This week we watch a Starship land, watch a container ship float, watch an engine crank, and learn how Bugs Bunny taught us all opera. Onward!
=- Space invaders -=
SpaceX launched Starship prototype #10 this week on a high-altitude (10km) flight test - and it landed! ...sort of. Note this is NOT CGI...this is real!
Unfortunately a few minutes after that landing...well...:
But this is all progress and they're getting better and better with each launch. Super exciting.
!! Truth is stranger than truth !!
David Morris snapped this photo of a ship off the Cornish coast of England. It's a phenomenal example of what's called a "superior mirage". The NYT has a great story on the details.
Here's a site - aptly named Animated Engines - that....animates engines! From the traditional 4-stroke to the esoteric (Newcomen Atmospheric!), this is a great way to visualize something we use every day in one form or another.
And their sister site (not quite as complete, but still cool) - an animated version of the classic technical reference Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (first published in 1868)
Love riding your bike? Have a frozen lake out front? Winter blues got you down? No problem!
This is amazing and worth reading and listening to in its entirety...
iSongs has a great YouTube channel in which he recreates famous songs in Apple's Garage Band (on the iPhone!). Here is his rendition of The Weeknd - Blinding Lights. I dare you not to watch the whole 6:47...
:: Pretty pixels ::
LearnUI has a really great free web-based gradient-generator tool for quickly making smooth, seamless gradients without the muddy "in-between" grays that often come from a simple begin-end gradient.
Leopoldo D'Angelo is an Italian digital artist and produces stunning, cyberpunk-inspired images (with cats!). What's not to love?
.. /dev/urandom ..
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