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ACCIDENTAL MOBILE SUIT REFLECTION (2004-2014)
Futuristic Girlies🛸🩵🫧🌀🪩
I had a futuristic fashion design assignment for my F&A class this week and these are the designs i cooked up🩵🩵🩵
The assignment was to come up with 5 designs based on what i could see people wearing in 2074. A lot of my inspiration for this came from Retro Futurism (ex. the Jetsons) and also how fashion trends a recycled throughout the years. i thought it would be fun to play with 60s/70s inspired silhouettes and blend it with current trends like chainmail and skirts over pants for example.
I was going to the (more realistic) route and be a bit more apocalyptic but i thought this would be more fun of an exercise for and not make me spiral🙃
I ALSO JUST REALLY WANTED TO DO COOL METALWEAR
This, is perfect idea of the future! A world that a cross between Solarpunk & Cyberprep. Where rual america is thriving, plants are as common as people, the farm land is diverse in GMO crops, & the the land shelters local wildlife. I know, it's a bit of a stretch. But, when it comes to the future of Humankind, I'm a major optmist!
I fact this is what my home town dimension I am from!
What We Learned from Flying a Helicopter on Mars
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history – not only as the first aircraft to perform powered, controlled flight on another world – but also for exceeding expectations, pushing the limits, and setting the stage for future NASA aerial exploration of other worlds.
Built as a technology demonstration designed to perform up to five experimental test flights over 30 days, Ingenuity performed flight operations from the Martian surface for almost three years. The helicopter ended its mission on Jan. 25, 2024, after sustaining damage to its rotor blades during its 72nd flight.
So, what did we learn from this small but mighty helicopter?
We can fly rotorcraft in the thin atmosphere of other planets.
Ingenuity proved that powered, controlled flight is possible on other worlds when it took to the Martian skies for the first time on April 19, 2021.
Flying on planets like Mars is no easy feat: The Red Planet has a significantly lower gravity – one-third that of Earth’s – and an extremely thin atmosphere, with only 1% the pressure at the surface compared to our planet. This means there are relatively few air molecules with which Ingenuity’s two 4-foot-wide (1.2-meter-wide) rotor blades can interact to achieve flight.
Ingenuity performed several flights dedicated to understanding key aerodynamic effects and how they interact with the structure and control system of the helicopter, providing us with a treasure-trove of data on how aircraft fly in the Martian atmosphere.
Now, we can use this knowledge to directly improve performance and reduce risk on future planetary aerial vehicles.
Creative solutions and “ingenuity” kept the helicopter flying longer than expected.
Over an extended mission that lasted for almost 1,000 Martian days (more than 33 times longer than originally planned), Ingenuity was upgraded with the ability to autonomously choose landing sites in treacherous terrain, dealt with a dead sensor, dusted itself off after dust storms, operated from 48 different airfields, performed three emergency landings, and survived a frigid Martian winter.
Fun fact: To keep costs low, the helicopter contained many off-the-shelf-commercial parts from the smartphone industry - parts that had never been tested in deep space. Those parts also surpassed expectations, proving durable throughout Ingenuity’s extended mission, and can inform future budget-conscious hardware solutions.
There is value in adding an aerial dimension to interplanetary surface missions.
Ingenuity traveled to Mars on the belly of the Perseverance rover, which served as the communications relay for Ingenuity and, therefore, was its constant companion. The helicopter also proved itself a helpful scout to the rover.
After its initial five flights in 2021, Ingenuity transitioned to an “operations demonstration,” serving as Perseverance’s eyes in the sky as it scouted science targets, potential rover routes, and inaccessible features, while also capturing stereo images for digital elevation maps.
Airborne assets like Ingenuity unlock a new dimension of exploration on Mars that we did not yet have – providing more pixels per meter of resolution for imaging than an orbiter and exploring locations a rover cannot reach.
Tech demos can pay off big time.
Ingenuity was flown as a technology demonstration payload on the Mars 2020 mission, and was a high risk, high reward, low-cost endeavor that paid off big. The data collected by the helicopter will be analyzed for years to come and will benefit future Mars and other planetary missions.
Just as the Sojourner rover led to the MER-class (Spirit and Opportunity) rovers, and the MSL-class (Curiosity and Perseverance) rovers, the team believes Ingenuity’s success will lead to future fleets of aircraft at Mars.
In general, NASA’s Technology Demonstration Missions test and advance new technologies, and then transition those capabilities to NASA missions, industry, and other government agencies. Chosen technologies are thoroughly ground- and flight-tested in relevant operating environments — reducing risks to future flight missions, gaining operational heritage and continuing NASA’s long history as a technological leader.
You can fall in love with robots on another planet.
Following in the tracks of beloved Martian rovers, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter built up a worldwide fanbase. The Ingenuity team and public awaited every single flight with anticipation, awe, humor, and hope.
Check out #ThanksIngenuity on social media to see what’s been said about the helicopter’s accomplishments.
Learn more about Ingenuity’s accomplishments here. And make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!
Mariah Carey - Boy (I Need You) ft. Cam'Ron
the visualss! 🌐🎮🏢👛
luv it sm! 🛸🧪🌐
[ Lee Jung Hyun 이정현 - Wa 와 (1999) ]
I’m all for uniting humanity as much as the next guy, but this whole “we were born to inherit the stars” thing is lowkey giving space fascism
The best proof that there's intelligent life in outer space is the fact that it hasn't come here ... the fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life—much less intelligence—beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive; we may well be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms, while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime. Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not... Both are equally terrifying.
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Flying cars are coming soon, yes really. Flying cars are no longer restricted to the realms of science fiction. Check out our article on the flying cars currently under development.
AeroMobil, 2018. The latest version of AeroMobil’s flying car has been presented at the Frankfurt Motor Show with first deliveries promised for 2020. On the ground, it is powered by an electric front wheel drive system which gives a range of 700 km, after a three minute conversion, the AeroMobil is ready for flight where it is powered by a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder boxer engine
Pop.Up, 2017, by Airbus and Italdesign. A concept for an autonomous multi-modal transportation system
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Artificial Intelligence and Robotics are booming at the moment, soon Robots will start replacing humans at work, is your job at risk?
Robot driver coming soon!
Imagine Taking an Uber with a Robot Driver. We’re Not Far Off http://futurism.com/imagine-taking-an-uber-with-a-robot-driver-were-not-far-off/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=futurismnews&utm_content=Imagine%20Taking%20an%20Uber%20with%20a%20Robot%20Driver.%20We%27re%20Not%20Far%20Off
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Question of the day : How far is the Moon from planet Earth?
GREASERS IMPERSONATING EDITED BITCH REYNOLDS TO WRITE RAWLING TECHNOLOGY.
Editing out all knowledge of advanced technology to make contact seem wise or allowable.
Some concept doodles of a flying Skycrane-type thing.
Pinguino!