Giorno: 12 novembre 2014

L’ambizione è quella virtù che porta l’uomo a compiere imprese straordinarie. Una di queste vedrà una sonda posarsi su una cometa a centinaia di milioni di km dalla Terra il prossimo 12 novembre. La missione si chiama Rosetta: un’ambiziosa avventura durata dieci anni, fortemente voluta e realizzata dall’Agenzia Spaziale Europea.

“Ambition” è una collaborazione tra l’Agenzia Spaziale Europea e Platige Image, pensato apposta per celebrare questa straordinaria missione: dalla regia di Tomek Bagiński e con la partecipazione di Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones) e Aisling Franciosi (The Fall), Ambition è stato mostrato il 24 ottobre 2014 durante la celebrazione “Fantascienza: Giorni di Paura e Meraviglia” organizzata a Southbank, Londra, dal British Film Institute.

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Modern Day Explorer Documents the World’s ‘Micronations’

Drawn to small places with improbable histories, photographer Léo Delafontaine could be described as a modern day explorer. Upon the discovery of the Principality of Sealand, a military platform situated on international waters ruled by a constitutional monarchy, he knew this would be the start of a new documentary project. After some research he realized these independent entities, or Micronations, as the series is titled, are not an isolated phenomenon and many other similar nations exist throughout the world.

Beginning in 2012, Delafontaine embarked on a worldwide tour, visiting all the small nations that live within their own sovereign state, separate from the governing bodies in which they are located. While there are hundreds of micronations scattered throughout the world, they are not recognized by governments or international organizations.

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Seborga è in Liguria tra l’altro (provincia di Imperia se non ricordo male)

A Christiania, nel cuore di Copenhagen, ci siamo stati 🙂

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Igor Pasternak ”believes he is on the verge of developing an aircraft that will change the way large cargo can be shipped.

Mr. Pasternak envisions this hulking, 770-foot-long, silver-skinned airship, which is kept aloft by helium-filled tanks, delivering fresh fruit to Alaska, dropping triage units at disaster sites or depositing heavy machinery into remote locations — no ports, rail lines, roads or airstrips necessary.

It would be able to fly at up to 120 knots, four times as fast as a cargo ship. Its capacity of 250 tons is about twice that of a C-5 cargo plane, and it has a range of about 5,870 miles, enough to go from Boston to Burkina Faso.

The airship, called the Aeroscraft, will take off and land like a helicopter. Its designers, Mr. Pasternak says, have solved the major problem for lighter-than-air crafts: buoyancy control. If a dirigible unloads heavy cargo, it must be tethered or take on the same weight to keep from floating away. The Aeroscraft sends helium from its main chamber into compression tanks, which creates room for air — which is heavier than the helium — to be taken in, allowing for a controlled descent.”

Pursuing a Shipping Revolution as Big as His Airship

We pass these hangars every day on the way to school. I would love to get a look inside at one of these things.

Whoopie! A Zeppelin!

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