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11:56 am Mon
Mar 11, 2013
How SpaceX saved the Dragon capsule from destruction
On March 1, SpaceX ran a test launch of Dragon, the capsule in which it hopes to someday transport human beings into space. Dragon was due to connect with the International Space Station, but very quickly into the launch things started to go all wrong. This is a short summary of the SpaceX team managed to stop their capsule from tumbling out of control.
It's pretty easy to hack traffic lights
Researchers from the University of Michigan EE/Computer Science Department (previously) presented their work on hacking traffic signals at this year’s Usenix Security Symposium (previously), and guess what? It’s shockingly easy to pwn the traffic control system.
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Self-healing fabrics inspired by squid teeth
Penn State researchers funded by the Army Research Office and the Office of Naval Research have posted video showing their progress on “self-healing” textiles that use proteins similar to those found in human hair and squid teeth to allow fibers to coated in polyelectrolytes so that they can be set and bonded using safe solvents […]
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Kepler Space Telescope Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster
Here’s a wonderful feature about my favorite constellation and the galaxy’s most awesome telescope (at least one of them!) from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
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These two Mophie gadgets will help keep you connected on the go
Mophie’s gadgets are reliable, minimalist, and stacked with all the right features. We use these two gadgets to keep our phones, tablets, e-readers, and other electronics charged.Recharge on-the-go with the Mophie Powerstation XL External BatteryThe Mophie Powerstation XL ($39.95) packs enough power to re-charge your phone eight times over. It has three levels of charging, so […]
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Mastering AWS and Salesforce could make you extremely valuable
Earlier this spring, Salesforce announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) would be its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider. Salesforce developers and AWS developers are already in-demand and paid very well for their expertise, but this partnership opens up the opportunity to become an extremely valuable asset by mastering both. Below are two in-depth courses to help you start or progress […]
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WordPress Wizard Bundle: Maybe the first step toward being your own boss, just $49
Whether you’re trying to start a quirky news blog, open a local Irish pub, or sell handmade furniture out of your garage, one thing’s for sure: your business is not going to succeed if you don’t build it a professional-looking website. That’s why we’re excited to share the WordPress Wizard Bundle.This is a bundle that includes 12 courses about […]
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There seems to be a problem with the link.
It’s working for me.
I suppose I’m just cursed.
Just keep clicking. It will work eventually.
Try extending your solar panels and pressure slam the oxidizer tanks.
I wonder if solving this problem would have been easier or more difficult if the capsule had been manned. On the one hand a crew probably could have reacted faster than people on the ground, but on the other hand the probably would have coated the inside of the capsule with astronaut puke by the time the spinning stopped.
I suspect the fix would have required a software upload from the ground regardless. But if communications from the ground were lost completely, a human crew could have continued to try to recover the vehicle.
Man, that would be the worst wait for tech support ever.
I am sure the ISS does it every day.
It’s the Lagrange point between Star Trek technobabble and hacker movie technobabble.