Brilliant New Snorkeling Design

This looks great!

Sir Loncke

My buddy, Belgian explorer Louis-Philippe Loncke!

"Today at the European parliament Jane knighted me Jane Goodall Institute Knight for the Youth, the Animals and the Plants in the Order of the Iguana."

Congratulations, Sir Loncke!

Hokulea and Hikianalia Setting Sail!

Wondrous fantasy ships, setting sail today for a round-the-world voyage of education and inspiration. I'll be thinking of those bold explorers of the Pacific, over 3,000 years ago, in tomorrow's pressure suit test. I know how they feel today, casting loose from a dock and leaving land behind!

Early Settlement of Northern Eurasia

Preparing to visit SpaceX in LA next week, but in the mean time also knocking out further figures for the Atlas of Human Prehistory, which is coming along well. Today, in the photo above, drafting out 'Early Settlement of Northern Eurasia'.

From Elon Musk

Advice from Elon Musk, of SpaceX, where I will do a presentation next week.

"Don't tell me what positions you've held, tell me what problems you've solved."

Sounds right to me!

Copenhagen Suborbitals Progress

Update from Copenhagen, where a rocket test tower is being assembled. Headed over in a few months to spend August integrating the space suit with their capsule and its systems, and for a test balloon flight.

"These days the CS crew is working days and nights to prepare the HEAT 2X rocket for its static test. Its been under construction for years, and its liquid propellant engine technology has been tested many times at small scale, and three times at full scale. Now, it finally a complete rocket stage that hits the test stand.
When that happens the whole test structure from the base to the service crane 21 meters up on the gantry will weigh 160 tonnes.
With is 90 sec burn, we can´t even dream of flying passively stable, so this thing only goes up if we can put a computer at the helm and actively control its trajectory.
So what is this in technical terms ? What have wee build, and what can it do if it works ?
Well, to put it shortly, its a very advanced, complex hypersonic flying machine. It lacks only the turbine pump to have all the key components of the big professional space launchers like the Atlas, Delta, Titan, R7, Proton and so on. And that final component is at the testing stage in the experimental department of CS.
--- Peter Madsen"

Two Work Prongs Part 2

Two more! Today's diagram, researched the past week and drawn up today after giving a midterm, colonization of the Caribbean region...and in the PM, installation of both constant-volume elbow joints, the products of many hours of design and construction! Whole weekend, tests scheduled, and some late PM grading. Thanks to Amy W. and Alex K. for their work tonight!