Weighed in this morning at 278 pounds. That’s 19 pounds lost in my first four weeks!
Daily Archives: January 27, 2006
It’s a New Phil, Week 4
Weighed in this morning at 278 pounds. That’s 19 pounds lost in my first four weeks!
Energy Race Update
Russia wants in on “the energy race” too.
We are planning to build a permanent base on the moon by 2015 and by 2020 we can begin the industrial-scale delivery… of the rare isotope Helium-3,” Nikolai Sevastyanov, head of the Energia space corporation, was quoted by ITAR-TASS news agency as saying at an academic conference.
The International Space Station (ISS) would play a key role in the project and a regular transport relay to the moon would be established with the help of the planned Clipper spaceship and the Parom, a space capsule intended to tug heavy cargo containers around space, Sevastyanov said.
Jules Verne's Elephant
This is what you get when you cross an Imperial Walker from Star Wars with the Oliphants from The Lord of the Rings – a 30-foot tall robotic elephant!
The 30 foot tall robot elephant was built especially as a part of a Jules Verne centennial celebration. Verne, the author of classics like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Journey to the Centre of the Earth, would have been absolutely delighted.
The robot not only walked through the streets amazing the crowds, it actually sprayed water on them from its trunk!
Don’t miss the video.