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Jet-powered Nausicaa Glider Project
SuperElectric writes "As reported on slashdot.jp, Opensky is a project led by media artist Kazuhiko Hachiya to implement a working, jet-powered version of Moewe, the vehicle (pic) that the heroine rides on in "Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind". They've successfully test-flown (.mov, 8.6MB) a 1/2 scale model, and are moving into phase 2, which includes interviewing for test pilots (women only!). Can anybody knowledgeable in experimental aeronautics speculate on how doable this is? While it's not designed for general production (riders must be less than 50 kg/120 lbs), this would certainly beat Segway any day!"
And Nausicaa wears no underwear. Not that I was looking or anything...
Don't pay any attention to the stacks of Sailor Moon and tentacle porn DVDs under my bed!
I have been pwned because my
Cool when can I have one , and does it play mp3's ?
i have no sig
So Ya, Post a 8.6MB Movie file on the front page of /. and see what happens...
GOOD JOB!!
This is taking "cosplay" to a whole new level. Now with real working props!
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Yes, but now to the real question: can they make the Batplane?
Well, according to this, Japan (as a unified country) is about 1600 years old. Slashdot.org is roughly six years old. A weighted average of slashdot.jp -- 8 characters slashdot, 2 characters jp -- reveals that slashdot.jp is 325 years old. Aren't statistics grand?
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
We're stabbing Picard in the heart, again?
(riders must be less than 50 kg/120 lbs) Sooo, this excludes like 95% of all americans.....
This just in:
Scientists at an unknown and undisclosed location are researching into how to create giant bugs that clean up pollution. Plans have been made for a test run of these bugs in New Jersey. Details at 10!
slashdot.jp is great.
to wit: This sight (Slashdot Japan), use was started on 2001 May 28th as the Japanese edition of Slashdot which is the popularity sight of US.
Slashdot is news for the high-tech mania which is started in 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and Jeff "Hemos" Bates and the sight for chatting. It is the mammoth sight which starts hitting 3000 ten thousand page views in month, but to tell the truth most is supported by many volunteers and enthusiastic ???? and the user which repeats comment.
It has such enlightening articles that you just can't get in the states. Like:
The mouse which designates "the swallow" as motif
Amendment plan such as virus compilation crime and the criminal law Code of Criminal Procedure which includes mail log 90 day retention
Comet probe Rosetta it launches, or the distance where is long to the comet
I love the fish.
You haven't lived till you've clicked a Goatse link from Slashdot.jp
Can anybody knowledgeable in experimental aeronautics speculate on how doable this is?
IANAAE (I am not an aeronautical engineer), but I am willing to speculate that it is not doable with legos. Not even with Mindstorms.
I hope the guy who invented this glider doesn't use performance-enhancers, go insane, and start blowing up New York while wearing a Green Goblin costume.
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Well, they had some pretty damn big bugs in Nausicaa, so that's a significant point of concern.
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You just don't get it, do you?
We've got to start training twelve-year-old schoolgirls to pilot advanced military weaponry at some point. Otherwise, who's going to defend us against giant killer robots?!
Oh, Yoshimi, they don't believe me. But you won't let those robots eat me.
I didn't know suicide was still a popular thing to do in Japan. The aircraft in the photo looks spectacularly unstable.
You forgot about the "." (as in ".jp"), which Sun used to claim to have ("we're the dot in..."). Maybe they still do; I don't kept up with who runs the root DNS servers.
If we figure them in, they've been around for about 22 years. So we have (8*6+2*1600+1*22)/13=251 years old. Quite a bit younger than your proposition.