Interesting Stuufff! thread

[Thor.]

Hey if you have any interesting tech news please post it here, or scientific as well. Lets see how much we can find thats INTERESTING STTUFFF!!!

 

Space news

 

tech news

 

ground breaking tech and so on.

 

random i will start, just how much is out there.???

 

http://www.space.com/21756-voyager-1-entered-unexpected-region-of-outer-solar-system-video.html

 

http://www.space.com/21756-voyager-1-entered-unexpected-region-of-outer-solar-system-video.html

Edited June 28, 2013 by Thor.

[Vindekarr]

I can give you a feed on auto tech if you're interested, electric cars, renewable energy, that kinda thing. I work in the car industry so I learn a LOT of stuff at work months before it goes public, that sound good, Thor?

 

Carbon Fibre is a structural material I see a lot of working as a fabricator. It's a structural composite, incredibly light(lighter than some plastics) but much, much stronger than steel. If that alone didn't make it just about perfect, it's also highly flexible rather than just breaking, holds it's shape, has a pretty gloss-black sheen, and best of all, you can add extra properties by adding extra compounds, such as Kevlar or fine aluminium strings.

 

Currently the best form of Carbon Fibre is CarboTitanium; Carbon fibres interwoven with kevlar cross strings and titanium filaments-it's almost six times stronger than steel, but it's also vastly lighter even than aluminium and close to bulletproof-infact, the helmets worn by Formula One drivers have a strip across the forehead that is made of the stuff, and it literally would stop an AK-47 round at point-blank range. When backed up by an aluminium honeycomb, the result is nearly indestructible, but still astonishingly light weight. An ordinary, steel made sports car weighs around 1700-1900 kilos. Most Carbon-based super-cars weigh around 900-1100.

 

But Carbon fibre is now a bunch of old hat. NASA, Boeing, Airbus and the DARPA advanced research agency have been playing with what's called Chiral Fibre. It's still years away, but Chiral(kai-rall) Fibre replaces big thick threads of Carbon with nanometre fine microfilament wires of it, formed into Chiral structures. When made properly, early versions show about a 66% strength increase over the already immensely strong Carbon variant, but also a further, if smaller, reduction in weight. Currently the first device to make use of it in the public eye will be the Lockheed-Martin JS35 fighter jet, coming in 2016, which has a Chiral-Carbon frame.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW3NDGk6YQE

 

This video is the most descriptive illustration I can think of for the strength of carbon fibre. Allan McNish's absolutely horrifying crash from the '011 Le Mans race. He hits a solid concrete barrier at over 180 MPH, the car explodes into fragments, all except for the carbon fibre driver pod, which isn't badly damaged. McNish gets out under his own power, and is completely uninjured, except for some bruises and a sense of disapointment. Although in his own words it was a "bit of a hairy moment"

Edited June 28, 2013 by Vindekarr

[Thor.]

INNNTEERESSTINNNDD! STUUFFF!!!!!

 

ouch that looked fatal, i saw something similar to that before on youtube.

 

Here is a interesting tweak article for Skyrim, also recommends that OCZ ssd i was looking at.

 

It can include also helpful guides and technical jargon :teehee:

[Vindekarr]

Just imagine how his team felt watching that, I know I was absolutely stunned. I had the misfortune of watching that part of the race on LIVE TV, and for about five minutes everyone thought he HAD died-it was a stupidly big impact-but the only issue they had getting him out of the car is, those Audi R18++ racers have scissor doors-you can't open them if the car is upside-down, once they rolled it over, as you saw, McNish just hops out like he's only scratched it.

[Lisnpuppy]

I didn't know you worked in the car industry, Vindekarr!

The husband and I are big F1 fans and like the Le Mans races.

 

We were watching the Le Mans race this yeah when the driver was killed hitting the barrier guardrail. Related but a side note since this is about that kind of thing in a way (not trying to hijack your thread!!)..has thee been any conversation yet about what happened and the car/rail development? I mean I don't think the car could have helped this guy but you know after something like this happens the developers start scrambling looking at changes to the cars and the guardrails.

[JimboUK]

Maybe a motor racing thread is in order, I know there are a few motor racing fans here and that thread could cover both F1 and what happened at Le Mans.

[Lisnpuppy]

You are right. I was looking at the engineering aspect but it would get off topic too much. I apologize for that. Ignore my queries for now. *embarrassed*

[JimboUK]

Sorry, it wasn't my intention to cause any embarrassment, feel free to remove my post along with yours and edit this one accordingly.

 

The final frontier: Nasa's Voyager 1 on the verge of entering interstellar space

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2350411/The-final-frontier-Nasas-Voyager-1-verge-entering-interstellar-space.html

 

This is interesting, if nothing else it shows just how large our system is, it's been travelling since 1997.

[ZeroKing]

Engineer creates old-world mechanical computer with 3D-printed parts.

 

The tech is simple, but it's an innovative idea nonetheless. Old machine made by new technology, quite fun.

[Vindekarr]

Yeah, my whole family is in one way or another, my brother until very recently made cars, so did my uncle. They both worked for Ford, locally, but unfortunately that company recently decided to pull up roots and move to Thailand so it wouldn't have to pay them such a decent wage(Aussie law brings with it a min. wage three times higher than in the US) I'm a fabricator, I make/install car parts.

 

As for Allan Simonsen, that wasn't an easy thing to see, not only was he a good driver, but he mainly raced in Australia-his death probably hit our racing community the hardest since he was such a regular GT racer here. I don't think there's much you could do to make those Astons much safer within the spirit of that class. GT racing is all about driving cars fairly similar to their road going versions, and those Aston Vantages are a pretty low-tech car now. There ARE cars with the sort of all-carbon interior safety cage that could have protected him, but currently only one(The McLaren MP4-12) races in GT and wasn't present at Le Mans this year.

 

As for the barriers, we have a similar class in Australia, we use what's called a TecPro brarrier instead of a guardrail. It's basically a series of big, chunky blocks of foam rubber-quite similar to the inside of a punching bag. When something hits the rubber, it compresses like a sponge, usually lessening the impact force by a LOT. A few months ago an Aussie rookie called Scott Pye had a HORRIBLE crash-went head-on into the tecpro at about 90 MPH. He was fine, the crash was spectacular but didn't badly damage the car, since he essentialy hit a giant punching bag. Although he did miss the next weekend's race, since the car was that mangled.

 

I don't know if the ACO will make any big changes, but I do think lining the existing guardrails with the TecPro chunks WOULD help, especially on that specific corner-and all the fast corners. A general move away from steel built cars like the Aston Martin Vantage helps aswell, since relative to other readily available metals, steel is hideously fragile.

 

As for auto, I'll be setting up my own thread for that soon, there's a lot of folks here into that sort of thing, and it saves those not from getting spammed.

Edited June 28, 2013 by Vindekarr