The Soviet Exploration of Venus, Bossart: America's Forgotten Rocket Scientist. Bell Labs, Princeton University, Microsoft Research.
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"After the second rotational element, irradiation of the planet will begin. When the concentration of ionization has fallen by half, the Great Movement will commence."
-- Venusian recording before spacecraft explosion over Tunguska.
Stanislaw Lem's book, "The Astronauts" is long out of print in English, and reportedly that translation was very bad. I had GPT-6 translate a pdf of the book in its original Polish (about 100 minutes of thinking time), then ElevenLabs generated a multi-character audiobook.
They both did an excellent job. An international cast of character speaking in accurate accents is a level of production you rarely find in human-made audiobooks.
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The first ICBMs in the world were the Soviet R-7 and the American Atlas missile. Both featured novel designs unlike previous simple liquid fuel rockest such as the V-2.
Atlas was designed by the Belgian-American engineer, Charlie Bossart. I wrote a biography of him, and this short video came from feeding the book to Gemini Notebook.
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The R-7 was designed by Ukrainian engineer S.P. Korolev. There are a number of biographies of him.
R-7 was made from an Aluminum-Magnesium alloy, not as strong as stainless steel, but easier to work with and weld. It also employed a parallel stage design based on analysis by M.V. Keldysh. It saved weight by being suspended from the center rather than resting on its base before launch.
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In the 1920s, street armies for the KPD (Antifa) and the Nazi party (the SA) fought. Occasionally they cooperated in pro-labor actions.
When Hitler came to power, the first thing he did was exterminate Antifa.
The second thing he did was exterminate the SA.
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Control-theory theater. I have yet to see a humanoid robot do anything useful.
The dance was over, but this robot had one last move! At the recent AGIBOT Innovation Day in Shanghai, a humanoid robot stole the spotlight with a dramatic full split. #ChinaTech #HumanoidRobot
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Our local bobcat.
Coyotes used to dominate the area, you'd hear many of them at night. They disappeared, I suspect due to some neighbors deciding they were pests. I liked them, but pet owners and chicken owners have a different opinion about wild animals.
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Mirror Life could in the worst case cause an extinction level event in the Earth's biosphere.
The quest to create life using mirror-image proteins and sugars began with Louis Pasteur, the man who first discovered that some molecules had left-handed and right-handed forms.
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