"Treckkie Tech" For Real

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:




Harrrrrumph........

May you find a Klingon hiding under your bunk!

Naio might like him, if he's the brainy, intellectual type.

Naio wrote:
:: whistles idly, twiddles thumbs ::

;)

I am thinking more like affordable bearings for powerful small motors.

I love the reviews for that magnetic fan.

"It sure is quiet, moving those few molecules of air through the blades"

Solly. No sale.

Mag Lev costs hundreds of millions of dollars. Not single digit hundreds of millions, either. I wanna brushless magnetic bearing Fantastic Fan!

Pretty sure Fuji Tech elevators uses similar technology in their elevators in high end high rise buildings.

I recall reading about working Magnetic Bearing systems back as far as, I think High School (Graduated 1968 liked to read Popular Science and electronics) Believe there are working Mag/Levitation systems in operation (High speed rail) in a few places.. They eliminate friction by using magnetic levitation, which is a form of magnetic bearings.

:: whistles idly, twiddles thumbs ::

Roddenberry was part of Celestis’ inaugural flight in 1997, when his remains were taken on a trip into space before returning to Earth.

An urn containing some of Doohan’s remains were sent into space last year.

Sending cremated remains on the trip costs £8,000

excert from the Mirror, in London

Interests Of Science?

Center of Gravity?

Roll Center?

From Wikipedia------------------------------------

On July 20, 2005, at 5:30 in the morning, Doohan died at his home in Redmond, Washington.

His ashes, ¼ ounce (7 grams), were scheduled the following fall for a memorial flight to space with 100 others, including Project Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper.[39][40] Launch on the SpaceLoft XL rocket was delayed to April 28, 2007, when the rocket briefly entered outer space in a four-minute suborbital flight before parachuting to earth, as planned, with the ashes still inside.[41] The ashes were subsequently launched on a Falcon 1 rocket, on August 3, 2008, into what was intended to be a low Earth orbit; however, the rocket failed two minutes after launch.[42] The rest of Doohan's ashes were scattered over Puget Sound in Washington.[43][44] On May 22, 2012, a small urn containing some of Doohan's remains in ash form was flown into space aboard the Falcon 9 rocket as part of COTS Demo Flight 2.[45]


And For The Fun Part

Although he continued to work with William Shatner in the Star Trek films, Doohan did not get along well with him and was once quoted as saying, "I like Captain Kirk, but I sure don't like Bill."[26] He was the only former Star Trek co-star to decline to be interviewed by Shatner for Shatner's first Star Trek: Memories book about the show, nor did he consent to do so for Shatner's follow-up book, Star Trek: Movie Memories. WAY TO GO SCOTTY! WILLIAM TIBERIUS JIRK! Now he look like he fell out of the ugly-stick tree and hit every branch on the way down...


Oh the thought! TRANSPARENT ALUMINUM!

Shhh, Naio is lurking with a post that will take this thread into a trajectory straight to the 86th galaxy,then into the circular file. I still miss the hot RAX foto, in the interest of science, of course!