This is the building of the rotary rocket company. The rotary rocket was a contender for the x-prize which was intended to reach space with a single stage rocket engine. Its return to earth would be enabled by unfolding rotor blades which would act like a parachute bringing it’s crew and passengers safely back to [...]
Another from Mojave showing a view through the picture window. Just like any other general aviation cafe except you can see a rocket through the window, and the first civilian spaceship took off and landed from the runway behind me. Tweet This Post Bookmark to Hide Sites $$(‘div.d62′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
Apropos of nothing, this faded sign has lost all but a tiny piece of the glass neon tubing. Its abandoned in a field, approximately 20 meters from a freeway that I guess was built a while after the cafe disappeared.
Landed LAX at 18:15, as usual a hard slog to keep awake on the first arrival drive, this time just 100 miles or so to Mojave. As ever the visual landscape is a feast in every direction.
1) Wow, you mean this plastic roll is already coated with Albumen! Way to go. Oops the house has caught fire…
2) OK, pour turn on the lights and pour that liquid in and tap it on the workbench. Now hang it from a clothes peg and let it accumulate lots of dust, so you can spend 3 hours spotting every print.
I just discovered that someone has invented the idea of creating a ‘day of blogging’ in this case a blogging day called ‘Ada Lovelace Day’. Ada Lovelace you will remember is the woman who secretly invented the iMac, but in the spirit of it, and promoting women in science generally I’ll blog about a contemporary [...]
