Posted on 01/27/2008 6:57:51 AM PST by Mo1
After successfully testing them this week, aeronautical engineers from Tokyo University believe the planes, made from heat-resistant paper treated with silicon, will survive the fiery descent back to Earth when they are released by a Japanese astronaut on the international space station later this year
The planes, designed by the Japan origami airplane association, survived temperatures of 250C (482F) and winds speeds of Mach 7 - seven times the speed of sound - during their 30-second flight inside the university's hypersonic wind tunnel.
"Paper planes are extremely light so they slow down when the air is thin and can gradually descend," Prof Shinji Suzuki, who heads the team, told Reuters.
More… Guardian
Absolutely beautiful....both the pictures of Holland and those of the lights/architecture.
Thanks so much for allowing my eyes to see some color and beauty in this world....
muwah!
They are colorful and harbingers of Spring. Tomorrow I shall revert and show two winter ones with nice music.
They are colorful and harbingers of Spring. Tomorrow I shall revert and show two winter ones with nice music.
Here is a video of clips from the movie “Somewhere In Time”; one of the most beautiful love stories to ever be displayed onscreen. (Christopher Reeves sees a hundred year old portrait of a woman, and falls in love with her. He then goes back in time, meets her, and they have an incredibly beautiful romance. The one thing that brings him ‘back’ to this century is finding a 1979 penny in his pocket - and she then disappears. He can never get her back, and in the end, he dies of a broken heart. In heaven, she waits for him.....)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvIv8czODRs&NR=1
Josh Groban - To Where You Are
Celine Dion - Call The Man
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I got an Proxy error on the first one so I sent it again.
LOL
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
you’re such a tease! : )
Very interesting. Here are more comments from FR:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956653/posts
I did not know they had it on FR as they do not let you post direct from the Guardian - I notice they posted from another source but it all comes from Reuters anyway.
I just I thought it would be an interesting piece of useless information for DDers. :)
You will like the music in a language no one can figure out.
I apologize, Cardi. I read your article from the Guardian, and they didn’t have any pictures - so I went to Google ‘images’, typed ‘origami airplanes launched’, and there was a FR picture, and link. (I just wanted to find a picture of the origami plane.)
I think it is very interesting, and am glad you brought our attention to the subject. Thank you.
A very nice clip - I have Josh Grogan singing “To where you are”.
I had a movie which was a very tender and usual love story but I can´t find the DVD and I know I made a short clip of it and can´t find that either. I will do some more research and if I find it I will let you know the title.
My memory is not that good - lol
but........what about the winter scenes????
I have that enough already, 24/7, right outside...
Have you seen the Netherlands in Winter - with the ice on the trees, and the swan in the lake. OMG, the most incredibly beautiful pictures.
Pretty soon, the crocuses will start popping up, through the snow. I promise. ;-)
We’ve had 8 1/2 feet of snow so far this winter.
No.........and right now, I have NO intention of looking at yet more winter scenery, foflol!!
Bring on the warm weather, the greenery, and the flowers.
The white stuff has become more than old. : )
I don't know how much we've had total (I'm positive it's not been that much); and I'm thankful that recent rains have taken care of erasing much of the snow....
I'm sure you'll be more than happy to see the flowers arrive, too.
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