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Transport Future

Those robot arm algorithms will be very much involved in transport handling.

Sometimes great engines will be moving mighty cargoes across great distances.
Sometimes little robots will help put away the groceries.

This video is in the Robotic Transport Future playlist.




Radical Incline

It's an election year. Not that that has anything to do with it.

Oversubscribing to the blogosphere, then trying to spend a few days working in the real world, can result in significant backlog.

List of backlogged blogs




Transport Future

Controlled by the pilot shifting his body weight. (What could go wrong?)

This will probably soon be done. With quadcopters.

This video is in the Personal Transport Future playlist




Radical Incline
Obama was for the idea before he was against it before he was sort-of for it before he needed to be for it again.



Transport Future
Ion propulsion, ninety days to Mars

Ion Propulsion EngineA real (apparently) proposal to build the USS Enterprise, the real ship, over the next twenty years! … The Gen1 Enterprise can arrive at Mars within 90 days of leaving earth's orbit. … [I]t will be the largest vessel or building ever built by humans. … [T]hree ion propulsion engines… provide constant acceleration… engines are powered by electricity… [generated by] nuclear reactors… Build the Enterprise

Video Playlist: Two short animations demonstrating the proposed artificial-gravity wheel and the elevator thereto:



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