Archives May 2015

Back in the 60’s everything was about space travel.
NASA needed to find a way to lower the cost of manned space exhibitions. They figured that they should try to make a maneuverable space craft, so the astronauts can land it wherever they desire. This would cut the costs of the “rescue team” which ...

The collapse of Malpasset Dam, is considered to be one of the worst civil engineering disasters of the 20th century.
It was an arch dam on the French Riviera, which collapsed on 1959. The breach created a massive wall of water, (40 meters high, moving with 70km/h) destroying two small villages, Malpasset and Bozon ...

Pixel density is the number of pixels a display can fit into a fixed distance. This is different from “resolution”, which is a simple count of the number of pixels across the entire width and height of a device.
For example, the resolution of a Galaxy S6, is 1440 × 2560 pixels. All of these pixels ...

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The most Quoted formula of all time.
The Darth Vader of equations.
No it’s not a big, bad lightsaber wielder.
Just as Darth Vader, with his black mask and the strange voice, is the archetypal bad guy in popular culture, so this equation is the archetypal ...

Lately, there is a hype about two guys flying above Dubai. An eleven minute epic video is all over the internet, showing their flight skills. Oh wait! Did you think they fly airplanes? No no! They are using Jetpacks. Yes! Jetpacks. Boba Fett like Jetpacks!

The video has plenty of beautiful HD footage shot from ...

There is a popular story that Newton was sitting under an apple tree, an apple fell on his head, and he suddenly thought of the Universal Law of Gravitation.
More likely, Newton was sitting in a library, and a tome containing Kepler’s three laws of planetary motion fell on his desk, spilled his coffee ...

Weight transfer is the change in load borne by different wheels of even perfectly rigid vehicles during acceleration, and the change in center of mass location relative to the wheels because of suspension compliance or cargo shifting or sloshing. In the automobile industry, weight transfer customarily refers to the change in load borne by different ...

Pythagoras (Pythagoras of Samos), was born on the island of Samos, Greece around 569 BC, and is known as the first pure mathematician of all time.

He was well educated, and he played the lyre throughout his lifetime, knew poetry and recited Homer. He was interested in mathematics, philosophy, astronomy and music, and was greatly ...