Hubble Starts to Wake Up
Posted by on under walkie talkies, walkie talkie, gadgets, music | 
Gordon Charlton uses the feedback of two walkie-talkies to make beautiful interesting music. Rob B has more info and a video over at BB Gadgets. Unpleasant feedback music with walkie-talkies...Posted by on under boing boing, experimental balloon, crash lands, cardboard box, cnn, denver police, ballo, balloon crash, helium, alg, brother |
Falcon Heene, a six-year-old boy from Colorado is missing after an experimental balloon crash landed. The boy's brother said he saw Falcon get in the balloon before it went into the air. It rose to about 11,000 feet before returning to the ground near Denver. Police are looking for the boy. Some say he may have fallen from the balloon and others think he never got in the balloon but is hiding because he doesn't want to get into trouble. It doesn't look to me like a helium-filled balloon this small could carry a kid aloft. No sign of boy said to have floated off on balloon Update: He was hiding in a cardboard box in the garage all along! [CNN]...Posted by on under denver airport, mayumi, federal charges, anes, runways, ballo, balloon, faa, parents |
Bad enough that they used their 6-year-old son in a national hoax (they're pleading guilty). Now, Richard and Mayumi Heene may face federal charges stemming from an ongoing civil investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration because the family's stunt caused some planes at the Denver airport to switch runways while the balloon was in flight.
Posted by on under sam raimi, wizard of oz, circus performer, land of oz, ballo, hot air, toro, disney |
The 3-D prequel to the original Wizard of Oz (it's kind of hard to write that, actually) will start with the character in his pre-wizarding days, when he's just a circus performer who suddenly gets whisked away in a hot air balloon by a tornado to the land of Oz and ... well, you can figure out the rest, right?
Posted by on under dead satellites, giant balloons, global aerospace, manageable bits, space junk, mdash, ballo, football field, gossamer, centimeter, milli, orbit, atmosphere, gates, accounting |
An anonymous reader writes "More than 100,000 objects bigger than a centimeter wide hover around our planet, accounting for 4 million pounds of junk that befoul our atmosphere and threaten the expensive satellites we actually want in orbit. Dr. Kristen Gates, of Global Aerospace Corporation, proposes that we can clear the skies by attaching a football field-sized balloon to dead satellites, which would increase the orbital drag on it, eventually bringing it down into the atmosphere where it would burn up. The GOLD — or Gossamer Orbit Lowering Device — unit is easily inflated in space, and best of all, if the deployed GOLD balloon collides with space junk, it won't deflate or break the junk into smaller, less manageable bits."
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