Citizen of the Universe

A place to talk about the role of the engineer in the world. (And a place to espouse thoughts on life.)

scienceetfiction:

orcses:

Causes of death include but are not limited to: pushed down a cliff, suffocated, vaporized by weapons, killed by various aliens, poisoned by exotic plant thorns, struck by lightning, stepped on an exploding rock, beaten by sticks, loss of erythrocytes, turned into a cuboctehedron and then crushed, beamed into open space, and rapid cellular decay.

Chris Hadfield...

Warning if you are given a red shirt on a Star Trek set, be sure tht your life insurance policy is paid up.

— 1 day ago with 1238 notes
#star trek  #red shirt 
Will I be able to do this with Google glass?
For this I would buy Google glass

Will I be able to do this with Google glass?

For this I would buy Google glass

(Source: cineraria, via engineeringisawesome)

— 2 days ago with 52026 notes
#3d visualization  #visualization 
8bitfuture:

Autonomous NASA rover released on Greenland ice sheet.
GROVER, which stands for both Greenland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, is an autonomous, solar-operated robot that carries a ground-penetrating radar to examine the layers of Greenland’s ice sheet. Its findings will help scientists understand how the massive ice sheet gains and loses ice. The robot’s tests on the ice began on May 8, defying winds of up to 23 mph (37 kph) and temperatures as low as minus 22 F (minus 30 C). The tests will continue through June 8. Its trial in Greenland will also serve as a test of using rovers in harsh polar regions to gather data.

Curiosity collects first ever drilling sample.
Photo: Oh grow up, Mars rovers.

Space research on earth.  Cool.

8bitfuture:

Autonomous NASA rover released on Greenland ice sheet.

GROVER, which stands for both Greenland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, is an autonomous, solar-operated robot that carries a ground-penetrating radar to examine the layers of Greenland’s ice sheet. Its findings will help scientists understand how the massive ice sheet gains and loses ice. 

The robot’s tests on the ice began on May 8, defying winds of up to 23 mph (37 kph) and temperatures as low as minus 22 F (minus 30 C). The tests will continue through June 8. Its trial in Greenland will also serve as a test of using rovers in harsh polar regions to gather data.

Space research on earth.  Cool.

(Source: nasa.gov, via engineeringisawesome)

— 2 days ago with 115 notes
#NASA  #greenland  #rover 

kateoplis:

NACA

Nice, but what this your first try?  I think not.

(via engineeringisawesome)

— 2 days ago with 481 notes
#wind tunnel  #wright brothers  #Big Engineering 

nprfreshair:

This song, that played last night on the final episode of The Office is apparently a Creed Bratton original. It is so pretty. Creed, we hardly knew ye! And we’ll miss ye.


Interviews with Office castmates, past and … well, past: Steve Carrell, Mindy Kaling, Rainn Wilson, and Jenna Fischer.

(via James Poniewozik)

Okay office freaks

— 2 days ago with 206 notes
#The Office  #music 

scienceetfiction:

Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman across time and space. 

Very interesting!

— 2 days ago with 104 notes
#cumberbatch  #martin freeman  #contrast 
"It’s really a losing battle, a losing proposition for all of us. … The fundamental problem is that we’re on our own and all the risk of retirement — whether it’s this risk of the market going up and down or picking the wrong investments or even outliving our savings — the risk is all on us and that’s just fundamentally not a fair arrangement, not a fair proposition."
Robert Hiltonsmith talks to Terry Gross about the risks of 401K retirement plans and the tricky business of saving for old age. (via nprfreshair)
— 2 days ago with 59 notes
#retirement  #401k  #pitfalls 
nprfreshair:

Devon, England
via @Earth_Pics

Small villages are pretty

nprfreshair:

Devon, England

via @Earth_Pics

Small villages are pretty

— 2 days ago with 403 notes
#village  #england