While looking at the job market for mechanical engineers during my senior year, I often lamented that nobody did cool purely mechanical things anymore. Back in the day, my complaint went, mechanical engineers came up with brilliantly clever things like Reuleaux mechanisms and farther back in time, world changing things... [Read More]

Saturday Stories! A pretty detailed overview of SpaceX – a good read, if a bit long It shouldn't be acceptable for NASA flagship missions to just 'update the wikipedia page' Some fodder for the real Tinfoil Hat people Only relevant because the headline made me think the answer should be... [Read More]

I feel like this proposal for a private manned mission to the moon is almost a quintessential over-the-tinfoil hat – line idea. The goal is lofty and awesome, but there is no meat to the high-minded framework, a deficiency that can it seems you can only get away with if... [Read More]

A quick post for a quick part of the Ditch Day process: the Theme of the Stack. At some point in its evolution from ‘yeah, you’re never getting into my room, no matter how hard you try’ to ‘I’m going to distract you from getting into my room with an... [Read More]

While standing inside the Ames 80x120 (dimensions, in feet, of the cross section) wind tunnel today, it was pretty hard not to just keep looking up in awe and thinking ‘man, you could fit my house in here…twice.’ However, when I did glance down, I saw this awesome setup: Yes.... [Read More]