“Celebrity Baby House” – Wed 8/7c PM on FOX
New spammer! It has been almost two years since the Mr. James adventure, and I had not received one direct scam email. Early this summer however, I stumbled upon this Craigslist post.
$1200 / 5br – 5 beds, 4.5 baths, 3,248 sq ft (Manhattan Beach CA)
This ad seemed (rightfully) too good to be true; a 2 bed apartment in Manhattan Beach can easily run for twice that amount. But I couldn’t resist the bait. Apparently my two year Nigerian scammer ban had been lifted…
Fractionated Spacecraft
image: darpa.mil
Remember how interchangeable parts revolutionized manufacturing in the early 20th century? I do. Also, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and Lincoln was shot in a log cabin.
Well, since the 1980s the world’s smartest and handsomest scientists have been pushing to implement such an idea onto our aging satellite and spacecraft systems.
Fractionated spacecraft are all the buzz in the aerospace industry [pdf]. To oversimplify the concept for the purpose of entertainment in an otherwise dry blog entry, fractionated spacecraft are like Ocean’s 11. Instead of sending one big monolithic satellite to do the job, you send a bunch of smaller specialized components, like Matt Damon and an Asian guy who does acrobatics.
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