Drew this tonight after getting the idea that an octopus could be a one squid band. It came out pretty darned cute if I do say so myself. I can see drawing more like this, perhaps getting into more shading, drawing the little suckers and everything, for now, I present you this. The Rocktopus!
All of the commenters to this blog are awesome, but since I get more comments on twitter, facebook, and google plus, I wanted to say a special thank you to Sean, JRD, Robin, Tek, and Janey. You all are awesome, thanks for the support. I do wonder about these stats, I feel like there were more than they listed, perhaps they don’t count multiple comments on a single post?
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Along with Marc Cabot I hosted the Lunchbox on CHSR fm, I’d toss it into the Nutty Bites podcast feed, but I can’t cover the same license that the radio station does.
This weekend Tek and I will be Biking for Breath this weekend. If you can, please donate towards our cause. I’m on the right, he’s on the left. I will be doing 25km he will be doing 66km. I hope to not embarrass myself with my time and Tek should do his in a good time. We’re both beginners of a sort, but biking is fun.
Thanks for your time
A beautiful view of Mars, from Wikipedia and NASA
“What would the wingspan of a glider on Mars be?”
Flying on Mars is tricky. I know, I’ve done it. Well, that is to say, I’ve done it in a simulator. Because a flight simulator is nothing but a giant physics engine with a bunch of mathematical constants plugged in, its possible to have the simulator spit out the atmospheric conditions of almost anywhere, and then re-create it. X-Plane, by Laminar Research is perhaps the best such flight sim available on the commercial market, and using some NASA atmospheric and geographical data, allows you to recreate flying on Mars in a pretty believable way.
Wings (airfoils) only work when the air current flows over them at a certain speed. That speed is dependent on the airfoil shape, and is subject to a lot of heavy math well above my humble head to try and figure out. If the speed of the flow over the airfoil gets too low, it stops generating lift. This is called a stall, and is generally bad news for whatever the airfoil is attached to, that is: the rest of the plane with you in it. So a certain speed needs to be maintained in order to stay in the air. With a powered airplane, the engine provides that forward speed. In a Helicopter, the rotation of the blades provides the lift, and in a glider it is gravity pulling the plane downwards that provides the lift. Let’s throw a theoretical number out there. Imagine that Glider X needed to maintain a minimum speed of 20 miles per hour in order to stay airborne.