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Walking Mechanical Mule
The Walking Mechanical Mule is a very simple, purely mechanical walking platform. It is based on a special form of unique "7 link mechanism." It is actuated by a simple rotating crank and it has NO additional controls!
The Walking Mechanical Mule presented here was built as a "Proof of Principle" prototype and extensively tested.
The problem as everyone knows is the longer you are in a zero-g environment the more your bones waste away and your muscles become less efficient. My idea is not an ideal solution but hopefully it would be enough to reduce the problem on long voyages or time in zero-g.
Screening of passengers before aircraft boarding incurs delays, expense and yields imperfect results. The system I propose makes use of several preinstalled, state-of-the art subsystems to regain control of the aircraft after hijacking.
Assume the hijackers take control of an aircraft after it has acquired its cruising altitude. A short, seemingly, innocent sounding phrase,
It can be applied to the entire range of acceleration voltages. The main characteristic of the new gun is that the control and stabilization of the welding current is obtained by connecting the controlling electrode to a positive potential with reference to the cathode. The acceleration electrodes structure additionally comprises, in comparison to the triode gun, a supplementary electrode,
Nowadays astronaut's health in space depends on many factors. Two of them physical activity and gravitational force. My idea to use simple training tool (picture 1).
Tool consists of three main parts:
1) one (or two) wheel bicycle.
2) frame
3) shaft.
It will be very difficult to communicate with aliens: we will have so little in common. We need practice; otherwise, first contact could go terribly wrong. It would be a good idea, then, for us to practice by learning to talk to a smart but disparate species here on Earth. Dolphins are an obvious choice.
The AVHIRAL consists of computer system hardware, containing a protected memory, and a network firewall.
- 1) The usefulness of Avhiral is a way to have a UTM at a relatively lower than conventional systems dedicated to a public career.
- 2) The use of Avhiral,
With today's need for a change to maintain economic stability, the success of this concept can surely change the future economic forecast for the global economy.
Here's an idea, due to the independent study of magnetic core solenoids, there has yet to be any confirmed existence of a relative surrounding magnetic field compared to an iron core solenoid.
In this time of inflation and space crisis in the manufacturing and construction industry, there is a tool that could do much more than its operation. There are tools available in the market similar with multiple functionality, but the uniqueness in this tool is that each operation is done at the angle of convenience; e.g.,
TRANSPORTING without ACCIDENTS or ENERGY for a few percent of today’s cost is not a structural, technological, or financial problem. Something that could have been crudely achieved without most in the late 1800’s in the ability to produce a 15’ dia. pipe which can smoothly accommodate the transition of vehicles and containers utilizing rails and electric motors.
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