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'Now remember what I told you Syl, go easy with that bottle!'
'I still have to break it, don' tI?'
'Just the bottle Syl, not the ship!'
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Very slightly modified version of the space ship from small set 60224.
I have 2 smallish space shuttles, the one that came with the space station (set 60227) and this one. And for the last 3 weeks I have been trying this and that to come up with my own version, but those Lego designers knew what they were doing. Their design worked best...
In the end, I just added a pair of extra small wings to the front...
This artist's concept puts solar system distances in perspective. The scale bar is in astronomical units, with each set distance beyond 1 AU representing 10 times the previous distance. One AU is the distance from the sun to the Earth, which is about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers. Neptune, the most distant planet from the sun, is about 30 AU.
Informally, the term "solar system" is often used to mean the space out to the last planet. Scientific consensus, however, says the solar system goes out to the Oort Cloud, the source of the comets that swing by our sun on long time scales. Beyond the outer edge of the Oort Cloud, the gravity of other stars begins to dominate that of the sun.
The inner edge of the main part of the Oort Cloud could be as close as 1,000 AU from our sun. The outer edge is estimated to be around 100,000 AU.
NASA's Voyager 1, humankind's most distant spacecraft, is around 125 AU. Scientists believe it entered interstellar space, or the space between stars, on Aug. 25, 2012. Much of interstellar space is actually inside our solar system. It will take about 300 years for Voyager 1 to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud and possibly about 30,000 years to fly beyond it.
Alpha Centauri is currently the closest star to our solar system. But, in 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will be closer to the star AC +79 3888 than to our own sun. AC +79 3888 is actually traveling faster toward Voyager 1 than the spacecraft is traveling toward it.
The Voyager spacecraft were built and continue to be operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. The Voyager missions are a part of NASA's Heliophysics System Observatory, sponsored by the Heliophysics Division of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
For more information about Voyager, visit: www.nasa.gov/voyager and voyager.jpl.nasa.gov .
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Set 60229 came with one small robot-rover that would fit into the cargo bay of the shuttle-rocket (the one on the left).
I think it is designed along the lines of the Mars rovers we have send out in the last decades; a semi-autonomous vehicle with 6 wheels, an observation mast (here with stereoscopic cameras I think), solar power panels and something to drill/scoop/scratch the surface.
After not liking the big rover set (60225) it came as a surprise to me that this new line had small rovers that I did like!
It offers quite a bit of room for modifications, so I gave it a quick try. Seat and control panel for a human driver instead of AI unit. The drill was replaced by a laser drill (of course). And I stuck a proper communication dish on it. I think the basic design of this Rover offers as much possibilities for modification as the old tiny grey rovers from Classic Space. Just stick on diggers, claws, lasers, power packs or wherever you like, it will work…
‘What AI unit would you like for his rover? This one?’
‘No, not the HAL 9000, that more something for a big interplanetary space ship… Get the Cozmo unit, that will do fine for this tiny rover.’
‘Which one is the Cozmo unit?’
‘Those little blue eyes…’
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I also bought set 60228, the mission control with a capsule-rocket. That set came with 2 (!) rovers. This little rover came is one of them.
It is more like a robot-conversion kit than a little rover, I think.
The robot unit (head and arms) can probably be equipped with rockets for space work, and with legs for casual walking work when stairs are to be expected.
I like the tiny caster wheels, although I wished there was a way for them to actually roll. And I wish I had seem these earlier (more on that later this month).
This one reminds me a bit like a robo-dog I experimented with 2 years ago (see below).
SpaceX launched this Falcon 9 mission from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base tonight, carrying a collection of 10 satellites into low-Earth orbit. The payload is destined for a constellation of communications satellites owned by Iridium Communications.
...just playing a little bass in space at Inspire Space Park in Second Life. maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Shinda/42/196/1560
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The Kage clan’s members are masters in the use of treachery to strike their enemies from the shadows. Most of their victims die without even knowing what killed them. Their Draconid, the Shadowbites, is a Dreadful opponent. With it’s speed and weaponry, and his ability to conceal itself and remain undetected, it will crush its enemies without warning.
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[UPDATE 10/23/11
Thank you to everyone who has looked at our project! The response has been completely overwhelming. We were itching to launch another one but after seeing the feedback, it makes us that much more excited to get it done. The next launch will be about 2 weeks from now, and that payload will have a video camera along for the ride as well! We've sorted out all the issues we had on this run, so all the images should be usable. Thank you again for all of the support and stay tuned for more images in the future!]
This is what space looks like from a weather balloon. We're working on determining exactly what altitude we got to, but I'd put it somewhere near 100,000 feet.
You can see about half of the city of Lubbock along the bottom of the photo just right of center.
We launched our little spacecraft (Cygnus) at 9:02am from 33° 49' 28"N 102° 53' 56"W, and it touched back down to Earth at 11:56am at 33° 19' 21"N 101° 59' 42"W. 62 miles from where it was released. This image was taken 1 hour and 55 minutes into the flight.
The camera was traveling in a styrofoam beer cooler from Wal Mart. The cooler was lifted into space using a 22 foot weather balloon filled with Helium. A parachute was attached to the cooler to slow and stabilize the fall of the cooler when the balloon eventually popped from lack of air pressure as it rose closer to the vacuum of space.
There were some issues with frost building up on the plexiglass shield and it actually ruined most of the images. Live and learn I suppose. We'll get it down next time. Most people we've seen do this online take 3-6 months of planning and preparation before they launch something. We did it in 13 days. I guess it's only fitting that we overlooked something. I'm just glad we found it and everything was still in one piece!
Because there was so much issue with frost, I did my best to remove it from this image. It made the curve of the Earth a little bumpy in the left half of the image, but you can see what it should look like toward the right edge.
