Nice ...
I want my own lidar

What is money?
Why does money have value?

Interesting questions..

Sacred Economics: Chapter 3, "Money and the Mind" - Sacred Economics | Charles Eisenstein

The following chapter is from Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition, available from EVOLVER EDITIONS/North Atlantic Books. Return to the Sacred Economics content page here.     When all are isolated by egoism, there is nothing but dust, and at

Sacred Economics | Charles Eisenstein (sacred-economics.com)

Perfect!

Now this is interesting.

http://www.space.com/17628-warp-drive-possible-interstellar-spaceflight.html

A v S fight

M will laugh

Zhang Xin interview

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11799

Draftsight is very good 2D CAD, but pdf import is missing.
http://linuxaideddesign.blogspot.cz/2011/08/how-to-work-with-pdf-files-with-ares.html

You can try

Bricscad .. pdf underlays
http://www.bricsys.com/en_INTL/bricscad/features.jsp

progecad ... pdf import
http://www.progesoft.com/en/products/progecad-professional/features

[flash=400,250:eb984pqv]http://www.youtube.com/v/0V_CCzZtVH8?version=3&amp[/flash:eb984pqv]

Vectorworks .. pdf import
http://www.novedge.com/products/1467/tab/1

[flash=400,250:eb984pqv]http://www.youtube.com/v/93ABuH9xvfo?version=3&amp[/flash:eb984pqv]

Good luck Portugal in semifinal.

Ours weren't able to shoot and most of "last" 50 minutes were locked on their half.

Huff, sorry Rzeczpospolita, seems to me that Russians go home. Well done Greece!

@marian said:

It's done! Dragon's been captured.

Well the gold is missing in our collection (not counting 1976 achievement of Czechoslovakian team in Yugoslavia) ..

But frankly, it would be small miracle. Quarterfinal would be ok ..

@solo said:

Hope things go well today, I'm so very proud of Elon Musk's achievements being an ex South African like myself.

I keep my fingers crossed too. Elon is quite a remarkable guy -- Zip, PayPal, Tesla motors, SpaceX...

Dragon 30m from ISS

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

iss031e067401

ISS031-E-067401 (24 May 2012) --- The SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft approaches the International Space Station on May 24, 2012 for a series of tests to clear it for its final rendezvous and grapple on May 25. At 3:58 a.m. (EDT), Dragon performed a height adjust burn to bring it to a path 2.4 kilometers below the station. During this “fly-under,” Dragon established UHF communication with the station using its Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Ultra-high frequency Communication Unit (CUCU). Dragon performed a test of its Relative GPS system, which uses the relative positions of the spacecraft to the space station to determine its location. On May 25, Expedition 31 Flight Engineers Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers will use the Canadarm2 robotic arm to grapple the supply ship about 8:06 a.m., with the berthing to the Earth-facing side of the station’s Harmony node following about 11:20 a.m. Dragon is scheduled to spend about a week docked with the station before returning to Earth on May 31 for retrieval.

Flickr (www.flickr.com)

Dragon

.. keep it simple

"Initially, no definite geometry for the shells had been established, but, as work progressed, the shells were developed according to a spherical geometry and we suddenly had a common denominator, the same spherical surface to deal with, with a similar curvature throughout.
This was an elegant solution to a construction, which would otherwise have had to be done with a large amount of scaffolding and shuttering, both for the interior and exterior shape of the shells.
Now the shells could be sub-divided into ribs, which again could be divided into smaller elements, which could be cast within formwork representing the largest rib entity. Thus it was possible to pre-cast the concrete-shells in smaller pieces and assemble these pieces on location. ..." Jorn Utzon

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Sydney Opera House (www.sydneyoperahouse.com)

@rich o brien said:

it's using some viewer embedded with...

<iframe src="http://pompidouviewer.appspot.com/viewer.html?Pompidou/nomeclatura_torrecildosimplificada12.dae" scrolling="no" width="645" height="460"/>

nice .. http://sites.google.com/site/sandboxdae/

I wonder whether the pompidouviewer app could be converted into google gadget.. it would be very useful for web presentation of models..

@mike lucey said:

Maybe SketchUp could leverage LeapMotion to bring the modeling experience forward? http://news.sketchucation.com/leapmotion-just-like-star-trek/

[flash=560,315:b5bmk60f]http://www.youtube.com/v/V5cZtxfeSwg?version=3&amp[/flash:b5bmk60f]