Anybody in their 30s or 40s now will definitely be living in a world where electric cars, charged by renewable energy such as solar or wind power, will be the majority of vehicles on the road. Major trucking companies have already put orders in for the Tesla Semi based on ROI for delivery in 2019. AND, they release an electric car that does an 8.9 second 1/4 mile with a 600 mile range at highway speeds.Gasoline and diesel engines will go the way of the steam engine in the next 30-40 years.
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One of the first times Walter Kronkite couldn’t hold back his emotions…
48 years ago today, Man first landed on the moon. Catch Walter Kronkite (veteran CBS anchor) and Wally Schirra (one of the first Mercury 7 astronauts) follow the LEM through powered descent to make a landing.
Then, catch the first step on the moon in this video:
Jordan Supercross Practice Session 4
Mark and I battle it out the entire duration of practice.
Jordan Supercross Practice Session 3
Here we are at the 3rd Jordan Supercross Practice of the season. Watch at about 6:00 for a bit of a close call!
A full practice gate at Jordan Supercross
A little smack talking before organized practice begins at Jordan, early Summer of 2017.
Fred Rogers melted Senator Pastore in about 6 minutes
Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence and ALT Tags
Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant (Red Wing, MN) Control Room Simulator
On the open house, we stopped at the control room simulator and watched a simulated power outage with diesel generators coming online, and a simulated manual reactor trip.
The last T1 has been disconnected!
Once the configuration was done, the only thing left to do was plug in the fiber! As you can see, a few Nerstrand Elementary School students happily helped out with this process. With a simple, positive “click” of the fiber-optic patch cable into the transceiver, Nerstrand completed their upgrade from the two trunked T-1 lines offering about 3Mbps of bandwidth, to the 10000Mbps of bandwidth now at their disposal. The speed is exciting, but even more exciting is the capacity this line will give the School for bringing in more devices and perhaps even having a one device per student option down the road. Thanks Amelia and Stefan!
My Humble “Thanks”
Homemade Solar Tracker
Another Session at Pine Island MX with my YFZ450
Take several laps around Pine Island MX in glorious 1440p at 48 frames a second.
Pine Island MX Drone Video Compilation, YFZ450s and Dirt Bikes
Here’s a short edit of some video my dad took with his Yuneec drone, and some of my GoPro helmet cam footage. All video shot near Pine Island, Minnesota. Rendered to 1080p24.
Feelin’ Fast at Pine Island MX with my YFZ450
I got a few more jumps and felt like I was able to keep the momentum going around nearly the whole track.
Stealing 3D Models by Audio Recording a 3D Printer
A bright professor at the University of California-Irvine discovered it’s possible to steal the design of a 3D model by simply doing an audio recording of the 3D printer printing it. Apparently, they have demonstrated a 90% accuracy of model reconstruction using this technique. Simply having an employee working at a manufacturing facility with a cell phone on them could invite the possibility of industrial espionage if they were to give such a recording to a competitor. Fascinating proof of concept!
Snorkeling for Colorful Fish off of Poipu Beach, Kauai, Hawaii
Snorkeling for Colorful Fish off of Poipu Beach, Kauai, Hawaii
Hawaiian Munk Seals basking on Poipu Beach
Hawaiian Munk Seals basking on Poipu Beach, Kauai, Hawaii
A drive in a rented Chevy Camaro near Poipu, Kauai
Beautiful Kauai, Hawaii backroads drive near Poipu/Koloa

































































