Stephen’s Untold Stories

I have no idea what to blog about. I’m open to suggestions.

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Kudos to the team at Georgia Tech for getting this thing off the ground.

The largest unmanned aircraft to rely solely on hydrogen fuel has flown successfully during tests.

The plane, with a 22-foot-wingspan, is powered by a fuel-cell system that generates 500-watts—equal to five bright light bulbs.

The design and geometry of the aircraft and the controlling subsystem technology allowed the feat.

The plane flew as high as 12 feet and stayed airborne for up to a minute at a time.

Fuel cells create electrical current by converting hydrogen and oxygen into water. The advantage of this technology is that it’s pollution-free. These fuel cells, however, don’t produce enough power for the propulsion of larger aircrafts. But they may provide an alternative for smaller and slower vehicles such as the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).

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Fascinating stuff, and I’m not a numbers guy.

A quirky look at five of the most important numbers in mathematics. Hear about the stark reality behind the imaginary number, try a slice of pi, find out about the natural beauty of the golden ratio, discover why some infinities are bigger than others, and see why nothing really matters.

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I was pleased to see Atlanta’s Bank of America Building represented. The image is linked to the site which has more information.

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This is one of the most incredible videos I’ve ever seen.

On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur.

No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit.

The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way upreal one-way streets.

Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was arrested. He has never revealed the identity of the driver, and thefilm went underground until a DVD release a few years ago.

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Who knew that you could use Alka-Seltzer to unclog a drain?

Or use Crayola chalk to stop slugs?

Or use Listerine to prevent dandruff?

It’s all here!

Wacky Uses Website

It was a nice one today!

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I just put this together. You can add your location to the Guestmap so I can see where people are reading this from.

My Guestmap

Does anybody really know what time it is?

Does anybody really care?

Official U.S. time

Including a good Star Wars diagram

Great Diagrams

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I wish I could go!

A visit with the Photoshop engineers at 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA. June 16 & 17, 2005.

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We’ve had a pretty mild summer until recently. Now we’re paying for it!

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This field about 4 miles from my house seems to have plenty.

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Here is a very nice mosaic of Van Gogh’s Starry Night.

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I thought I had seen just about every possible video of 9/11, but I just found these. The 3rd one shows just how fast the 2nd plane was going when it hit.

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I generally try to keep things really light, but this is something that I just had to share.

American George Weller was the first foreign reporter to enter Nagasaki following the U.S. atomic attack on the city on Aug. 9, 1945. Weller wrote a series of stories about what he saw in the city, but censors at the  Occupation’s General Headquarters refused to allow the material to be printed. Weller’s stories, written in September 1945, can be found below.

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American Reporter George Weller

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You are legally entitled to get one free copy of your credit report from the 3 major agencies each year. This site has the details.

Annual Credit Report

We have been pretty lucky this year in Georgia with weather, but summer has finally gotten to us. It was aorund 90 on Sunday, and it will be about the same on Monday and Tuesday. Ugh!

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Not many U.S. papers here.

Top 100 Newspapers

I took this photo a couple of weeks ago. I love my new 5 Megapixel camera!

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