riverbed.
Apparently, my mania for this week is the history of the Golden Gate Bridge.