Japan’s Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft, known as MMX, lifted off from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at Tanegashima Space Center in the early hours of Tuesday morning local time, riding Japan’s H3 rocket on its tenth flight. The vehicle, in its most powerful H3-24L configuration with four solid boosters, left the pad at 4:41 a.m. Japan Standard Time on October 20, which corresponds to 19:41 UTC on October 19.
Adam Savage sits down with Lorne Peterson, one of the original model makers hired at Industrial Light and Magic in 1975, and the conversation quickly turns to the practical choices that gave the ships their worn, functional look. Peterson shows off a rare Darth Vader service award he received after forty years with the company, then explains how he and a friend arrived for their interview carrying a dusty Kennedy toolbox instead of the cardboard boxes most freelancers used.
Most refrigerators depend on an electric compressor to move heat around, but Greenhill Forge built a working cooler that gets its energy from a wood fire and a solution of common road salt instead. Water serves as the refrigerant. When water boils it soaks up heat from whatever is around it, and the same principle holds here. The difference is that the system keeps part of the water under a strong vacuum so the liquid can boil at a temperature close to freezing rather than at the usual 100 degrees Celsius. That low-pressure boiling is what produces the cold.
Nokia announced the 8110 on 9 September 1996 as the first handset in its high-end 8000 series, a business-oriented model that measured 141 by 48 by 25 millimetres and weighed around 152 grams. Sliding covers defined its form from the start, protecting the keypad in a pocket and extending downward so the microphone sat closer to the mouth while the same motion answered an incoming call.
Rolling garbage bins out to the curb on a hot afternoon often means accepting a sharp vinegar smell that drifts across the driveway by evening. Food scraps left in wheeled outdoor containers break down faster once temperatures climb, releasing acetic acid that carries the familiar sharp odor associated with rotting waste. Standard charcoal filters can trap some of those molecules for a while, yet they lose effectiveness once heat and humidity rise together, leaving the smell free to escape whenever the lid is lifted.