Check out a video of the balloon being released here!
UPDATE 10/19/11
We made the local news! So awesome. Check out the story here. (I'll update this link if I get a higher quality video)
I had been inspired to do a photo like this in a while; where I had a model balanced on top of a wooden ladder- inspired by being on a pedestal and watched. So when me and the model (Beffy Gilmore) went to this beautiful location, I felt very inspired to create this photo. It began by the inspiration I drew from the location, I was surrounded by props and masks and all kinds of performance based items that I felt had so much story to them (you can see some of the hanging in the background.) We then fit the ladder into the tiny space and used the rings she holds that we found around the corner.
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Define yourself by what you want to be and the parts of yourself you are willing to celebrate as an oppose to the person you don't wish to be. Lifes about acknowledging the flaws in yourself, not blocking them out and instead rejoicing in them and discovering why those parts of yourself may be around. Be confident in where you are going and what that may lead to.
My entry to the Lego Ideas 90th Anniversary: Space Celebrations contest:
Lego Space to me means exploration, co-operation, and ingenuity to survive a challenging environment, with style! Here I tried to convey that spirit in a Dakar-style race. Each team has a driver and navigator for a wheeled vehicle:
#1: Ice Planet 2002’s rocket-powered car has excellent sat-nav.
#2: M:Tron’s articulated truck features a magnetic drive.
#4: Blacktron’s motorbike is the most agile.
#5: The second Blacktron entry is the fastest around corners.
#6: The Buggoids’ truck has 6-wheel independent suspension.
#7: U.F.O.’s quad features 4-wheel steering.
#11: The Martians put skates on a mech.
#31: Spyrius’ 8-wheeler has arms to move obstacles.
#33: The Exploriens’ solar-powered wheelbike has minimal effect on the environment.
#107: The Insectoids’ caterpillar train has many redundant power and drive modules.
#924: The veterans’ classic trike is always in with a chance of victory.
The Space Police ensure the competitors follow the rules on their motorbike with flashing lights.
'3... 2...1!
We have lift off!
We have lift off, shuttle 'Little Grasshopper' has left the platform for its maiden flight....'
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Building a full launch tower meant I had little use for the launch capability of the crawler from set 60229.
But while playing with all kinds of rocket and spaceship combinations I stumbled into this one.
It's the small spaceship from 60224, launched 'shuttle-style' with a big tank and solid rocket boosters, and the shuttle riding piggy-back.
And If I am going to turn the space station into a Shiptember-worthy spaceship, it's going to need a big fuel tank...
In ogni notte serena della mia vacanza ho sempre alzato gli occhi al cielo... la via lattea, in questa stagione, da 34 gradi di latitudine sud, è veramente spettacolare... il centauro, la carena, la croce del sud... sono formate da stelle luminose, sembrano una manciata di diamanti sul velluto nero.
E guardo la vicina di casa del nostro sole, Alfa del Centauro... a soli 4 anni luce da noi. Eppure, 4 anni luce corrispondono a 40 mila miliardi di km... uno spazio immenso, vuoto, silenzioso, ostile. E le stelle più lontane che si riescono a vedere ad occhio nudo, invece, sono a diverse migliaia di anni luce.
Tutta la via lattea che si vede così maestosa è in realtà una ruota formata da una spirale contenente 100 miliardi di stelle. Il sole fa un giro completo attorno al centro di questa ruota ogni 200 milioni di anni terrestri, trascinando con se la Terra, i pianeti del sistema solare, le comete, gli asteroidi... ma porta con sè anche i pensieri di un meravigliato turista italiano, con il naso all'insù, di notte, davanti al parapetto in una strada desolata nel nord-est del Sudafrica :)
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Alien art
The difference between computers and us is we are alive and have emotions and feelings. Computers can have senses and collect information, but they are not alive and have no emotions and feelings. It looks like being alive and emotions -feelings are going together. Being alive, emotions and feelings, senses and the information collected from our brain make us human beings. We function as human beings in our society because of the pressures which affect our feelings and emotions. Fear is the leading one. The additional feelings and emotions which we like to have are love, heroism, helping, enjoying, etc. bond us together to live in a society. We have to be the one which our society wants.
Aliens have to function like us if they exist. They have to be alive and have to have feelings and emotions, but the dominating feelings - emotions and the number of feelings - emotions can be very different. They might have a strong mechanism to control their feelings and emotions.
As human beings, we have to learn to control our feelings and emotions. We can't wait that the biological development created by nature to do the job for us. There is a conflict between what society desires and how we actually function. We are not perfect. The conflict creates for us troubles.
In space, an explosion would not affect technologically advanced aliens. They would be aware of when stars are likely to explode, when comets or asteroids may collide with them, etc.
That was my third entry for the contest "Out of this World Space Builds" on Lego Idea.
Story:
“We meet again our two fellow classic space figs, Eddy and Cindy with their new outfits. They are now going on a new adventure, exploring space!
Unfortunately, this spaceship doesn't have a rover to explore the surface of new discovered planets but have a little useful speeder bike attached to the rear. Well, Cindy have difficulties to handle the speeder and is kind of scared by its power ... (both minifigs have a double side face, one normal and the other scared ... the speeder bike is definitively difficult to handle!!)”
In fact, it was designed to be with this diorama but it was a large spaceship so I decided to substitute another (smaller) and make this one on his own.
PS: Don’t judge my photoshop skills, I’m a beginner ^_^
I wanted to test out the idea of recording an entire build from start to finish. The full build took about an hour but I sped it up into a 15 minute video. I'd like to do this sort of thing more with smaller builds like this. If you'd be interested in seeing more videos like this, let me know.
Model was inspired by this artwork from fightpunch.
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Milky Way Galaxy as seen from Flagstaff, Arizona.
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