Tag: inspiration

The tour of International Space Station

This is so cool!  We’ve all seen bits and pieces of space stuff in TV reports.  But this is something else – a complete and through tour of the whole thing.  Well, maybe not complete, as there might be a few places that a webcam is not allowed.  While watching this, I kept thinking of two things.

The first is that there is way more space up there on ISS than I ever thought there was.  There is a possibility that my perception was mostly shaped by videos from the Russian modules, which do seem to be a bit less spacious.

The second is that it’s amazing how the whole secrecy has changed with ISS.  The top of the top technologists and scientists from different countries work together, experiment together, and discover together.  Again, I’m pretty sure there are still plenty of secrets, but there has been a huge progress, I think.

And now that you are done with the video, just pause for the second and think of all the things, all the people, all the technology that had to come through for this even to happen.  Given that space stations don’t grow on trees naturally, but are a product of human genius, I can’t be anything but absolutely amazed by it.

Game of thrones life-size throne

While doing a bit of shopping over at ThinkGeek.com (yeah, my t-shirts keep shrinking), I noticed something totally awesome – a full-size throne from the “Game of thrones” TV series.  Here is one of the pictures they have for the product.

As it is obvious from the other picture, the throne is not actually made of real swords, but it does look pretty impressive.  The price, however, makes it rather inaffordable for most people – $30,000.  There is an interesting bit of discussions in the comments to the product, where someone suggests that it might be cheaper to have one custom-made from real swords, and someone else doing a rough estimate, pointing to the cost of a real thing easily exceeding $300,000.

Even though I won’t be buying of these any time soon, I have to say I pretty impressed with the whole thing.