Charissa Cotrill's Blog, page 78
May 3, 2013
In The Garden: An Open Letter to Eve Ensler
Dear Eve Ensler,
I want to start off by...
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NASA Successfully Launches Three...
NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites
Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space Sunday aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.’s Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia.
The trio of “PhoneSats” is operating in orbit, and may prove to be the lowest-cost satellites ever flown in space. The goal of NASA’s PhoneSat mission is to determine whether a consumer-grade smartphone can be used as the main flight avionics of a capable, yet very inexpensive, satellite.
Transmissions from all three PhoneSats have been received at multiple ground stations on Earth, indicating they are operating normally. The PhoneSat team at the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., will continue to monitor the satellites in the coming days. The satellites are expected to remain in orbit for as long as two weeks.
NASA engineers kept the total cost of the components for the three prototype satellites in the PhoneSat project between $3,500 and $7,000 by using primarily commercial hardware and keeping the design and mission objectives to a minimum. The hardware for this mission is the Google-HTC Nexus One smartphone running the Android operating system.
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I will cut your throat and bake...
I will cut your throat and bake a pie with your insides.
Assassin’s Creed in which 50’s housewives are the base of the brotherhood because WWII took away a lot of its men.
The hide knives in their purses and a dagger in their garter-belt. Their bobby-pins are poisonous.
hahaha, awesome!
As a semi-related aside, during WWII, many of the local police forces were put in concentration camps, as you may have heard. My great-uncle was in the police, so he was in there from 1944-1945 (he died before I was born, but I hear he naturally never wanted to talk about it).
But that meant that there was no goddamn police force during parts of the wars, right? (Apart from local Gestapo-organized auxilary corps.) So a number of people, including and especially women, took both public and personal safety into their own hands. Both my grandmother and my grandfather’s mother carried lead batons when they we going about their daily business, tied to their waists or in their bicycle baskets. My grandmother did it for personal safety, and my great-grandmother actually seems to have done it *as interim police chief* for her town.
After my grandmother died, my grandfather was a little surprised that I wanted her baton, but now I have it; it’s a solid lead piece, about a foot long, covered in cracked and worn leather. You could legitimately bash in someone’s head with this, or break a limb with no muscular effort required at all.
So, maybe not such a strange idea after all!
(I need to find an interesting way to display some of the strange things I have, like this baton or the giant Kenyan lion-hunting spears picked up there shortly after independence. My apartment’s a little weird, potentially lethal.)
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It’s happened again, Japanese schoolgirls have...
It’s happened again, Japanese schoolgirls have demonstrated that they are still in the vanguard of creating crazy photo memes. Now that they’ve recovered from unleashing Dragon Ball Z attacks on each other, they’re having all sorts of fun playing with perspective in school hallways, making it appear as though they’re hanging on for dear life while desperately trying to scale a steep row of lockers. It’s awesomely clever and we love it.
[via Kotaku]
May 2, 2013
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Here’s my...
Here’s my 2nd year Calarts film!
I am not a reblogger but this animation is one of the best things I have seen in a while, and I think that everybody who likes my stuff should also watch this.
This is the best thing I’ve ever seen.
"Five things everyone should know about U.S. incarceration"
1. The US incarcerates more people per...
