Friday, March 26, 2004

Israel unveils tiny drone planes. The Israeli military is equipping its forces with a new range of spy drones small enough to fit in a soldier's backpack. [BBC 2004.03.26]
 

Friday, March 26, 2004

Awesome anime ferry. Kudos to the crafty operators of this Japanese ferry service, who commissioned manga legend Leiji Matsumoto to design it "to appeal to the younger generation." As Gizmodo's Joel Johnson put it, "It does this by being awesome." [Boing Boing]
 

Friday, March 26, 2004

Last week, a small asteroid approached unusually close to the Earth. Asteroid 2004 FH posed no danger, but became bright enough to see with binoculars. Passing only 7 Earth radii away, this asteroid pass was the closest yet that was previously predicted, although it was discovered only two days before. Pictured above, the 30-meter sized 2004 FH was imaged from Switzerland crossing the sky on March 18, near its closest approach. The asteroid, centered in the above time-lapse movie covering about 30 minutes, changes in brightness as it tumbles by. An asteroid this size passes this close to Earth about every two years. Were 2004 FH to have struck the Earth, it would have likely burned up in the atmosphere. Large impact features on the Earth are testaments, however, to larger asteroids and comets that actually impacted the Earth in the distant past. [APOD 2004.03.22]
 

Friday, March 26, 2004

[Video] Veterans' Stadium bites the dust. She blowed up real good [Fark]
 

Friday, March 26, 2004

"Ice Climbing in the Pyrenees" was shot by Ignacio Ferrando Margeli. To make it, Ignacio hung on for 2 hours in -8 C , 17 F." More great QTVRs in this month's issue of VRMag. [Boing Boing]
 

Friday, March 26, 2004

Japanese foldable robots. More foldable, glue-able PDFs -- this time, it's ultra-fab Japanese paper robots. [Boing Boing]

Free paper toys to print and assemble. Stunning, elaborate paper toys to print, fold and glue.