Last Friday while in Los Angeles I was very fortunate to have scheduled a pre-arranged private tour of General Atomic’s DIII-k Tokamak Fusion Facility in San Diego California. I was met by Richard Lee senior Scientist in overall charge of the Fusion Energy Education Group. He was kind enough to go above and beyond and [...]

I apologize in advance from writing this blog from a very personal point of view, but if you ever experienced Africa, you know it cannot be described in purely objective terms, though I will try my best. I apologize in advance from writing this blog from a very personal point of view, but if you [...]

A World Ship is a very large vehicle many tens of kilometres in length and having a mass of millions of tons, moving at a fraction of a per cent of the speed of light and taking hundreds of years to millennia to complete its journey. It is a self-contained, self-sufficient ship carrying a crew [...]

Many thanks to JR Fleming for her amazing Interstellar Steampunk work!   Check out more of JR’s work here: JRFLEMING.COM    

Following on from Kelvin’s post, here’s my steampunk image: Now that’s an interstellar communications engineer! Thanks to Richard Obousy for arranging this, and J.R. Fleming for the artwork.

We’re keeping a close eye on the Raspberry Pi, an ultra-cheap tiny computer, which is due to launch very soon. The release of this device will no doubt unleash many home projects, and the possibilities for using this board in space experiments are endless. Together with the Arduino, which some of the Icarus team are [...]