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ESA and NASA? Airbus? Still not ready? 🤦♂️
Right now, engineers have got a dummy rover practising the business of retrieving packaged rock samples. And, yes, the stand-ins really are whiteboard markers. Yay! Whiteboard markers. Um. OK. But different agencies and companies are finally working together? Great! Wait. What’s the catch? It is, though, going to take more than a decade to achieve. […]
It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it. Maybe.
The pattern remains a mystery, but researchers are beginning to narrow the possibilities. While the changes are most likely…geological in nature, planetary scientists can’t completely rule out an explanation involving microbial life. Just as the Viking landers claimed? Uh-oh. Or is it just chemicals (perchlorate, bleach-like substances) in the soil, releasing oxygen and methane depending […]
Exoskeletons in the house! Sorry, no mechas (yet)
The “Every Muscle Suit” has a lot going for it. Weighing just 3.8 kilograms (2.2 pounds), the pneumatic artificial muscle suit is powerful enough to generate up to 25.5 kilogram-force and effectively relieves pressure on users’ backs when performing activities like heavy lifting. And no batteries. That’s right: it uses air pressure only. Sells for the low […]
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Daddy-daughter vacation (kind of)
Friday, my two daughters (aged 7 and 4) and I set off on a four-hour bullet train (Shinkansen) ride without my wife. She did see us off at the Shin-Osaka bullet train station, but since she had a week-long business … Continue reading
Posted in family outings, holidays, Japan, Japanese, Japanese culture, parenting, Uncategorized
Tagged cross-cultural, fathers, Kagoshima, shinkansen
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Home for the holidays (Part 1)
After a series of fairly serious blog posts related to an ongoing complaint against Amazon (which was somewhat, but not entirely, resolved), I thought it was about time to post about a slightly more innocuous topic: Making pottery at the … Continue reading
Posted in family outings, holidays, Japan, trips
Tagged bullet train, child-raising, Japan, Japanese, Kyushu, New Year's, shinkansen
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