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QUOTE (Dave @ Mar 7 2008, 01:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Credit card debt?
You need to do it the NASA way and charge it to the taxpayers.
'Dextre' (Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator)
Oh, sorry, it's not NASA, it's Canada.
You need to do it the NASA way and charge it to the taxpayers.
'Dextre' (Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator)
Oh, sorry, it's not NASA, it's Canada.
With all the fun on the ISS (all computer hard drives failing nearly simultanously, computer failures, life support systems going off line, etc), they'd probably be happy enough to drink vodka distilled from the mould and stare at the stars after 'The Littles' tape got chewed up on their Сатурн 505-Видео again.
I would bet its the same Candian company that built the arm in the Space Shuttle. NASA is the only market for this, I can't imagine the Russians buying any.
Just because it's that thread... LEX update: Not terribly much has happened, actually. Lex took his first, faltering steps a few months back. He was remarkably stable for a short while. Unfortunately, 5xAA batteries just weren't up to the task of world domination (or even simply powering the 12 leg motors and the electronics to run them), so after the fourth step he falls down and flails about like ED-209 in a stairwell. I'm going with gutsier batteries - the same ones that this bike uses, which were ordered some time ago. Still waiting for them to arrive. It will mean taking him apart completely and rewiring him again, but he'll be all the better for it.
