I suspect photogs may be safe for a little while yet. According to the article, "the new device is completely scalable, from near-infrared to terahertz wavelengths". It sounds like it will need some more work to get it to function in the visible spectrum, but when they do this could make for some very interesting…

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Judging by the crumbled area around the hole and the relatively clean tearing of the hull steel at the edges of the hole it looks like the Porter came up against the Otowasan's anchor. Those anchors are huge and would act like can openers.

It would be my luck to try something like that and crash it into the dean's car.

My guess would be that the large ball on the end is also the counter weight for the balance scale. It appears that you hang the fish from the blade while holding the knife by it's lanyard and judge the weight by where the knife hangs horizontal.

I saw the title and thought "the Chinese have invaded Beverly Hills?"

Not sure honestly. I couldn't find anything on the expected orbital lifetime. I would suggest keeping an eye on http://www.pe0sat.vgnet.nl/satellite/cube-nano-picosats/fitsat-1/ They also have a link to the Fitsat-1 homepage.

Keps probably won't be available until it is released from the ISS. Even if they have an exact release time/velocity I think the figures would be rough until it was tracked by itself.

Here is a Google Earth image to put the location and size in context. It's the big whit blob in the lower left corner.

It could be worse, could be a creepy pole DANCING snake.

They really should find a better picture for their web page.

Another coating option, if you have access to it, is Sodium Silicate (aka Water Glass). It will completely seal the pores in the shell and make it air tight. This will preserve the eggs for quite a while even at room temp.

This is the kind of stunt that gives mechanical engineers nightmares...or boners.

Interesting, but the data seems to be somewhat skewed, at least in my area.

No expert here, but I suspect it has to do with the way the image is read from the chip. Probably starts at the line and reads outward. This takes the most important pixels with no distortion, but would get more distorted farther away from the line.

I was looking at that myself. I suspect the pivot mechanism is enclosed in the end of the fuselage and there is a shroud that moves with the stabilizer to reduce radar signature.

Beautiful! Waze is probably the most used app on my phone. Even when I'm driving back and forth to work I run it just to get an idea of how late I am; and to post road reports of course.

"And the legs, in case you couldn't tell, are just roughly carved logs."

This should get any maze. Not the most efficient path in most cases though.