Archive for the 'Off Topic' Category
New Zealand: GoodFor Wholefoods Refillery
February 4th, 2019Just a quick note for people in New Zealand who are looking for organic, not-from-China bulk foods. Check out: goodfor.co.nz Depending on the items you’re after, the prices range from the best available in New Zealand to not so great, but the website mostly works and everything that the site said was in stock was […]
The DIY Rocketeer Building SpaceX Replicas of Self-Landing Rockets
December 8th, 2018bps.space bps.space YouTube Channel Via: Motherboard: Joe Barnard left his background in videography and music production to launch his life of amateur rocketry, and he shares his DIY adventures in building rockets on his YouTube channel BPS.space.
Huge Unexplored Cave in British Columbia
December 3rd, 2018Via: Canadian Geographic: A massive pit that was spotted in a remote high alpine valley in British Columbia’s Wells Gray Provincial Park earlier this year is the entrance to a previously unexplored cave of “national significance,” say two members of a Canadian team that helped conduct a preliminary exploration of the site in September.
Harvesting Battery Modules from Wrecked Tesla Model X 90D
November 26th, 2018Via: HBPowerwall:
1949 Mercury Coupe Goes Electric with a Tesla Battery Pack
October 31st, 2018Via: Electrek: ICON, a restomod company based in Los Angeles, and Stealth EV, a company specializing in electric car conversions, unveiled a new EV conversion at SEMA today: a 1949 Mercury coupe with a Tesla battery pack. They say that the 1949 Mercury EV Derelict was commissioned by a longtime client, who gave ICON the […]
Steve1989MREInfo
September 26th, 2018I thought, “I’ll just watch one…” Steve1989MREInfo Via: Steve1989MREInfo:
Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to Fly Around Moon on SpaceX BFR
September 17th, 2018Via: The Verge: This evening, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire and founder of Zozotown, Japan’s largest online clothing retailer, will be the first private customer to ride around the Moon on the company’s future massive rocket, the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR). Maezawa plans to fly on the trip as […]
SpaceX Announcing Name of Private Individual Who Will Orbit Moon in BFR
September 13th, 2018Via: Ars Technica: On Thursday evening, without any advance notice, SpaceX tweeted that is had signed the world’s “first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our BFR launch vehicle.” Moreover, the company promised to reveal “who’s flying and why” on Monday, September 17. The announcement will take place at the company’s headquarters in […]
The Man Who Was Raised by Wolves
August 28th, 2018Via: Guardian: Abandoned as a child, Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja survived alone in the wild for 15 years. But living with people proved to be even more difficult.
Apple Breaches $1 Trillion Stock Market Valuation
August 2nd, 2018Via: Reuters: Apple Inc became the first $1 trillion publicly listed U.S. company on Thursday, crowning a decade-long rise fueled by its ubiquitous iPhone that transformed it from a niche player in personal computers into a global powerhouse spanning entertainment and communications.
