For sale: X-20 Dyna Soar Blueprint/Utah panoramas

 aircraft, art, cats, drawings, history, photography, projects, spacecraft, Utah  1 Response »
May 052018
 

Kinda in a bit of a financial bind here, so I’m going to sell off some stuff. The first thing up: a large format print of a scan of  Model 2050E X-20 Dyna Soar in the final, as-almost-built configuration. This was printed off some years ago on good quality heavy glossy photo paper; I’d always wanted to have it framed and on my wall, but never got around to it. Plus, framing it properly would be a a bit of an effort due to the size of the print, but if it was done it’d look *great.* Waste not, want not: the full rez scan didn’t quite fill out the 24-inch-wide paper, so I added in some of my Utah panoramic photos to take up some of the excess space. So with a bit of trimming, if you buy this you not only get the Dyna Soar, but some Utah as well. The whole print is I think six feet long.

UPDATE: didn’t really seem to fly off the shelves, so I’m going to slice this up and put it on ebay at some point.

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Cometary snow

 awesomeness, photography, science, spacecraft  No Responses »
Apr 242018
 

Processed Rosetta imagery from 2016. The dots going “down” in the background are stars. The rest… some may be cosmic rays playing hell with the CCD imaging sensor, but note that there certainly seems to be preferential directionality to the streaks, indicating that the spacecraft was flying through a cloud of cometary bits.

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The Tsunamis of Utah

 photography, Utah  4 Responses »
Apr 162018
 

Saw this on the road a few days ago, heading south on I-15 between Brigham City and Ogden. Theory: the government is getting ready for the Yellowstone supervolcano to go off and to do so with such force that the Great Salt Lake will be tossed around, a giant  wave of brine sent sloshing southwards. Second theory: anything else.

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More Panoramas

 art, awesomeness, photography, Utah  No Responses »
Apr 042018
 

These, like yesterdays, were all taken with a 5-year-old cell phone and stitched together in Photoshop. Even more Utah than before… these were all taken either in my yard or quite nearby, within the confines of the megalopolis of Thatcher, Utah.


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*Glare*

 cats, photography  No Responses »
Feb 142018
 

Raedthinn is not overly fond of being photographed, especially when Fingers is snuggling up against him. He’s none too fond of her doing that in the first place, and being recorded allowing it to happen seems to make him miffed.

That said, so long as Fingers goes at it slowly, Raedthinn is basically too lazy to do much about it. It’s really only when she tries to curl up with him with too much enthusiasm that he gets annoyed enough to get up and leave.

 


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“Live Views of Starman”

 art, awesomeness, news, photography, rockets, spacecraft  14 Responses »
Feb 062018
 

SpaceX is currently livestreaming a series of videos being beamed back from the roadster, heading off into space. It’s already a good distance from Earth, with the result being some damn fine images. I do wonder how long this will last. It’s already far further away than I would have thought possible with a  meager GoPro transmitter that they usually use on space launches. Is it battery powered? Does it have solar panels? it would be really interesting to check back in on the roadster every few months to see what the rigors of spaceflight do the the paint and bodywork. Eventually you’d probably see the windshield get pitted, maybe even blown out in meteoroid impacts; the paint trashed by UV and thermal cycling, plastic, fiberglass, rubber, carbon fiber bits turning to mush and fluff.

 

 

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