Epic Moon Detail revealed by NASA
NASA released an epic video of some of the details they received from their Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiters.
Badass Sand Flea bot can jump higher than you
DARPA and Boston Dynamics (think BigDog) has developed a surveillance bot platform than can clear obstacles up to 30 feet. A really nifty little jumping robot than can clear a tourbus!
Pocaterra Hydro Plant – Penstock pipeline pictures
After all-time record snowfall in the mountains, hiking sans snowshoes gets tricky in spots. The penstock pipeline at the Pocaterra Hydro Plant in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park is still a very leaky woodstave and creates massive natural ice sculptures. I heard they’ll be replacing it this summer… so these views will soon be forgotten.
An overcast day at the Zoo
It’s mid-march and winter is over for the most part.. but it will take a few months before it will feel like spring again. And on a lazy Saturday afternoon, even the animals seem to want to nap.. except for those crazy penguins – all 46 of them.
What would you do with Lightning if you could control it?
With LASERS! If you had a couple of tesla coils and a few powerful lasers – you might just be able discover a lot more things! Turns out that if you ionize a path in the air with powerful laser pulses, you actually create path that the electrons will prefer making it more likely that …
C# Set CommandTimeout manually when using auto-generated typed datasets
I couldn’t find a way to increase the default command timeout quickly without having to do something complicated so I had to open up my .Designer.cs file (maintained by Visual Studio IDE), find the Fill method I was looking for and look for this line: this.Adapter.SelectCommand = this.CommandCollection[0]; Then I manually set my command timeout …
Speech jammer?!
Here’s something you should watch out for at your local occupy protest… a speech jammer! Yup apparently if you’re within about 100 feet of this thing when the trigger is pulled you will start to stutter. On the plus side, if you’re prone to stuttering, it might make you speak normally? I’m not buying it. …