Perhaps Industrial Light and Magic, Stan Winston, Hunter/Gratzner, Burman, or other special effects companies could use your skills. Or closer to home, try Weta, as they're gearing up for King Kong.
>>concern about a remote possibility of damage to shipping
This is exactly one of the issues that the EPA required to be addressed in the environmental impact statement that was required to get the launch liscense for SpaceShipOne
Why would any deaths occur? The man rated climbers would have parachutes and heat shields. The ship propeller problem is not my idea, it was brought up at last year's space elevator conference. Since current treaties require the country of origin to be responsible for damage caused by anything which falls out of space, these sorts of issues may prevent goverment approval of the elevator.
>>what would an oil supertanker be doing anywhere within a thousand miles of the anchor site
maybe because ISR's plans only call for it to be 400 miles away from the shipping lanes? And the ribbon can drift a long ways when it is dropped from 100,000 feet
Since it's likely they will be dealing with photography, pantones, and printed material, 18% grey walls would be ideal, with 5500 degree industry standard lighting. When I had a multimeda company, our main common work area had tall, deep tables. They were tall so that we could comfortably work on the computer while standing, making it easy to go from station to collaberate (we had tall drafting table style chairs so we could sit). They were deep so that we had pleanty of room for the monitors, keyboard, and large Kurta/Wacom Tablets.
The author Ligon was part of the "ThriftySpace" / Ceruleun Freight Fowarding Company, which was an X-Prize team. Sadly, Dr. Hill, the leader of the team died a couple of years ago, and so did the company.
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The inventor of Robosaurous is Doug Malewicki.
His website has details of other things he has worked on or invented, including a rocket belt, Evil Knievil's SkyCycle, 248 mph electric car, flying can cooler, jet bikes, and the "build your own hovercraft" that used to be advertised in comic books.
When I built a stabilizer rig, I used a nail and a Jack Daniels whisky shot glass for the gimbal. The nail's point was rounded, and was at the center of gravity of the rig. It sat in the shot glass, which I held. This allowed for plenty of horizontal rotation, and about 30 degrees of tilt.
One summer I worked as a foot messenger in NYC. The company was located a short walk from Port Athority bus station thru which I commuted. Any delivery over 10 blocks they would have us take the bus or train, and give us the 2 tokens when we got back to the office. A couple times a week I'd have a delivery far downtown near the end of my shift. When I called in to get my next assignment, the dispatcher would tell me that's it for the day, and clock me out. Not getting the expected hours each week was annoying, but getting screwed out of bus fare back to the office was salt in the wound. (they'ed give me a token for the trip downtown, but since I was on my own time I wouldn't get the fare for getting me back uptown)
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Perhaps Industrial Light and Magic, Stan Winston, Hunter/Gratzner, Burman, or other special effects companies could use your skills.
Or closer to home, try Weta, as they're gearing up for King Kong.
here are some other gallerys:/ 2004/2 93.html
http://spaceshipone.airshowjournal.com
http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/006
Your company is hiring?!?
Where can I send my resume?
>>concern about a remote possibility of damage to shipping
This is exactly one of the issues that the EPA required to be addressed in the environmental impact statement that was required to get the launch liscense for SpaceShipOne
some good info at:
http://cyberedge.com/3.html
Why would any deaths occur? The man rated climbers would have parachutes and heat shields.
The ship propeller problem is not my idea, it was brought up at last year's space elevator conference.
Since current treaties require the country of origin to be responsible for damage caused by anything which falls out of space, these sorts of issues may prevent goverment approval of the elevator.
or Hindi...
>>what would an oil supertanker be doing anywhere within a thousand miles of the anchor site
maybe because ISR's plans only call for it to be 400 miles away from the shipping lanes? And the ribbon can drift a long ways when it is dropped from 100,000 feet
>>>would be more of a pollution problem than a catastrophe.
umnn, and what happens when the super strong ribbon wraps around an oil supertanker's propeller/diveshaft?
Since it's likely they will be dealing with photography, pantones, and printed material, 18% grey walls would be ideal, with 5500 degree industry standard lighting.
When I had a multimeda company, our main common work area had tall, deep tables. They were tall so that we could comfortably work on the computer while standing, making it easy to go from station to collaberate (we had tall drafting table style chairs so we could sit). They were deep so that we had pleanty of room for the monitors, keyboard, and large Kurta/Wacom Tablets.
The author Ligon was part of the "ThriftySpace" / Ceruleun Freight Fowarding Company, which was an X-Prize team.
Sadly, Dr. Hill, the leader of the team died a couple of years ago, and so did the company.
Al Sharpton (2004 democratic presedential hopeful) led a protest in harlem at NASA's Goddard center.
http://www.legalbits.com/thornton-CITATION-comment s.htm
of Talking Greeting Cards
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http://www.canosoarus.com/14AirCar/AirCa
The inventor of Robosaurous is Doug Malewicki.
His website has details of other things he has worked on or invented, including a rocket belt, Evil Knievil's SkyCycle, 248 mph electric car, flying can cooler, jet bikes, and the "build your own hovercraft" that used to be advertised in comic books.
Alan Boyle reports that Carmack is not going to make an X-prize attempt this year.
see: The Sraight Dope
google
The man behind the website Acts of Gord (stories of a video game retail/rental store) has done this, and talks about it in his forum
When I built a stabilizer rig, I used a nail and a Jack Daniels whisky shot glass for the gimbal. The nail's point was rounded, and was at the center of gravity of the rig. It sat in the shot glass, which I held. This allowed for plenty of horizontal rotation, and about 30 degrees of tilt.
I enjoyed it.
Another book, with a more technical bent is "The Rocket Company" which is presently being serialized at Hobby Space
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=c0e0a1dd.0310 311328.99308bf%40posting.google.com&output=gpl ain
"This is not intuitively obvious, but the cost of propellant is basically NOTHING compared to the system support issues with a launch vehicle."
Time Magazine invention of the year for 2001
One summer I worked as a foot messenger in NYC. The company was located a short walk from Port Athority bus station thru which I commuted.
Any delivery over 10 blocks they would have us take the bus or train, and give us the 2 tokens when we got back to the office.
A couple times a week I'd have a delivery far downtown near the end of my shift. When I called in to get my next assignment, the dispatcher would tell me that's it for the day, and clock me out.
Not getting the expected hours each week was annoying, but getting screwed out of bus fare back to the office was salt in the wound. (they'ed give me a token for the trip downtown, but since I was on my own time I wouldn't get the fare for getting me back uptown)