This site lists satellites, the ISS and other astronomical objects you can see in the sky based on your own location. It’s a very comprehensive, easy to use astronomy site with object you can and can’t see.
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Daily Archives: November 19, 2009
iPhone Folders
It’s simple: you install this and you can browse your iphone in windows explorer just like another harddrive. Whyever Apple removed this from the touch / iphone is beyond me, but I’m glad there’s a fix!
Xflex bomb proof wallpaper
A single sheet of this applied as sticky wallpaper is enough to stop a wrecking ball. Two sheets stop small projectiles. It stretches and catches the blast debris and then elastically returns the wall to its’ former state.
Xflex Blast Protection Systems.
Mine detecting microbes
When sprayed over an area, after a while the bacteria covering mines start to glow grean, making cleanup a doddle.
BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | Glowing bugs could find landmines.
V-22 Osprey melts ship landing pads
And it looks like the F-35 JSF will probably be even worse. This premature buckling of the landing pads by the hot exhaust fumes, mean that the pads (which you can’t just go and replace without capsizing the ship) will run out before the ship does.
The USMC has issued DARPA a request to invent landing pads that are refrigerated and non-skid in order to mitigate the effect of the planes landing on them.
V-22 Osprey, stealth jumpjet ‘need refrigerated landing pads’ • The Register.