Douglas DeCandia left a comment for Bert Hickman
"Hello Bert,
I am primarily involved in the biotech community and there has been some hubub about using the Lichtenberg effect for tissue generation (to re-create vasculature in tissue generation matricies). Although the pattern is akin to…"
Mar 3, 2010
Douglas DeCandia left a comment for Douglas DeCandia
"I just saw an article on the Make website ( http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/noisebridge_hackers_launch... ), Mike DeCandia forwarded it to me, about how a group of amatures built and flew a balloon to 70K feet. The world record was set in…"
Feb 15, 2010

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  • I just saw an article on the Make website ( http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/noisebridge_hackers_launch... ), Mike DeCandia forwarded it to me, about how a group of amatures built and flew a balloon to 70K feet. The world record was set in 1961—4 May—34.668 km (113,740 ft) by Navy Commander Malcolm D. Ross. 70K feet out of off-the-shelf componants is pretty impressive.
    Considering the advancements in technology, miniturizing computers, etc, can anyone tell me why we find reproducing the Apollo missions so prohibitively complicated/expensive? We should be able to do it with the computing power of a cell phone. And yet... where are we?
    I cannot resolve this technological incongruity for the life of me. And if the balloon launch, as well as many other grass-roots accomplishments such as Spaceship 1 are any example, the statements made by NASA/JPL scientists/engineers represent a gross underestimation of our technological capability. So, this being the supposition, WHY are these missions so prohibitive?
    Comments welcome.
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