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Just for those, who doesen't read journal info
This journal in frends-only mode (for the most part).
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P.S. Dear friends, i post quite a bit of photos (and now even video) in either public or private posts. I try to use my own common sense to judge which post or theme is innocent enough to be ( Read more... ) -
Important Internet Spaceships part 2 - survival of the fittest?
Okay, we found out obvious priorities in interstellar travel (thank you, thank you captain Obvious), so let's see what technologies we have nowadays at our disposal ( Read more... ) -
Important Internet Spaceships part 1 - set the course
Thinking about design tradeoffs at my work and at some of my hobbies lead me to a strange idea... Let's say we want to build a manned interstellar spaceship meant to reach nearest star systems without any faster-than-light cosmo-fantasy technologies. What will be the key characteristics of it's construction? Which goals we must seek the most while ( Read more... ) -
logbook - 10th day
Today is the final day of our little adventure. The thousands kilometers of snow, cold and struggle to keep our truck, no, our moving home, is behind us. But still, let me tell you something.
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logbook - 9th day
I'm typing this log in a truck's cabin while we crossing the border of Irkutsk oblast.
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logbook - 8th day
Okay, I must admit it, saving people from snow became our hobby. We saved the third car today, some nissan was thrown out of the road near Kemerovo. The driver was so thankful for our help, so he just open a trunk of his car, took from there huge sack of ... wheat flour and threw it inside our truck. And refused to take it back by all means. "You ( Read more... ) -
logbook - 7th day
Our internal clock set for gmt+4 (aka Moscow time). And while we travel futher east, we shift our driving time more and more for the night one. We already crossed GMT+6 (Ural) and now we travel in western Siberia's GMT+7 (Novosibirsk) time zone. Combine all this time shifts with midwinter shot daylight duration and you will get a complete mess with ( Read more... ) -
logbook - 6th day
Yesterday was a hard day, so I'm writing this report today, a bit late. It all began at around 4AM GMT+6, when we had our road accident. As we found out later the fuel from our last refuel was, well, let's say "homemade", it happens in this oil-rich Tyumen Oblast. And the engine fuel line, fuel filters and fuel line all went clogged mid-run. And ( Read more... )
